Sarah Lupis
Instructor in the Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program
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 | 10a | Introduction to Psychology |
| 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 |
| PSYC | 211a | Graduate Research Methods in Psychology |