People
Graduate Student
Office
004 McKinley Hall
(302) 831-8188
(302) 831-3645 Fax
Primary Advisor
Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau
Amber Belcher
How do our close relationships affect our adjustment to stressful events?
I’m a third year clinical graduate student working with Dr. Jean-Philippe Laurenceau. My central research focus concerns adjustment to chronic life stressors in marital relationships. To study these processes, our lab examines the daily lives of women with breast cancer and their spouses. A central focus of mine concerns the social support, psychological adjustment, and relationship functioning of breast cancer women and their spouses during cancer treatment. Our lab uses electronic daily diaries to examine these processes.
I am currently a psychology extern at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center (HFGCC). At the HFGCC, I provide psychotherapy interventions for people coping with cancer diagnosis/treatment, cancer survivors, and their families. I also provide behavior intervention and support services for women with breast cancer and their spouses in a group setting.
Recent Publications
Most, S.B., Laurenceau, J.P., Graber, E., Belcher, A. , & Smith, C.V. (under review). Blind jealousy: Romantic insecurity increases emotion-induced failures of visual perception. Emotion.
Graber, E, Belcher, A.J. , & Laurenceau, J.P. (under review). Interpersonal Process Model of Intimacy. In Reis, H.T. & Sprecher, S.K (Eds.). Encyclopedia of human relationships.
Laurenceau, J.P., Schaffer, A., Belcher, A.J. , & Carver, C. (in preparation). Responding to a romantic partner and perceptions of partner responsiveness in everyday interactions: The influence of adult attachment.
Belcher, A.J. , Laurenceau, J.P & Graber, E. (in preparation). Covert Conflict in Marital Relationships.
Belcher, A.J. , Graber, E., Laurenceau, J.P., & Cohen, L. (February, 2009). Daily Support Processes in Couples Coping with Cancer. Poster accepted for presentation at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa.
Graber, E., Belcher, A.J. , & Laurenceau, J.P. (February, 2009). Exploring the Effects of Daily Gratitude on Romantic Relationships. Poster accepted for presentation at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa.
Laurenceau, J.P., Belcher, A.J. , & Graber, E (2008). Effects of inducing the emotional experience of gratitude on intimate relationship outcomes and processes. Presented as a paper session at the International Association for Relationship Research Conference, Providence, RI.
Belcher, A.J. , Laurenceau, J.P., & Smith, C.V. (February, 2008). Emotional Support and Intimacy in Romantic Couples: A Dyadic Daily Diary Study. Poster accepted for presentation at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque.
Graber, E., Belcher, A.J. , & Laurenceau, J.P. (November, 2007). What You Don’t See Can Hurt You: Effects of Daily Overt and Covert Conflict in Newlywed Couples. Poster accepted for presentation at the Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia.
