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Mollie Ruben
Graduate Student
Department of Psychology,125-NI
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 373-8541 (office)
(617) 373-8714 (fax)
ruben.m@husky.neu.edu

Advisor: Judy Hall

Research

I am a first year graduate student in Professor Judith Hall’s laboratory working towards my Ph.D. in Psychology.  My general research interests focus on nonverbal communication and interpersonal sensitivity.  More specifically I am interested in how individual differences such as attachment style can influence interpersonal sensitivity in close relationships.  For example, when someone is in physical discomfort or coping with a stressful event, I am interested in the expression of nonverbal cues and how their partner or close other accurately or inaccurately decodes those cues.  I am interested in examining the encoding and decoding of nonverbal behavior of physical discomfort among strangers, friends, romantic couples, doctor-patient dyads, and even among coach-player, athletic trainer-player dyads.