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Kateri McRae is affiliated with the University of Denver in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology. Their primary area of research covers multiple domains within psychology, focusing particularly on experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, clinical psychology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's publications frequently appear in prominent venues such as Emotion, Affective Science, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, Motivation and Emotion, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). These journals correspond with their broad interest in emotion regulation, mental health, and cognitive processes.

McRae's research topics include a range of mental health and behavioral themes:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Cultural Differences and Values

Frequent collaboration shapes much of McRae's work, with repeated co-authorship involving:

  • James J. Gross
  • John Powers
  • Christian E. Waugh
  • June Gruber
  • Peter J. Gianaros

Notable recent papers authored by McRae include:

  • Emotion regulation., 2020, Emotion
  • The Future of Women in Psychological Science, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • The neural bases of cognitive emotion regulation: The roles of strategy and intensity, 2020, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Affective brain patterns as multivariate neural correlates of cardiovascular disease risk, 2020, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Prosocial correlates of transformative experiences at secular multi-day mass gatherings, 2022, Nature Communications

McRae's work prominently addresses mechanisms of emotion regulation and cognitive control, as well as the neural and psychological underpinnings of emotional and behavioral health. The integration of cardiovascular medicine themes reflects interdisciplinary research bridging psychological processes and physical health outcomes.

Best Publications

  • The Neural Bases of Emotion Regulation: Reappraisal and Suppression of Negative Emotion

    Philippe R Goldin;Kateri McRae;Wiveka Ramel;James J Gross

  • Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation: An fMRI Study of Cognitive Reappraisal:

    Kateri McRae;Kevin N. Ochsner;Iris B. Mauss;John J. D. Gabrieli

  • Neural correlates of heart rate variability during emotion

    Richard D. Lane;Kateri McRae;Kateri McRae;Eric M. Reiman;Kewei Chen

  • The development of emotion regulation: an fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal in children, adolescents and young adults

    Kateri McRae;James J. Gross;Jochen Weber;Elaine R. Robertson

  • The neural bases of distraction and reappraisal

    Kateri McRae;Brent Hughes;Sita Chopra;John D. E. Gabrieli

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  • Age-related differences in emotional reactivity, regulation, and rejection sensitivity in adolescence.

    Jennifer A. Silvers;Kateri McRae;John D. E. Gabrieli;James J. Gross

  • Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processes in Emotion Generation Common and Distinct Neural Mechanisms

    Kevin N. Ochsner;Rebecca R. Ray;Brent Hughes;Kateri McRae

  • Individual differences in reappraisal ability: Links to reappraisal frequency, well-being, and cognitive control

    Kateri McRae;Scott E. Jacobs;Rebecca D. Ray;Oliver P. John

  • Unpacking Cognitive Reappraisal: Goals, Tactics, and Outcomes

    Kateri McRae;Bethany Ciesielski;James J. Gross

  • Cognitive reappraisal of negative affect: converging evidence from EMG and self-report.

    Rebecca D. Ray;Kateri McRae;Kevin N. Ochsner;James J. Gross

  • Individual differences in typical reappraisal use predict amygdala and prefrontal responses.

    Emily M. Drabant;Kateri McRae;Stephen B. Manuck;Ahmad R. Hariri

  • Bottom-up and top-down emotion generation: Implications for emotion regulation

    Kateri McRae;Supriya Misra;Aditya K. Prasad;Sean C. Pereira

  • The up- and down-regulation of amusement: experiential, behavioral, and autonomic consequences.

    Nicole R. Giuliani;Kateri McRae;James J. Gross

  • Emotion Regulation and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Prospective Investigation

    Matthew Tyler Boden;Stefan Westermann;Kateri McRae;Janice Kuo

  • Cognitive emotion regulation: a review of theory and scientific findings

    Kateri McRae

  • Change the things you can: Emotion regulation is more beneficial for people from lower than from higher socioeconomic status.

    Allison S. Troy;Brett Q. Ford;Kateri McRae;Pareezad Zarolia

  • Association between trait emotional awareness and dorsal anterior cingulate activity during emotion is arousal-dependent

    Kateri McRae;Kateri McRae;Eric M. Reiman;Eric M. Reiman;Eric M. Reiman;Carolyn L. Fort;Kewei Chen

  • Emotion regulation choice: the role of environmental affordances.

    Gaurav Suri;Gal Sheppes;Gerald Young;Damon Abraham

  • Common representation of pain and negative emotion in the midbrain periaqueductal gray

    Jason T. Buhle;Hedy Kober;Kevin N. Ochsner;Peter Mende-Siedlecki

  • The Future of Women in Psychological Science

    June Gruber;Jane Mendle;Kristen A. Lindquist;Toni Schmader

  • The development of emotion regulation: an fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal in children, adolescents and young adults

    John D. E. Gabrieli;Kateri McRae;James J. Gross;Jochen Weber

  • BRIEF REPORTS Cognitive Reappraisal of Negative Affect: Converging Evidence From EMG and Self-Report

    Rebecca D. Ray;Kateri McRae;Kevin N. Ochsner;James J. Gross

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Kevin N. Ochsner
Kevin N. Ochsner Columbia University
Richard D. Lane
Richard D. Lane University of Arizona
Iris B. Mauss
Iris B. Mauss University of California, Berkeley
Julian F. Thayer
Julian F. Thayer University of California, Irvine
Brett Q. Ford
Brett Q. Ford University of Toronto
Oliver P. John
Oliver P. John University of California, Berkeley
Christian E. Waugh
Christian E. Waugh Wake Forest University
Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams Stanford University

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