Faculty
Gerald Haeffel
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Profile
Prof. Haeffel’s program of research is devoted to understanding the cognitive processes and products that contribute to risk and resilience for depression. He integrates work from multiple areas of psychology including clinical, cognitive, social, affective science, and molecular genetics. He hopes his research will lead to improved treatment and prevention interventions, as well as greater insights into the mind-mood connection. To learn more about his research, download publications, and get information
about joining his research team please visit his website (link below).
Recent Papers
Haeffel, G.J. Abramson, L.Y., Brazy, P., & Shah, J. (in press). Hopelessness theory and the approach system: Cognitive vulnerability predicts decreases in goal-directed behavior. Cognitive Therapy and Research
Haeffel, G.J., Getchell, M., Koposov, R.A., Yrigollen, C.M., DeYoung, C.G., Klinteberg, B., Oreland, L., Ruchkin, V.V., Pakstis, A., & Grigorenko, E.L. (in press). Association among polymorphisms in the dopamine transporter gene and depression: Evidence for a gene– environment interaction in a sample of juvenile detainees. Psychological Science.
Haeffel, G.J., Abramson, L.Y., Brazy, P., Shah, J., Teachman, B., & Nosek, B. (2007). Explicit and implicit cognition: A preliminary test of a dual-process theory of cognitive vulnerability. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 1155-1167.
Haeffel, G.J. & Grigorenko, E.L. (2007). Cognitive vulnerability to depression: Exploring risk and resilience. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 16, 435-448.
Haeffel, G.J., Voelz, Z.R., & Joiner, T.E. (2007). Vulnerability to depressive symptoms: Clarifying the role of excessive reassurance-seeking and perceived social support in an interpersonal model of depression. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 681-688.
Contact Information
Office: 108 Haggar Hall
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Phone: (574) 631-9429
Email: ghaeffel@nd.edu
Website: www.nd.edu/~ghaeffel