Thank you for visiting my website. I’m Olivia, a PhD candidate at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management. I study how individuals respond to negative events at work and the downstream consequences for building high-quality connections and being creativity. I use a multi-method approach including interventions, physiological measures, repeated-measures field studies, and real-time continuous assessment during conversations.

Papers Published & Invited for Revision:

Compassion at Work. Compassion in response to others’ distress is essential for leaders to engage in, yet leaders often struggle to express compassion when encountering others’ needs or problems. My research investigates the barriers to expressing compassion in workplace conversations.

Regulating Stress to Improve Creativity. Stress disrupts cognitive functions that are critical for creativity. I examine how responding to stressful events using emotion regulation can support cognitive processes like persistence and flexibility in both field and lab settings.

Managing Others’ Emotions. Emotions are ubiquitous in the workplace. They shape behavior, thinking, and well-being, yet we know surprisingly little about how people can effectively change others’ emotions. My research investigates the strategies individuals use to regulate others’ emotions and the consequences of these strategies for both the regulator and the target, including on their emotions and physiological stress.