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Overview

Sheri L. Johnson is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant body of work spanning 117 publications in this field.

Their expertise covers several subfields, including:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

The main topics addressed in their work are:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Frequently publishing in notable venues, Sheri L. Johnson's contributions appear in:

  • Emotion
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • UNC Libraries
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Personality and Individual Differences

Several co-authors have collaborated extensively with Johnson, including:

  • Benjamin A. Swerdlow
  • Kiara R. Timpano
  • Devon B. Sandel
  • Greg Murray
  • Erin E. Michalak

Selected recent publications demonstrate the range and focus of their research:

  • "Development of a brief online intervention to address aggression in the context of emotion-related impulsivity: Evidence from a wait-list controlled trial," 2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "The Future of Women in Psychological Science," 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Cracks in the wall: Entrepreneurial action theory and the weakening presumption of intended rationality," 2022, Journal of Business Venturing
  • "Emotion-related impulsivity and risky decision-making: A systematic review and meta-regression," 2022, Clinical Psychology Review
  • "Facets of Suicidal Ideation," 2024, Archives of Suicide Research

Best Publications

  • BIS/BAS Levels and Psychiatric Disorder: An Epidemiological Study

    Sheri L. Johnson;R. Jay Turner;Noboru Iwata

  • Responses to Positive Affect: A Self-Report Measure of Rumination and Dampening.

    Greg C. Feldman;Jutta Joormann;Sheri L. Johnson

  • Serotonergic Function, Two-Mode Models of Self-Regulation, and Vulnerability to Depression: What Depression Has in Common With Impulsive Aggression

    Charles S. Carver;Sheri L. Johnson;Jutta Joormann

  • Coherence and Specificity of Information-Processing Biases in Depression and Social Phobia.

    Ian H. Gotlib;Karen L. Kasch;Saskia Traill;Jutta Joormann

  • Mania and dysregulation in goal pursuit: a review.

    Sheri L. Johnson

  • Postpartum Depression in Women Receiving Public Assistance: Pilot Study of an Interpersonal-Therapy-Oriented Group Intervention

    Caron Zlotnick;Sheri L. Johnson;Ivan W. Miller;Teri Pearlstein

  • Responsiveness to Threat and Incentive in Bipolar Disorder: Relations of the BIS/BAS Scales With Symptoms.

    Björn Meyer;Sheri L. Johnson;Ray Winters

  • Early alliance, alliance ruptures, and symptom change in a nonrandomized trial of cognitive therapy for avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.

    Jennifer L. Strauss;Adele M. Hayes;Sheri L. Johnson;Cory F. Newman

  • Increases in manic symptoms after life events involving goal attainment.

    Sheri L. Johnson;David Sandrow;Björn Meyer;Ray Winters

  • Distinctions between bipolar and unipolar depression.

    Amy K. Cuellar;Sheri L. Johnson;Ray Winters

  • Social support and the course of bipolar disorder.

    Sheri L. Johnson;Carol A. Winett;Bjorn Meyer;William J. Greenhouse

  • Life events and bipolar disorder: implications from biological theories.

    Sheri L. Johnson;John E. Roberts

  • Parent-Child Interaction Among Depressed Fathers and Mothers: Impact on Child Functioning

    Theodore Jacob;Sheri L. Johnson

  • Life events in bipolar disorder: towards more specific models.

    Sheri L. Johnson

  • Risk for mania and positive emotional responding: too much of a good thing?

    June Gruber;Sheri L. Johnson;Christopher Oveis;Dacher Keltner

  • Ruminative Responses to Negative and Positive Affect Among Students Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder

    Sheri L. Johnson;Gavin McKenzie;Stephanie McMurrich

  • The dominance behavioral system and psychopathology: evidence from self-report, observational, and biological studies.

    Sheri L. Johnson;Liane J. Leedom;Luma Muhtadie

  • Authentic and Hubristic Pride: Differential Relations to Aspects of Goal Regulation, Affect, and Self-Control.

    Charles S. Carver;Sungchoon Sinclair;Sheri L. Johnson

  • Exploring Behavioral Activation and Inhibition Sensitivities Among College Students at Risk for Bipolar Spectrum Symptomatology

    Björn Meyer;Sheri L. Johnson;Charles S. Carver

  • The Behavioral Activation System and Mania

    Sheri L. Johnson;Michael D. Edge;M. Kathleen Holmes;Charles S. Carver

  • Life events as predictors of mania and depression in bipolar I disorder.

    Sheri L. Johnson;Amy K. Cueller;Camilo Ruggero;Carol Winett-Perlman

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles S. Carver
Charles S. Carver University of Miami
Greg Murray
Greg Murray Swinburne University of Technology
Jutta Joormann
Jutta Joormann Yale University
Steven Jones
Steven Jones Lancaster University
June Gruber
June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder
Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
Björn Meyer
Björn Meyer City, University of London
Ann M. Kring
Ann M. Kring University of California, Berkeley
Ivan W. Miller
Ivan W. Miller Brown University
Theodore Jacob
Theodore Jacob Veterans Health Administration

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