Shannon P. Lupien, Ph.D. is a Social Psychologist at Daemen University in Amherst, NY with areas of expertise in the psychology of the self and self-esteem as well as factors that affect resilience and vulnerability. She earned her Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and much of her graduate research examined the dark side of high self-esteem, specifically fragile high self-esteem, which has been associated with a number of defensive responses. In addition she has recently begun to explore the positive and negative effects of social media on the self as well as how consuming certain types of media and identifying with media characters or celebrities affects social relationships and personal wellbeing.