PEGGY MYCEK ZOCCOLA CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Psychology and Social Behavior Phone: (215) 850 0871 University of California, Irvine Fax: (949) 824 3002 4201 Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway Email: p.m.zoccola@uci.edu Irvine, CA 92697 7085 EDUCATION Ph.D., Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine 2010 Major area: Health Psychology Minor area: Quantitative Methods Dissertation: Prolonging the Physiological Stress Response: The Role of Rumination and Recall Committee: Sally Dickerson (Chair), Susan Charles, Laura Glynn M.A., Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine 2006 Thesis: Perseverative Cognition and Cortisol Responses to a Laboratory Speech Task B.A., University of Pennsylvania 2002 Major area: Psychology Minor area: Biology RESEARCH INTERESTS Rumination and worry; stress, coping and health; sleep; cortisol; health psychology FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Ellen Greenberger Excellence in Graduate Research Award, Psychology and Social 2010 Behavior, UC Irvine, $500 Awarded annually to one graduating student who has demonstrated excellence in research conducted from a social ecological perspective, and commitment to service and teaching Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine, $9,295 2010 American Psychological Foundation/Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology 2009 (APF/COGDOP) 2009 Harry and Miriam Levinson Scholarship, $5,000 Awarded in a nation wide competition to the top graduate student whose research reflects excellence in scientific psychology UC Irvine Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship, $10,000 2009 2010 Awarded in university wide competition Outstanding Mentor, School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine, $200 2009, 2007, 2006 Awarded annually to those graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional ability guiding undergraduates in research American Psychosomatic Society Scholars Award, $500 2007 Awarded for the paper Rumination and cortisol responses to laboratory stressors presented in Budapest, Hungary.
National Research Service Award (Institutional), National Institute of Mental Health, 2006 2007 Training Grant Fellowship, $30,774 GRANTS & FUNDING Dean's Dissertation Data Gathering Fellowship, School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine, $2,500 2009 Graduate Student Research Funds, Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine, $1,000 2009 Graduate Student Research Funds, Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine, $800 2008 Graduate Student Research Funds, Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine, $500 2006 Research Grant, School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine, $1,500 2006 Title: Personality, sleep, and the cortisol awakening response Role: Co Investigator PUBLICATIONS Zoccola, P. M., Quas, J. A., & Yim (Federenko), I. S. (in press). Cortisol responses to a psychosocial laboratory stressor and later verbal recall of the stressor: The role of trait and state rumination. Stress. Dickerson, S. S., & Zoccola, P. M. (2009). Toward a biology of social support. In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology (2 nd ed., pp. 519 526). New York: Oxford University Press. Lam, S., Dickerson, S. S., Zoccola, P. M., & Zaldivar, F. P. (2009). Emotion regulation and cortisol reactivity to a social evaluative speech task. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34(9), 1355 1362. Zoccola, P. M., Dickerson, S. S., & Lam, S. (2009). Rumination predicts longer sleep onset latency after an acute psychosocial stressor. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71(7), 771 775. Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J., & Zaldivar, F. P. (2008). Negative social evaluation, but not mere social presence, elicits cortisol responses to a laboratory stressor task. Health Psychology, 27(1), 116 121. Zoccola, P. M., Dickerson, S. S., & Zaldivar, F. P. (2008). Rumination and cortisol responses to laboratory stressors. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70(6), 661 667. Dickerson, S. S., & Mycek (Zoccola), P. J. (2007). Health psychology. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), The encyclopedia of social psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 415 419). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW Schlotz, W., Yim (Federenko), I. S., Zoccola, P. M., Jansen, L., & Schulz, P. (2010). The Perceived Stress Reactivity Scale: Measurement invariance, stability and validity in three countries. Manuscript submitted for publication. Zoccola, P. M., Dickerson, S. S., & Yim (Federenko), I. S. (2010). State and trait perseverative cognition and the cortisol awakening response. Manuscript submitted for publication. PEER REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS Zoccola. P. M. (January, 2010). Rumination and salivary cortisol in the context of social evaluative stressors. Paper presented in the symposium Self regulation in response to rejection and social threat at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Zoccola, P. M., Piazza, J. R., Quas, J. A., & Yim (Federenko), I. S. (March, 2009). Trait rumination predicts elevated cortisol responses to an acute psychosocial stressor. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Chicago, Illinois. Mycek (Zoccola), P. J., & Dickerson, S. S. (March, 2007). Measures of rumination differentially predict cortisol responses to a laboratory speech task. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Budapest, Hungary. Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J., Gruenewald, T. L., & Kemeny, M. E. (January, 2007). The social nature of shame: Self conscious emotions, cortisol reactivity, and health. Paper presented at the Self and Identity Pre Conference, at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN. CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATIONS Juth, V., Lam, S., Zoccola, P. M., Dickerson, S. S. (March, 2010). Emotional approach coping: Association with expectancies and appraisals in an acute stressor context. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Portland, Oregon. Piazza, J. R., Zoccola, P. M., Mackay, J., Dickerson, S. S., Charles, S. T. (March, 2010). Psychological and physiological reactivity to a social evaluative stressor: The effect of caregiving for a spouse with dementia. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Portland, Oregon. Zoccola, P. M., Dickerson, S. S., & Yim (Federenko), I. S. (March, 2010). Trait and state perseverative cognition and the cortisol awakening response. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Portland, Oregon. Zoccola, P. M., Dickerson, S. S., & Lam, S. (March, 2009). Rumination predicts longer sleep onset latency following an acute psychosocial stressor. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Chicago, Illinois. Lam, S., Dickerson, S. S., Zoccola, P. M., & Zaldivar, F. P. (February, 2009). Emotion regulation in everyday life. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL. Zoccola, P. M., Dickerson, S. S., & Lam, S. (February, 2009). Rumination predicts longer sleep onset latency following a laboratory stressor. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL. Dickerson, S. S., Robbins, M. L., Epstein, E. B., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J., & Zaldivar, F. P. (March, 2008). The valence of audience feedback and cortisol reactivity to social evaluative threat. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Baltimore, MD. Lam, S., Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J., & Zaldivar, F. P. (March, 2008). Emotion regulation and cortisol reactivity to a socially evaluative speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Baltimore, MD. Mycek (Zoccola), P. J., Dickerson, S. S., & Emmerson, N. A. (March, 2008). Trait perseverative cognition and stressor related intrusive thoughts predict poorer sleep quality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Baltimore, MD. Lam, S., Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J., & Zaldivar, F. P. (February, 2008). Emotion regulation and cortisol reactivity to a socially evaluative speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J., & Zaldivar, F. P. (March, 2007). Social evaluation, but not inattentive presence of another, elicits cortisol responses to a laboratory speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Budapest, Hungary.
Dickerson, S. S., Mycek (Zoccola), P. J., & Zaldivar, F. P. (January, 2007). Social evaluation but not inattentive presence of another elicits cortisol responses to a laboratory speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN. Mycek (Zoccola), P. J., & Dickerson, S. S. (January, 2007). Rumination: Assessment and relationship to cortisol responses to a laboratory speech task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Lab Director and Co Investigator, Health Responses Laboratory, UC Irvine 2004 2009 Dr. Sally Dickerson, Supervisor Acting lab director and co investigator on multiple research projects, including full collaboration on theory development, hypothesis generation, and study design, as well as training, supervising, and mentoring approximately 15 20 undergraduates each quarter. Lab Manager, Biopsychology and Health Laboratory, UC Irvine 2006 2008 Dr. Ilona (Federenko) Yim, Supervisor Assisted in establishing a wet laboratory. Responsibilities included research for and selection of laboratory equipment; coordination with equipment manufacturers and university to ensure health and safety of laboratory personnel; training and supervision of laboratory personnel; and preparation and assay of physiological samples (salivary cortisol). Lab Director and Co Investigator, Biopsychology and Health Laboratory, UC Irvine 2006 2007 Dr. Ilona (Federenko) Yim, Supervisor Acting as co investigator on several research projects. Duties included study design, data collection and analysis, as well as training and supervision of approximately 10 15 undergraduates each quarter. Senior Research Assistant, Prevention & Early Intervention, Treatment Research Institute, 2002 2004 Philadelphia, PA Some responsibilities included conducting semi structured interviews with study participants, assisting with the development of data collection materials, developing study protocols, data tracking systems, and quality assurance procedures, training staff on study procedures, and managing, analyzing, and disseminating data to the study team. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Associate, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine Summer 2009 Responsibilities included independently planning and teaching an undergraduate course. Course: Introduction to Psychology Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine 2004 2009 Some responsibilities included leading weekly laboratory sessions for graduate statistics courses, leading discussion sections for undergraduate courses, providing guest lectures, grading assignments and exams, creating exam questions, and hosting review sessions. Undergraduate Courses: Personality (Winter 2008) Human Stress (Spring 2005) Research Methods (Fall 2007) Psychology and the Law (Winter 2005) Health Psychology (Fall 2005) Clinical Child Psychology (Fall 2004) Adolescent Development (Summer 2005)
Graduate Courses: Advanced Quantitative Methods in Psychology (Spring 2009) Data Analysis (Winter 2006, Spring 2006) Honors Student Mentor, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine 2005 2006, 2008 2010 Students Mentored: Darya Claussen (2009 2010); Cindy De La Cruz, Eddie Erazo, Vivie Nguyen (2008 2009); Leah Dickenson, Sarah Sadeghi, Maria Sakata (2005 2006) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & SERVICE PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Psychological Association, American Psychosomatic Society, Association for Psychological Science, Society for Personality and Social Psychology AD HOC REVIEWER Hormones and Behavior Journal of Experimental Social Psychology American Psychosomatic Society, Reviewer, Annual Scientific Meeting, 2007, 2008 Association for Psychological Science, Reviewer, Student Research Award, 2007 DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Member, Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment Search Committee, UC Irvine, 2006 2007 Co organizer, Psychology and Social Behavior Colloquium Series, UC Irvine, 2005 2006