Research Team
Amanda C. Collins, MS
Amanda C. Collins, MS
Research Intern, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Amanda is completing her pre-doctoral clinical internship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry and the Dartmouth Cancer Center, and she is completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Mississippi State University. She is currently working with Dr. Nick Jacobson, and her research primarily focuses on individual difference factors and appraisal processes that are related to positive valence system dysfunction in depressed individuals, including reward devaluation and self-referential processing. Using network analysis and intensive longitudinal data, she is also interested in investigating how positivity appraisals and affect relate to and can predict depression and how depressed individuals respond to digital interventions and treatments targeting positive affect over time. In her free time, Amanda enjoys hiking, baking, and traveling.
Selected Publications
- Collins AC, Lass ANS, Jordan DG, Winer ES. Examining rumination, devaluation of positivity, and depressive symptoms via community-based network analysis. J Clin Psychol. 2021 Oct;77(10):2228-2244. doi: 10.1002/jclp.23158. PMID: 33960420. View Source
- Jordan DG, Collins AC, Dunaway MG, Kilgore J, Winer ES. Negative affect interference and fear of happiness are independently associated with depressive symptoms. J Clin Psychol. 2021 Mar;77(3):646-660. doi: 10.1002/jclp.23066. PMID: 33078847; PMCID: PMC8729157. View Source
- Winer ES, Jordan DG, Collins AC. Conceptualizing anhedonias and implications for depression treatments. Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2019 May 13;12:325-335. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S159260. PMID: 31191054; PMCID: PMC6521843. View Source