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VICTOR KAUFMAN (he/him) is a former graduate student and current research scientist of the UCLA Marriage and Close Relationships Lab. He received a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Pepperdine in 2015 and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 2020. He primarily studies adult friendship and how close relationship processes uniquely affect well-being. He is also interested in psychometrics and how its application can aide our measurement of various phenomena in close relationships. |
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DAVID KENNEDY (he/him) is a research scientist of the UCLA Marriage and Close Relationships Lab and social and behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is currently developing innovative methods for targeting social network and romantic relationship factors in health intervention. Find out more about David Kennedy at the RAND Corporation website. See his CV here. |
| Postdoctoral Scholars | |
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RAQUAEL JOINER (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Scholar who received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology with an Advanced Quantitative Social Science Minor in August 2020. Trained as a developmental methodologist, Raquael’s research broadly focuses on the interface of theory and methods (i.e., research designs and statistical models) involved in the study of change over time. Out of this broader concentration, her more specific research interests have evolved in three interrelated areas—methods for studying change at multiple timescales, dyadic data analyses, and emotion dynamics. See her CV here. |
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LISA WALSH (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate who completed her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology at the University of California, Riverside under the mentorship of Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky. Her research focuses broadly on the who, what, where, when, why and how of happiness. She investigates the architecture of subjective well-being, including its outcomes (e.g., positive emotions, life satisfaction), mechanisms (e.g., social connectedness), moderators (e.g., personality), and downstream consequences (e.g., career success, physical health). See more about Lisa here. |
| Laboratory Administration | |
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ARIANA GONZALES (she/her) is the current laboratory administrator of the UCLA Marriage and Close Relationships Lab. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science from UCLA in 2020. She completed an Honors Thesis with the lab and has led its observational coding team. View her CV here. |
| Former Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Researchers of Dr. Bradbury |
| JULIA HAMMETT is a postdoctoral scholar in the Edson School of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University and in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University. See more here.
TERESA NGUYEN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University. See more here. HANNAH WILLIAMSON is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. See more here. JUSTIN LAVNER is and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia. See more here. RONALD ROGGE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rochester. See more here. ERIKA LAWRENCE is a Professor and the Director of Translational Science at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. See more here. LAURI PASCH is a Professor and licensed psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco. See more here. JOANNE DAVILA is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University. See more here. DOMINIK SCHOEBI is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université of Fribourg. See more here. KIERAN SULLIVAN is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Santa Clara University. See more here. REBECCA COBB is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. See more here. MATTHEW JOHNSON is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Binghamton University. See more here. JOSEPH TROMBELLO is a licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. See more here. |
| Former Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Researchers of Dr. Karney |
| JAMES MCNULTY is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University. See more here.
LISA NEFF is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. See more here. NANCY FRYE is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Long Island University. See more here. THOMAS TRAIL is a Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation. See more here. AMY RAUER is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. See more here. ELIANNE VAN STEENBERGEN is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Universiteit Utrecht. See more here. |