Michelle Shiota

Professor, Psychology

Michelle "Lani" Shiota is a Professor of Psychology (Social Psychology program) and Director of the Substance use and Addiction Translational Research Network (SATRN) at Arizona State University. Her basic science investigates positive emotions, emotion regulation, emotion in close relationships, and emotional mechanisms of health behavior and behavior change. She also has a growing body of research related to addiction, including development and evaluation of trainings for community members in opioid overdose reversal as well as intervention to reduce substance use disorder stigma. Her research employs multiple methods including behavior coding, cognitive tasks, peripheral psychophysiology, narrative analysis, and questionnaire development. Shiota's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation. Her lab's work is published in high-impact journals including American Psychologist, JPSP, PSPB, Emotion, Evolution and Human Behavior, and Prevention Science. Dr. Shiota is lead author of the textbook Emotion and Motivation (Oxford University Press; co-author Sarah Rose Cavanagh), and co-editor of the Handbook of Positive Emotions (Guilford; co-authors Michele Tugade and Leslie Kirby). She is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Affective Science, in partnership with Ralph Adolphs and Linda Camras. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), and an elected member of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP). She received her BA in communication from Stanford University, and her doctorate in Social/Personality Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Shiota joined ASU in 2006, establishing the Shiota Psychophysiology Laboratory for Affective Testing (a.k.a. SPLAT Lab).