Sarah Lupis

Lecturer in Psychology

Departments/Programs

Education
Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program
Psychology

Degrees

Brandeis University, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, M.A.
Boston University, B.A.

Expertise

Dr. Lupis’s teaching experience spans diverse student bodies at the undergraduate and graduate level, including faculty positions with Brandeis University and Mass General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. Previous and current teaching topics include health psychology, the psychology of student learning, abnormal psychology, research methodology, and statistics. She also holds the position of Department Coordinator and Graduate Program Coordinator of the psychology program at Brandeis University.

Profile

Sarah completed Ph.D. with the Laboratory for Biological Health Psychology at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on the intersectionality of emotion and stress. More specifically, as a certified facial coder, Sarah examines how people react emotionally to psychosocial stress, and how this correlates to sympathetic nervous system and neuroendocrine stress responses. Her research interests also include predictors and moderators of these underlying mechanisms, including the effects of age, culture, gender, and body image.

Courses Taught

ED	157b	The Psychology of Student Learning
PSYC	36b	Adolescence and the Transition to Maturity
PSYC	52a	Research Methods and Laboratory in Psychology
PSYC	126a	Pathways and Mechanisms Linking Emotions to Mental and Physical Health