Elizabeth Bauer, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Biopsychology Psychology
COLU 4043
COLU 4043
BAUER Lab
The Behavior and Affect Underlying Emotion Research (BAUER) Lab uses a multimethod approach to better understand cognitive and affective mechanisms underlying emotion processing. Using electroencephalography (EEG) and peripheral psychophysiology, we hope to better explain how emotion-based processes work, with the goal of applying this knowledge to better understand and characterize anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
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)