On February 20-22, Jacob Stephens attended and presented his research at the annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, in Denver Colorado! Jacob is a research assistant in the lab and graduate from his undergraduate degree last Fall.
Jacob’s research found that sensory processing sensitivity (sensitivity to social and environmental stimuli) and rejection sensitivity (hyper-alertness to potential rejection from others) are associated with each other and independently predict psychological distress and well-being, with both predicting mental health even when controlling for the other.
