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Sally Dickerson
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: 824-4556
Office: 1359 Social Ecology II
I am interested in applying psychological theories of motivation, emotion, and social processes to questions of stress and disease. My research examines how social-evaluative threat and accompanying self-related emotional responses affect immune and neuroendocrine outcomes, and how individual differences in motivational styles may heighten vulnerability to these psychological and physiological changes.
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Web Links of Research Sites
Selected Publications
- Dickerson, S. S., Mycek, P. J., & Zaldivar, F. (2008). Negative social evaluation - but not mere social presence - elicits cortisol responses to a laboratory stressor task. Health Psychology, 27, 116-121.
- Gruenewald, T. L., Dickerson, S. S., & Kemeny, M. E. (2007). A social function for the self-conscious emotions: Social-self preservation theory. In J. Tracy, R. Robins, & J. Tangney (Eds.), Self-Conscious Emotions (2nd Ed.). New York: Guilford Press.
- Dickerson, S. S., & Mycek, P. J. (2007). Health psychology. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), The encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Bower, J. E., Ganz, P. A., Dickerson, S. S., Petersen, L., Aziz, N., & Fahey, J. L. (2005). Diurnal cortisol rhythm and fatigue in breast cancer survivors. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30(1), 92-100.
- Dickerson, S. S., Gruenewald, T. L., & Kemeny, M. E. (2004). When the social self is threatened: Shame, physiology, and health. Journal of Personality, 72(6), 1192-1216.
- Dickerson, S. S., & Kemeny, M. E. (2004). Acute stressors and cortisol responses: A theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research. Psychological Bulletin 130(3), 355-391.
- Dickerson, S. S., Kemeny, M. E., Aziz, N., Kim, K. H., & Fahey, J. L. (2004). Immunological effects of induced shame and guilt. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66(1), 124-131.
- Stetler, C., Dickerson, S. S., & Miller, G. E. (2004). Uncoupling of social zeitgebers and diurnal cortisol secretion in clinical depression. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 29(10), 1250-1259.
- Taylor, S. E., Dickerson, S. S., & Klein, L. C. (2002). Towards a biology of social support. In C. R. Snyder and S. Lopez, (Eds.), The handbook of positive psychology (pp. 556-569). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Davison, K. P., Pennebaker, J. W., & Dickerson, S. S. (2000). Who talks? The social psychology of illness support groups. American Psychologist, 55, 205-217.
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