The SPUR student will work closely with me as their mentor to gain hands-on research experience. After a discussion with the mentee, I like to identify goals for their duration of involvement in the lab and also set a concrete plan to be able to meet their professional development goals. I craft involvement and responsibilities with the student priorities in mind. The student will have regular one-on-one meetings with me to help build research and professional development that will be valuable for their future goals.

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The Affective & Cognitive Regulation (ACR) Lab integrates basic and applied perspectives to understand how people adapt to the cognitive demands present in real-world contexts and what works for whom. We conduct this work in two different kinds of contexts – human-technology interactions and socioemotionally stressful situations. The ACR lab is also interested in evidence-based interventions and utilizing technology to facilitate healthy self-regulation, psychological well-being, and performance.

Research at the ACR lab is based on an interdisciplinary foundation that leverages multimodal assessment methodologies including behavioral (e.g., eye-tracking and human performance), psychophysiological (e.g., cardiovascular activity and electroencephalography), and self-report (e.g., experience sampling) measures.