Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 2018
rebeccrt@uci.edu
Department:
Psychological Science
Bio:
Rebecca Thompson currently works as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). She has been a member of the Silver Stress and Coping Lab since 2012. Her research focuses on psychological responses to direct and indirect exposure to collective traumas, including the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the 2014 Ebola crisis, the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Video of Thompson, Jones, Holman & Silver (Science Advances, 2019)