Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Director of Research and Innovation, Mindfulness Center at Brown
Research Interests: Mindfulness, habit formation and behavior change science, development of novel mindfulness programs for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety
Research Interests: Mindfulness, impacts of mindfulness and early life adversity on adulthood well-being, with a particular emphasis on mechanisms, social contextual factors, and cardiovascular disease risk
Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences Eric B. Loucks describes the two steps to get a person started in mindfulness: focused attention and open monitoring.
“The paradigms around willpower don’t work,” said Dr. Judson Brewer, an associate professor in behavioral and social sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health who has studied mindful eating practices. “You have to start by knowing how your mind works.”