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Social, Personality, & Health Psychology

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Director: Roy Lachman, Ph.D

2010-2011 Lab Members

Current Graduate Students

Alma Correa

Background:
Psychology, B.S., University of California, San Diego (2003)
Experimental Psychology, M.A., California State University, San Marcos (2005)

Research Interests:
My research interests include Health Psychology and ethnic minority health. Currently, my work focuses on the psychological and physical health risks associated with acculturative stress (stress specific to the process of acculturation and contact with distinct cultures).

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Mahler, H.I.M., Kulik, J.A., Harrell, J., Correa, A., Gibbons, F.X., & Gerrard, M. (2005). Effects of UV photographs, photoaging information, and use of sunless tanning lotion on sun protection behaviors. Archives of Dermatology, 141, 373-380.

Correa, A. (2010). Acculturative stress and health: The moderating effect of social constraints. Paper presented at the Rice-Houston Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program Research Symposium, Houston, TX (August 2010).

Correa, A., Bush, A. L., & Knee, C. R. (2010). Future time perspective moderates the relationship between sensation seeking and the safe sex attitudes of romantic couples. Poster presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV (January 2010).

Vollert, C., Bush, A. L., Correa, A., & Knee, C. R. (2010). “I need you, I need you not:” The role of relationship-contingent self-esteem in relationship comparisons. Poster presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV (January 2010).

Correa, A. (2007). Development and validation of a future health time perspective measure. Paper presented at the Rice-Houston Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program Research Symposium, Houston, TX (August 2007).

Correa, A. (2006). HIV risk and future time perspective: Factors to consider in prevention interventions for Latinas. Paper presented at the Rice-Houston Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program Research Symposium, Houston, TX (August 2006).

Robert C. Suchting

Background:
B.S. Psychology, Texas A&M University, 2003
M.A. Psychology, University of Houston, 2008

Research Interests:
Counterfactual Thinking
Self-Determination Theory
Contingent Self-Esteem
Quantitative Methods

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