Academic Background

Training

Erika Rosenberg received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, San Francisco (1994) and her B.S. in Neuroscience from San Jose State University (1986). Dr. Rosenberg’s scientific research has examined how our feelings are revealed in our facial expressions, how social factors influence emotional signals, and how anger affects cardiovascular health. Her work is published in a wide range of psychological journals and books, and she speaks at national conferences on the topics of emotions and facial expressions. Erika Rosenberg currently collaborates with other scientists on numerous projects in psychology, medicine, and computer science.
Dr. Rosenberg served on the faculties of the University of Delaware and the College of William and Mary, currently conducts research at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, teaches at the Nyingma Institute of Tibetan Studies in Berkeley, and offers workshops worldwide.

Selected Publications

MacLean, K.A., Ferrer, E., Aichele, S., Bridwell, D.A., King, B.G., Jacobs, T.L., Zanesco, A.P, Rosenberg, E.L., Sahdra, B.K., Wallace, B.A., Shaver, P.R., Mangun, G.R., & Saron, C.D. (2010). Intensive meditation training leads to improvements in perceptual discrimination and sustained attention. Psychology Science, 21, 829–839.

Feist, G., & Rosenberg, E. L. (2010). Psychology: Making Connections. McGraw-Hill: New York.

Ekman, P. , & Rosenberg, E. L. (2005). What the face reveals: Basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rosenberg, E. L. (2004). Mindfulness and consumerism. In T. Kasser & A. D. Kanner (Eds.). Psychology and the culture of consumption, pp. 107-125. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Rosenberg, E. L., & Ekman, P. (2003). Emotion, facial expression. In G. Adelman & B. H. Smith (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd Edition, New York: Elsevier Science.

Rosenberg, E.L., Ekman, P., Jiang, W., Coleman, R.E., Hanson, M., O’Connor, C., Waugh, R., & Blumenthal, J.A. (2001). Linkages between facial expressions of anger and transient myocardial ischemia in men with coronary artery disease. Emotion, 1, 107-115.

Rosenberg, E.L. (1998). Levels of analysis and the organization of affect. Review of General Psychology, 2, 247-270.

Rosenberg, E. L., Ekman, P., & Blumenthal, J.A. (1998). Facial expression and the affective component of cynical hostility in male coronary heart disease patients. Health Psychology, 17, 376-380.

Rosenberg, E.L. (1997). The study of spontaneous facial expressions in psychology. In P. Ekman & E. L. Rosenberg (Eds). What the face reveals: Basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) (pp. 3-17). New York: Oxford University Press.

Rosenberg, E.L., & Ekman, P. (1995). Conceptual and methodological issues in the judgment of facial expressions of emotion. Motivation and Emotion, 19, 111-138.

Rosenberg, E.L., & Ekman, P. (1994). Coherence between expressive and experiential systems in emotion.Cognition & Emotion, 8, 201-229.