Dr. Silke is Featured on Blog
Salimetrics talks with Drs. Olivia Silke and Shauna Simon about their recent publication in Psychoneuroendocrinology. Check out this Salivary Bioscience News blog post here.
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Olivia as Invited Podcast Guest
The Psychology Student podcast gives students who are intersted in pursuing graduate study in Psychology a behind the curtain look at the graduate school process. In this episode host Blen Asres talks with Health Psychologist Dr. Olivia Silke about how she developed her research interests, her experience in applying for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, …
Dissertation Abstract now Available
My dissertation abstract is now available for viewing on Proquest (click here). For these studies, I explored the role of parent-child interpersonal factors, such as mindful parenting and maternal-child biobehavioral synchrony, and discuss a framework for how these factors are related to child outcomes and parental well-being. A special thank you goes out to my …
New Publication Alert!
I am excited to share my recent publication in Psychoneuroendocrinology, titled “Patterns of Stress-Related Change in Salivary Alpha-Amylase and Cortisol Among Young Children: Associations with Maternal Psychosocial Risk Factors”. For this project, I conducted group-based trajectory analyses to assess whether there were subgroups of children who shared similar patterns of change in their stress physiology. …
Olivia + Mentees Present at WPA
I had the pleasure of joining my undergraduate mentees at the Western Psychological Association‘s annual conference! Addy and Sanjana were accepted to present posters of their UROP (undergraduate research opportunities program) projects. These studies were based on data from my PhD dissertation on mindful parenting and from the Baby’s First Years open dataset. The project …
Olivia Gives Lecture on Sleep
I was recently invited to give a 1-hour lecture at UCI’s Social Ecology Pedagogy Colloquium and an undergraduate course (titled “Sleep”). These lectures focused on the impact of sleep on learning outcomes among college students, and pedagogical approaches that can support sleepy students. See details below!
Psi Chi Features Article by Olivia
I am excited to share my recent scientific communication–it’s a blog post titled “Salivary Bioscience and Psychological Research: Considerations for Junior Scientists“, which is featured on the Psi-Chi-ology Lab (the online blog for Psi Chi, the honors society in psychology). Please reach out if you have any questions!