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Associate Professor

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Associate Professor

overview

Dr. Annmarie MacNamara received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University in 2013. Dr. MacNamara joined the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor in 2016. Dr. MacNamara's research focuses on the cognitive and affective neuroscience of normative and disordered mental health, with a particular focus on anxiety, depression and trauma-related psychopathology. She has received more than $3.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and her work is also supported by a Texas A&M X-Grant. Dr. MacNamara is an Associate Editor for Psychophysiology and the International Journal of Psychophysiology, winner of the 2022 Society for Psychophysiological Research Early Career Award and the 2021 Donald F. Klein Early Career Investigator Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, recipient of a 2020 travel award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and was designated a 2018 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. She has served as a reviewer for NIH and the National Science Foundation and is Junior Councilor to the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Dr. MacNamara teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in psychopathology and statistics, and mentors undergraduate, post-baccalaureate and graduate students in her Multimethod Affect and Cognition (MAC) lab.

education and training

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Stony Brook University - (Stony Brook, New York, United States) 2013
M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Stony Brook University - (Stony Brook, New York, United States) 2009
M.F.A. in Studio Arts, Glasgow School of Art - (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom) 2006
B.A. in Psychology, 2001

selected publications

Academic Articles50

Jackson, L. E., Wilson, K. A., & MacNamara, A. (2024). Savoring mental imagery: electrocortical effects and association with depression. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 104559-104559.
Wilson, K. A., & MacNamara, A. (2024). Generalization of savoring to novel positive stimuli.. Psychophysiology. e14537.
Bauer, E. A., Watanabe, B. K., & MacNamara, A. (2023). Reinforcement learning and the reward positivity with aversive outcomes.. Psychophysiology. e14460.
Cheng, Y., Peters, B. R., & MacNamara, A. (2023). Positive emotion up-regulation is resistant to working memory load: An electrocortical investigation of reappraisal and savoring.. Psychophysiology. e14385.
MacNamara, A., Joyner, K., & Klawohn, J. (2023). The psychophysiology of emotion regulation: Next generation approaches.. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 188, 12-16.

Chapters2

MacNamara, A., Kappenman, E. S., Black, S. R., Bress, J. N., & Hajcak, G. (2013). Integrating Behavioral and Electrocortical Measures of Attentional Bias Toward Threat. Handbook of Self-Regulatory Processes in Development. Taylor & Francis.
Hajcak, G., Weinberg, A., MacNamara, A., & Foti, D. (2011). ERPs and the Study of Emotion. The Oxford Handbook of Event-Related Potential Components. Oxford University Press.

Conference Papers2

Xing, M., Tadayonnejad, R., MacNamara, A., Ajilore, O., Phan, K. L., Klumpp, H., & Leow, A. (2016). EEG BASED FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY REFLECTS COGNITIVE LOAD DURING EMOTION REGULATION. Proceedings / IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: from nano to macro. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2016 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). 2016-June, 771-774.
Xing, M., Ajilore, O., Wolfson, O. E., Abbott, C., MacNamara, A., Tadayonnejad, R., ... Leow, A. (2016). Thought Chart: Tracking Dynamic EEG Brain Connectivity with Unsupervised Manifold Learning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 9919, 149-157.

Repository Documents / Preprints1

Lord, E., Foti, D., Senderecka, M., Gable, P. A., Inzlicht, M., Mushtaq, F., Pavlov, Y. G., & MacNamara, A. Error processing and religious conviction: A multi-lab replication.