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June Gruber  Assistant Professor (PhD., 2009, UC Berkeley) Lab Page Emotions are powerful processes that enable us to adaptively respond to life’s triumphs and challenges. When emotional responses go awry, however, they can result in substantial distress and impairment. Indeed, problematic emotional responses are central to many psychological disorders. Precisely how emotion-related problems contribute to different psychological disorders remains a crucial question. My research interests focus on understanding the role of emotion in psychopathology and also how psychopathology alters emotion, with a particular interest in positive emotion. In particular, much of my work concentrates on people at risk for, and diagnosed with, bipolar disorder as a means to better characterize and understand the clinical significance of extreme perturbations in positive emotion. I also conduct basic research on the normative function of positive emotion states, including studying behavioral and psychophysiological (e.g., RSA) markers of discrete positive emotions. An overarching theme in this line of work involves utilizing a multi-method approach by assessing emotional functioning at experiential (e.g., self-report, narrative), behavioral (e.g., FACS, EMG), and biological (e.g., psychophysiology, genetic, and neural) levels of analysis. Sample Publications Gruber, J., Culver, J. L., Johnson, S. L., Nam, J., Keller, K. L., & Ketter, T.K. (2009). Do positive emotions predict symptomatic change in bipolar disorder? Bipolar Disorders, 11, 330-336. Gruber, J., Harvey, A. G., & Johnson, S. L. (2009). Reflective and ruminative processing of positive emotional memories in bipolar disorder and healthy controls. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 697-704. Oveis, C., Cohen, A. B., Gruber, J., Shiota, M. N., & Haidt, J. & Keltner, D. (2009). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia is associated with tonic positive emotionality. Emotion, 9, 265-270. Gruber, J., Johnson, S. L., Oveis, C, & Keltner, D. (2008). Risk for mania and positive emotional responding: Too much of a good thing? Emotion, 8(1), 23-33. Gruber, J. & Kring, A. M. (2008). Narrating emotional events in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117(3), 520-533. |
