I received graduate training at North Dakota State University (M.S. in Clinical Psychology, 2007) and the University of Arizona (Ph.D. in Family Studies and Human Development, 2012). Additionally, I completed a Fulbright Fellowship at the Institute for Family Research and Counseling in Fribourg, Switzerland, under the direction of Dr. Guy Bodenmann (Awarded 2007-2008).

Many times we think of physical and mental health as just affecting one person (i.e. the overweight individual or the individual suffering from depression); however, we know that for individuals in a romantic relationship, their experiences can be uniquely linked to their partner's experiences.

Specifically, my research focuses on understanding romantic partners’ interpersonal emotion systems. Using a multi-method approach, including measures of emotional experience, behavioral observation, and autonomic physiology, I am able to examine how various individual phenomena - attachment, physical and mental health, and stress - not only affects one partner’s individual experience but their partner’s experience as well.

My research utilizes an interdisciplinary approach, which includes aspects of family studies and multiple domains of psychology (i.e. health, developmental, social, and clinical). Additionally, based on my work as a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for Family Research and Counseling in Switzerland, I try to bridge my work to clinical interventions designed to help couples with stress in their relationship. Specific clinical interests include preventions and interventions specific to couples.

Current Projects:

Co-I (PI: Raison): Using whole body hyperthermia (WBH) to treat Major Depression (MDD): Impacts on interpersonal emotions and relationship functioning. http://psychiatry.arizona.edu/raison

Project Director (PI: Butler): Relationships, emotions, and eating: A dynamic systems investigation of weight gain. Funded by NIH. http://mcclellandinstitute.arizona.edu/HIS

Primary Interests:

Applied Social Psychology
Close Relationships
Interpersonal Processes
Life Satisfaction, Well-Being

Applied Social Psychology
Close Relationships

Interpersonal Processes
Life Satisfaction, Well-Being

Journal Articles:

Bodenmann, G., & Randall, A. K. (2012). Common factors in the enhancement of dyadic coping. Behavior Therapy, 43, 88-98.
Borelli, J. L., Sbarra, D. A., Randall, A. K., Snavely, J. E., St John, H. K., & Ruiz, S. K. (in press). Linguistic indicators of wives’ attachment security and communal orientation during military deployment. Family Process.
Burke, T. J., Randall, A. K., Corkery, S. A., Young, V. J., & Butler, E. A. (2012). “You’re going to eat that?”: Relationship processes and conflict among mixed weight couples. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Butler, E. A., & Randall, A. K. (in press). Coregulation is a state of a temporal interpersonal emotion system. Emotion Review.
Butler, E. A., & Randall, A. K. (in press). Emotional coregulation in close relationships. Emotion Review.
Butler, E. A., Young, V., & Randall, A. K. (2010). Suppressing to please, eating to cope: The effect of overweight women's emotion suppression on romantic relationships and eating. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 29, 559-623.
Randall, A. K., & Bodenmann, G. (2009). The role of stress on close relationships and marital satisfaction. Clinical Psychology Review, 29, 105-115.
Randall, A. K., Corkery, S. A., Duggi, D., Kamble, S. V., & Butler, E. A. (2011). “We’re having a good (or bad) day”: Difference in emotional synchrony in married couples in the United States and India. Family Science, 2, 203-211.
Randall, A. K.. Post, J. H., Reed, R. G. & Butler, E. A. (in press). Cooperating with your romantic partner: Associations with interpersonal emotional coordination. Journal of Social & Personal Relationships.
Reed, R.G., Randall, A.K., Post, J.H., & Butler, E. A. (in press). Partner influence and in-phase versus anti-phase physiological linkage in romantic couples. International Journal of Psychophysiology.
Wright, P. J., & Randall, A. K. (2013). Pornography consumption, education, and support for same-sex marriage among adult U.S. males. Communication Research, Online January 2013.
Wright, P. J., & Randall, A. K. (2012). Internet pornography exposure and risky sexual behavior among adult males in the United States. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 1410-1416.
Wright, P. J., Randall, A. K., Arroyo, A. (2012). Father-daughter communication about sex moderates the association between exposure to MTV's 16 and Pregnant/Teen Mom and female students' pregnancy-risk behavior. Sexuality & Culture, Online May 2012.
Wright, P. J., Randall, A. K., & Hayes, J. G. (2012). Predicting the condom assertiveness of collegiate females in the United States from the expanded health belief model. International Journal of Sexual Health, 24, 137-153.

Other Publications:

Bodenmann, G., & Randall, A. K. (in press). Marital therapy for dealing with depression. Chapter in M. Power (Ed.), Mood disorders: A handbook of science and practice (2nd ed). West Sussex, England: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
Randall, A. K., & Bodenmann, G. (in press). Family and marital therapy. Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine.
Randall, A. K., & Bodenmann, G. (in press). Family stress. Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine.
Randall, A. K., Bodenmann, G., Molgora, S., & Margola, D. (2010). The benefit of stress and coping research in couples for couple therapy. In F. Angeli (Ed.), Close relationships and community psychology: An international psychological perspective. Milan: Catholic University.

Courses Taught:

Basic Counseling Skills (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Close Relationships
Dynamics of Family Relationships
Practice Oriented Research Methods (Graduate)
Problems in Human Development and Family Relations - Focus on Adults
Research Methods (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Theories of Counseling

Basic Counseling Skills (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Close Relationships
Dynamics of Family Relationships
Practice Oriented Research Methods (Graduate)

Problems in Human Development and Family Relations - Focus on Adults
Research Methods (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Theories of Counseling

Ashley K. Randall
Department of Family Studies and Human Development
University of Arizona
650 North Park Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States

Phone: (520) 621-4284