Colgate University, B.A. in Psychology (2002)

Binghamton, Ph.D. in Psychology (2010)

Clinical Internship – Brown University (2009 - 2010)

Research Interests

My research is focused on the role of information-processing biases in the etiology and maintenance of symptoms of anxiety and depression.  I am particularly interested in the nature of biased attention and the development of interventions directed towards modifying pathological biases. My current projects include the evaluation of attention biases using eye-tracking and the evaluation of the acceptability of cognitive-bias modification interventions.

Selected Publications

Schofield, C.A., Johnson, A.L., Inhoff, A.W., & Coles, M.E. (in press). Social anxiety and difficulty disengaging

     threat: Evidence from eye-tracking. Cognition &  Emotion.

 

Schofield, C.A., Coles, M.E., & Gibb, B.E. (2009). Retrospective reports of behavioral inhibition and young adults’

     current symptoms of social anxiety, depression, and anxious arousal. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 7, 884-890.

Gibb, B.E., Schofield, C.A., & Coles, M.E. (2009). History of childhood abuse and information processing biases

     for facial displays of emotion. Child Maltreatment, 14, 148-156.

 

Coles, M.E., Heimberg, R.G., & Schofield, C.A. (2008).  Facial features for conveying social threat in individuals

     with and without elevated social anxiety. Cognition & Emotion, 22, 1159-1173.

 

Schofield, C., Coles, M., & Gibb, B. (2007). Social anxiety and interpretation biases for facial displays of emotion:

     Emotion detection and ratings of social cost. Behaviour Research  and Therapy, 45, 2950-2963.