Investigating the intersection between culture and suffering
The Cultural-Existential Psychology Lab at the University of Arizona is directed by Dr. Daniel Sullivan.
Our lab pursues questions centered on how a wide variety of cultural factors – such as social class, religion, and everyday patterns of activity – influence an equally wide variety of negative experiences – such as unpleasant emotions, illness, and natural disasters.
Most immediately, our research questions and methodology stem from a fruitful dialogue between two of the fastest-growing subfields in social psychology: experimental existential psychology and cultural psychology. However, we maintain a strong commitment to fostering a truly interdisciplinary spirit in the social sciences. This means that we endeavor to use a variety of methods, ranging from quantitative to qualitative, including laboratory experiments, case studies of particular cultural groups, analysis of large-scale survey data, community action research, and qualitative investigations of clinically relevant populations.
Click on one of the topic buttons to learn more about the main areas of current research in the lab.
For more info about the lab, click on “Lab Members.” If you are interested in being a research assistant for the lab, please contact Alexis Goad (alexisgoad@arizona.edu) or Lauren Sedivy (laurensedivy@arizona.edu)