Pauline Goodson graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in Psychology and completed her post-baccalaureate education in Psychological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently working towards her doctorate at Rice University in the department of Psychological Sciences as a graduate researcher in Dr. Bryan Denny’s Translational Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (T-SCAN) Lab. Her research emphasizes interdisciplinary and multimodal research methodologies to develop individualized emotion regulation treatments and interventions with implications for health, health behaviors, and well-being.