Thrive Lab

Director: Dr. Angela Coreil

Building contexts for better living.

The Thrive Lab studies how better measurement can lead to better interventions. Grounded in behavior analysis and informed by clinical psychology, human factors, and measurement science, our work connects three areas that are too often studied separately: measurement, intervention, and translation.
We study behavior as it occurs in everyday life. This includes examining behavior over time and across contexts. Our methods may include ecological momentary assessment, natural language processing, and the evaluation of how people interact with technologies.
Our use of the term intervention is intentionally broad. Psychotherapy is only one way to create meaningful change. We can effectively intervene to change behavior in many other ways.
Our goal in Thrive Lab is to contribute to a more coherent and usable science of human behavior.

Topics of interest in our lab:
• Behavioral measurement in everyday contexts
• Clinical behavior analysis and therapy processes
• Language and verbal behavior
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, trauma, and dissociation
• Intervention design, usability, and implementation