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Stanley Seah
Assistant Professor
Psychology

Stanley Seah

Contact Info

513-529-1754
214 Psychology Building
PEP Lab Website

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry, 2022-2025
  • Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Kent State University, 2022
    • Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Internship, Duke University Medical Center, 2021-2022
  • B.Soc.Sci Psychology, National University of Singapore, 2015

Teaching Interests

My approach to teaching is student-centered and developmental in nature. To this end, I aim to foster a welcoming and inclusive learning environment for all. I approach teaching as I would a jigsaw puzzle, starting with the “perimeter” by developing a big picture understanding of abstract concepts and then working towards the “middle” of the puzzle through student dialogue and concrete examples. At Miami, I teach courses on psychopathology, which explore how biological, psychological, and social factors influence mental health.

  • PSY 648 | Developmental Psychopathology Across the Lifespan

Research Interests

My lab aims to advance research and treatment of psychopathology in adolescents and young adults. Rates of mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors, among youth have risen and remain persistent. In particular, youth from disadvantaged backgrounds are disproportionately impacted and lack access to effective interventions. A common thread across these conditions is that of disruptions in emotional functioning and regulation. Therefore, my lab studies how emotional processes contribute to these mental health problems using a multimethod and multimodal approach. Several ongoing projects cover a range of topics within our focal area of interest across the translational spectrum. These include examining the role of emotional awareness and regulation, reward processing, brain function and psychophysiology, sleep and circadian rhythms, and social experiences.

Dr. Seah can be a primary advisor in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program. Please see the PEP Lab website for more information on whether Dr. Seah plans to recruit a graduate student.

Professional Recognition

  • Editorial Board, Emotion
  • Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA), Vice-Chair of Early Career Professionals/Students Special Interest Group
  • Psi Chi Unrestricted Travel Grant (2025)
  • ADAA Alies Muskin Career Development Leadership Program Awardee (2024)
  • University of Pittsburgh, Psychiatry Research Day, Top Poster Award (2024, 2025)

Selected Publications

  • Seah, T. H. S., & Coifman, K. G. (2022). Emotion differentiation and behavioral dysregulation in clinical and nonclinical samples: A meta-analysis. Emotion, 22(7), 1686–1697. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000968
  • Seah, T. H. S., & Coifman, K. G. (2024). Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study. Cognition & emotion, 1–18. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2382334
  • Seah, T. H. S., Silk, J. S., Forbes, E. E., & Ladouceur, C. D. (2024). Negative emotion differentiation buffers against intergenerational risk for social anxiety in at-risk adolescent girls. Journal of anxiety disorders, 108, 102942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2024.102942
  • Gupta, T., Seah, T. H. S., Eckstrand, K. L., Rengasamy, M., Horter, C., Silk, J., Jones, N., Ryan, N. D., Phillips, M. L., Haas, G., Nance, M., Lindenmuth, M., & Forbes, E. E. (2024). Two-year trajectories of anhedonia in adolescents at transdiagnostic risk for severe mental illness: Association with clinical symptoms and brain-symptom links. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 133(8), 618–629. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000938
  • Seah, T. H. S., Eckstrand, K. L., Gupta, T., Jensen, L. C. X., Brodnick, Z. M., Horter, C. M., Gregory, A. M., Franzen, P. L., Marshal, M. P., & Forbes, E. E. (2025). Sleep disturbance and social reward processing as characteristics linking minority victimization and suicidal ideation in youth. Frontiers in neuroscience, 18, 1475097. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2024.1475097
  • Seah, T. H. S., Eckstrand, K. L., Gupta, T., Marshal, M. P., & Forbes, E. E. (2025). Understanding suicide in sexual minority youth: neural reactivity to social cues as a moderating influence. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 10.3758/s13415-025-01296-y. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-025-01296-y
  • Toh, Y., Seah, T. H. S., & Keng, S.-L. (2025). Associations between forms of invalidation, self-compassion, and borderline personality disorder symptoms in sexual minority Malaysian adults. Stigma and Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000642
  • Keng, S.-L., Liem, A., Ting, R. S.-K., Chung, K. R., Toh, Y., Chrisanne, S., Wong, M. K. and Seah, T. H. S. (2025). A pilot open trial and mixed methods evaluation of affirmative Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills training for Malaysian LGBT adults. Counselling & Psychotherapy Research, 25(1), e12899. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12899

Funding

  • NARSAD Young Investigator Grant, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (PI)
  • National University of Singapore, Development Grant (PI)
  • R01MH124900, Social-Affective Vulnerability to Suicidality among LGBTQ Young Adults: Proximal and Distal Factors (Postdoctoral Fellow, MPIs: Forbes, Silk)