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<h1 class="flex"><b>Research Interests</b></h1>
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<p>A primary focus of our recent work has been to examine the causal link between change in cognitive
biases and symptom (e.g., anxiety) reduction using cognitive bias modification paradigms. These training
programs are designed to directly alter biased ways of thinking, such as the tendency to make threat
interpretations.</p>
<p>For instance, we have trained interpretations to be more benign to decrease anxious responding among
obsessional, contamination fearful, socially anxious, trait anxious, spider fearful, and anxiety
sensitive samples, and even found that symptom changes following interpretation training for acrophobia
(height fear) were as large as those achieved by a group receiving the gold-standard exposure therapy.
These demonstrations are significant because they permit evaluation of the causal, rather than simply
correlational, claims that underlie cognitive models, and because they offer promise for new interventions
that are easy to disseminate given they are technology-based and do not require a therapist.</p>
<p>We launched MindTrails (mindtrails.virginia.edu), a public web site for people to try different online
interpretation training programs. Since launching MindTrails, it has been used in more than 85
countries, and various iterations of the intervention have been created, including programs such as
MindTrails Spanish (a version of MindTrails adapted for the Latinx community), Hoos Think Calmly
(a mobile application version of MindTrails adapted specifically for the UVA community), and MindTrails
Teen (a mobile application version of MindTrails adapted for anxious youth). Our goal in developing
various web- and mobile-based cognitive bias modification programs is to increase access to
evidence-based, mental health interventions in a variety of populations to help overcome common
barriers to accessing treatment, such as cost, transportation, and stigma involved in seeking mental
health treatment.</p>
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<p>Rather than rely on a static snapshot of biased processing, we seek new ways to more dynamically track
anxious and other disorder-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. For instance, in collaboration
with colleagues in engineering, we use active (e.g., ecological momentary assessment) and passive
(e.g., GPS, accelerometer, psychophysiology) mobile sensing via smartphones to learn how social anxiety
and depressive symptoms tie to communication patterns and emotion regulation efforts in natural
environments. Additionally, these dynamic monitoring approaches can help us identify moments of
anxiety in daily life and in turn develop interventions that can be administered right in the moment
users need them most.</p>
<p>Difficulty managing emotions puts people at risk for many clinical problems, including
anxiety, depression, substance use, and borderline personality disorders. Effective emotion
regulation involves a complex sequence of choices in how one responds to emotional challenges in
daily life: do you start an emotion regulation (ER) strategy, maintain a strategy, stop a strategy,
or switch to a different strategy? This becomes an exponentially complex task when considering that
a person has access to many ER strategies and multiple strategies can be used at once. To complicate
matters further, fluctuating mood, emotional intensity and demands of the situation all inform
strategy choice. Moreover, a person does not make this choice only once in their lifetime; rather,
they have to decide how to regulate their emotions over and over again as new stressors unfold. We
try to understand emotion regulation decision making, and help anxious people make more adaptive
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<p>Implicit associations reflect relatively uncontrollable automatic associations between concepts in
memory. Our lab has demonstrated that anxiety and many other forms of psychopathology are characterized
by biases in these associations. For instance, we have shown that phobic individuals are more likely than
non-phobic individuals to associate their feared object with danger. Moreover, persons with panic
disorder associate themselves with panic (vs. calm) relatively more than do nonanxious individuals, and
importantly, these associations change following successful treatment and even predict the extent someone
will experience a reduction in symptoms.</p>
<p>To allow the public to learn about implicit mental health associations, we direct a public web site
called Project Implicit Health (implicitmentalhealth.com) that allows visitors to try many different
Implicit Association Tests tied to their mental and physical health and receive feedback on their score.
More than one million tests have been completed!</p>
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<p>Building from the social cognition literature and our understanding of how to modify negative beliefs and attitudes
about stigmatized groups, we are examining how automatic biases affect clinical populations. We seek to better understand
stigma toward persons with mental illness and treatment seeking, as well as what factors motivate people to seek care
(e.g., beliefs about the value of science in determining a treatment plan; role of biases against mentally ill persons at the state level).</p>
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