Dr. Farrell is part of a team that just had their paper, “Life Stress and Cortisol Reactivity: An Exploratory Analysis of Stress Exposure Across Life on HPA Axis Functioning” accepted to the journal Development and Psychopathology. Link to the paper coming soon!
Dr. Tim Smith visits Miami
The MARSH Lab hosted Dr. Timothy Smith from the University of Utah as a psychology department colloquium speaker. He gave a great talk in front of a packed audience on dominance and prestige as risk factors for cardiovascular disease!
MARSH Lab at Psychology Open House
New research assistant Sharon representing the MARSH Lab at the Miami University psych department open house! Great to meet lots of undergrads at Miami interested in the lab.
Paper Accepted at Current Directions
Dr. Farrell has published a paper, co-authored with Sarah Stanton, in Current Directions in Psychological Science entitled “Towards a mechanistic understanding of links between close relationships and health.” Check it out to learn more about what we know so far about why relationship functioning impacts health and what kind of research needs to be done to help us understand mechanisms better!
Paper published in Psych Science
Dr. Farrell is part of a team lead by Ethan Young that just published a paper in Psychological Science entitled “The dual impact of early and concurrent life stress on adult diurnal cortisol patterns: A prospective study.“ This paper uses data from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation to test three different models of how stress across the lifetime affects diurnal cortisol patterns. Read it here!
Talk at APS Meeting
MARSH lab is in Vancouver for the American Psychosomatic Society meeting! Dr. Farrell presented a talk entitled ”Transcriptomic and cell-type compositional effects of self-disclosure” as part of a symposium she co-chaired on psychosocial experiences and regulation of the human genome.
Lab founded
Allison Farrell has accepted a tenure-track position at Miami University and started the MARSH lab!