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Sally Dickerson

Sally Dickerson

Professor
Associate Provost for Research

Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Psychology - NYC

Location
  • @New York City

Biography


Sally Dickerson is currently the Associate Provost for Research and a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Pace University. Prior to her arrival at Pace in 2015, she was on the faculty in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine (2004-2015). Dr. Dickerson also served from 2012-2015 as the Director of the Social Psychology program at the National Science Foundation.

Education


PhD , University of California, Los Angeles , 2004
Social Psychology

BA , Southern Methodist University , 1998
Psychology

Awards and Honors

  • American Psychological Association Division 38 (Health Psychology), 2013 - Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Health Psychology
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2010 - Sage Young Scholars Award

RESEARCH INTEREST


Dr. Dickerson's research integrates psychological and biological levels of analysis by applying theories of social and emotional processes to the context of stress and disease. She examines how social-evaluative threat and accompanying self-conscious emotional responses affect physiological outcomes, and how individual differences may heighten vulnerability to these psychological and physiological changes.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • National Council of University Research Administrators 2015
  • Social Personality and Health Network [Steering Committee] 2011
  • Society for Experimental Social Psychology 2009
  • Society for Social and Personality Psychology 2003
  • American Psychosomatic Society 2000
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