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Christopher G. Beevers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

VITA Email: beevers@psy.utexas.edu Office: SEA 3.212 Phone: 232-3706 Mood Disorders Laboratory See also Clinical Psychology Dr. Beevers plans to accept a graduate student into his laboratory in the Fall of 2009.

Christopher Beevers received his doctorate in adult clinical psychology from the University of Miami. His clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship were completed in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University. Dr. Beevers' primary research interest focuses on the cognitive etiology and treatment of major unipolar depression. He believes that understanding normal cognitive processes provides an important foundation for identifying how these processes go awry in clinical depression. His research has examined whether depression vulnerability is associated with negatively biased attention, thought suppression, and poor cognitive change during treatment. Dr. Beevers is particularly interested in the interplay between biology (e.g., variants of the serotonin transporter gene), cognitive risk factors for depression, and reactivity to transient mood states. Finally, he is interested in whether treatments modify putative risk factors for depression.

Selected Representative Publications include:

Kellough, J., Beevers, C. G., Ellis, A., & Wells, T. T. (in press). Time course of selective attention in depressed young adults: An eye tracking study. Behavior Research and Therapy. PDF

Beevers, C.G., Scott, W. D., McGeary, C., & McGeary, J. (in press). Cognitive reactivity to a negative mood induction: Associations with polymorphisms of the serotonin transporter (5-HTTLPR) gene. Cognition and Emotion. PDF

Beevers, C. G., Gibb, B. E., McGeary, J. E., & Miller, I. W. (2007). Serotonin transporter genetic variation and biased attention for emotional word stimuli among psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 208 - 212. PDF

Beevers, C. G. (2005). Cognitive vulnerability to depression: A dual process model. Clinical Psychology Review, 25, 975-1002. PDF

Beevers, C. G., & Miller, I. W. (2005). Unlinking negative cognition and symptoms of depression: Evidence for the specific effect of cognitive therapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 68-77. PDF

Gibb, B. E., Alloy, L. B., Abramson, L. Y., Beevers, C. G., & Miller, I. W. (2004). Cognitive vulnerability to depression: A taxometric analysis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, 81-89. PDF

Beevers, C. G., Keitner, G. I., Ryan, C. E. & Miller, I. W. (2003). Cognitive predictors of symptom return following depression treatment. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 488-496. PDF