I grew up in a small town in Arizona. After high school I came to BYU with plans to become a pediatrician. Along the way, I started doing research with BYU faculty and developed a passion for research that seeks to understand how human behavior is related to health and well-being. I changed course and went to graduate school at Purdue University, where I completed my M.S. degree studying how temperament and personality influence helping children's behaviors.
After Purdue, I worked as a social worker for the State of Indiana Department of Child Services (family case manager) for a year and a half. Then I came back to BYU, where I completed my Ph.D. I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 3 years, where I was mentored by Dr. Barbara Fiese, an expert in how daily family routines influence children's health and well-being. After my postdoc position, I returned to Purdue University and worked as an assistant professor for five wonderful years. In 2018, my family felt it was time to move closer to our extended families and back to the mountains. When I was offered a position to come back to BYU, we jumped at the chance and I am now privileged to be an associate professor in Psychology at BYU. I am huge sports fan and love following BYU sports, playing sports, and spending time in the mountains and outdoors with my family.
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Research Interests
My research program addresses the influence of daily routines and behaviors on health and well-being. Specifically, I am interested in how daily routines such as family mealtimes, bedtime routines, media use, and parental work schedules are associated with obesity, sleep problems, and hypertension in children and adolescents. I am also interested in identifying how physiological stress, psychological stress, and hormones influence the relationship between routines and health outcomes.