Adriel BoalsBehavioral ScienceProfessorPsychologyFacultyadriel.boals@unt.eduOffice: Terrill Hall-363

FacultyPsychologyCurriculum Vitae  Grant History  Lab Website Education North Carolina State University - Raleigh, NC (2002) Postdoctoral Fellowship Duke University - Durham, NC - 2002-2006 Research Interests Dr. Boals is a Professor who has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He completed a B.S. in psychology from the University of Florida in 1995, a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from North Carolina State University in 2002, and completed a Post-Doc in Cognitive Psychology at Duke University. His primary research interest is coping with trauma, with an emphasis on autobiographical memory. In his earlier years, he focused predictors of PTSD, with an emphasis on autobiographical memory. More recently he has focused more on posttraumatic growth (the idea that some trauma survivors grow in important ways as a result of going through adversarial events), and specifically attempting to distinguish genuine  posttraumatic growth from illusory posttraumatic growth. Throughout his career, Dr. Boals has a continuous research thread of an emphasis on various coping strategies trauma survivors engage in and its subsequent impact on mental and physical well-being. Dr. Boals served as Program Director of the Behavioral Science PhD Program for 14 years and has chaired 16 students to a PhD, 4 students to a MS, 15 undergraduate theses, and 8 McNair Scholars.