Sally Dickerson

     
Institution
University of California, Irvine

Current Position
Assistant Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social Psychology from UCLA, 2004

Research Interests
Emotion
Health
Interpersonal Processes
Psychophysiology

Courses Taught
Health Psychology
Human Stress
Psychobiology of Stress

 
Sally Dickerson
3340 Social Ecology II
Dept. of Psychology & Social Behavior
University of California--Irvine
Irvine, California 92697-7085
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (949) 824-4556
Fax: (949) 824-3002



Sally Dickerson
I am interested in applying psychological theories of motivation, emotion, and social processes to questions 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 in motivational styles may heighten vulnerability to these psychological and physiological changes.


Journal Articles:

  • 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.
  • Davison, K. P., Pennebaker, J. W., & Dickerson, S. S. (2000). Who talks? The social psychology of illness support groups. American Psychologist, 55, 205-217.
  • 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.
  • Dickerson, S. S., Mycek, P. J., & Zaldivar, F. (in press). Social evaluation – but not mere social presence – elicits cortisol responses to a laboratory stressor task. Health Psychology.
  • 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.

Other Publications:

  • 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. (pp. 68-87). New York: Guilford Press.
  • 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.

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