Dr. Jill Hooley

Biography

Jill M. Hooley is the John Lindsley Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Psychology. Her research primarily focuses on psychosocial predictors of psychiatric relapse in patients suffering from severe psychopathology, including schizophrenia, depression, and borderline personality disorder. Notably, her work investigates self-harming behaviors, such as cutting and burning. Professor Hooley utilizes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the emotional processes in both healthy individuals and patients with borderline personality disorder, particularly in response to challenging verbal and auditory stimuli. She holds a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Liverpool and completed her D.Phil. at Oxford University in 1985 after conducting research at Cambridge University. She joined the faculty at Harvard in the same year. Her research themes encompass emotion, emotional disorders, genetics, individual differences, health psychology, social affective neuroscience, and thought disorders.

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