Keywords:Health Psychology, Health Neuroscience, Psychoneuroimmunology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology
David鈥檚 research focuses broadly on understanding what makes people resilient under stress. Specifically, he conducts community intervention studies, laboratory studies of stress and coping, and neuroimaging studies to understand how various stress management strategies alter coping and stress resilience. For example, he is currently working on studies that test how mindfulness meditation training impacts the brain, peripheral stress physiological responses, and stress-related disease outcomes in at-risk community samples. David also explores how the use of simple strategies (self-affirmation, rewarding activities, cognitive reappraisal) can buffer stress and improve problem-solving under pressure.
David has made some recent research forays into other areas, such as in describing the role of unconscious processes in learning and decision making, developing new theory and research on behavioral priming, and in building a new field of health neuroscience.
Education
B.A. Psychology, Colorado College
Ph.D. in Psychology, UCLA
Research
Dr. Creswell鈥檚 current research projects can be found on the聽听飞别产蝉颈迟别.
Dutcher, J.M. & Creswell, J.D. (2018). The role of brain reward pathways in stress resilience and health. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 95, 559-567.
Lindsay, E.K., Young, S., Brown, K.W., Smyth, J., & Creswell, J.D. (2019). Mindfulness training reduces loneliness and increases social contact in a randomized controlled trial. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, 3488-3493.
Creswell, J.D., Villalba, D., Chin, B., & Lindsay, E.K. (2019). Mindfulness interventions for physical health: mechanisms and outcomes. Psychosomatic Medicine, 81, 224-232.
Dutcher, J.M., Lederman, J., Jain, M., Price, S., Kumar, A., Villalba, D.K., Tumminia, M.J., Doryab, A., Creswell, K.G., Mankoff, J., Cohen, S., Dey, A., & Creswell, J.D. (in press). Lack of belonging predicts depressive symptomatology in college students. Psychological Science.
Current Course Offerings
Research Methods in Social Psychology
Hack Your Life
Graduate Core Class in Social and Health Psychology