office: Blodgett Hall 225
phone: (845) 437-7373
Contact Michele Tugade
Michele Tugade earned her B.A. from Vassar College and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. She then completed a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral research fellowship in the Interdisciplinary Affective Sciences Laboratory at Boston College. She joined the Vassar College faculty in 2004 and teaches courses in social psychology and individual differences.
Professor Tugade’s research focuses on the function of positive emotions in the coping process; the mechanisms that promote resilience in the face of stress and adversity; and emotion-related processes associated with health and well-being. She also examines the structure and dynamics of emotional experience and emotion regulation. Her program of research incorporates multiple research methodologies, including laboratory-based experiments, experience-sampling methodology, and psychophysiological measurement procedures.
personal webpage: http://faculty.vassar.edu/mitugade/