Press Release: Carnegie Mellon's J. David Creswell Receives American Psychological Association Early Career Award
Contact: Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo@cmu.edu
PITTSBURGH—The (APA) has selected 黑料正能量's to receive the in the area of health psychology.
The annual award honors career scientists for contributions made in the first nine years after receiving their doctoral degree. Creswell, associate professor of and a member of the in the , focuses on how the mind and brain influence physical health and performance.
"David Creswell is already a very accomplished young researcher, and his work is having tremendous impact and moving the boundaries of health psychology forward," said , head of the Department of Psychology. "David is very deserving of this award, and we are all extremely pleased that the American Psychological Association decided to recognize him for his achievements."
A major portion of Creswell's work examines stress, coping and intervention strategies. He has done extensive research on understanding how mindfulness meditation reduces stress and improves overall health, including how it reduces loneliness in older adults and delays disease progression in HIV-positive adults.
In another line of research, Creswell focuses on how self-affirmation reduces stress. Among his discoveries is the first evidence that self-affirmation promotes recovery from breast cancer and improves problem-solving under stress.
Creswell also uses human brain imaging to understand learning and decision-making. He recently found that the brain regions responsible for making decisions continue to be active even when the conscious brain is distracted with a different task. The research provides initial indications that show how the brain unconsciously processes decision information in ways that lead to improved decision-making.
Creswell will receive the APA award at the organization's convention, Aug. 7-10, in Washington, D.C.
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David Creswell (pictured above), an associate professor of psychology and a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, is being honored for his research contributions, which focus on how the mind and brain influence physical health and performance.