Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

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BCLA Faculty Research and Writing Grant

Fritz B Burns Distinguished Teaching Award

Teacher EDDY Award

Association for Psychological Science, Spring 2017

APS Funding for ManyLabs5 Replication Project

BCLA Faculty Research Award

Academic Technology Grant

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005-2006

Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship

sponsored by the Residence Hall Association, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005

Outstanding Faculty Member Award

sponsored by the Graduate Student Association, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005

Honorable Mention for the Excellence in Teaching Award Competition

Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, January 2004

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Graduate Student Poster Award

Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 2003

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Student Travel Award

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001-2003; 2005

National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship

With an emphasis in Social Psychology
Additional emphasis in Quantitative Methods (advanced statistical training)

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

A large, multi-site test of self-administered mindfulness among English speakers.

Implicit theories shape wellbeing in the face of social-evaluative threat.

Social Distancing during the Covid-19 Pandemic as a Predictor of Daily Psychological, Social, and Health-related Outcomes.

Many Labs 5: Testing pre-data collection peer review as an intervention to increase replicability.

Many Labs 5: Registered Replication Report of LoBue & DeLoache

Undergraduate learning outcomes for achieving data acumen

A nuanced view of the benefits of mindfulness: Self-esteem as a  moderator of the effects of mindfulness on responses to social rejection

Self-models and relationship threat: A test of risk regulation mechanisms

Self-esteem moderates the effects of daily rejection on health and wellbeing

The Effectiveness of Classroom Capture Technology

An attachment-theory perspective on social support in close relationships

Responding to the needs of others: The caregiving behavioral system in intimate relationships

Dr. Máire Ford joined LMU’s Psychology department in 2006.  She is currently both a Professor of Psychology and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development.

Her research focuses on the role of the self in close relationships, with a focus on romantic relationships. Specifically, she looks at how the self shapes perceptions of events in close relationships and subsequently affects health. She has an active research lab staffed by several excellent LMU undergraduate students. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Ford teaches a variety of courses including General Psychology, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Social Psychology, Psychological and Political Science Perspectives on Peace and Conflict, a Capstone Seminar on the Psychology of Close Relationships and a First Year Seminar on Health Psychology.

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