Psychology Lecture Series: "Insight for Relationships: Focusing on Latino Culture" presented by Dr. Belinda Campos

The psychology department welcomes Dr. Belinda Campos as the fourth and final speaker in its 2022-2023 lecture series: The Psychology of Close Relationships.

Social relationships can confer high subjective well-being, resilience against adverse circumstances, and benefits for health. To reap these rewards, humans must balance self-interest and other-interest. In this talk, Dr. Campos asserts that Latino contexts are of theoretical and applied interest for studying these questions and will present a series of studies that show that Latino cultural values that emphasize other-interest are associated with benefits for relationship quality and have implications for health.

Belinda Campos is professor and chair of the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine and an affiliate of the School of Medicine PRIME-LC Program and the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Campos received her PhD in social-personality psychology from UC Berkeley. After completing her PhD, Dr. Campos held postdoctoral positions at UCLA in the Department of Psychology and in the Department of Anthropology’s Center for the Everyday Lives of Families.

Dr. Campos’ research examines the role of culture and positive emotions in shaping close relationship experience and health outcomes, with a particular focus on U.S. Latinos. Her work suggests that cultural ideals that are characteristic of Latino populations – close families and positive emotion expression – influence health and well-being.

Free and open to the public.

This event may be used to satisfy the Lecture Reflection Requirement in PSYC204/206 and PSYC493/494.