Derek Spangler | Penn State College of Health and Human Development

Derek Spangler

Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health

Summary Statement

Derek Spangler’s research utilizes mobile sensors to investigate the dynamic physiological (e.g., autonomic nervous system) and behavioral (e.g., body motion, self-report) features of real-world stress and their impacts on health.

Department

Biobehavioral Health - BBH
Research and Labs

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Education

Virginia Tech, PhD, Neuroscience and Biological Psychology, 2016

Currently Accepting Graduate Students

dqs6050@psu.edu

Office Address

354F Health and Human Development Building
University Park, PA 16802

Research Interests

Stress and negative emotion

Autonomic nervous system

Mobile sensors

Cardiovascular disease

Gender and ethnic differences

Professional Experience

Derek Spangler’s research utilizes mobile sensors to investigate the dynamic physiological (e.g., autonomic nervous system) and behavioral/psychological (e.g., body motion, self-report) features of naturalistic stress and their impacts on health. His current research aims to: (1) estimate how real-world stress varies across multiple timescales, contexts, and individual attributes (e.g., gender, ethnicity, socioemotional traits), and (2) use mobile technologies to both predict and change health outcomes related to cardiovascular disease and psychopathology.