Center for Health Behavior Research
Dr. Glanz's research focuses on cancer prevention and control; theories of health behavior; obesity, nutrition and physical activity; social and health policy; and health disparities/health equity.
Dominican Republic Genome Project
Genetic contributions of ancestors from a various parts of the world
Positive Psychology Center Research
Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology, the mission of the Penn Positive Psychology Center is research, education, and the dissemination of Positive Psychology, resilience and grit. Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the factors that enable people to thrive. This field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives.
An Interdisciplinary Project Featuring Python
Long-term project related to compiling data from various academic papers into a massive database.
Sociolinguistics in the lab
How do social factors influence speech production and perception?
Solar Development on Farmland
How can solar development on farmland produce both food and electricity?
Language Development & Processing
My research is about language and thought, and the relation between the two. My students and I take a cognitive science approach to these topics by asking what sorts of mental computations and representations support human understanding of the world and human linguistic communication.
Memory and Preference
Work on a project that inolves judgment and decision making, plus computational and mathematical modeling of cognition.
Psychology and Religion
Develop your own research project relating to psychology, religion, and/or morality.
Development and evaluation of decision support interventions for adolescents and young adults newly diagnosed with cancer
We aim to improve health equity and cancer outcomes for adolescents and young adults with cancer and their families through research that tests interventions to increase engagement in cancer-related decision-making, improve family management of cancer treatment demands, and enhance targeted psychosocial care for all patients/families.