Rate My Professor Darwin Guevarra

Guevarra's research examines affective processes including emotions, stress, pain, mood, and impulses, strategies to regulate them such as non-deceptive placebos, and their effects on psychological and physical health. He identifies, develops, and tests low-effort affect regulation interventions. His scholarship has been published in high-impact outlets, including "Placebos without deception reduce self-report and neural measures of emotional distress" (Nature Communications, 2020), "Remotely administered non-deceptive placebos reduce COVID-related stress, anxiety, and depression" (Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2024), "Harnessing placebo effects to regulate emotions" in the Handbook of Emotion Regulation (3rd ed., 2024), "Scaling a brief digital well-being intervention (the Big Joy Project)" (Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2025), and "Examining a window of vulnerability for affective symptoms in the mid-luteal phase of the menstrual cycle" (Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2023). With over 900 citations on Google Scholar, his work advances understanding of psychophysiology and well-being. Guevarra has received the NIH Diversity Supplement Award (2023), Outstanding Flash Talk Award at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Health Pre-Conference (2023), NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention (2014), and Horace H. Rackham Merit Fellowship (2013-2018). He holds editorial roles as Fellow for Current Directions in Psychological Science and Early Career Editorial Board Member for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine, and serves on committees for the Society for Affective Science and Stress Measurement Network.