Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Phone:
(949) 824-4556
Email:
sdickers@uci.edu
Office:
4558 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
health psychology, stress physiology, effects of social and emotional processes on physiology and health
Department:
Psychology and Social Behavior Curriculum Vitae:
My work integrates psychological and biological levels of analysis by applying theories of social and emotional processes to the context of stress and disease. My research examines how social-evaluative threat and accompanying self-conscious emotional responses affect immune and neuroendocrine outcomes, and how individual differences may heighten vulnerability to these psychological and physiological changes.
Web Links of Research Sites
Selected Publications
- Dickerson, S. S., Gable, S. L., Irwin, M. R., Aziz, N., & Kemeny, M. E. (in press). Social-evaluative threat and proinflammatory cytokine regulation: An experimental laboratory investigation. Psychological Science.
- Lam, S., Dickerson, S. S., Zoccola, P. M., & Zaldivar, F. (in press). Emotion regulation and cortisol reactivity to a social-evaluative speech task. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
- Zoccola, P.M., Dickerson, S. S., & Lam, S. (in press). Rumination predicts longer sleep onset latency following an acute psychosocial stressor. Psychosomatic Medicine.
- Dickerson, S. S., Gruenewald, T. L., & Kemeny, M. E. (2009). Psychobiological responses to social self threat: Functional or detrimental? Self and Identity, 8, 270-285.
- Zoccola, P. M., Dickerson, S. S., & Zaldivar, F. (2008). Rumination and cortisol responses to laboratory stressors. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70, 661-667.
- Dickerson, S. S. (2008). Emotional and physiological responses to social-evaluative threat. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2(3), 1362-1368.
- 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.