Niall Bolger

Niall Bolger is a Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, maintaining offices in Uris Hall and laboratory facilities in Schermerhorn Hall. He teaches core courses including Experimental Psychology: Social and Personality and advanced graduate seminars on Analysis of Change, while supervising individual research projects at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

His research program centers on the intersection of close relationships and stress adaptation, employing intensive longitudinal methodologies that capture daily experiences through diary reports and physiological measurements. Bolger investigates personality processes as they manifest in naturalistic settings and develops innovative statistical techniques for analyzing complex multilevel data structures. His work reveals how interpersonal dynamics operate in real-world contexts, particularly during acute stressors like professional examinations.

Bolger directs The Couples Lab, which pioneers research on relationship dynamics through daily diary methodologies and physiological assessments. His publications demonstrate consistent focus on methodological rigor in relationship science, with recurring themes of oxytocin's context-dependent effects, empathic accuracy mechanisms, and the biopsychosocial pathways linking social interactions to health outcomes. This body of work establishes him as a leading methodologist in social psychology's micro-longitudinal revolution.