Promoting social connection and resilience to adversity.
Dr. Fallon Goodman is an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at George Washington University. She directs the Emotion and Resilience Laboratory, an interdisciplinary team that conducts research on how people foster social connection and resilience to adversity. Her research draws on her years as a clinician, including her doctoral internship at Harvard Medical School.
Emotion & Resilience Lab
We examine barriers to forming strong social relationships (such as social anxiety) and coping tools that foster to resilience to adversity. Our lab uses smartphone-based monitoring technologies to capture daily experiences as they unfold in real time.
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The goal of our research program is to promote well-being and resilience to adversity. Learn more
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Come as you. Our lab celebrates diversity and inclusion. Meet the team
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We examine how people foster resilience to adversity. Read the research.
Why you feel anxious socializing (and what to do about it)
Parties. Meetings. Crowds. Dinner dates. Social anxiety can rear its ugly head anywhere.
But why?
In this talk — now featured on TED.com and viewed more than 1 million times — Fallon gives the 101 on social anxiety and explains why this condition is rising across the globe. She offers practical tips for being your most authentic self in any social situation.
