Contact Information
603 E Daniel St
M/C 716
Champaign, IL 61820
Research Areas
Research Interests
Physical and emotional pain are unfortunate, yet inevitable, parts of many people’s lives. Such pain can cause significant suffering and often interferes with people’s professional and social functioning. As PI of the Social Neuroscience and Pain (SNaP) lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Mischkowski studies how the physical pain system regulates other psychological and social functions, and how physiological and psychological factors in turn affect physical and emotional pain. His research interests focus on three basic questions: (1) How does the physical pain system regulate affect and social behavior? (2) How can people cope with physical and emotional pain? And (3) what are the psycho-physiological factors associated with the subjective pain experience?
Dr. Mischkowski studies these questions using a multi-methods approach, which includes pharmacological intervention (e.g., using the popular painkiller acetaminophen), psycho-physiological methods (e.g., measures using skin conductance, heart rate, pupil dilation), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), and self-report/behavioral assays.
If you are interested in any of these questions and want to join the SNaP lab, you may be in luck, as Dr. Mischkowski is currently accepting new graduate students!
Education
Social Psychology, PhD, Ohio State University
selected publications
* denotes graduate student author
Campbell, P. C. & Mischkowski, D. (accepted). Teaching information literacy in online psychology courses: Effects on student performance and self-reported confidence. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.
*Kim, H., Onate, J., *Criss, C., Simon, J., Mischkowski, D., & Grooms, D. (2023). The relationship between drop vertical jump action-observation brain activity and kinesiophobia after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Brain and Behavior, 13(2), e2879. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2879
*Lin, T., Anderson, T., Austin, M., & Mischkowski, D. (2023). Early trajectories of symptom change and working alliance as predictors of treatment outcome. Psychotherapy Research, 33(2), 185-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2022.2080028
Khalili-Mahani, N., Mischkowski, D., & Hovey, R. H. (2022). The importance of qualitative pain research for capturing and integrating cultural, social and linguistic data in chronic pain management. Frontiers in Pain Research, 3, 108044. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpain.2022.1082044
*Ysidron, D. W., France, C. R., *Yang, Y., & Mischkowski, D. (2022). Research participants recruited using online labor markets may feign medical conditions and overreport symptoms: Caveat emptor. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 159, 110948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2022.110948
Amir, C., Rose-McCandlish, M., Weger, R., Dildine, T., Mischkowski, D., Necka, E., Lee, I., Wager, T. D., Pine, D. S., & Atlas, L. Y. (2022). Test-retest reliability of an adaptive thermal pain calibration procedure in healthy volunteers. The Journal of Pain, 23(9), 1543-1555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2022.01.011
Rios, K., Mischkowski, D., & *Stephenson, N. B. (2021). White people problems? White privilege beliefs predict attitudes toward confederate symbols. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(7), 1105-1113. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211051913
Mischkowski, D., Stavish, C., Palacios-Barrios, E. E., Banker, L. A., Dildine, T. C., & Atlas, L. Y. (2021). Dispositional mindfulness and acute heat pain: Comparing stimulus-evoked pain with summary pain assessment. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83(6), 539-548. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000911
Kimel, S. Y., Mischkowski, D., Miyagawa, Y., & Niiya, Y. (2021). Left out but “in control”? Culture variations in perceived control when excluded by a close other. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620987436