Emily Hangen Lesson for Life

Elyssa Barnhart

Lila Lovgren

Our next artist is Lila, a biology major and lover of capybaras. She is a busy gal as she plays both basketball and softball! When asked about why she was interested in Emily's talk, Lila mentioned that she liked the psychology and stress aspect, particularly the fact that not all stress is bad. The psychological aspect of this talk was also on her mind because she has been considering adding a psychology minor, though it is still up in the air. Please enjoy Lila's interactive Canva down below:

Kaylee Williams

Meet Kaylee! She is a psychology and nursing major who is also pursuing minors in pre-professional health and biology. One thing to know about her, if you could not guess from her coursework alone, is that she is heavily involved on campus and in the community. Amongst a list of other things, Kaylee is involved with the psychology club on campus, NAMI, and works as a tutor. She said she was interested in Emily's research because it aligns closely with her background in psychology and her academic interests as a psychology major. She also thinks the research would resonate with tons of college students, as she herself has also felt it resonated to her own experiences.

Gabrielle Irick

Elaina Neubert

I chose to do Emily Hangen and her lesson on stress reappraisal and how to shift from a threat state to a challenge state. What my project shows is the top half demonstrating the threat state, with the person about to climb the mountain, but their thoughts (literally) spiral into negative thinking, and that is why the mountain seems too large for them to climb. There is also less color to symbolize the negative state of mind. Conversely, the bottom half represents the challenge state of mind, with the mountain "zoomed-in" and shown closer up to show the physical first steps to climb it , with more color (trees, sky, etc.) to demonstrate the much more positive thinking and tuning stress into a challenge. The main lesson represented here is that if you reappraise stress into thinking of the situation as a challenge instead of being threatened by it, you are more likely to perform better and succeed to reach your goals.

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