Current Projects
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Compounding Crises: Facing Hurricane Season and Climate Hazards in the Era of COVID-19.
This NSF-funded study examines how people respond to the threat of hurricanes and the escalating climate crisis in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (with Gabrielle Wong-Parodi ).
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Amplifying Threats During Cascading Crises: Media’s Role in Shaping Psychological Responses to the War in Ukraine.
This NSF-funded study examines the psychological impact of the war in Ukraine and the impact of related existential threats (with Drs. E. Alison Holman, and Roxane Cohen Silver).
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Uncertain Risk and Stressful Future: A National Study of the COVID-2019 Outbreak in the U.S.
This NSF-funded study examines the psychological response to the COVID-19 pandemic in a nationally representative sample of U. S. adults (with Drs. E. Alison Holman, and Roxane Cohen Silver).
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Mindfulness-based Intervention to Address PTSD in Trauma-exposed, Homeless Women.
This NIH-funded mixed methods project takes a biopsychosocial approach to understanding the experience of trauma in unhoused women and how community-based, mindfulness interventions might help alleviating adverse traumatic stress symptoms and associated problems (e.g., substance use, depression).
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Longitudinal Responses to Hurricanes.
This project explores how individuals respond to repeated exposure to hurricanes, in samples of residents of Texas, Florida, and New York, starting in the 60 hours prior to Hurricane Irma in 2017 (with Drs. E. Alison Holman, Roxane Cohen Silver, & Gabrielle Wong-Parodi ).
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