B.A., 2011, University of Kansas
M.A., 2013, University of Southern California

adelatim@usc.edu

Adela graduated from the University of Kansas with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Methodology. She is currently pursuing a combined PhD in Clinical and Quantitative Psychology. She is interested in close relationships and in particular couple dynamics. She uses ecological momentary assessment and ambulatory physiological measurement to examine family and couple functioning in daily life. She is also interested in how early family relationships affect stress responding and physiological set points later in life. She received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study physiological coregulation in romantic couples in the home environment and to examine how early family environments impact physiological coregulation in romantic relationships in adulthood. Quantitatively, she is interested in intensive longitudinal data analysis for couples and families.