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  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Joanne Davila is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States and specializes primarily in psychology and social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including social psychology, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and communication.

Research by Davila addresses several key topics such as LGBTQ health, identity, and policy; attachment and relationship dynamics; marriage and sexual relationships; sexuality, behavior, and technology; child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development; social and intergroup psychology; and racial and ethnic identity research.

Davila's frequent coauthors include Brian A. Feinstein, Christina Dyar, Daniel N. Klein, Timothy J. Sullivan, and Tamara Luginbuehl.

Their publications have appeared in journals including Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, American Psychologist, Personal Relationships, and Journal of Bisexuality.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action. (2020, American Psychologist)
  • Motivations for Sexual Identity Concealment and Their Associations with Mental Health among Bisexual, Pansexual, Queer, and Fluid (Bi+) Individuals (2020, Journal of Bisexuality)
  • Disclosure, minority stress, and mental health among bisexual, pansexual, and queer (Bi+) adults: The roles of primary sexual identity and multiple sexual identity label use. (2021, Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity)
  • Teaching romantic competence skills to emerging adults: A relationship education workshop (2021, Personal Relationships)
  • The Affective Consequences of Minority Stress Among Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer (Bi+) Adults: A Daily Diary Study (2022, Behavior Therapy)

Joanne Davila is recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), an award received in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.

    June Gruber;Mitchell J. Prinstein;Lee Anna Clark;Jonathan Rottenberg

  • Forgiveness and conflict resolution in marriage.

    Frank D. Fincham;Steven R. H. Beach;Joanne Davila

  • Negative Social Comparison on Facebook and Depressive Symptoms: Rumination as a Mechanism

    Brian A. Feinstein;Rachel Hershenberg;Vickie Bhatia;Jessica A. Latack

  • Marital functioning and depressive symptoms: evidence for a stress generation model.

    Joanne Davila;Thomas N. Bradbury;Catherine L. Cohan;Shelly Tochluk

  • Attachment change processes in the early years of marriage.

    Joanne Davila;Benjamin R. Karney;Thomas N. Bradbury

  • The relationship between experiences of discrimination and mental health among lesbians and gay men: An examination of internalized homonegativity and rejection sensitivity as potential mechanisms.

    Brian A. Feinstein;Marvin R. Goldfried;Joanne Davila

  • Depressive symptoms and marital satisfaction: within-subject associations and the moderating effects of gender and neuroticism.

    Joanne Davila;Benjamin R. Karney;Todd W. Hall;Thomas N. Bradbury

  • Problem-solving skills and affective expressions as predictors of change in marital satisfaction.

    Matthew D. Johnson;Catherine L. Cohan;Joanne Davila;Erika Lawrence

  • Interpersonal attachment cognitions and prediction of symptomatic responses to interpersonal stress

    Constance L. Hammen;Dorli Burge;Shannon E. Daley;Joanne Davila

  • Poor interpersonal problem solving as a mechanism of stress generation in depression among adolescent women.

    Joanne Davila;Constance Hammen;Dorli Burge;Blair Paley

  • The tendency to forgive in dating and married couples: The role of attachment and relationship satisfaction

    Lorig K. Kachadourian;Frank Fincham;Joanne Davila

  • Is social anxiety associated with impairment in close relationships? A preliminary investigation.

    Joanne Davila;J. Gayle Beck

  • Excessive reassurance seeking, depression, and interpersonal rejection: a meta-analytic review.

    Lisa R. Starr;Joanne Davila

  • Attachment insecurity and the distinction between unhappy spouses who do and do not divorce.

    Joanne Davila;Thomas N. Bradbury

  • Frequency and quality of social networking among young adults: Associations with depressive symptoms, rumination, and corumination.

    Joanne Davila;Rachel Hershenberg;Brian A. Feinstein;Kaitlyn Gorman

  • The relationship between stress and depression in first onsets versus recurrences: a meta-analytic review.

    Catherine B. Stroud;Joanne Davila;Anne Moyer

  • Why does attachment style change

    Joanne Davila;Dorli Burge;Constance Hammen

  • Romantic involvement and depressive symptoms in early and late adolescence: The role of a preoccupied relational style

    Joanne Davila;Sara J. Steinberg;Lorig Kachadourian;Rebecca Cobb

  • Longitudinal relations between forgiveness and conflict resolution in marriage.

    Frank D. Fincham;Steven R. H. Beach;Joanne Davila

  • The role of relationship and technique in therapeutic change.

    Marvin R. Goldfried;Joanne Davila

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian A. Feinstein
Brian A. Feinstein Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Constance Hammen
Constance Hammen University of California, Los Angeles
Christina Dyar
Christina Dyar The Ohio State University
Thomas N. Bradbury
Thomas N. Bradbury University of California, Los Angeles
Frank D. Fincham
Frank D. Fincham Florida State University
Blair Paley
Blair Paley University of California, Los Angeles
J. Gayle Beck
J. Gayle Beck University of Memphis
Annette M. La Greca
Annette M. La Greca University of Miami
Daniel N. Klein
Daniel N. Klein Stony Brook University
DeMond M. Grant
DeMond M. Grant Oklahoma State University

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