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  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Rebecca E. Ready is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States and focuses on research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Social Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Epidemiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Research topics covered by Rebecca E. Ready include:

  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Counseling Practices and Supervision
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine

Their recent publications provide insight into their research focus areas. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Responsiveness to change over time and test-retest reliability of the PROMIS and Neuro-QoL mental health measures in persons with Huntington disease (HD)", 2020, Quality of Life Research
  • "The Minnesota Conference proposed guidelines for education and training in clinical neuropsychology", 2025, The Clinical Neuropsychologist
  • "Understanding domains that influence perceived stigma in individuals with Huntington disease.", 2020, Rehabilitation Psychology
  • "Greater negative affect and mixed emotions during spontaneous reactions to sad films in older than younger adults", 2020, European Journal of Ageing
  • "Predictors of cognitive decline in a multi-racial sample of midlife women: A longitudinal study.", 2021, Neuropsychology

Rebecca E. Ready frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Notable coauthors with whom they have worked extensively include:

  • Jasmine S Dixon
  • Eleni A. Kapoulea
  • Molly A. Mather
  • Irina Orlovsky
  • Bruna Martins-Klein

Their work is regularly published in several academic venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • The Clinical Neuropsychologist
  • Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
  • PsycEXTRA Dataset
  • Quality of Life Research
  • Rehabilitation Psychology

Rebecca E. Ready was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Neuropsychiatric aspects of Huntington's disease

    J. S. Paulsen;R. E. Ready;J. M. Hamilton;J. M. Hamilton;M. S. Mega

  • Mothers' personality and its interaction with child temperament as predictors of parenting behavior

    Lee Anna Clark;Grazyna Kochanska;Rebecca Ready

  • Patient versus informant perspectives of Quality of Life in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca E. Ready;Brian R. Ott;Janet Grace

  • Factor analysis of the frontal systems behavior scale (FrSBe).

    Julie C. Stout;Rebecca E. Ready;Janet Grace;Paul F. Malloy

  • Quality of Life measures for dementia

    Rebecca E Ready;Brian R Ott

  • Apathy and Executive Dysfunction in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer Disease

    Rebecca E. Ready;Brian R. Ott;Janet Grace;Deborah A. Cahn-Weiner

  • The Cornell-Brown Scale for Quality of Life in dementia.

    Rebecca E Ready;Brian R Ott;Janet Grace;Isabella Fernandez

  • Psychiatric patient and informant reports of patient behavior.

    Rebecca E. Ready;Lee Anna Clark

  • Prediction of on-road driving performance in patients with early Alzheimer's disease

    Laura B. Brown;Brian R. Ott;George D. Papandonatos;Yunxia Sui

  • Response bias in "remembering" emotional stimuli: a new perspective on age differences.

    Aycan Kapucu;Caren M. Rotello;Rebecca E. Ready;Katharina N. Seidl

  • Self- and Peer-Reported Personality: Agreement, Trait Ratability, and the “Self-Based Heuristic

    Rebecca E. Ready;Lee Anna Clark;David Watson;Kelley Westerhouse

  • Patient and caregiver quality of life in Huntington's disease.

    Rebecca E. Ready;Melissa Mathews;Anne Leserman;Jane S. Paulsen

  • Older spouses' perceptions of partners' chronic arthritis pain: implications for spousal responses, support provision, and caregiving experiences.

    Lynn M. Martire;Francis J. Keefe;Richard Schulz;Rebecca Ready

  • Ecological validity of neuropsychological and personality measures of executive functions.

    Rebecca E. Ready;Laura Stierman;Jane S. Paulsen

  • Correspondence of psychiatric patient and informant ratings of personality traits, temperament, and interpersonal problems

    Rebecca E. Ready;Lee Anna Clark

  • Validity of informant reports about AD and MCI patients' memory.

    Rebecca E Ready;Brian R Ott;Janet Grace

  • How happy have you felt lately? Two diary studies of emotion recall in older and younger adults

    Rebecca E. Ready;Mark I. Weinberger;Kelly M. Jones

  • Insight and cognitive impairment: effects on quality-of-life reports from mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease patients.

    Rebecca E. Ready;Brian R. Ott;Janet Grace

  • Neurobehaviors and psychotic symptoms in Alzheimer's disease.

    Jane S. Paulsen;Rebecca E. Ready;Julie C. Stout;David P. Salmon

  • Testosterone deficiency and apathy in Parkinson’s disease: a pilot study

    R E Ready;J Friedman;J Grace;H Fernandez

  • Emotional complexity in younger, midlife, and older adults.

    Rebecca E. Ready;Janessa O. Carvalho;Mark I. Weinberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane S. Paulsen
Jane S. Paulsen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Noelle E. Carlozzi
Noelle E. Carlozzi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Janet Grace
Janet Grace Brown University
Julie C. Stout
Julie C. Stout Monash University
Lee Anna Clark
Lee Anna Clark University of Notre Dame
Dilip V. Jeste
Dilip V. Jeste University of California, San Diego
George D. Papandonatos
George D. Papandonatos Brown University
Richard Gershon
Richard Gershon Northwestern University
David Watson
David Watson University of Notre Dame
David P. Salmon
David P. Salmon University of California, San Diego

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