Rate My Professor Tamlin Conner

Professor Tamlin Conner is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Otago, where she joined the faculty in 2008. She earned a BA (Hons) in psychology from the University of Colorado, a PhD in social psychology from Boston College, and completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Conner's research employs computerized experience sampling methods, ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone-based tools to study real-time emotional and physical well-being in everyday life. Her investigations cover nutritional predictors of mood, such as randomized controlled trials on fruit and vegetable consumption and kiwifruit's effects on mental health; genetic influences; university student alcohol use, including fear of missing out scales and breathalyzer accuracy; health behaviors; positive psychology; Big-5 personality traits; and everyday creativity. She directs interdisciplinary projects linking psychology with nutrition, genetics, and clinical applications through the Daily Experiences Lab.

Conner co-edited the Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life (2012, Guilford Press) and authored key publications including "Experience sampling methods: A modern idiographic approach to personality research" (2009, Social and Personality Psychology Compass), "Let them eat fruit! The effect of fruit and vegetable consumption on psychological well-being in young adults: A randomized controlled trial" (2017, PLoS ONE), "Everyday creative activity as a path to flourishing" (2018, The Journal of Positive Psychology), and "Mobile Mindfulness Meditation: a Randomised Controlled Trial of the Effect of Two Popular Apps on Mental Health" (2018, Mindfulness). With over 12,000 Google Scholar citations, her methodological innovations have shaped ambulatory assessment in psychosomatic medicine and health psychology. She has supervised more than 40 postgraduate students from New Zealand and overseas, earning the Otago University Students' Association Supervisor of the Year award in 2017. Professionally, she served as past vice-president of the Society for Ambulatory Assessment, holds the position of Associate Editor for the journal Emotion, and contributes media expertise on mental health interventions, emotional well-being, and nutrition-psychology links.