Elizabeth Bauer, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Biopsychology Psychology
COLU 4043
Accepting MA & Phd (Trauma) students Fall 2026
Accepting MA & Phd (Trauma) students Fall 2026
COLU 4043
Accepting MA & Phd (Trauma) students Fall 2026
Accepting MA & Phd (Trauma) students Fall 2026
Areas of Interest
Cognitive and Affective Processes Underlying Psychopathology, Uncertainty and Salient Event Processing, and Chronic Worry and Approach-Avoidance Behavior
Education
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin
- PhD, Psychology (Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
- BS, Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Courses Taught (UCCS)
- PSY 3270 Introduction to Biopsychology
- PSY 6430 Contemporary Issues in Psychology
Selected Publications
+undergraduate student mentee, *shared first authorship
Watanabe, B.+, Bauer, E. A., & MacNamara, A. (in press). Working memory load modulates error salience but not error monitoring.
Bauer, E. A., Watanabe, B. & MacNamara, A. (2023). Reinforcement learning and the reward positivity (RewP) with aversive outcomes. Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14460
Ruchensky, J. R., Bauer, E. A., Edens, J. F., & MacNamara, A. (2023). Triarchic psychopathy and affective picture processing: An event-related potential study. Biological Psychology, 182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108628
Bauer, E. A., Wilson, K. A., Phan, K. L., Shankman, S. A., & MacNamara, A. (2023). A neurobiological profile underlying comorbidity load and prospective increases in dysphoria in a focal fear sample. Biological Psychiatry, 93(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.08.009
Braitman, A. L., Strowger, M., Shipley, J. L., Ortman, J., MacIntyre, R. I., & Bauer, E. A. (2022). Data quality and study compliance among college students across two recruitment sources: A two-study investigation. Journal of Medical Internet Research: Formative Research, 6(12), e39488. https://doi.org/10.2196/39488
Bauer, E. A., & MacNamara, A. (2022). Group differences in agency modulate error monitoring. Psychophysiology, 59(7), e14011. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14011
Bautista, F., MacDonald, S. E., Bauer, E. A., Cheng, Y., & MacNamara, A. (2022). Generalization of reappraisal to novel negative stimuli as evidenced by the LPP. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.04.006
Bauer, E. A., & MacNamara, A. (2021). Comorbid anxiety and depression: Opposing effects on the electrocortical processing of negative imagery in a focal fear sample. Depression and Anxiety, 38(7), 690-699. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.23160
Bauer, E. A., Thomas, G., & MacNamara, A. (2021). The controllability of aversive and neutral pictures: An event-related potential study. Behavioural Brain Research, 408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113265
Barley, B., Bauer, E. A., Wilson, K. A., & MacNamara, A. (2021). Working memory load reduces the electrocortical processing of positive pictures. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21(2), 347–354. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00875-z
Bauer, E. A.*, MacNamara, A.*, Sandre, A., Lonsdorf, T. B., Weinberg, A., Morriss, J., & van Reekum, C. M. (2020). Intolerance of uncertainty and threat generalization: A replication and extension. Psychophysiology, 57(5), e13546. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13546
Ruchensky, J. R., Bauer, E. A., & MacNamara, A. (2020). Intolerance of uncertainty, depression and the error-related negativity. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 153, 45–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.04.015
Bauer, E. A., Braitman, A. L., Judah, M. R., & Cigularov, K. P. (2020). Worry as a mediator between psychosocial stressors and emotional sequelae: Moderation by contrast avoidance. Journal of Affective Disorders, 266, 456–464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.01.092
Organizations
- Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR; 2018 – present)
- Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP; 2023 – present)
- Society for Affective Science (SAS; 2021 – 2022)