Director
Jessie Borelli, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychological Science
jessica.borelli@uci.edu
Faculty Bio
Graduate Students
Daniela Arcos
danielaarcosh@gmail.com
I am broadly interested in understanding how social connections influence well-being. I also aim to explore how connection-based interventions can enhance psychological and physical health across diverse populations, particularly in minoritized communities.
Elayne Zhou
elaynezh@usc.edu
I work alongside communities of color to understand individual, relational, and structural influences on mental health outcomes and treatment access. I want to develop and test interventions that leverage the existing strengths of marginalized groups and are responsive to their contexts and identities. My ultimate goal is to promote flourishing for historically oppressed communities, with a focus on dismantling barriers to quality care.
Frances Li
haofeil1@uci.edu
I am interested in understanding the intergenerational transmission of childhood adversity through parent-child relationships, such as attachment and parenting practices. Why are some people resilient to childhood adversity while others pass it down to the next generation? How can we intervene to break this cycle?
Gerin Gaskin
gerin.gaskin@cgu.edu
Jennica Rogers
jennicsr@uci.edu
I am broadly interested in college students’ beliefs about social mobility and social inequalities, and how changes in their social relationships with others of different socioeconomic statuses elicit changes in these beliefs.
klord1@uci.edu
Silvia Perzolli
silvia.perzolli@unitn.it
I am broadly interested in investigating mother-child and father-child relationships in typical and atypical contexts (e.g., neurodevelopmental disorders). I am currently working on the impact of maternal attachment on savoring intervention and on therapists’ characteristics and their impact on savoring treatment outcomes.
Lab Manager Team
Ken Yamashita
Lab Manager
ksyamash@uci.edu
Christina Xia
Lab Manager
chrisx2@uci.edu
Collaborators
Patricia Smiley, Ph.D.
Collaborator
patricia.smiley@pomona.edu
Alumni
Abby Rozenberg, Ph.D.
abbyrozenberg@gmail.com
Lyric Russo, Ph.D.
russol@uci.edu
Jose Arreola, Ph.D.
arreolj2@uci.edu
Marta Tironi
marta.tironi@edu.unige.it
Jianmin Shao, Ph.D.
jianmis@uci.edu
Nicole Froidevaux, Ph.D.
nfroidev@uci.edu
Jocelyn Lai, Ph.D.
jocelyn.lai@uci.edu
Desiree Delgadillo-Chase, Ph.D.
desichase79@gmail.com
Angela Boatwright
Former Lab Manager
aboatwri@uci.edu
Kyle Bond, Ph.D.
Therapist
d.kyle.bond@gmail.com
Debbie Chung
Graduate Student, Kean University (Clinical/School Psy.D. Program)
Former Lab Manager
debbiec2@uci.edu
John K. Coffey II, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of South (Sewanee)
jkcoffey@sewanee.edu
Maggie Kerr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
margaret.kerr@wisc.edu
Kathy Buttitta
Project Director, Senior Data Analyst, Brazelton Touchpoints Institute
kvharder@gmail.com
Adrianna Holness, Ph.D.
Therapist
yannaholness@gmail.com
Betsy Blackard
Doctoral Student, Claremont Graduate University
Coordinator, PARENT Study
betsyblackard@gmail.com
Melissa Pedroza
Graduate Student, Rutgers Psy.D. program
Former Coordinator, YEA-MADRES (Confía en mi, Confío en ti) Study
Former Pomona CARE Lab Manager
Former Coordinator, PARENT Study
Jordan Stead
Graduate Program, Pacific University Psy. D.
jstead@uci.edu
