Darwin Guevarra, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• M.S., Social Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• B.A., Psychology, San Francisco State University

Biography

Darwin A. Guevarra, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Miami University, where he directs the Affective Science and Psychophysiology Laboratory (ASP Lab). Guevarra completed his doctoral training in social psychology at the University of Michigan after obtaining his B.A. in psychology at San Francisco State University.

Guevarra is broadly interested in affect and affect regulation processes and their implications for psychological and physical health.

Courses Taught

• PSY 420: Seminar in Social Psychology (Affect Regulation)

Research Interests

Guevarra’s research aims to understand affective processes (e.g., emotions, stress, pain, mood, impulses), ways to regulate them, and their impact on psychological and physical health.

He is presently interested in identifying, developing, testing, and understanding low-effort and easy-to-use affect regulation strategies.

Select Publications

• Guevarra, D. A., Webster, C. T., Moros, J. N., Kross, E., & Moser, J. S. (2024). Remotely administered non‐deceptive placebos reduce COVID‐related stress, anxiety, and depression. Applied Psychology: Health and Well‐Being.
• Guevarra, D. A., Dutcher, E., Crum, A. J., Prather, A., & Epel, E. (2024). Examining the association of vaccine-related mindsets and post-vaccination antibody response, side effects, and affective outcomes. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, 100818.
• Guevarra, D. A., Kross, E., & Moser, J. S. (2024​). Harnessing placebo effects to regulate emotions. In J. J. Gross & B. Q. Ford (Eds.), Handbook of Emotion Regulation (3rd ed.). The Guilford Press.
• Guevarra, D. A., Louis, C., Gloe, L. M., Russman Block, S., Kashy, D., Klump, K. L., & Moser, J. S. (2023). Examining a window of vulnerability for affective symptoms in the mid-luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 147, 105958.
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• Geers, A. L., Faasse, K., Guevarra, D. A., Clemens, K. S., Helfer, S. G., & Colagiuri, B. (2021). Affect and emotions in placebo and nocebo effects: What do we know so far? Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e12575.
• ​Guevarra, D. A., Moser, J. S., Wager, T. D., & Kross, E. (2020). Placebos without deception reduce self-report and neural measures of emotional distress. Nature Communications, 11, 3785.
• Moser, S., Dougherty, A., Mattson, W. I., Katz, B., Moran, T. P., Guevarra, D. A., Shablack, H., Ayduk, O., Jonides, J., Berman, M., & Kross, E. (2017). Third-person self-talk facilitates emotional control without engaging cognitive control: Converging evidence from ERP and fMRI. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 4519.
• Penner, L. A., Guevarra, D. A., Harper, F. W. K., Taub, J., Phipps, S., Albrecht, T. L., & Kross, E. (2016). Self-distancing buffers high trait anxious pediatric cancer caregivers against short- and longer-term distress. Clinical Psychological Science, 4(4), 629-640.
• Guevarra, D. A., & Howell, R. T. (2015). To have in order to do: Exploring the effects of consuming experiential products on well-being. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 25(1), 28-41.