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Jennifer R. Turner, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, Hawaii, United States

Dr. Jennifer R. Turner received her Ph.D. in Adult Development and Aging (2020) from the University of Akron in Ohio. Dr. Turner’s post-doctoral research was conducted at the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University, where she assisted in examining daily memory lapses and their associations with emotional outcomes and psychological well-being on an NIH-funded R-01 grant (P.I. Jacqueline Mogle). Dr. Turner’s primary research interests focus on social and emotional factors that influence lifespan health and well-being, such as age differences in nostalgia and potential mechanisms to reduce negative perceptions of aging. Her work has been funded by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the American Psychological Association (APA), and she has been published in several peer-reviewed journals including: Innovation in Aging, Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, Emotion, and Journal of Happiness Studies. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo where she directs the Aging and Social Cognition (ASC) Laboratory.

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