Elizabeth Davis
Associate Professor
PhD., UC Irvine, 2009
Office: PSYCH 3115
Phone: (951) 827-5236
Email: elizabeth.davis@ucr.edu
My research focuses on understanding how emotion regulation relates to adaptive outcomes (e.g., learning) and maladaptive outcomes (e.g., anxiety) in childhood. Emotion regulation can be broadly defined as the set of processes by which people influence the timing, expression, and experience of their emotions. Learning to regulate negative emotion is one of the most important tasks of childhood, with far-reaching consequences for children’s school adjustment, peer relationships, and mental health. My work to date has aimed to identify regulatory strategies that children can use to effectively alleviate negative emotion, and to identify individual differences in children’s biology and social experiences that determine whether they can regulate emotion effectively. My work also focuses on identifying mechanisms responsible for effective emotion regulation (e.g., attentional focus) to explain why certain emotion regulation strategies attenuate negative emotion and distress. Ultimately, I view this program of research as providing an empirical basis for interventions aimed at improving children’s emotion regulation abilities and mitigating risk for maladaptive outcomes.
Shannon Brady
Graduate Student
sbrad034@ucr.edu
I’m Shannon, a 6th year graduate student in Dr. Davis’ Emotion Regulation Lab. My research interests lie at the intersections of emotion, language, and culture and my work tackles this in various ways: through the study of extra-lingual emotion words that have no direct translation in English, of Yucatec Maya children’s emotional responding to a structured disappointment task, of how aspects of linguistic and emotional complexity relate to emotion regulation strategy use, and of how self-talk may facilitate emotion regulation. When I’m not in the lab, I enjoy laughing at memes, watching crime dramas, and pampering my cat!
Ricky Haneda
Graduate Student
rhane004@ucr.edu
I’m Ricky, a first year graduate student in the Emotion Regulation lab. I’m an international student from Japan, and I did my undergraduate at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington state. I then did an internship at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology before arriving here in Riverside. My interests lie within the intersection of culture, development, and emotional regulation. Understanding how emotion differs across cultures (particularly Latinx & Asian cultures) and finding effective regulation strategies for these populations will be my primary interest during my graduate career. Beyond research, I love to do anything active, from sports, working out, or going for hikes!
