Marci Gleason

  • Associate Professor
  • Department Co-Chair of Human Development and Family Sciences
  • Human Development & Family Sciences
  • Health and Human Sciences

Dr. Gleason will not be reviewing doctoral applications for the 2027-2028 academic year.

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Research

Marci Gleason focuses on the influence of major life transitions on adults’ mental, physical and relationship health. Explored as part of this research is 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, Gleason conducts intensive longitudinal studies of dyads and groups that allow for exploring 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
  • Social Engagement & Aging

Centers and Institutes

  • Population Research Center
  • Center on Aging and Population Sciences
  • Texas Institute on Dementia, Aging & Longevity

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

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