UCI School of Social Ecology
Dr. Pressman gave her first TED style talk at TEDxUCI this spring (2015). Her topic focused on why doctors should care about happiness, with a lot of research from the Pressman lab being covered.
We’d love to hear what you think- it recently got added to the TEDx website here
Listen to Dr. Pressman chat with Wallace Chapman about smiling, happiness and health on Sunday Morning (Radio New Zealand) by clicking the picture below.
Dr. Pressman has been awarded with the 2015 Herbert Weiner Early Career Award in Psychosomatic Medicine from the American Psychosomatic Society.
Dr. Pressman has won the 2014 Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology junior award from Division 38 (http://www.health-psych.org/index.cfm). The award will be presented in August at the Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.
New findings from thePressman Lab on social integration and lung function arising out of a collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2014/june/june2_socialrolesimprovehealth.html
A quick minute radio update on our new data featured on AAAS Science Update:
We’ve been fortunate enough to get extensive press coverage of our study showing that experimental manipulation of smiling can alleviate some of the negative physiological consequences of stress. Here are some examples:
Steven Colbert’s coverage of our study
CBS news coverage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkGsgQvY4hw
Stress busting smiles: Wall Street Journal
I was honored to have the great Chris Peterson blog about our study prior to his passing.
Dr. Pressman is excited to announce that she will be joining the department of Psychology & Social Behavior at UCI in January of 2013. More news to come when Dr. Pressman arrives in California.