Lab Mission and Values
Mission
The Goodman Emotion and Resilience Lab is dedicated to fostering social connection and resilience. We embrace the idea that adversity is a fundamental human experience, but a person’s response to adversity is malleable and trainable. The lab explores different ways of coping that can reduce suffering.
Values
Collaboration
The best science is team science. We are highly collaborative within and outside our lab. We collaborate with psychologists worldwide, as well researchers in public health, social psychology, and epidemiology.
Transparency
Science should be transparent and accessible. We publicly post data, analytic code, and research materials; preregister our research studies, and post manuscript preprints to the Open Science Framework (OSF) website.
Community Engagement
High-impact research should be mutually beneficial to researchers and participants. We foster collaborative relationships with community partners, personally engage with study participants, and create personalized resources for participants.
Rigorous Measurement
Measurement is the foundation of any scientific field. We use smartphone technologies that capture life as it is lived (e.g., ecological momentary assessment [EMA]). We also design accessible measures of hard-to-measure constructs such as social anxiety, resilience, and psychological flexibility.