
Overview
overview
- Dr. Adela Timmons is the director of the Technological Interventions for Ecological Systems (TIES) Lab. Dr. Timmons' research examines how childhood stress, trauma, and adversity become biologically embedded and impact stress reactivity and emotion regulation capacity in the context of interpersonal relationships. She is particularly interested in coregulation processes, or how people in interpersonal relationships share in their moment-to-moment physiological and emotional states. To conduct her research, she uses both laboratory-based and ambulatory assessment methods to capture relationship dynamics as they naturalistically unfold. She is also interested in the development of new technologies and measures for automatically and passively capturing and quantifying interpersonal functioning in real-life contexts. She is currently developing just-in-time adaptive mobile health interventions using machine learning and wearables, with the goal of improving mental health outcomes for children, couples, and families. Her research is interdisciplinary, spanning across clinical psychology, quantitative psychology, and engineering domains.
research interests
- Biological embedding of stress, trauma, and adversity; Coregulation in close relationships; Ambulatory assessment and machine learning methodologies
Scholarly & Creative Works
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Article
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2022What Happens When Romantic Couples Discuss Personal Loss? Relational, Emotional, and Physiological ImpactsFull Text via DOI: 10.1037/fam0000979 Web of Science: 000769660700001
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2021Mental Health Information Seeking Online: A Google Trends Analysis of ADHDFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10488-021-01168-w Web of Science: 000698338600001
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2021Romantic partner presence and physiological responses in daily life: Attachment style as a moderatorFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108082 Web of Science: 000647843000023
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2021Fluctuations in Pronoun Use in Everyday Life: Understanding Couple Aggression in ContextFull Text via DOI: 10.1037/fam0000699 Web of Science: 000641179600004
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2021Regulating digital therapeutics for mental health: Opportunities, challenges, and the essential role of psychologistsFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/bjc.12286 Web of Science: 000623659600001
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2020A Matter of the Heart: Daytime Relationship Functioning and Overnight Heart Rate in Young Dating CouplesFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaaa019 Web of Science: 000592749500008
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2020Feelings of Annoyance and Spoken Anger Words in Couples' Everyday Lives: The Role of Family-of-Origin AggressionFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/1948550620958806 Web of Science: 000570677100001
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2020Sub-Population Specific Models of Couples' ConflictFull Text via DOI: 10.1145/3372045 Web of Science: 000583703300002
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2019Day-to-day friends' victimization, aggression perpetration, and morning cortisol activity in late adolescentsFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/dev.21829 Web of Science: 000485044700010
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2019Family-of-origin aggression, dating aggression, and physiological stress reactivity in daily lifeFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.03.020 Web of Science: 000470050900013
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2019Compassion in a heartbeat: Physiology during couples’ loss discussionsFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/0265407518770267
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2019Interpersonal Violence, Maternal Perception of Infant Emotion, and Child-Parent PsychotherapyFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10896-019-00041-7 Web of Science: 000464906400005
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2017Adolescents' Daily Worry, Morning Cortisol, and Health SymptomsFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.01.007 Web of Science: 000405362200008
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2017Using Multimodal Wearable Technology to Detect Conflict among CouplesFull Text via DOI: 10.1109/MC.2017.83
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2016Intergenerational Transmission of Aggression: Physiological Regulatory ProcessesFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12156
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Book Chapter
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2019Population-Specific and Personalized (PSP) Models of Human Behavior for Leveraging Smart and Connected Data. 243-258.Full Text via DOI: 10.1201/9780429507670-11
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Conference
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2020Romantic Partner Presence and Physiological Regulation in Daily Life. A154-A154.Web of Science: 000549961200432
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2018Population-specific detection of couples' interpersonal conflict using multi-task learning. 229-233.Full Text via DOI: 10.1145/3242969.3243007
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2018Exploring sparse representation measures of physiological synchrony for romantic couples. 267-272.Full Text via DOI: 10.1109/ACII.2017.8273611
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2015Quantifying EDA synchrony through joint sparse representation: A case-study of couples' interactions. 817-821.Full Text via DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178083
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Other Scholarly Work
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2019The other side of the coin: Computer-mediated interactions may afford opportunities for enhanced empathy in clinical practiceFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/cpsp.12308 Web of Science: 000502386300001
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2019Ensuring wearable devices don't wear out their welcome: Cautions for the mental health care road aheadFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/cpsp.12297 Web of Science: 000486220300005
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Preprint
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Review
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2021A Systematic Review of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Romantic RelationshipsPalabras clave(sic)(sic)(sic). 441-456.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/famp.12644 Web of Science: 000629263500001
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Research
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Contact
full name
- Adela Timmons
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8518-8812 (confirmed)