Lab News

March 6, 2023

The Williamson Lab is excited to welcome visiting scholar Bariş Sevi. Dr. Sevi is an assistant professor at the Department of Psychology at MEF University (Turkey) and he will be with us at UT for the remainder of 2023.

March 1, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Williamson for earning tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, effective in September.

February 26, 2023

Graudate student Nick Chen presented his research examining cross-cultural differences in the transformation of motivation process in romantic relationships at SPSP this weekend.

February 18, 2023

This new paper by Dr. Williamson and collaborators provides information about the recruitment and retention of couples with low incomes into a study of relationship education with integrated economic services. Results indicate that it is possible to recruit a large, linguistically, and racially diverse sample of couples living with low income to participate in an integrated intervention, but the uptake of relationship-focused services was higher than the uptake of economic-focused services.

February 6, 2023

Dr. Williamson, graduate student Nick Chen, and our regular collaborator Dr. Justin Lavner have a new paper published in the most recent issue of Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. This study uses a randomized controlled trial of low-income married couples with children and finds that fathers’ parenting can be enhanced by improving couple functioning, suggesting that strengthening the quality of parents’ romantic relationship may be a viable path to enhancing fathers’ engagement with their children.

January 30, 2023

The Williamson Lab is excited to have Dr. Betul Urganci joining us a post-doctoral fellow. Dr. Urganci received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University.

November 21, 2022

This weekend graduate student Nick Chen presented a new study examining the indirect effects of couple relationship education on fathers’ parenting at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT) annual convention in New York Cty. This work was conducted with Dr. Williamson and our collaborator Dr. Justin Lavner.

October 12, 2022

The Williamson Lab is seeking a postdoctoral scholar with a PhD in Psychology, Human Development and Family Sciences, Sociology, or a related discipline. The postdoctoral fellow will work with multiple ongoing studies, including an observational study of low-income unmarried new parents, an RCT of relationship education for low-income couples, and two intervention studies of adolescent sexual/relationship education.

The fellowship is a full-time position that entails project-related research and activities. This position is for twelve months and includes the possibility of renewing for a second twelve-months, conditional on performance. Start date is flexible between January 2, 2023 and September 1, 2023. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Submit an application here, or reach out to Dr. Williamson with questions.

April 25, 2022

Congratulations to 2nd year grad student Nick Chen, who is the 2022 recipient of the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Steve Duck New Scholars Award. This award will provide grant funding to support Nick’s proposed research project, entitled “Cross-Cultural Differences in the Transformation of Motivation.”

March 31, 2022

Congratulations to graduate student Nick Chen for successfully defending his Master’s thesis, entitled “Does Socioeconomic Status Moderate the Link between Marital Quality and Health?” His thesis committee consisted of Dr. Williamson, Dr. Lisa Neff, and Dr. Saehwang Han. Great job Nick!