Psychology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
My research interests focus on the ways in which positive emotions affect individuals’ conceptualizations of themselves in relation to others and their environment. I utilize behavioral and psychophysiological measures to investigate the circumstances that cause individuals become open to affiliation and the physical and psychological effects of such openness, a state I describe as “other-focus.”
2008 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
2006-2011 William R. Kenan Jr. Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel
2006 Phi Beta Kappa, St. Olaf College
2006 Donald G. Paterson Award, Minnesota Psychological Association

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Bethany E Kok, Barbara L. Fredrickson