Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

Atina Manvelian (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Joanne Davila & Dr. Jessica Schleider at Stony Brook University; she is also a Postdoctoral Affiliate at Stanford University in Dr. James Gross’ lab. Sponsored by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Atina earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona and completed her internship at the VA in Palo Alto. As a relationship researcher, Atina investigates how our social contexts give rise to attachment orientations or emotion regulation capacities that impact our mental health outcomes across the lifespan. As a clinical scientist, she is invested in developing scalable relationship interventions that target transdiagnostic mechanisms of change for disadvantaged youth. Through this work, she hopes to increase healthy relationship functioning and promote more positive views of self/other to improve the trajectory of people’s lives.