Lindsey Beck
Professor, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Lindsey A. Beck is a social psychologist who studies how people initiate, develop, and maintain close relationships, including friendships and romantic relationships. She uses diverse and ecologically valid methods to explore these topics, including longitudinal and daily-report studies, dyadic designs, field studies, experimental designs, developmental approaches, and physiological methods.
Dr. Beck has published her research in several peer-reviewed journals, including Current Opinion in Psychology, Psychological Inquiry, Psychological Science, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Social Psychological and Personality Science, and Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Courses
- Psychology of Relationships
- More than a Feeling: Explorations in Human Emotion
- Introduction to Psychology
Academic Work
- Forthcoming, “First-person perspectives of gender-affirming voice feminization training: A mixed methods approach,” with K.J. Harris, B.F. Worth, & R.B. Grossman, Journal of Voice
- 2025, “Perceiving and responding to another’s interest in initiating friendship: The role of attachment insecurity,” with O.R. Aragón & M.S. Clark, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 42(7), 1756–1777.
- 2025, “Increases in intellectual humility from guided conversations are greater when people perceive affiliation with conversation partners.” with K.R. Thorson, S. Ketay & K.M. Welker, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(3), 313–323.
- 2024, “Attachment anxiety in daily experiences of romantic relationships: An expansion of the mutual cyclical growth model,” with E.P. Lemay Jr. & C.S. Witting, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(8), 2095–2120.
- 2023, “Spouses’ attachment orientations shape physiological responses to relational stress over time,” with P.R. Pietromonaco, F. Ge, N.C. Carnes, H. Laws & S.I. Powers, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 40(10), 3121–3146.
- 2023, “Self-compassion and social stress: Links with subjective stress and cortisol responses,” with S. Ketay & J. Dajci, Self and Identity, 22(3), 486–505.
- 2021, “Is low power associated with submission during marital conflict? Moderating roles of gender and traditional gender role beliefs,” with P.R. Pietromonaco, N.C. Overall & S.I. Powers, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(2), 165–175.
