Allison Troy is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Franklin & Marshall College. She received her BA in Psychology from North Carolina State University, and her MA and PhD in Affect/Social Psychology from the University of Denver under the mentorship of Dr. Iris Mauss. Dr. Troy’s research focuses on the relationships between emotion regulation and mental health in adults, with a particular emphasis on understanding how emotion regulation contributes to resilience to stress. Much of her research has focused on measuring individual differences in emotion regulation using multi-method paradigms (i.e., self-report, physiology, and behavior) to predict psychological health. In more recent work, Dr. Troy has focused on understanding how the links between emotion regulation and mental health are powerfully moderated by context, including the types of stressors that people face (e.g., stressor controllability) as well as the socio-cultural contexts that individuals inhabit (e.g., socioeconomic status). In current projects, Dr. Troy is investigating the effects of emotion regulation on mental and physical health in the aftermath of racial discrimination and political distress, respectively.

Dr. Brett Ford is the director of the Affective Science & Health Laboratory at the University of Toronto. She received her Ph.D. in social-personality from the University of California, Berkeley after receiving a B.A. in psychology and M.A. in social-personality psychology from Boston College. Her research centers on two inter-related questions. First, what do people believe about emotions? Second, what strategies do people use to regulate their emotions? Using multi-method and interdisciplinary approaches, she examines the nature of these beliefs and strategies, the factors that shape them, and their implications for well-being and healthy functioning.

Emily Falk is an Associate Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Falk employs a variety of methods drawn from communication science, neuroscience and psychology. Her work traverses levels of analysis from individual behavior, to diffusion in group and population level media effects. In particular, Prof. Falk is interested in predicting behavior change following exposure to persuasive messages and in understanding what makes successful ideas spread (e.g. through social networks, through cultures). Prof. Falk is also interested in developing methods to predict the efficacy of persuasive communication at the population level. At present, much of her research focuses on health communication, including recent work exploring neural predictors of increased sunscreen use, neural predictors of smoking reduction, and linking neural responses to health messages to population level behavioral outcomes; other areas of interest include political communication, cross-cultural communication, and the spread of culture, social norms and sticky ideas. Prof. Falk received her bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from Brown University, and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).