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Overview

Amelia Aldao is affiliated with Together CBT in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of psychology. Their work spans various subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics addressed in Aldao's research include mental health research topics, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, COVID-19 and mental health, mental health treatment and access, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, heart rate variability and autonomic control, as well as LGBTQ health, identity, and policy.

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on mental health challenges and minority stress with contributions to different scholarly journals. Some notable papers are:

  • "Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action." (2020, American Psychologist)
  • "Gender Matters: Nonlinear Relationships Between Heart Rate Variability and Depression and Positive Affect" (2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience)
  • "Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure" (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • "Manipulating minority stress: Validation of a novel film-based minority stress induction with lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults." (2021, Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity)
  • "When are Worry and Rumination Negatively Associated with Resting Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia? It Depends: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Reappraisal" (2020, Cognitive Therapy and Research)

Aldao's frequent co-authors include Vera Vine, Ilana Seager van Dyk, June Gruber, Mitchell J. Prinstein, and Lee Anna Clark, indicating collaborative work across multiple research projects and publications.

The venues where Aldao's research appears reflect diverse and interdisciplinary interests and include:

  • American Psychologist
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • PLoS ONE
  • Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
  • Cognitive Therapy and Research

Best Publications

  • Emotion-regulation strategies across psychopathology: A meta-analytic review.

    Amelia Aldao;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Susanne Schweizer

  • Gender Differences in Emotion Expression in Children: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Tara M. Chaplin;Amelia Aldao

  • Specificity of cognitive emotion regulation strategies: A transdiagnostic examination

    Amelia Aldao;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • The Future of Emotion Regulation Research: Capturing Context.

    Amelia Aldao

  • Emotion Regulation Flexibility

    Amelia Aldao;Gal Sheppes;James J. Gross

  • Gender and age differences in emotion regulation strategies and their relationship to depressive symptoms

    Susan Nolen-Hoeksema;Amelia Aldao

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.

    June Gruber;Mitchell J. Prinstein;Lee Anna Clark;Jonathan Rottenberg

  • Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic factor in the development of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology: Current and future directions.

    Amelia Aldao;Dylan G. Gee;Andres De Los Reyes;Ilana Seager

  • When are adaptive strategies most predictive of psychopathology

    Amelia Aldao;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • The influence of context on the implementation of adaptive emotion regulation strategies.

    Amelia Aldao;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Editorial overview: New directions in the science of emotion regulation

    Matthew T Tull;Amelia Aldao

  • Adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies: interactive effects during CBT for social anxiety disorder.

    Amelia Aldao;Hooria Jazaieri;Philippe R. Goldin;James J. Gross

  • One versus many: Capturing the use of multiple emotion regulation strategies in response to an emotion-eliciting stimulus

    Amelia Aldao;Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

  • Impaired emotional clarity and psychopathology: A transdiagnostic deficit with symptom-specific pathways through emotion regulation.

    Vera Vine;Amelia Aldao

  • Emotion regulation in context: Examining the spontaneous use of strategies across emotional intensity and type of emotion

    Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon;Amelia Aldao;Andres De Los Reyes

  • Broadening the scope of research on emotion regulation strategies and psychopathology

    Amelia Aldao;Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon

  • Repertoires of emotion regulation: A person-centered approach to assessing emotion regulation strategies and links to psychopathology.

    Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon;Amelia Aldao;Andres De Los Reyes

  • Rumination as a transdiagnostic factor underlying transitions between internalizing symptoms and aggressive behavior in early adolescents

    Katie A. McLaughlin;Amelia Aldao;Blair E. Wisco;Lori M. Hilt

  • Adolescent Self-Reports of Social Anxiety: Can They Disagree with Objective Psychophysiological Measures and Still Be Valid?

    Andres De Los Reyes;Amelia Aldao;Sarah A. Thomas;Samantha Daruwala

  • Paradoxical cardiovascular effects of implementing adaptive emotion regulation strategies in generalized anxiety disorder

    Amelia Aldao;Douglas S. Mennin

Frequent Co-Authors

Andres De Los Reyes
Andres De Los Reyes University of Maryland, College Park
Douglas S. Mennin
Douglas S. Mennin Columbia University
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Yale University
Katie A. McLaughlin
Katie A. McLaughlin University of Oregon
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon University of Massachusetts Amherst
Julian F. Thayer
Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine
Ruchika Shaurya Prakash
Ruchika Shaurya Prakash The Ohio State University
Margaret A. Sheridan
Margaret A. Sheridan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan Rottenberg
Jonathan Rottenberg University of South Florida
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University

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