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Paula T. Hertel is affiliated with Trinity University in the United States and focuses research within the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their body of work spans various subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's research topics predominantly cover anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment approaches, and cognitive processes. They have also explored areas related to memory processes and influences, identity, memory, therapy, mental health research topics, stress responses and cortisol, neural and behavioral psychology studies, as well as intelligent tutoring systems and adaptive learning.

Paula T. Hertel's recent publications include:

  • Stuck in the past? Rumination-related memory integration (2023) in Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Inferences Training Affects Memory, Rumination, and Mood (2021) in Clinical Psychological Science
  • Rumination: Practicing Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories (2020) in Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Everyday challenges to the practice of desirable difficulties: Introduction to the forum. (2020) in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Editors cause academic forgetting: A reply to the commentary by Berntsen and Rubin (2020). (2020) in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

The venues where their work frequently appears include the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Clinical Psychological Science, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Cognitive Therapy and Research, and the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.

Frequent collaborators in Paula T. Hertel's research include Christopher N. Wahlheim, Baruch Perlman, Nilly Mor, Yael Wisney Jacobinski, and Adi Doron Zakon.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive interdependence in close relationships

    Daniel M. Wegner;Toni Giuliano;Paula T. Hertel

  • Cognitive Effort and Memory

    Sherman W. Tyler;Paula T. Hertel;Marvin C. McCallum;Henry C. Ellis

  • Cognitive Bias Modification: Past Perspectives, Current Findings, and Future Applications

    Paula T. Hertel;Andrew Mathews

  • Remembering with and without awareness in a depressed mood: Evidence of deficits in initiative

    Paula T. Hertel;Tammy S. Hardin

  • Memory and emotion.

    Daniel Reisberg;Paula Hertel

  • Depressive deficits in memory: focusing attention improves subsequent recall.

    Paula T. Hertel;Stephanie S. Rude

  • Emotionality in free recall: Language specificity in bilingual memory.

    Linda J. Anooshian;Paula T. Hertel

  • Depressive Deficits in Forgetting

    Paula T. Hertel;Melissa Gerstle

  • Remembering the good, forgetting the bad: intentional forgetting of emotional material in depression.

    Jutta Joormann;Paula T. Hertel;Faith Brozovich;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Relation between rumination and impaired memory in dysphoric moods

    Paula T. Hertel

  • Training forgetting of negative material in depression.

    Jutta Joormann;Paula T. Hertel;Joelle LeMoult;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Memory for Emotional and Nonemotional Events in Depression: A Question of Habit?

    Paula T Hertel

  • Intentional forgetting benefits from thought substitution

    Paula T. Hertel;Gina Calcaterra

  • Depression-related Impairments in Prospective Memory

    Stephanie S. Rude;Paula T. Hertel;William Jarrold;Jennifer Covich

  • On the Contributions of Deficent Cognitive Control to Memory Impairments in Depression

    Paula T. Hertel

  • Research Methods in Cognition and Emotion

    W Gerrod Parrott;Paula T. Hertel

  • Biases in interpretation and memory in generalized social phobia.

    Paula T. Hertel;Faith Brozovich;Jutta Joormann;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Cognitive bias modification: induced interpretive biases affect memory.

    Tanya B. Tran;Paula T. Hertel;Jutta Joormann

  • Am I Blue? Depressed Mood and the Consequences of Self-Focus for the Interpretation and Recall of Ambiguous Words

    Paula T. Hertel;Lyla El-Messidi

  • The Cognitive-Initiative Account of Depression-Related Impairments in Memory

    Paula T. Hertel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jutta Joormann
Jutta Joormann Yale University
Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
Rudi De Raedt
Rudi De Raedt Ghent University
Andrew Mathews
Andrew Mathews King's College London
Michael C. Anderson
Michael C. Anderson University of Cambridge
Eni S. Becker
Eni S. Becker Radboud University
William R. Miller
William R. Miller University of New Mexico
Matthew D. Sacchet
Matthew D. Sacchet Harvard University
Jasper A. J. Smits
Jasper A. J. Smits The University of Texas at Austin
Ernst H. W. Koster
Ernst H. W. Koster Ghent University

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