Center for Healthy Minds

Stacey leads the Center's contribution to the Midlife in the United States Longitudinal Study of Health and Well-Being as well as a separate study examining how our cognitive abilities are related to our emotion regulatory abilities.

Stacey’s research questions can generally be summarized as: What does better emotion regulation ability predict in terms of people’s health and well-being, and similarly what individual differences promote better emotion regulation? For example, what is the interaction/overlap between executive control and self-regulatory processes such as emotion regulation?

To answer these questions, she studies the morphometry of and functional activity in emotion regulation-related brain circuitry, psychophysiological measures of emotional reactivity and recovery, and these measures' relations with aging, stress, cognition, coping styles, as well as biological and psychological predictors of well-being.