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PSB Home Sally Dickerson
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: (949) 824-4556
Office: 1359 Social Ecology II
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.
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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.
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