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Dr. Erin C. Westgate | Assistant Professor


PictureEmail: erinwestgate@ufl.edu

Dr. Erin Westgate (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Florida, where she studies boredom, interest, and why some thoughts are more engaging than others. ​She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Virginia in 2018, and her undergraduate degree from Reed College. Much of her research has been on the conditions under which people enjoy or do not enjoy their own thoughts. She has extended that work to the larger question of why people become bored, developing a new model of boredom that explains what boredom is, why we experience it, and what happens when we do.  As part of this, she is investigating our desire for a life full of interesting, perspective-changing experiences - or a “psychologically rich” life.  She spends her free time looking at fish and diving in the local Florida springs.
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Check out some recent travels:
Florida Springs: Troy and Paradise
Rainbow River

The Exumas [Bahamas]
Roatan [Honduras]



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2021-2022 Lab

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2021-22 Florida Social Cognition and Emotion Lab Members: Marjorie Prokosch, Samantha Douglas, Anaïs Ortiz (on the tree), Gaelle El Helou, Elisha LePine (on the tree), Erin Westgate (on the tree), Yijun Lin

2020-2021 Lab

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2020-21 Florida Social Cognition and Emotion Lab Members: Samantha Douglas, Erin Westgate, Yijun Lin, Josh Perlin, Abhay Alaukik, Elsa Jiang, Gaelle el Helou

2019-2020 Lab

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