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UCI School of Social Ecology

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Dr. Pressman gives her first TEDx talk: Why doctors should care about your happiness

August 3, 2015 by Sarah Pressman Leave a Comment

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

 

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Dr. Pressman is featured on Radio New Zealand

August 3, 2015 by Sarah Pressman Leave a Comment

Listen to Dr. Pressman chat with Wallace Chapman about smiling, happiness and health on Sunday Morning (Radio New Zealand) by clicking the picture below.

 

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Dr. Pressman wins the Herbert Weiner Early Career Award

August 2, 2015 by Sarah Pressman Leave a Comment

Dr. Pressman has been awarded with the 2015 Herbert Weiner Early Career Award in Psychosomatic Medicine from the American Psychosomatic Society.

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Dr. Pressman wins the Division 38 Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology Award

June 3, 2014 by Sarah Pressman Leave a Comment

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.

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Social Integration & Pulmonary Function

June 3, 2014 by Sarah Pressman Leave a Comment

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

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Sneak Peek at our new smiling & pain data!

February 26, 2014 by Sarah Pressman Leave a Comment

A quick minute radio update on our new data featured on AAAS Science Update:

Smiling & Pain

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Grin & Bear It: Pressman Lab Smile Study News coverage

September 4, 2013 by Sarah Pressman Leave a Comment

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

Psychological Science

Stress busting smiles: Wall Street Journal

I was honored to have the great Chris Peterson blog about our study prior to his passing.

US News & World Report

Psychology Today

 

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Joining PSB January 2013!

November 13, 2011 by Sarah Pressman Leave a Comment

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.

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Dr. Pressman’s TEDx

https://youtu.be/IqiGL4e_c30

Sarah D. Pressman

School of Social Ecology
Psychological Science
4201 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
92697-7085

Telephone: (949) 824-5803
Fax: (949) 824-3002
Email: pressman@uci.edu

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