HANNAH RAILA, PH.D.
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Read media coverage of our lab's studies for approachable and jargon-free descriptions of them:
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Our recent work on a novel VR treatment for hoarding disorder has been covered in Stanford Medicine News, PsyPost, Futurism, and the That Hoarder podcast.
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Our recent work on how interactions with your pet dog can reduce distress has been covered in National Geographic, UC Berkeley's Greater Good, WebMD's ADDitude Magazine, and PsyPost.
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Dr. Raila's previous work on how happy people preferentially gaze at positive information has been covered in Psychology Today and Yale Scientific magazine.
PUBLICATIONS
* denotes equal contribution authorship
+ denotes advisee
Click on the study title to read the full manuscript:
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*Fracalanza, K.,*Raila, H., Avanesyan, T., & Rodriguez, C.I. (2024). Written imaginal exposure for hoarding disorder: A controlled pilot study. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
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Wheaton, M.G., Varias, A.D., Sandhu, T., Munoz Rodriguez, P.A., Mukunda, P., Filippou-Frye, M.., Millen, A., Lombardi, A., van Roessel, P., Raila, H. […] & Rodriguez, C.I. (2024). Randomized waitlist-controlled trial of Buried in Treasures facilitated support groups and in-home uncluttering (BIT+) for hoarding disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research.
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Raila, H., +Bouwer, A., +Moran, C., Kneeland, E.T., +Modi, R., & Joormann, J. (2024). The mindful gaze: Correlations between trait mindfulness and selective attention to positive stimuli. Cognition and Emotion, 1-11.
Raila, H., Avanesyan, T., Valentine, K.E., Koo, B., Hwang, C., Tsutsumi, Y., Andreeff, E., Qiu, T., Rodriguez, P.A.M., van Roessel, P., Bullock, K., & Rodriguez, C.I. (2023). Augmenting group hoarding disorder treatment with virtual reality discarding: A pilot study in older adults. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 166, 25-31.
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Matijczak, A., +Yates, M.S., Ruiz, M.C., Santos, L.R., Kazdin, A.E., & Raila, H. (2023). The influence of interaction with pet dogs on psychological distress. Emotion. Advance online publication.
+Moore, A., Wheaton, M.G., Rodriguez, C.I., & Raila, H. (2023). Compulsively seeking certainty: Clarifying the association between intolerance of uncertainty and compulsion severity in OCD. Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology, 1, 262-272.
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Rutherford, A.V., Raila, H., Blicher, A., Vanderlind, W.M., & Joormann, J. (2022). Seeing red: Distraction influences visual attention for anger but not other negative emotions. Emotion, 23, 1224-1235.
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*Fracalanza, K., *Raila, H. & Rodriguez, C. (2021). Could written imaginal exposure be helpful for hoarding disorder? A case series. Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, 29, 1-5.
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Mahnke, A., Linkovski, O., Timpano, K., Van Roessel, P., Sanchez, C., Varias, A., Mukunda, P., Fillipou-Frye, M., Lombardi, A., Raila, H., Anderson, K., Sandu, T., Wright, B., McCarthy, E., Garcia, G.E., Asgari, S., Qiu, T., Bernert, R., & Rodriguez, C.I. (2021). Examining subjective sleep quality in adults with hoarding disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 137, 597-602.
Raila, H., Julian, M., Lebowitz, E., & Silverman, W. (2020). Separating from the mothership: A coordinated individual and parent-based approach to severe agoraphobia in a young adult. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 28, 422-434.
Lewis, E.J., Blanco-Martinez, I., Raila, H., & Joormann, J. (2019). Does repetitive negative thinking affect attention? Differential effects of worry and rumination on attention to emotional stimuli. Emotion, 19, 1450-1462.
Rodriguez-Guzman, J., Ramos, M.A., Silva, M., Mata, D.A., Raila, H., Rohrbaugh, R., & Barkil-Oteo, A. (2018). Training health professional students as lay counselors to treat depression in a student-run free clinic. Journal of Student-Run Clinics, 4, 1-7.
Raila, H., Scholl, B.J., & Gruber, J. (2015). Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses: People who are happy and satisfied with life preferentially attend to positive stimuli. Emotion, 15, 449-462.
Whalen, P.J., Raila, H., Bennett, R., Mattek, A., Brown, A., Taylor, J., VanTieghem, M., Tanner, A., Miner, M. & Palmer, A. (2013). Neuroscience and facial expressions of emotion: The role of amygdala-prefrontal interactions. Emotion Review, 5, 78-83.
Hechtman, L.A., Raila, H., Chiao, J.Y., & Gruber, J. (2013). Positive emotion regulation and psychopathology: A cultural neuroscience approach. The Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 4, 502-528.