Marci Gleason

  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Chair
  • Human Development & Family Sciences
  • Human Ecology
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Research

My substantive research interests center on the influence of major life transitions on adults’ mental, physical, and relationship health. The focus of my research program is on the fundamental question of how close relationships, as social contexts, influence individuals’ ability to cope with both big and small stressors associated with major life transitions. In order to gain a deeper understanding of this question, I conduct intensive longitudinal studies of dyads and groups that allow me to explore adjustment and change at the individual, group, and societal level.

Research Areas

  • Relationships, Families and Youth
  • Human Development
  • Health Promotion or Disease Prevention

Fields of Interest

  • Adult Development
  • Behavior
  • Interpersonal Relationships
  • Parenting & Caregiving

Centers and Institutes

  • Population Research Center
  • Center on Aging and Population Sciences
  • Texas Aging and Longevity Consortium

Education

  • Ph.D., New York University (2004)
  • B.S., Pennsylvania State University (1998)

Publications

  • Zahavi-Lupo, T., Lazarus, G., Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Bar-Kalifa, E., Refoua, E., Gleason,M.E.J., & Rafaeli, E. (2022). His, hers, or theirs? Hope as a dyadic resource in early parenthood, The Journal of Positive Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2022.2093780

    Totenhagen, C. J., Randall, A. K., Bar-Kalifa, E., Ciftci, O., & Gleason, M. (2022). Daily stress and relationship quality: A two-decade scoping review from an intersectional lens. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221095870

    Chen, S., Alers, F., Benner, A., & Gleason, M.E.J. (2022). Daily experiences of discrimination and ethnic/racial minority adolescents’ sleep: The moderating role of social support. Journal of Research on Adolescence. DOI: 10.1111

    Lazarus, G., Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Zahavi-Lupo, T., Gleason, M.E.J., & Rafaeli, E. (2021). Emotion differentiation during the transition to parenthood—Concurrent and prospective positive effects. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. DOI: 02654075211043291

    Neff, L. A., Gleason, M.E.J., Crockett, E.E., & Ciftci, O. (2021). Blame the pandemic: Buffering the association between stress and relationship quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Psychological and Personality Science. DOI: 19485506211022813

    Bar-Kalifa, E., Abba-Daleski, M., Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Gleason, M.E.J., & Rafaeli, E. (2021). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a dyadic protective factor in the transition to parenthood, Psychophysiology.

    Sened, H., Bar-Kalifa, E., Pshedezki, R., Gleason, M. E. J., & Rafaeli, E. (2020). Fast and Slow Empathic Perceptions in Daily Life Use Different Cues. Affective Science.

    Bornstein, J. X., Rafaeli, E. & Gleason, M. E. J. (2020). Understanding in transition: The influence of becoming parents on empathic accuracy. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. DOI: 10.1177/0265407520924124

    Ng Y.T., Huo M., Gleason M.E., Neff L.A., Charles S.T., & Fingerman K.L. (2021). Friendships in Old Age: Daily Encounters and Emotional Well-being. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa007

    Sened, H., Bar-Kalifa, E., Pshedetzky-Shochat, R., Gleason, M., & Rafaeli, E. (2019). Mom-and-Pop Narcissism: The Impact of Attention Seeking and Grandiosity on Couples' Experience of the Transition to Parenthood. Journal of personality disorders, 67-86.

    Kim, S. Y., Zhang, M., Zeiders, K. H., Sim, L., & Gleason, M. J. (2018). Acute salivary cortisol response among Mexican American adolescents in immigrant families. Cultural Diversity And Ethnic Minority Psychology, doi:10.1037/cdp0000218

    Ryon, H., & Gleason, M. E. J. (2018). Reciprocal support and perceived control: Developing a better understanding of daily support transactions across a major life transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

    Sened, H., Lazarus, G., Gleason, M. E. J., Rafaeli, E., & Fleeson, W. (2018). The use of longitudinal methods in explanatory personality research. European Journal of Personality.

    Shrout, P.E., Stadler, G., Lane, S.P., McClure, M.J., Jackson, G.L., Clavel, F.D., Iida, M., Gleason, M.E.J., Xu, J.H., & Bolger, N. (2018). Initial elevation bias in subject reports. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (1), E15-E23.

    Iida, M., Gleason, M. E. J., Rappaport-Green, A., Bolger, N., & Shrout, P. (2017). Daily coping choices and the influence of daily coping on anxiety under examination stress: A model of interindividual differences in intraindividual change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 907-923. doi: 10.1177/0146167217700605

Awards

  • President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
  • College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, 2012