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Research Interest

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  The interpersonal, cognitive, and neurobiological causes, correlates, and consequences of depression and related disorders (e.g., anxiety, bulimia nervosa). Additional focus is on the nature and treatment of suicidal ideation and behavior.

  
  

Current Research

• Serotonin transporter gene's relation to psychopathology; development and empirical tests of interpersonal and cognitive theories of depression, suicidal behavior, and bulimia nervosa; understanding the antecedents and temporal parameters of suicidal crises; defining the structure of psychopathological syndromes, using taxometric and structural equation modeling techniques.

  
  

  
  

Selected Publications

• Wonderlich, S., Joiner, T., Keel, P., Williamson, D., & Crosby, R. (in press). Eating disorder diagnoses: Empirical approaches to classification. American Psychologist.

  
  

  Keel, P., Baxter, M., Heatherton, T., & Joiner, T. (2007). A 20-year longitudinal study of body weight, dieting, and eating disorder symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 422-432.

  
  

  Joiner, T., Sachs-Ericsson, N., Wingate, L., Brown, J., Anestis, M., & Selby, E. (2006). Childhood physical and sexual abuse and lifetime number of suicide attempts: A persistent and theoretically important relationship. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 45, 539-547.

  
  

  Joiner, T. (2005). Why people die by suicide. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

  
  

  Joiner, T., Brown, J., & Wingate, L. (2005). The psychology and neurobiology of suicidal behavior. Annual Review of Psychology, 56, 287-314.

  
  

  Verona, E., Sachs-Ericsson, N., & Joiner, T. (2004). Analysis of suicide attempts and externalizing psychopathology in an epidemiological sample. American Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 444-451.

  
  

  Lewinsohn, P.M., Pettit, J.W., Joiner, T., & Seeley, J.R. (2003). The symptomatic expression of major depressive disorder in adolescents and young adults. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 244-252.

  
  

  Joiner, T., Vohs, K., Rudd, M.D., Schmidt, N.B., & Pettit, J. (2003). Problem-solving and cognitive scars in mood and anxiety disorders: The sting of mania. Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, 22, 193-213.

  
  

  Joiner, T., Johnson, F., & Soderstrom, K. (2002). Association between serotonin transporter gene polymorphism and family history of completed and attempted suicide. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 32, 329-332.

  
  

  Fredrickson, B. & Joiner, T. (2002). Positive emotions trigger upward spirals toward emotional well-being. Psychological Science, 13, 172-175.

  
  

  Joiner, T.,& Metalsky, G.I. (2001). Excessive reassurance-seeking: Delineating a risk factor involved in the development of depressive symptoms. Psychological Science, 12, 371-378.

  
  

  Lewinsohn, P., Joiner, T., & Rohde, P. (2001). Evaluation of cognitive diathesis-stress models in predicting major depressive disorder in adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 203-215.

  
  

  Perez, M., Pettit, J.W., David, C.F., Kistner, J.A., & Joiner, T. (2001). The interpersonal consequences of inflated self-esteem in an inpatient youth psychiatric sample. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 69, 712-716.

  
  

  Voelz, Z., Gencoz, F., Gencoz, T., Pettit, J., Perez, M., & Joiner, T. (2001). Patterns of hemispheric perceptual asymmetries: Left hemispatial biases predict changes in anxiety and positive affect in undergraduate women. Emotion, 1, 339-347.

  
  

  Joiner, Jr., T. E. (2000). Depression's vicious scree: Self-propagatory and erosive factors in depression chronicity. Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, 7, 203-218.

  
  

  Joiner, T., & Rudd, M.D. (2000). Intensity and duration of suicidal crises vary as a function of previous suicide attempts and negative life events. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 68, 909-916.

  
  

  Joiner, Jr., T. E., Rudd, M.D., Rouleau, M., & Wagner, K.D. (2000). Parameters of suicidal crises vary as a function of previous suicide attempts in youth inpatients. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 39, 876-880.

  
  

  Vohs, K., Bardone, A., Joiner, T.E., Abramson, L.Y., & Heatherton, T. (1999). Perfectionism, perceived weight status, and self-esteem interact to predict bulimic symptoms: A model of bulimic symptom development. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 695-700.