Liberal Arts and Sciences
Rodriguez Lab
Led by Lindsey Rodriguez · Psychology
What we study
The Rodriguez Lab studies how small behavioral changes can improve relationships or health. They use methods like motivational interviews and cognitive reappraisal to understand why these changes work.
What working here is like
- Surveys & interviews
- Computational
- Human participants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 7
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Project Love, Identity, and Rumination: How Sexual Orientation Shapes the Link Between Rumination and Partner Inclusion
The lab studies how rumination affects how people see their partners in themselves, looking at differences between LGBTQ+ and heterosexual students. Students surveyed 314 college students using the RSR and IOS scales to see if rumination links to partner inclusion differently by sexual orientation.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 588
Entitled to Success: Goal Pursuit Mediates the Association Between Psychological Entitlement and Life Satisfaction
The lab examined how feeling overly deserving relates to overall happiness, finding that actively pursuing goals explains the positive link. Data came from 511 undergraduate survey respondents.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 575
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Feeding the mind: The emotional and attitudinal pathways linking binge eating to body image
The study looks at how binge eating relates to body shape perception and whether eating attitudes and emotional regulation mediate this link. Students will analyze survey data from 542 college students to test these relationships.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 560
Are Extroverts Happier with Their Lives? Exploring the Role of Emotion Regulation
The researchers surveyed 528 undergraduate psychology students, measuring extraversion, emotion‑regulation difficulties, and life satisfaction to test whether better emotion‑regulation skills explain why extroverts report higher life satisfaction.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 416
Relationship Trust as a Predictor for Satisfaction in Cohabitating, Queer Couples
The study looks at how trust affects how happy LGBTQ+ couples feel when living together. Data from 214 adults in the U.S. compare same‑sex and different‑sex couples and examine trust levels to see if trust predicts relationship satisfaction.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 293
Lost in the Spiral: Emotion Regulation’s Impact on Relationship Conflict and Alcohol Use
The lab examined how trouble managing emotions changes the link between romantic conflict and drinking problems. Using surveys from 314 participants, the student showed that greater emotion‑regulation difficulty strengthens the association between conflict and alcohol issues.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 265
Overeating and Overpouring: Drinking Motives Mediate the Association Between Binge Eating and Alcohol Consumption
The study surveyed 555 undergraduate students to see if reasons for drinking explain why binge eaters also tend to drink more. The student helped collect survey data and run statistical models that showed social drinking motives fully explained the link between binge eating and alcohol use.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 225
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Recent papers, explained
- A brief web-based romantic attachment psychoeducational intervention for emerging adults: a pilot randomized controlled trial
2026 · Journal of American College Health
Tests whether a web-based attachment intervention improves relationship choices in emerging adults.
- Drinking to belong: how loneliness fuels alcohol-related consequences
2026 · The Journal of Social Psychology
Finds that loneliness in young adults leads to alcohol-related problems over a year.
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- Associations between active and passive social media use and anxious affect among adolescents around the world
2026 · Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Shows that both active and passive social media use raise anxious feelings in global teens.
- A randomized controlled trial of injunctive norms feedback with and without motivational interviewing to reduce alcohol use and negative consequences among college students.
2026 · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Tests whether feedback with motivational interviewing reduces alcohol use in college students.
- Other-Oriented Perfectionism Predicts Physical Intimate Partner Violence in Romantic Couples: A Brief Report on a Longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Model1
2025 · Journal of Family Violence
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