Dr. Ashaie’s research primarily focuses on aphasia rehabilitation particularly post-stroke depression and related psychosocial disorders. He also works on linguistic changes in healthy aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease. He employs a variety of techniques in his research including non-invasive brain stimulation, eye-tracking, and pupillometry.

A member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, Dr. Brayboy’s research focuses on intersecting knowledge systems that illuminate the ways that institutional structures simultaneously hinder and enable the success of underserved students, staff, and faculty. As an anthropologist, he also explores how culture and cultural practices mediate and support Indigenous student learning and community self-determination.

Dr. Charles’ research examines emotional processes across the adult life span. She is interested in how affective experience varies across the life course, and how differences in affective experience may be related to differences in cognitive and health-related processes. She is also interested in the interplay between health and emotion, including the relationship between physical health factors and emotional processes, and how these relationships may vary as a function of age.

Dr. English’s research is focused on better understanding how emotion regulation operates in daily life. She directs the Emotion and Relationships Laboratory, and her work examines emotion regulation and communication in the context of intergroup interactions, and the impact of emotion regulation processes on goal pursuit and well-being of first-generation college students and ethnic minorities in educational contexts.

 

 

Dr. Jeong’s research regards family community: how families cope with external stressors including immigration and such health stressors as cancer and Alzheimer’s; and how families with elderly members can be supported in communities. She was born and raised in Korea, acculturated to America and Chicago. She applies both etic and emic approaches toward the phenomena of interest.

 

Dr. Qu is a developmental psychologist who takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and neuroscience to examine how sociocultural contexts shape adolescent development. He investigates the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying cultural differences in adolescents’ academic, social, and emotional development, as well as how parents influence adolescents’ beliefs and brain, with attention to the implications for adolescents’ learning and psychological adjustment.

Dr. Scheffer’s research broadly examines the utility of socioemotional processes such as empathy and compassion for building interpersonal and intergroup connection. He studies how mental effort perceptions, neural damage, and neurodegeneration impact people’s propensity and capacity to share in and understand the perspectives of other people as well as foster concern for their well-being.

Dr. Shavit is broadly interested in exploring unique psychological strengths of older adults and their relationships with well-being, behavior, and social relationships. His current work focuses on age-related changes in motivation and emotion and their influence on time-use preferences across the adult life-span.

Dr. Waugh’s research examines how  resilience evolves over time with focus on positive emotions. Much of the research in the areas of stress and emotion focuses on the intensity of individuals’ responses to stressful/emotional events. His research demonstrates that elucidating temporal dynamics is critical to understanding individual differences in resilience.

 

 

Dr. Wells’ research examines how emotion in close relationships contributes to mental and physical health over the life course, with a focus on late life. She is particularly interested in individuals providing care for a loved one with neurodegenerative disease, such as dementia. A central aim of her work is to identify predictors of individual differences in caregivers’ vulnerability and resilience to adverse outcomes.

 

Dr. Yoneda’s research investigates the links between personality and cognitive aging, as well as the mechanisms underlying these relationships, particularly the interplay between personality and physiological factors. She is passionate about elucidating factors that contribute to cognitive healthspan and optimal development in older adulthood; specifically, under which circumstances, for whom, and how do psychological factors influence physiological and cognitive processes, and vice versa.