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Debi Brannan

  • SPN Mentor

As an applied social psychologist, the focus of my research is on understanding how positive interactions and events buffer individuals from stress and negative health behaviors. Using daily process methodology I examine the effects of daily social support on solitary drinking, as well as the relationship between daily moods and drinking motives. In addition, I am interested in the role of social support across cultures -- specifically, the connections among social support and well-being, health, and job success.

Primary Interests:

  • Applied Social Psychology
  • Close Relationships
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Health Psychology
  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
  • Research Methods, Assessment
  • Sociology, Social Networks
  • Applied Social Psychology
  • Close Relationships
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Health Psychology
  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
  • Research Methods, Assessment
  • Sociology, Social Networks

Journal Articles:

  • Brannan, D., Biswas-Diener, R., Mohr, C.D. Mortazavi, S. & Stein, N. (2012). Friends and family, a cross-cultural investigation of social support and subjective well- being, Journal of Positive Psychology, 8(1), 65-75.
  • Brannan, D. & Bleinsten, T. (2012). Novice ESOL teachers’ perceptions of social support and self-efficacy, TESOL Quarterly, 46, 519-541.
  • Mohr, C.D., Brannan, D., Mohr, J. Armeli, S., & Tennen H. (2008). Evidence for the undoing hypothesis among college student drinkers, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1249-1259.
  • Mohr, C.D., Brannan, D., Wendt, S., Jacobs, L., Wright, R., & Wang, M. (2013, In Press, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors). Daily mood-drinking slopes as predictors: A new take on drinking motives and related outcomes.

Courses Taught:

  • Aging and Mental Health
  • Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Human Relations
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Mental Health
  • Motivation
  • Personality
  • Research Methods
  • Social Psychology
  • Aging and Mental Health
  • Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Human Relations
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Mental Health
  • Motivation
  • Personality
  • Research Methods
  • Social Psychology

Debi Brannan
Department of Psychology
Western Oregon University
345 North Monmouth Avenue
Monmouth, OR 97361
United States

Phone: (503) 751-4200

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