She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Davis. She also spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Irvine. Dr. Edelstein’s research is devoted to understanding individual differences in emotional experience, regulation, and reactivity. She is particularly interested in how emotional processes unfold in an interpersonal context and the implications of emotion for close relationships. Her current work examines changes in health and well-being during the transition to parenthood, including influences on stress and postpartum adjustment among lesbian parents.