{"id":367,"date":"2018-05-18T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/selfandmotivationlab\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:16:51","slug":"dr-lora-park-principal-investigator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/selfandmotivationlab\/dr-lora-park-principal-investigator\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dr. Lora Park is a <\/strong>Professor of Psychology at the University at Buffalo.&nbsp; Her research focuses on questions pertaining to the self, motivation, interpersonal processes, and well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/selfandmotivationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2018\/05\/Lora-Park-talking-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Park speaking\" class=\"wp-image-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/selfandmotivationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2018\/05\/Lora-Park-talking-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/selfandmotivationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2018\/05\/Lora-Park-talking.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Her work has appeared in outlets such as the <em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, <\/em><em>Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,<\/em> <em>Psychological Review, Psychological Bulletin, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,<\/em> and has been funded by the National Science Foundation.\u00a0 She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Self and Identity and Society of Experimental Social Psychology (past-president in 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/selfandmotivationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2021\/09\/lora-park-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Lora Park\" class=\"wp-image-944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/selfandmotivationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2021\/09\/lora-park-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/selfandmotivationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2021\/09\/lora-park.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>She has been an Associate Editor at\u00a0<em>Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin<\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>is currently a Senior Associate Editor at <em>Social Psychological and Personality Science<\/em>, and has served on the editorial boards of\u00a0<em>Perspectives on Psychological Science, <\/em><em style=\"color: revert;font-size: revert;font-weight: revert\">JPSP, PSPB, SPPS, Self and\u00a0<\/em><em style=\"color: revert;font-size: revert;font-weight: revert\">Identity,<\/em><span style=\"color: revert;font-size: revert;font-weight: revert\">and <\/span><em style=\"color: revert;font-size: revert;font-weight: revert\">Personal Relationships.\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: revert;font-size: revert;font-weight: revert\">She received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Washington and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, power yoga, snowboarding, hiking, playing piano, listening to music, reading, and singing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bpchorus.org\/about\/in-the-media\/article:the-buffalo-philharmonic-chorus-wins-its-first-grammy\/\">Grammy award-winning<\/a> Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lora Park is a Professor of Psychology at the University at Buffalo.&nbsp; Her research focuses on questions pertaining to the self, motivation, interpersonal processes, and well-being. 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