Iris Mauss

Principal Investigator

Iris Mauss, PhD, is the director of the Emotion and Emotion Regulation Lab (EERLab) and a professor in the social and personality psychology area at the University of California, Berkeley. Her lab’s research focuses on emotions and emotion regulation, with an emphasis on their links to psychological health. In her research, she uses measures of emotion experience, behavior, and physiological responding, and combines laboratory, daily-diary, and longitudinal survey approaches.

Contact: imauss@berkeley.edu
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Felicia Zerwas

Graduate Student

Felicia is a Ph.D. student in the social-personality area of the psychology department at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her BS in psychology from the University of Arizona.

Broadly, her primary interests are emotions, emotion regulation and the impact that others have on our emotional experiences. She is particularly interested in examining how the effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies changes over different situations.

In her spare time, Felicia enjoys exercising, watching sappy movies, listening to music, and being outdoors.

Contact: fzerwas@berkeley.edu
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Gerald Young

Graduate Student

Gerald Young is a sixth year Ph.D. student in the social/personality psychology program at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his M.A. in social psychology at San Francisco State University and his B.A. in psychology at California State University, East Bay.

He is a social, affective, and diversity scientist whose research investigates how affective and social processes relate to mental health across and within diverse populations. He uses this research to inform how to build inclusive environments in which all people are mentally healthy and thrive. 

In his free time, he enjoys watching sports, cooking, eating, and spending time with family and friends.

Contact: geraldyoung@berkeley.edu
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Gold Okafor

Graduate Student

Gold is a fifth year PhD student of the Social-Personality Psychology area at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her B.S. in Biopsychology with a minor in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Her research is focused on assessing emotion and stress within interventions in the educational system and prison industrial complex.

In her free time, Gold enjoys listening to podcasts, rock climbing, and watching TV.

Contact: gokafor@berkeley.edu
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Regina Ebo

Graduate Student

Regina is a third year Ph.D. student in the Social-Personality area of the Psychology department at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her BA in Cognitive Science from Vassar College and worked at MIT in the Early Childhood Cognition Lab (ECCL) under Laura Schulz prior to joining EERL.

Broadly, she’s interested in exploring the connections between emotions, empathy, and culture. She is particularly interested in examining how culture impacts emotion regulation strategies, empathetic behavior, and how individuals determine who is worthy of empathy.

In her free time, she enjoys working out, listening to music,  trying out different food/recipes and acquiring new hobbies.

Contact: rne@berkeley.edu

Lindsey Burnside

Graduate Student

Lindsey Burnside (she/her/hers) is a fourth year PhD student in the Social/Personality area working with Dr. Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton and Dr. Iris Mauss. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience from the University of Michigan.

Her research interests include racism-related stress and coping, health equity, well-being, and segregation.

In her free time, she enjoys tending to her many houseplants, reading, travel, and playing cards with family and friends.

Contact: lburnside@berkeley.edu

Colin Lee

Post-Baccalaureate student

Colin is a first-year Psychology Post-Baccalaureate student at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.S. in Biopsychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

He is interested in the analysis of personality through an idiographic lens, bridging structure and process based approaches to personality, and the development of more predictive and dynamic models of personality.

Contact: colinjlee@berkeley.edu
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Alumni

Allison Troy (Website)

Amanda Shallcross (Website)

Henrik Hopp

Victoria Floerke

Josh Eng

Moritz Riese

Joseph Leshin

Katrien Koolen

Amanda Irion

Stephanie Yu

Bianca Lorenz

Bettina Moltrecht

Gabriela Werner

Jaya Roy

Yuen Wan Ho

Catherine Patzelt

Alma Merscher

Freya Specht

Tchiki Davis

Brett Ford (Website)

Craig Anderson (Website)

Phoebe Lam

Fiona Cheung

Emily Wilroth (Website)

Dylan Benkley

Grace Allison

Dorota Swierzewicz

Jamie Kim

Judy Kwak

Helena Karnilowicz

Meaghan Barlow (Website)

Christopher Crawford