Mitch Prinstein is the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and accepts doctoral students from both the Clinical Psychology Program and the Developmental Psychology Program. Mitch’s research uses a developmental psychopathology framework to understand how adolescents’ interpersonal experiences, particularly among peers, are associated with depression, self-injury, and health risk behaviors. Mitch’s work examines:

1. Biomarkers of adolescents’ social stress-responses as predictors of self-Injurious thoughts and behaviors
2. Peer influence and adolescent health risk behaviors
3. Adolescents’ use of technology and development