Recent News Items
November 2023: Rebecca Walsh and Mandy Forest’s paper, “Expressing the good in bad times: Examining whether and why positive expressivity in negative contexts affects romantic partners’ support provision” accepted for publication at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Congratulations, Rebecca!
October 2023: Laramie Martinez joins the Pitt Relationship Processes Lab as a Research Coordinator. Welcome, Laramie!
May 2023: Mandy Forest selected to receive a Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring.
August 2022: Kori Krueger and Mandy Forest’s paper "Putting responsiveness in context: How a partner’s responsiveness baseline shapes perceived responsiveness" accepted for publication at Personal Relationships.
August 2022: Emily O'Brien joins the Pitt Relationship Processes lab as a graduate student in the social psychology program. Welcome, Emily!
May 2022: Bianca Ortalano joins the Pitt Relationship Processes Lab as a Summer Research Assistant. Welcome back, Bianca!
April 2022: Rebecca Walsh successfully defends her dissertation, “Expressing the good in bad times: Examining whether and why positive expressivity in negative contexts affects romantic partners’ responsive support provision.” Congratulations, Dr. Walsh!
April 2022: Lab alumnus, Dr. Kori Krueger, has won the International Association for Relationship Research’s New Scholar Award. These awards provide small grants (1) a graduate student and to (2) a new scholar within 3 years of receiving their Ph.D. in support of their research on personal relationships. Congratulations, Kori!
February 2022: Congratulations to Kirby Sigler, who was named a joint winner of the 2022 SPSP Emotion Preconference Best Poster Award! Kirby’s award-winning poster is titled “Needed, not needy: Why expressing negative emotion enhances support, even for trivial stressors.”
November 2021: Former honors thesis student, Kylie Chandler’s paper “Interested and instrumental: An examination of instrumentality regulation with potential romantic partners” with coauthors Kori Krueger, Mandy Forest, and Ed Orehek accepted for publication at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Kylie is currently a grad student at UNC Chapel Hill.
October 2021: Kirby Sigler and her collaborators, Abby Hillmann, Deborah Danuser, and Kelly M. O’Donnell’s proposal, "Shattering the glass ceiling: Revealing the Hidden Curriculum, A workshop series for women in graduate school" is funded through the Whittington Leadership and Innovation Challenge at the University of Pittsburgh. Complementing programming offered by the University, the Dietrich School, and our departments, the Whittington Leadership and Innovation Challenge supports student-designed and student-led projects that will enhance the professional development and leadership skills of graduate students across disciplines. Congratulations Kirby and team!
June 2021: Rebecca Walsh wins the University of Pittsburgh Social Psychology Program Graduate Student Publication Award for a Theoretical paper for her first-authored PSPR paper “Can expressing positivity elicit support for negative events? A process model and review.” Congratulations, Rebecca!
March 2021: Mandy Forest, Rebecca Walsh, and Kori Krueger’s paper “Facilitating and motivating support: How support seekers can affect the support they receive” accepted for publication at Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
September 2020: Rebecca Walsh and Mandy Forest’s paper, “Can expressing positivity elicit support for negative events? A process model and review” accepted for publication at Personality and Social Psychology Review.
August 2020: Kirby Sigler joins the Pitt Relationship Processes lab and receives the University of Pittsburgh Arts and Sciences Fellowship.
August 2020: Kori Krueger begins her new position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/faculty-and-research/post-doctoral/krueger-kori.html)
July 2020: Kori Krueger successfully defends her dissertation, “Is listening to a partner’ negative expressivity always detrimental? The role of perceiving oneself as instrumental.” Congratulations, Dr. Krueger!
July 2020: Kori Krueger and Mandy Forest’s paper, “Communicating commitment: A relationship-protection account of dyadic displays on social media” published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Spring 2020: Incoming graduate student Kirby Sigler publishes paper “A Qualitative Review of a Trauma Intervention for Women in a Segregated Housing Unit” in the Journal of Community Corrections with coauthors Nena Messina and Stacy Calhoun.
May 2020: Kori Krueger receives the Dr. Ruth L. Myers Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Students.
April 2020: Rebecca Walsh receives the University of Pittsburgh Social Psychology Graduate Student Publication award for her first-authored paper entitled, “Self-disclosure on social media: The role of perceived network responsiveness.”
March 2020: Rebecca Walsh, Mandy Forest, and Edward Orehek’s paper, “Self-disclosure on social media: The role of perceived network responsiveness” published in Computers in Human Behavior.
February 2020: Mandy Forest and Kori Krueger author a piece for The Conversation on “Why people post ‘couple photos’ as their social media profile pictures.”
January 2020: Mandy Forest’s grant entitled “Eliciting support in times of distress: Examining when and for whom expressing positivity is an effective strategy” funded by the National Science Foundation.
January 2020: Mandy Forest nominated for University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring