Affiliation: Center for Research on Families, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Dr. Laws is the Director of Methodology at the Center for Research on Families at UMass Amherst. She is an expert in a wide variety of methodologies and analyses and specializes in the analysis of dyadic and longitudinal data using both multilevel modeling and structural equation modeling approaches. She is also a licensed clinical psychologist, with a research focus on the impact of close personal relationships on mental health over time. She hopes to connect aging researchers with the methodological tools to study dyadic influences on health and wellbeing.