Paula Hertel, Ph.D.
- Professor , Psychology
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I am foremost a cognitive psychologist who happens to investigate the cognitive causes, correlates, and consequences of emotional disorders. My interest in emotional disorders developed as a consequence of using depression as a special set of circumstances for testing more general principles of memory. What seems to happen to many investigators happened to me: A seemingly transitory puzzle became a career.
My very active laboratory thrives on the hard work of undergraduates, many of whom subsequently earn terminal degrees in psychology, neuroscience, and related fields. Some members of my lab have developed other careers(in such fields as mathematics, theater, and full-time meditation and yoga practice). Staying in touch with many of them is an important part of my personal mission.
My pedagogy has developed from my training in cognitive psychology. Instead of encouraging the sort of learning that aids performance on exams, I ask students to learn in ways that transfer to situations beyond the classroom and into the future.
- Ph.D. - University of New Mexico
- Hertel, P. T., Wahlheim, C. N., Price, W. A., Crusius, E. M., & Patino, C. L. (2023). Stuck in the past? Rumination-related memory integration. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 163, 104287.
- Hertel, P., Acuff, M. C., Hernandez, J., & Poppe, E. (2022). Challenging depressive beliefs: Habitual and recollective components of stability or change. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 76, 101742.
- Perlman, B., Mor, N., Jacobinski, Y. W., Zakon, A. D., Avirbach, N., & Hertel, P. (2021). Inferences training affects memory, rumination, and mood. Clinical Psychological Science, 10, 161-174
- Hertel, P., Herrera, P., & Shamapant, P. (2021). Rumination: Practicing retrieval of autobiographical memories. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 10.1007/s10608-020-10118-z
- Hertel, P., Maydon, A., Ogilvie, A., & Mor, N. (2018). Ruminators (unlike others) fail to show suppression-induced forgetting on indirect tests of memory. Clinical Psychological Science, 6, 872-881.
- Hertel, P., Maydon, A., Cottle, J., & Vrijsen, J. (2017). Cognitive bias modification: Retrieval practice to simulate and oppose ruminative memory biases. Clinical Psychological Science, 5, 122-130. doi:10.1177/2167702616649366
- De Raedt, R., Hertel, P., & Watkins, P. (2015). Mechanisms of repetitive thinking [Special Section]. Clinical Psychological Science, 3, 568-573.
- Hertel, P. T., & Hayes, J. A. (2015). Distracted by cues for suppressed memories. Psychological Science, 26, 775-783.
- Hertel, P. T., Mor, N., Ferrari, C., Hunt, O., & Agrawal, N. (2014). Looking on the dark side: Rumination and cognitive bias modification. Clinical Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/2167702614529111
- Hertel, P. T., Holmes, M., & Benbow, A. (2014). Interpretive habit is strengthened by cognitive bias modification. Memory. doi:10.1080/09658211.2013.820326
- Stephens, E., Braid, A., & Hertel, P. T. (2013). Suppression-induced reductions in the specificity of autobiographical memories. Clinical Psychological Science, 1, 163-169.
- Hertel, P. T., Large, D., Stück, E. D., & Levy, A. (2012). Suppression-induced forgetting on a free-association test. Memory, 20, 100-109.
- Hertel, P. T., & Mathews, A. (2011). Cognitive bias modification: Past perspectives, current findings, and future applications. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 521-536.
Trinity student co-authors' names are in bold
- Statistics and Methods
- Memory & Cognition
- Principles of Learning