Dr. Aaron Fisher

Biography

Aaron Fisher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pennsylvania State University, where he also completed his clinical internship at the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System. Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley, Aaron was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. His research primarily focuses on clinical science and the development of person-specific methodologies in idiographic science. His work explores treatment personalization by applying self-reported data to optimize treatment selection, and he has made significant contributions to the establishment of personalized machine learning models for prediction. Aaron's lab conducts research on substance use, psychopathology, and psychophysiological processes, evaluating group-to-individual generalizability and addressing metascientific questions in psychology. Current projects involve the use of set theory to identify sufficient conditions for emotional distress outcomes, evaluating the sequences and conditions that lead to distress on an individual basis. Aaron has published several influential papers discussing the implications of dynamic models in psychological assessment and personalized care.

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