Profiles in "Interpersonal Relationships" Expertise Area

  • Shiota's basic research addresses positive emotions, emotion in close relationships, and emotional mechanisms of behavior change. Her applied work develops interventions related to substance use and appetitive behavior.
  • Fabes' research interests include children's adjustment to school, school-based discipline, peer relationships, gender, positive development, and the translation of research for interventions and policy.
  • DePinto's primary professional experience has been in school social work and he has more than 30 years of experience working with chemically-dependent adolescents.
  • Mickelson received her PhD from Carnegie Mellon and did postdoctoral work at University of Michigan and Harvard. Her research focuses on social relationships and health; she is also director of the MS Psychology program.
  • Jacobsen has extensive work experience in media, particularly newspaper editing and publishing, and in presenting public programs.
  • Ha studies the development of adolescent romantic relationships.
  • Started my teaching profession in 2001 as a special education teacher for self contained and inclusion high school students in San Diego California. I was a paraprofessional from 1980 - 2001 with special education field.