Jutta Joormann
Jutta Joormann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Free University of Berlin, 2000
Research Interests
The research in my lab is guided by the idea that a more complete understanding of emotional disorders requires the integration of methods and findings from clinical psychological, social/cognitive psychological, and biological research. Our primary research goal is to gain a better understanding of how basic cognitive processes and individual differences in emotion and mood regulation increase the risk for the onset of depression and anxiety disorders, and hinder recovery from these disorders. We are currently working on developing a model that links attention and memory processes to ruminative responses to negative mood states. Our research further examines the influence of these ruminative responses on deficits in emotion regulation in depression and investigates the neurobiological correlates of these processes. We are also investigating whether these processes are linked to the high rates of comorbidity of depression and anxiety disorders. In addition, we are very interested in the intergenerational transmission of psychological disorders and in the role that emotion regulation plays in this transmission. Our research interests in this area focus on differences in basic cognitive processes and in emotion regulation and on the role these factors play in depression and anxiety onset. Finally, an important goal of our research is to use results of empirical investigations that delineate the cognitive processes that maintain psychological disorders and that increase the risk for the onset of disorders to develop more efficient and effective treatment and prevention programs.
Selected Publications
Feldman, G., Joormann, J., & Johnson, S.L. (in press). A self-report measure of responses to positive affect: Rumination and Dampening. Cognitive Therapy and Research.
Joormann, J., Siemer, M., & Gotlib, I.H. (in press). Mood regulation in depression: Differential effects of distraction and recall of happy memories on sad mood. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Johnson, S.L., Joormann, J., & Gotlib, I.H. (2007). Information-processing biases as predictors of symptomatic improvement and diagnostic recovery from major depression. Emotion, 7, 201-206.
Joormann, J. & Gotlib, I.H. (2007). Selective Attention to Emotional Faces Following Recovery From Depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 80-85.
Joormann, J., Talbot, L., Gotlib, I.H. (2007). Biased Processing of Emotional Information in Girls at Risk for Depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 135-143.
Cooney, R., Atlas, L., Joormann, J., Eugene, F., & Gotlib, I.H. (2006). Amygdala activation in the processing of neutral faces in social anxiety disorder: Is neutral really neutral? Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 148, 55-59.
Gotlib, I.H., Joormann, J., Minor, K.L., & Cooney, R.E. (2006). Cognitive and Biological Functioning in Children at Risk for Depression. In T. Canli (Ed.), Biology of personality and individual difference, pp. 353-382. New York: Guilford Press.
Joormann, J. & Gotlib, I.H. (2006). Is this happiness I see? Biases in the identification of emotional facial expressions in depression and social phobia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 705-714.
Joormann, J. (2006). The relation of rumination and inhibition: Evidence from a negative priming task. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 30, 149-160.
Joormann, J., Dkane, M., & Gotlib, I.H. (2006). Adaptive and maladaptive components of rumination? Diagnostic specificity and relation to depressive biases. Behavior Therapy, 37, 269-280.
Michalak, J., Püschel, O., Joormann, J. & Schulte, D. (2006). Implicit motives and explicit goals: Two distinctive modes of motivational functioning and their relations to clinical symptoms. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 13, 81-96.
Joormann, J. (2005). Inhibition, rumination, and mood regulation in depression. In R.W. Engle, G. Sedek, U. von Hecker, & D.N. McIntosh (Eds.), Cognitive limitations in aging and psychopathology: Attention, working memory, and executive functions (pp. 275-312). Cambridge University Press.
Gotlib, I.H., Traill, S.K., Montoya, R.L., Joormann, J., & Chang, K. (2005). Attention and memory biases in the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder: Indications from a pilot study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 84-93.
Rottenberg, J., Joormann, J., Brozovich, F., & Gotlib, I.H. (2005). Emotional intensity of idiographic sad memories in depression predicts symptom levels one year later. Emotion, 5, 238-242.
Verhaeghen, P., Joormann, J. & Kahn, R. (2005). Why we sing the blues: The relation between self-reflective rumination, mood, and creativity. Emotion, 5, 226-232.
Joormann, J. (2004). Attentional bias in dysphoria: The role of inhibitory processes. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 125-147.
Joormann, J. & Siemer, M. (2004). Memory accessibility, mood regulation and dysphoria: Difficulties in repairing sad mood with happy memories? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, 179-188.
Gotlib, I.H., Kasch, K.L., Traill, S.K., Joormann, J., Arnow, B.A., & Johnson, S.L. (2004). Coherence and specificity of information-processing biases in depression and social phobia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, 386-398.
Gotlib, I.H., Krasnoperova, E., Yue, D.N., & Joormann, J. (2004). Attentional bias for negative interpersonal stimuli in clinical depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,113, 127-133.
Siemer, M. & Joormann, J. (2003). Power and measures of effect size in analysis of variance with fixed versus random nested factors. Psychological Methods, 8, 497-517.
Siemer, M. & Joormann, J. (2003). Assumptions and consequences of treating providers in therapy studies as fixed versus random effects: Reply to Crits-Christoph, Tu, and Gallop (2003) and Serlin, Wampold, and Levin (2003). Psychological Methods, 8, 535-544.
Stöber, J., & Joormann, J. (2001). Worry, procrastination and perfectionism: Discriminating worry from anxiety and depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 25, 49-60.
Stöber, J., & Joormann, J. (2001). A short form of the Worry Domains Questionnaire: Construction and structural validation. Personality and Individual Differences, 31, 591-598.
Joormann, J., & Stöber, J. (1999). DSM-IV somatic symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder: Associations with pathological worry and depression symptoms in a nonclinical sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 13, 491-503.
Joormann, J., & Stöber, J. (1997). Measuring facets of worry: A LISREL analysis of the Worry Domains Questionnaire. Personality and Individual Differences, 23, 827-837