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 psychologist and affective scientist whose research centers on two interdisciplinary and interrelated topics that have important theoretical and real-world implications. First, I study emotion-related processes at the intrapersonal level through questions such as: When, why, and for whom is emotion regulation helpful vs. harmful in terms of mental health and well-being? What factors (e.g., individual, situational, cultural) determine peoples’ use of emotion regulation strategies in the first place? And, how do people’s deeply held beliefs about emotions influence emotion regulation, mental health, and interpersonal consequences?
Second, he studies group-related processes and how they contribute to disparities in higher education, especially within science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Here he asks questions such as: What factors hinder and facilitate a person’s social integration into groups? How does their social integration affect behavioral, motivational, and mental health and well-being outcomes?
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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