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Sarah Lupis

Lecturer in Psychology
Sarah  Lupis
slupis@brandeis.edu
781-736-3303
Brown Social Science Center, 125

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 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


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