She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral training at the Northern California Veterans Administration Health Care System and University of California, Davis, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Roberts research focuses on the study of emotion and on the cultural and biological forces that shape emotional responses, using both observational and psychophysiological measures in her work. Dr. Roberts is widely published, and her work has appeared in peer-reviewed professional journals such as the Journal of Marriage and the Family, the Journal of Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, and Emotion.