Mary Davis received her bachelor's from University of Idaho, and her master's and doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. Davis examines how social and emotional risk and resilience factors shape adaptation to stress. Her work includes developing and testing interventions designed to bolster resilience, such as mindfulness, in the face of ongoing challenges associated with chronic pain, trauma, and aging. She is also Research Council Chair of the Center for Mindfulness, Compassion, and Resilience at ASU.
Interests include social and emotional predictors of adaptation to chronic stress and pain; mindfulness-based approaches to promoting emotion regulation and resilience; genetic and environmental influences on risk for development of pediatric pain
The Emotion Regulation and Health Lab works to understand how emotional and social aspects of life affect how people adapt to the challenges of chronic stressors, including chronic pain.
The research areas we are most interested in include:
Can learning to simply pay attention to what’s happening in the moment, without judging it, help improve mood, coping, and day-to-day health?
Early adversity sets the stage for health problems later in life. What are the psychological, social, and physiological mechanisms driving the adversity-health relation?
Touch can be one means of mitigating the effects of stress. How does that happen? Is it true for everyone?
We are often inclined to focus on factors that make individuals vulnerable to stress. Yet vulnerable individuals also have strengths. What are key strengths, like feeling loved, that can protect individuals from the negative effects of adversity, like pain?
Having a parent with chronic pain increases the risk that a child will develop chronic pain as well. What are the psychological, environmental, and biological mechanisms that can explain these relations?
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 462 | Health Psychology |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 592 | Research |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 680 | Practicum |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 462 | Health Psychology |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 592 | Research |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 792 | Research |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 599 | Thesis |
PSY 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 680 | Practicum |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
PSY 780 | Practicum |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 472 | Clinical Psychology |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 492 | Honors Directed Study |
PSY 493 | Honors Thesis |
PSY 497 | Honors Colloquium |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 492 | Honors Directed Study |
PSY 493 | Honors Thesis |
PSY 497 | Honors Colloquium |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
PSY 472 | Clinical Psychology |
PSY 499 | Individualized Instruction |