In our lab, we seek to understand the obstacles that people face while making friends and seeking social support from loved ones, and the health consequences of loneliness and interpersonal conflict. We are developing interventions to promote social connection, with the goal of making a positive impact on people’s health and well-being. Information about our ongoing research projects can be found here.
Lab News
Dr. Frances Chen and Julia Nakamura received an SSHRC Insight Grant!
Along with Dr. Felix Cheung and Elizabeth Chan (University of Toronto) and Yeeun Lee (Trinity Western University), they will be studying prosociality “in the wild,” in order to understand the benefits and trade-offs of prosocial engagement in everyday life.
Congratulations to our Winter 2023-2024 graduates!
Thank you so much for your invaluable contributions to the lab; we will miss you! We wish you all the best for your future endeavours! Several of our lab members and recent lab alum will be continuing in graduate programs, including: Marisa Nelson: Graduate studies in the Department of Psychology at UBC Sarvenaz Oloomi: Graduate […]
SHL at PURC 2024
Three lab members presented their research from the Social Health Lab at PURC 2024! Marisa Nelson presented “Better Together? Exploring How Social Network Connections at the Group Level Relate to Well-Being,” Nicolas Zhu presented “The Interaction Between Menarche and Oral Contraceptive Use in Female Depression Risk,” and Nicholas Latimer presented “Assessing Emotion Recognition Deficits in […]
Yeeun Archer Lee and Frances Chen presented at SPSP 2024
Dr. Yeeun Archer Lee and Dr. Frances Chen co-chaired a symposium on addressing social disconnection at SPSP 2024 in San Diego, California! The speakers at the symposium presented research on the negative health impacts of social disconnection and addressed evidence-based interventions to mitigate loneliness and social isolation. Yeeun Archer Lee presented “A Prosociality-Focused Intervention to […]