Major Research Interests

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• Mood disorders (bipolar disorder, depressive disorder): Psychopathology, diagnostic classification, risk and protective factors

• How cognitive variables aggravate or attenuate the course of depression or anxiety (e.g. rumination, worry, decentering) and how they can be utilized as targets for developing effective interventions

• Which motivational basis (e.g. BAS, reward sensitivity) confers risk for mood disorders and how they interact with cognition, resulting in mood symptoms and disorders

• Psychological assessment: Validations of psychological measures, dissemination of evidence-based assessment (EBA) for psychological disorder

• Self-destructive, addictive behaviors: Internet gaming disorder, self-injury, suicide