Lauren M. Bylsma
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Candidate
Mood and Emotion Laboratory
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Mood disorders and emotional reactivity, psychophysiology, day sampling methods, time course of emotion, crying behavior and its effects.

Master's Thesis: Examining emotional reactivity to daily events in major and minor depression

Dissertation: Emotional reactivity in current and remitted depression: An event related potential study

Contact Information:
Office: PCD2116.
Campus Mail: 4202 E. Fowler Ave, PCD4118G, Tampa, FL 33620
Email: lbylsma@mail.usf.edu

Advisor: Jonathan Rottenberg, PhD

Teaching Abnormal Psychology in Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 (CLP4131-901)

I will be attending internship at the VA Puget Sound in Seattle, WA 2011-2012.

EDUCATION

University of South Florida, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student, 2005-Present

University of South Florida, Master of Arts (MA) in Clinical Psychology, August 2008

University of Pennsylvania, Master of Liberal Arts (MLA), May 2005

University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor's of Arts (BA) in Psychology with minors in Biology, Biological Basis of Behavior, and Anthropology; May 2003

HONORS and AWARDS

USF Professor Charles D. and Carol Spielberger Endowed Fund Award (2011)
International Summer School in Affective Sciences (ISSAS 2010), participant and stipend recipient, funded by the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (SCAS)
APAGS Nominee for Student Member of the APA Commission on Accreditation (CoA) (2009)
APF McGuigan Dissertation Award (2009)
APA International Travel Award (2009)
APAGS Nancy B. Forest & L. Michael Honaker Master’s Scholarship for Research in Psychology (2008)
USF Valerie Reed Memorial Award (2008)
USF Tom Tighe Research Fund Award (2006, 2010)
USF Clinical Psychology Student Travel Award (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
USF Student Government Travel Award (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
USF Psychology Graduate Student Organization Travel Award (2005)
University of Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin Scholar (1999)

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Publications and Book Chapters

Bylsma, L.M., Clift, A., & Rottenberg, J. (2011). Emotional reactivity to daily events in major and minor depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 155-167.

Bylsma, L. M., & Rottenberg, J. (2011). Uncovering the dynamics of emotion regulation and dysfunction in daily life with ecological momentary assessment. In I. Nyklicek, A. J. J. M. Vingerhoets, & M. Zeelenberg (Eds.), Emotion regulation and well-Being (Part 3, pp. 225–244). New York, NY: Springer.

Bower, B., Bylsma, L. M., Morris, B. H., & Rottenberg, J. (2010). The relationship between sleep quality and ambulatory mood in major and minor depression. The Journal of Sleep Research, 19, 323-332.

Morris, B. H., Bylsma, L. M., & Rottenberg, J. (2009). Does emotion predict the course of major depressive disorder? A review of prospective studies. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 48, 255-273.

Botvinick, M. M., Buxbaum, L. J., Bylsma, L.M., Jax, S. J. (2009). Toward an integrated account of object and action selection: A computational analysis and empirical findings from reaching-to-grasp and tool use. Neuropsychologica, 47, 671-683.

Vingerhoets, A., Bylsma, L. & Rottenberg, J. (2009). Crying: a biopsychosocial phenomenon. In: Thorsten Fögen (ed.), Tears in the Graeco-Roman World. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter.

Rottenberg, J., Bylsma, L.M., & Vingerhoets, A. J.J.M. (2008). Is Crying Beneficial? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 400-404.

Bylsma, L. M., Vingerhoets, A. J .J. M & Rottenberg, J. (2008). When is crying cathartic?: An international study. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 27, 1080-1102.

Rottenberg, J., Bylsma, L.M., Wolvin, V., & Vingerhoets, A. J.J.M. (2008). Tears of sorrow, tears of joy: An individual differences approach to crying. Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 367-371.

Bylsma, L. M., Morris, Bethany H & Rottenberg, J. (2008). A meta-analysis of emotional reactivity in major depressive disorder. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 676-691.

Vingerhoets, A. & Bylsma, L. (2007). Crying as a multifaceted health psychology conceptualisation: crying as coping, risk factor, and symptom. The European Health Psychologist, 9, 68-74.

Vingerhoets, A. & Bylsma, L. (2007). Crying and health: Popular and scientific conceptions. Psychological Topics, 16, 275-296.

Hunt, M., Bylsma, L. M., Brock, J., Fenton, M., Goldberg, A., Miller, R., Tran, T., & Urgelles, J. (2006). The role of imagery in the maintenance and treatment of snake fear. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 37, 283-298.

Botvinick, M. & Bylsma, L. M. (2005). Distraction and action slips in an everyday task: Evidence for a dynamic representation of task context. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 1011-1017.

Ullsperger, M., Bylsma, L. M., & Botvinick, M. (2005). The conflict-adaptation effect: It’s not just priming. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 467-472.

Botvinick, M. and Bylsma, L. M. (2005). Regularization in short-term memory for serial order. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 31, 351-358.

Botvinick, M., Jha, A., Bylsma, L. M., & Fabian S., Solomon P., & Prkachin K. (2005). Viewing facial expressions of pain engages cortical areas involved in the direct experience of pain. NeuroImage. 25, 312-319.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS

Bylsma, L.M. & Rottenberg, J. (October, 2010). Emotional reactivity and regulation in current and remitted depression: an event related potentials study. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Seattle, WA.

Bylsma, L.M. & Rottenberg, J. (September 2009) High Positive Affective Variability in Everyday Life Predicts Depression Remission. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Minneapolis, MN.

Bylsma, L. M. and Rottenberg, J. (August, 2009). An experience sampling study of crying behavior and affect in individuals with major and minor depression. Hot Topic Presentation at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion, Leuven, Belgium.

Bylsma, L.M. & Rottenberg, J. (September 2008) Examining emotional reactivity to daily events in major and minor depression. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Pittsburgh, PA.

Bylsma, L.M. and Morris, B.H. (March, 2008) Emotion & Major Depression: Concurrent and Prospective Relations. Invited talk presented as part USF’s Department of Psychology Clinical Brown Bag Series, Tampa, FL.

Bower, B.. Bylsma, L. M., Morris, B. H. & Rottenberg, J. (September 2008) Sleep quality and ambulatory mood in major and minor depression. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Pittsburgh, PA.

Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M. & Bylsma, L. (June, 2008). Crying and health: a critical review. Paper presentation at the European Conference on Psychosomatic Research: Advances in Liasion Psychiatry and Psychosomatics in Europe, Zaragoza, Spain.

Salomon, K., Bylsma, L.M., Karlsdóttir, M. & Rottenberg, R. (March, 2008) Brief slow-breathing training Over 1 week decreases heart rate and blood pressure responses during stress. Paper presentation at the Annual Scientific Conference of the American Psychosomatic Society, Baltimore, Maryland.

Bylsma, L. M., Vingerhoets, A. J.J.M & Rottenberg, J. (October 2007). When is crying cathartic?: An international study. Invited talk as part of a symposium at the 4th International Conference on The (Non) Expression of Emotions in Health and Disease, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Wolvin, V., Bylsma, L.M., Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M. & Rottenberg, J. (October 2007). Personality and post-crying catharsis. Poster presentation at the 4^th International Conference on The (Non) Expression of Emotions in Health and Disease, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Bylsma, L. M., Karlsdottir, M., Rottenberg, J. & Salomon, K. (October 2007). Slow-breathing training and stability of resting and stressor task changes in RSA over one week. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Savannah, GA.

Bylsma, L. M. & Rottenberg, J. R. (October, 2006). A meta-analysis of emotional reactivity in major depressive disorder. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, San Diego, CA.

Botvinick, M. & Bylsma, L. M., (April, 2005). fMRI accesses item-specific speech representations and their similarity structure. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City.

Botvinick, M. M. & Bylsma, L. M. (2005). Imaging phonological representations and their similarity relations with pattern-analytic fMRI. Poster presentation at the 11^th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada.

Bylsma, L. M., Jha A., Fabian S., & Solomon P., Prkachin K., & Botvinick M., (April, 2005). Viewing facial expressions of pain engages cortical areas involved in the direct experience of pain. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City, New York.

Botvinick, M. & Bylsma, L. M. (April 2005). Accessing item-specific phonological representations using pattern-analytic fMRI. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City, New York.