Rosie Shrout, PhD
Rosie Shrout (she/her), PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of British Columbia and holds an adjunct appointment in Purdue University’s Human Development and Family Science Department. As a social-health psychologist with training in psychoneuroimmunology and behavioral medicine, Rosie studies how stress affects couples’ relationships and health using dyadic, biobehavioral, and longitudinal methods. Her work has shown how couples’ relationships influence psychological, behavioral, and physical health, including the immune, endocrine, and cardiovascular systems, and the gut microbiome. Her overarching goal is to identify factors that put couples’ relationships and health at risk or that help couples grow closer and stronger during turbulent times.
Rosie’s work has been funded through competitive fellowships, awards, and grants. Most notable among these honors include the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, a KL2 Early Career Investigator Award, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology SAGE Emerging Scholar Award. Her work is highly regarded, with two Editor’s Choice distinctions for noteworthy contributions, Purdue University’s Award for Excellence in Research about Families, and the National Council on Family Relationship’s Outstanding Paper award focused on families and health. Rosie serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and Personal Relationships, and the Early Career Editorial Board for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine. Her work has been featured in prestigious outlets, including NPR, BBC, and U.S. News and World Report.
Her current research projects address:
- How stress affects the immune and cardiovascular systems in breast cancer survivors and their partners
- How breast cancer survivors and their partners cope with fears of cancer recurrence and stress in daily life
- Aging couples’ emotional and physiological responses to conflict
- How individuals with concealable chronic illness talk about their illness
- How infidelity suspicion affects emotional, behavioural, and physical health in daily life
Keywords: Health psychology, close relationships, marriage, stress, coping, psychoneuroimmunology, inflammation, psychophysiology, breast cancer, chronic illness,
Email: rosie.shrout@psych.ubc.ca