John M. Ruiz

Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona
John M. Ruiz

Psychology Building Room 415
PO Box 210068, Tucson, AZ 85721-0068

(520) 621-2177
johnruiz@arizona.edu
  • Investigate how social lives constitute both risk and resilience for physical health.
  • Emphasis on racial/ethnic and cultural differences in the above effects.
  • Use of a variety of methods including community and hospital-based observational studies, surveys, ecological momentary assessment, ambulatory psychophysiology, and laboratory based paradigms.
  • The lab’s current foci include studies of stress and cardiovascular risk, as well as the Hispanic Health Paradox.