Samantha Dockray

Dr. Samantha Dockray is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork.  Her key interests relate to the application of psychobiological models of behaviour and emotions, including diatheses-stress frameworks to understand the development of patterns of behaviour and health.  Samantha has a particular interest in the health and wellbeing of people at periods of transition, such as adolescence and emerging adulthood, and during periods of stress, and her research emphasises the interplay of biological process, behavioural science and developmental trajectories of health and behaviour.  Samantha’s work includes the measurement of emotions and biology in ecological settings, and in recent years her research has examined how technology enables this, including how the psychobiological processes of adolescence influence engagement with, and the precision of, these technologies.