Gerald Young

Education:

Ph.D., Social/Personality Psychology, University of California, Berkeley (2024)

M.A., Social Psychology, San Francisco State University (2018)

B.A., Psychology, California State University, East Bay (2012)

Research Interests:

Dr. Young’s research investigates how social (e.g., social identity, social integration into groups) and affective (e.g., emotion regulation, emotion beliefs) processes relate to mental health and well-being across and within diverse populations. Dr. Young’s research also aims to understand how social and affective processes promote as well as hinder a person’s sense of belonging and inclusion across different contexts such as at college universities (e.g., in STEM fields) as well as among their families, friends, and ethnic/cultural communities. A particular goal of Dr. Young is to use this research to inform how to build inclusive environments in which people from all backgrounds are mental healthy and thrive. 

Dr. Young is currently accepting new Ph.D. students.

Selected Publications:

Young, G., Srivastava, A., Estrada, M., Woodcock, A., Schultz, P. W., Hernandez, P. R. (under review). Pursuing Scientific Research Careers: The Role of Scientist and Ethnic Identities Among African American and Hispanic STEM Students. Under Review at Self and Identity.

Young, G. R., Estrada, M., Mauss, I. B., Flores, L., Yu, B., Matsui, J., Schultz, P. W., & Hernandez, P. R. (under review). Demographically diverse STEM students’ Well-being Across Time and Social Integration Into The Scientific Community. Under Review at Journal of Happiness Studies.

Smith, A. M., Young, G., & Ford, B. Q. (2023). The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable. Motivation and Emotion, 47, 323-332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-023-10016-3

Willroth, E.C., Young, G., Tamir, M., & Mauss, I.B. (2023). Judging emotions as good or bad: Individual differences and associations with psychological health. Emotion, 23(7), 1876- 1890. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001220

Young, G. R., Karnilowicz, H. R., Mauss, I. B., Hastings, P. D., Guyer, A. E., & Robins, R. W. (2022). Prospective associations between emotion regulation and depressive symptoms among Mexican-origin adolescents. Emotion, 22(1), 129-141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001060

Estrada, M., Young, G., Flores, L., Hernandez, P., Hosoda, K., & DeerInWater, K. (2022). Culture and quality matter in building effective mentorship relationships with Native STEM scholars. BioScience, 72(10), 999-1006. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac064

Estrada M., Young, G. R., Flores, L., Yu, B., & Matsui, J. (2021). Content and quality of science training programs matter: Longitudinal study of the biology scholars program. Cell Biology Education – Life Sciences Education, 20(3):ar44. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21- 01-0011

Young, G., & Suri, G. (2020). Emotion regulation choice: A broad examination of external factors. Cognition and Emotion, 34(2), 242-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1611544

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., Young, G., Abraham, D., McRae, K., & Gross, J. J. (2018). Emotion regulation choice: The role of environmental affordances. Cognition and Emotion, 32(5), 963-971. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1371003

Courses Taught:

•General Psychology

•Structural Equation Modeling

Graduate Students:

• Tayler Fusaro