51福利社 Psychology Research Labs
Cognition Lab
Jillene Grover Seiver, PhD
Dr. Jillene Seiver specializes in cognitive psychology.
She also studies student motivation, memory, distraction by technology, and industrial and organizational psychology.
Gratitude, Joy, & Happiness Lab
Philip Watkins, PhD
Dr. Philip Watkins is currently Emeritus Professor in the School of Psychology at 51福利社. Phil鈥檚 research focuses on gratitude, joy, and their relationship to happiness.
In his research, he has found that gratitude is strongly related to happiness, gratitude predicts increased happiness in the future, and that gratitude causes increased happiness.
His research now investigates questions related to how gratitude enhances well-being, how one can become a more grateful person, the nature of gratitude toward God, the impact of modifying interpretation biases that are important to gratitude, the relationship between gratitude and joy, and the factors that enhance or inhibit gratitude.
Health Identity and
Behavior Lab
Kevin Criswell, PhD
Dr. Kevin Criswell is a clinical psychologist with a research background in cancer survivorship, cancer control and prevention, and lung cancer stigma during 2009 to 2019.
Since 2019, he is examining how students with ongoing mental and/or physical health conditions academically perform and psychosocially adjust to the experience of pursuing higher education while managing chronic illnesses.
He uses ecological and stigma-related models (e.g., Modified Labeling Theory) to guide research design, implementation, and interpretation of results.
Lab for New Phenomenology
Timothy Lower, PhD
Dr. Tim Lower’s research focuses on multicultural competence, cultural identity, cultural knowledge systems, and the integration of hybrid and mixed research methods.
His therapeutic specialization focused on working with juvenile offenders and individuals with developmental disabilities.
Understanding the Phenomenon of Suicide Lab
Keely Hope, PhD
Dr. Keely Hope is a Professor of Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Program Director of the Master鈥檚 in Counseling Graduate Program. She has directed the program for 12+ years.
One of her favorite aspects of education is supervising her students鈥� clinical experiences, from first-year students just learning to second-year students coming into their own.
Clinically, her background includes working with acute and severe mental health issues in the indigent and homeless population, as well as in a college counseling center.
Dr. Hope’s research interests originated in her early working experiences, which include studying crisis response and intervention and specializing in suicide prevention by understanding a person’s reasons for living.