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Faculty Bio

Sally Dickerson has been a Professor in the Department of Psychology at 91ÊÓƵ since 2015. She served as 91ÊÓƵ's Associate Provost for Research from 2015-2019. Prior to her appointment at 91ÊÓƵ, she was on the faculty in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (2004-2015) and was a Director of the Social Psychology program at the National Science Foundation (2012-2015).

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
• University of California, Irvine, 2008, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2005, Theoretical Innovation Prize (Honorable Mention)

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

BA, Southern Methodist University, 1998
Psychology

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.

Past Courses

PSY 298: Psychology of Stress
PSY 380: Experimental Psychology I
PSY 381: Experimental Psychology II
PSY 701: Doctoral Mentored Lab Class
PSY 705: Research Seminar
PSY 706: Research Seminar II
PSY 712: Advnd Bilgcl Bases of Behavior
PSY 806: Mind & Body Interventions
PSY 834: Doctoral Project Seminar
PSY 835: Doctoral Colloquium
PSY 863: Dissertation I
PSY 864: Dissertation Seminar

Publications

Depressive and Anxious Symptoms, Experimentally Manipulated Acute Social-Evaluative Threat, and Cortisol Reactivity
Strickland, M. G., Myszkowski, N., Hooker, E., Zoccola, P. & Dickerson, S. S. (2024). Psychosomatic Medicine. Vol 86 (Issue 8)

Professional Memberships

• Social Personality and Health Network [Steering Committee]
• Society for Experimental Social Psychology
• Society for Social and Personality Psychology
• American Psychosomatic Society