Juliana Breines Ph.D.

Juliana Breines, Ph.D., is a social and health psychologist whose research examines how self-compassion relates to stress reactivity, behavior change, and body image. She received her Ph.D. in social-personality psychology from the University of California Berkeley in 2012, completed an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship in health psychology at Brandeis University, and worked for three years as an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Rhode Island. Her research has been published in a range of academic journals and featured in popular media outlets such as the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Harvard Business Review.

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