Nicole Roberts

Nicole A. Roberts received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral training at the Northern California Veterans Administration Health Care System and University of California, Davis Department of Psychiatry. Prior to joining Arizona State University in 2006, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Roberts’ research focuses on the study of emotion and on the cultural and biological forces that shape emotional responses. For example, this research investigates how ethnicity and culture influence emotional displays and experiences; how the daily hassles of life, such as job stress and sleep deprivation, impact emotion regulation among individuals and couples; and how the emotion system breaks down in patients with psychopathology (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder) or neurological dysfunction (e.g., seizure disorders). Roberts uses both observational and psychophysiological measures in her work. Her research has been published in the Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, and Emotion.

Her areas of teaching specialization include abnormal psychology, multicultural issues in clinical psychology, emotion, and supervision of undergraduate and graduate research and practicum experiences.