“Translational research in the behavioral and social sciences addresses how basic behavioral processes inform the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and delivery of services for mental illness, and, conversely, how knowledge of mental illness increases our understanding of basic behavioral processes.”

Jeffery Snarr, Ph.D.

Hi! I grew up in a suburb of Salt Lake City, UT (Murray, for any Utahns reading this) and majored in Psychology and German at Brigham Young University, graduating in 1998. I obtained my Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Stony Brook University in August 2005. My broad research interests involve the effects of dysfunctional family relationships (parent-parent and parent-child) on children. My specific focus involves parent cognitions (i.e., causal, responsibility, and blame attributions) regarding child behavior, and how these thoughts influence parenting behaviors. For my dissertation, I explored connections between mothers’ attributional repertoires and overreactive parenting. In the future, I am especially interested in investigating the possibility that some parents' attributions may contribute to their tendency to occasionally react negatively even when the child's behavior is objectively neutral or appropriate. Such parents are going "beyond the data," so to speak, and I am curious as to what leads them to do so. During graduate school, I worked with the FTRG for three years as a Graduate Research Associate; now I’m back, working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (translation: same desk, more responsibility, more hours, more money).

On the personal side of things, my wife Sara and I have three daughters-Hannah, who was born in April 2000; Megan, born February 2002; and Allison, born August 2005. They're the joy of our lives! I enjoy cooking--especially baking German and Austrian cakes and pastries--and a sport called geocaching (www.geocaching.com), and I hope to take up sailing this next season.

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