Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Social Cognition
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Lisa G. Aspinwall |
Lisa G. Aspinwall received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1987 and her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1991. Her research interests include the study of self-regulation (how people plan, control, and revise their own actions) and the role of emotions and expectations in this process.
Specific areas of interest include future-oriented thinking (optimism, proactive coping, preventive behaviors), positive affect, and the processing of negative events and information. Her current research examines these processes in the context of cancer genetic testing and other health-risk communications.
She is a member of the National Cancer Institute's Health Cognitions Working Group, a member of the Steering Committee of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, the recipient of a research grant from the National Science Foundation, and a winner of the 2000 Templeton Positive Psychology Prize.
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Lisa G. Aspinwall
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
380 S. 1530 E., Room 502
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
United States
Phone: (801) 587-9021
Fax: (801) 581-5841