Joan Monin
Professor Monin’s research examines how emotional processes affect health in older adult relationships. Her research combines survey methods and laboratory experiments to understand the mechanisms (e.g. emotional contagion, cardiovascular reactivity) and moderators (gender, individual differences in attachment) involved in these processes. Currently her research focuses on understanding how exposure to a loved one’s suffering affects the physical and psychological health of older adult caregivers.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Close Relationships
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Gender Psychology
- Health Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
Research Group or Laboratory:
Journal Articles:
- Monin, J. K., Clark, M. S., & Lemay, E. P. (2008). Communal responsiveness in relationships with female versus male family members. Sex Roles, 59(3-4), 176-188.
- Monin, J. K., Martire, L. M., Schulz, R., & Clark, M. S. (2009). Willingness to express emotions to caregiving spouses. Emotion, 9(1), 101-106.
- Monin, J. K., & Schulz, R. (2009). Interpersonal effects of suffering in older adult caregiving relationships. Psychology and Aging, 24(3), 681-695.
- Monin, J. K., Schulz, R., Martire, L. M., Jennings, J. R., Lingler, J. H., & Greenberg, M. S. (2010). Spouses' cardiovascular reactivity to their partners' suffering. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 65, 195-201.
- Schulz, R., Beach, S. R., Hebert, R. S., Martire, L. M., Monin, J. K., Tompkins, C. A., & Albert, S. M. (2009). Spousal suffering and partner's depression and cardiovascular disease: The Cardiovascular Health Study. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17(3), 1354-1372.
- Yoo, S., Clark, M. S., Salovey, P. Lemay, E. P., & Monin, J. K. (2011). Responding to partners' expression of anger: The role of communal motivation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(2), 229-241.
Other Publications:
- Clark, M. S., & Monin, J. K. (2006). Giving and receiving communal responsiveness as love. In R. J. Sternberg & K. Weis (Eds.), The new psychology of love (2nd ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Feeney, B. C., & Monin, J. K. (2008). An attachment-theoretical perspective on divorce. In Cassidy & Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications (2nd ed.). Guilford Publications.
- Schulz, R., & Monin, J. K. The costs and benefits of caregiving. In S. L. Brown & R. M. Brown (Eds.), Self Interest and Beyond: Toward a New Understanding of Human Caregiving.
Joan Monin
School of Public Health
Yale University
60 College Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06520
United States of America
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