John's University. In 2005, she earned her Ph.D. in personality psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and received the J.S. Tanaka Dissertation Award for methodological and substantive contributions to the field of personality psychology. She then completed postdoctoral training in the clinical science and psychopathology research program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. She joined the faculty of St. John’s in 2006. Research Interests