Lisa Badanes

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Lisa Badanes

Chair and Professor of Psychological Sciences

College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Bio

Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences. My research interests are focused on physiologic stress, depression and resilience in college students. I am particularly interested in how adverse childhood experiences impact mental health and academic success later in life. I regularly teach social development, infancy, lifespan development, child psychopathology, and research methods.

Degree

PhD in Developmental Psychology

University of Denver

MA in Developmental Psychology

University of Denver

BA in Psychology

University of Vermont

Published Works

  • Schlueter, J. L., McGee, B. A., Link, T., Badanes, L., Dmitrieva, J., Watamura, E. S. . Physiologic Stress in the Classroom: Does Teacher’s Cortisol Expression Influence Children’s Afternoon Rise in Cortisol at Child Care?. (in press). Psychology in the Schools.
  • Barrow, E., Dmitrieva, J., Hurwich-Reiss, E., Badanes, L., Mendoza, M., Perreira, K., Watamura, S. (2018). Evidence for a Physiologic Home-School Gap in Children of Latina Immigrants. Early Childhood Research Quarterly,
  • Badanes, L., Sanders, E. C. (2018). When all your Students are Winners. Using a "Basketball" Game to Teach about Achievement. , http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/index.php
  • Lumien, S. D., Dmitrieva , J., Mendoza, M. M., Badanes, L., Watamura, E. S. (2016). The impact of program structure on cortisol patterning in children attending out-of-home child care. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 342-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2015.09.004.
  • Danielson, K. C., Hankin, L. B., Badanes, L. (2015). Youth offspring of mothers with postraumatic stress disorder have altered stress reactivity in response to a laboratory stressor. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 5370-178. .
  • Hankin, L. B., Badanes, L., Smolen, A., Young, F. J. (2015). Cortisol reactivity to stress among youth: Stability over time and genetic variants for stress sensitivity . Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1244-67. .
  • McFadyen-Ketchum, S. L., Hurwich-Reiss, E., Stiles, A. A., Mendoza, M. M., Badanes, L., Dmitrieva, J., Watamura, E. S. (2015). Self-regulation and economic stress in children of hispanic immigrants and their peers: Better regulation at a cost?. Early Education and Development, -18. .
  • Badanes, L., Watamura, E. S. (2014). High Risk Home and Child Care Environments and Children's Social-emotional Outcomes. (). Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Hayden, P. E., Hankin, L. B., Mackrell, V. S., Sheikh, I. H., Jordan, L. P., Dozois, J. D., Singh, M. S., Olino, M. T., Badanes, L. (2014). Parental depression and child cognitive vulnerability predict children's cortisol reactivity. Development and Psychopathology, 26445-1460. .
  • Lumien, S. D., Dmitrieva, J., Mendoza, M. M., Badanes, L., Watamura, E. S. . The impact of program structure on corisol patterning in children attending out-of-home child care. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
  • Badanes, L., Dmitrieva, J., Watamura, E. S. (2012). Understanding cortisol reactivity across the day at child care: The potential buffering role of secure attachment to teachers. . Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(1), 156-165. .
  • Hankin, L. B., Barrocas, L. A., Jennes, J., Oppenheimer, C., Badanes, L., Abela, R. J., Smolen, A. (2011). Associations between 5-HTTLPR and borderline personality disorder traits among youth. Frontiers in Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry, 2-7. .
  • Barrocas, B. A., Jennes, J., Davis, T., Oppenheimer, C. C., Technow, J., Gulley, D. L., Badanes, L., Hankin, L. B. (2011). Developmental perspectives on vulnerability for non-suicidal self-injury in youth. (40, pp 301-336). Elsevier.
  • Badanes, L., Watamura, E. S., Hankin, L. B. (2011). Hypocortisolism as a potential marker of allostatic load in children: Associations with family risk and internalizing disorders. Development and Psychopathology, 2381-896. .
  • Hankin, L. B., Badanes, L., Abela, R. J., Watamura, E. S. (2010). Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis dysregulation in dysphoric children and adolescents: Cortisol reactivity to psychological stress from preschool through middle adolescence. Biological Psychiatry, 6884-490. .

Research Interests

My research addresses the ways in which the experience of early life stress influences current life stress, depression/anxiety and academic success in college students. I am particularly interested in examining potentially modifiable core competencies, such as executive function and emotion regulation, as intervention targets for decreasing physiologic stress reactivity and increasing resilience. I am actively recruiting undergraduate research assistants who may be interested in graduate school in psychology, teaching, or medicine.