Sarah Rose Cavanagh, Assistant Professor
Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Assistant Professor (2009)
Department of Psychology
Website: Laboratory for Cognitive & Affective Science
Phone: 508-767-7148
Email: scavanagh@assumption.edu
B.A., Boston University; Psychology, 1999
M.S., Tufts University; Experimental Psychology, 2004
Ph.D., Tufts University; Psychology (Experimental), 2007.
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Attentional Deployment as Emotion Regulation: Implications for Dysphoria & Subjective Well-Being
Sample of Publications
Cavanagh, S.R., Shin, L.M., Karamouz, N., Rauch, S.R. (2006). Psychiatric and emotional sequelae of surgical amputation. Psychosomatics, 47, 459-464.
Cavanagh, S.R., Shin, L.M., Rauch, S.R. (2006). Brain imaging in PTSD. Directions in Psychiatry, 26(3), 33-48.
Shin, L.M., Wright, C.I., Cannistraro, P., Wedig, M., McMullin, K., Martis, B., Macklin, M.L.,
Lasko, N.B., Cavanagh, S., Krangel, T.S., Orr, S.P., Pitman, R.K., Whalen, P.J., Rauch, S.L. (2005). An fMRI study of amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to overtly presented fearful faces in posttraumatic stress disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62, 273-281.
Soraci, S.A., Carlin, M.T., Read, J.D., Krangel, T.S., Wakeford, Y., Cavanagh, S.R., & Shin,
L.M. (2006). Psychological impairment and false memories: Individual differences. In M.P. Toglia, J.D. Read, D.F. Ross, & R.C.L. Lindsay (Eds.), Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology, Volume I: Memory for events. Lawrence Erlbaum.
Zarate, C.A., Tohen, M., Land, M. & Cavanagh, S. (2000). Functional impairment and cognition in bipolar disorder. Psychiatric Quarterly, 71(4): 309-329.
Zarate, C.A., Vemuri, M., Cavanagh, S. & Land, M. (2000). Atypical antipsychotic drugs in
nonschizophrenic psychiatric disorders. Current Psychiatry Reports, 2(4): 291-297.
Papers/Posters Presented
Cavanagh, S.R., Urry, H.L., & Shin, L.M. (2009, October). Shifts in attentional bias following mood
induction predict future ill- and well-being. Symposium talk presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Berlin, Germany.
Part of co-chaired symposium Once More, With Feeling: The Role of Automaticity in Emotion Regulation.
Cavanagh, S.R., Pogoda, T.S.K.; Quereshi, R.; Rubin, R.; Zobel, N., & Shin, L.M. (2008, September).
Emotional modulation of attention but not memory in high versus low trait dissociation. Poster presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Pittsburgh, PA.
Urry, H.L.; Cavanagh, S.R., & Rauch, L. (2008, October). Gaze-directed reappraisal: Implications for emotion
regulation. Poster presented at the 48th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Austin, TX.
Cavanagh, S.R., & Shin, L.M. (2007, October). Attentional deployment predicts dysphoria. Poster
presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Savannah, GA.
Cavanagh, S.R., Krangel, T.S. & Shin, L.M. (2002, November). Dissociation, attention & emotion.
Poster presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Reno, N.V.
