May 4, 2020
Junior Biology major Katelyn Golden has spent the last year in the Williamson Lab completing a Connecting Research Experience for the UT Bridging Disciplines Program, where she is completing a certificate in Social Inequality, Health, and Policy. Katelyn’s research project focused on “Longitudinal relationships between newlywed communication about health issues and BMI.” She recently presented this work in a virtual BDP poster session.
May 1, 2020
Undergraduate Psychology major Maria Mohamed completed her Honors Thesis in the Williamson Lab this year. She examined “Marital Satisfaction and Communication among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Couples” and presented her work at a University-wide virtual poster session.
April 8, 2020
We are excited to announce that two new graduate students will be joining the lab in the Fall; Yunzhi Zheng and Nick Chen. We look forward to welcoming you both to UT!
February 28, 2020
Graduate student Thao Nguyen presented her work at SPSP. This paper was recently published in Personal Relationships.
February 22, 2020
A first-authored paper by graduate student Thao Nguyen is now in press at Personal Relationships. This paper is part of the journal’s Special Issue on Relationship Science and the Credibility Revolution, in which we submitted a pre-registered analysis plan, received an in principle acceptance of the manuscript based on the expected theoretical contributions, then collected the data and completed the analyses and the manuscript. The paper examines the role of stress mindset in partner’s provision of support to each other.
January 10, 2020
Dr. Williamson has been named one of two Consulting Editors of the Year for the Journal of Family Psychology.
November 23, 2019
Graduate student Thao Nguyen presented our recently published paper “A comparison of low-income vs. higher-income individuals seeking an online relationship intervention” at NCFR.
November 21, 2019
Graduate student Megan Schouweiler presented her research on “Does the Quantity of Time Couples Share Differ by Household Income?” at NCFR in Fort Worth.
October 31, 2019
Dr. Williamson has published a new paper, along with collaborators at the University of Georgia and UCLA, that examines the relationship processes and outcomes of couples who get married after having a child, in comparison to couples who started marriage without a child. Results show that among couples who entered marriage with a shared biological child (premarital parents), satisfaction levels were lower and communication was less effective, less positive, and more negative than couples entering marriage without children. Rates of change in marital functioning did not differ between groups, but the rate of marital dissolution was twice as high among premarital parents (19.1%) relative to couples who were not parents at the start of marriage (9.5%).
October 29, 2019
Dr. Williamson and graduate student Thao Nguyen, in collaboration with Dr. Brian Doss and his graduate student Karen Rothman at the University of Miami, have published a new paper in Family Process which compares couples seeking an online couple therapy program to examine whether low-income couples have similar presenting problems to higher-income couples.
