College of Science and Health > Faculty & Staff > Faculty A-Z > ellen-dulaney

Ellen Dulaney

  • edulaney@depaul.edu
  • MS Research Psychology Program Director; Teaching Assistant Professor

  • ​​​

  • Psychology
  • (773) 325-7632

  • ​​Byrne Hall, Room 557

Google Scholar

I am a social and cross-cultural psychologist investigating the self, our cultural contexts, and how these connect to wellbeing outcomes. I primarily teach undergraduate and graduate courses under two major themes. The first theme consists of research design methodologies. The second concerns the social and systemic underpinnings of individual and collective trauma processes and experiences, community strengths and post-traumatic growth, and trauma’s relationship to existential meaning systems. I additionally teach introductory and cultural issues psychology courses. I support Psychology MS Research Psychology students and their research in my Program Director role. I additionally represent the College of Science and Health as an alternate on Faculty Council and represent the Behavioral and Social Sciences disciplinary area on the Faculty Council Committee on Term Faculty. 

Education
PhD, Psychological Science, DePaul University, 2021
MA, Psychological Science, DePaul University, 2015
BA, Psychology, Hampshire College, 2009

Major Areas of Interest
The self and self-related cognitions
Essentialist self-beliefs, true self, perceived authenticity
Meaning in life, threat resilience, and well-being
Cross-cultural variation in well-being outcomes of self-related cognitions

Publications
Kim, Y., Dulaney, E., Wangchuk, G., Kim, K., & Graupmann, V. (2024). Self or Non-Self? Self-Essentialism and Well-Being in Tibetan Buddhist Monks. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 00220221241252629. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221241252629

Dulaney, E. S., Graupmann, V., & Quinn, K. A. (2019). Who am I and how often?: Variation in self-essentialism beliefs, cognitive style, and well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 136, 148–159. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.10.011

Dulaney, E. S., Graupmann, V., Grant, K. E., Adam, E. K., & Chen, E. (2018). Taking on the stress-depression link: Meaning as a resource in adolescence. Journal of Adolescence, 65, 39–49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.02.011