I am interested in the way that controlled, strategic cognitive processes interact with relatively uncontrolled, automatic processes in maintaining anxiety and mood disorders, as well as in the context of healthy emotion regulation. My long-term goal is to develop and test new intervention techniques that effectively harness our understanding of these interacting processes. Toward this end, I am currently conducting my dissertation research on the use of goal-affirmation strategies to overcome the negative effects of uncontrolled, intrusive rumination.