Elaine Wethington is Professor Emeritus of Human Development and of Sociology. She is also adjunct Research Professor at the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.Since 2003 she has been Co-Director and Director of the Pilot Study Core (now Behavioral Intervention Development Core) for the Cornell Edward R. Roybal Center for Translation of the Behavioral and Social Sciences of Aging, the Translational Research Institute on Pain in Later Life. Her current research focuses on developing measures of exposure to major and minor stressors that can be used in longitudinal studies of the population in surveys, randomized controlled trials with frequent follow-up, and on smartphones.