Former Doctoral Students

Elizabeth A. Towner, Clinical-Health Psychology, “Cue exposure and smoking behavior: The role of affective responses,” October, 1992. Elizabeth won the APA Division 38 (Health Psychology) Student Research Award, August 1990, and is now a tenured Associate Professor at Millersville University, Millersville, PA.

Mark L. Robbins, Clinical-Health Psychology, “Hostility, illness cognition, and the process of coping with coronary heart disease,” October, 1993. Mark is an Assistant Research Professor at the Cancer Prevention Research Center, Kingston RI.

HsiuJu (Rebecca) Yen, Social-Health Psychology, “Hostility in dyadic relationships: An examination of perceptual bias and self-fulfilling prophecy,” October, 1995. Rebecca is now a tenured Associate Professor at the Yuan-Ze Institute of Technology, Taiwan.

Max Guyll, Clinical-Health Psychology, “Effects of trait hostility on social information processing,” January, 1998. Max was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Gregory C. Gambone, Clinical Psychology, “Mental Representation of Self and Others in Trait Hostility,” May, 1998. Gregg was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in forensic clinical neuroscience, National Institutes of Health, and is now Lead Psychologist Mental Health Services, Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility, Bordentown, NJ.

Jennifer Falconer Lambert, Clinical-Health Psychology, “Attributions of Responsibility and Adjustment After a Traumatic Burn Injury,” October, 2000. Jennifer is now a Clinical Research Psychologist at the Providence VA Medical Center PTSD Clinic, and Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI.

Cather, C, Clinical-Health Psychology, “Effects of Age and Social Support on Depressive Symptoms Following Cardiac Surgery,” January, 2001. Cori is now a Clinical Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Egeth, J. Social-Health Psychology, “The Reasons and Expectancies Model of Drinking to Cope,” May, 2001. Jill had a Program Manager position at the APA and is now Senior Human Factors Engineer, Social, Behavioral, and Linguistic Sciences Directorate, the MITRE Non-Profit Corporation for the Public Interest.

Tanya M. Goyal, Clinical-Health Psychology, “Quality Of Life Following Cardiac Surgery: Depressive Symptomatology As A Predictor Of Subjective Functioning,” October, 2003. Tanya was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Duke University Medical Center. She is now Associate Research Scientist, Department of Medicine, Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University.

Elliot Coups, Social-Health Psychology, “A Goal-Based Explanation of Optimism’s Effects on Well-Being,” January, 2003. Elliot was a Post-Doctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and is now Assistant Member, Division of Population Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center.

May (Yung) Chen, “A Model of Meaning Construction, Religion, and Chronic Reactions to Severe Stressors: Explaining and Extending the Written Emotional Expression Paradigm,“ May, 2004.

May was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Duke University Medical Center and is now Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Luba Rafalson, Clinical-Health Psychology, “The Role Of Optimism, Pessimism, And Social Support In Adjustment To And Recovery From Open-Heart Surgery,” October, 2004. Luba is now a Staff Psychologist specializing in Geropsychology, Psychology Associates of Bethlehem, PA.

Suzanne Gilligan, Clinical-Health Psychology, “Social Relationships And Gender In Adaptation To Open-Heart Surgery,” October, 2004. Suzanne won a dissertation award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation/Johnson & Johnson. She is now a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Consortium for Advanced Psychology Training, Michigan State University, Flint, MI.

Eric B. Hekler, Clinical-Health Psychology, “Symptoms as a Moderator of the Relationship between Beliefs and Health Behaviors among Patients Undergoing Coronary Bypass Surgery,” October, 2008. Eric is now a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA.