Hayden Bottoms, BS

Hayden's current research interests center around an exploration of social cognitive deficits in clinical populations, especially those individuals with schizophrenia.  Specifically, she is interested in understanding distortions in affect perception and social perception and investigating cognitive biases such as attributional style.  Of particular interest are such questions as how an individual with a clinical disorder perceives, comprehends, and explains emotional and social information and additionally how cognitive processes mediate these tendencies.  A comprehensive understanding of how an individual perceives the interpersonal world will contribute to the development of more effective assessment and more targeted therapeutic interventions.

Hayden graduated from Duke Univeristy in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Chemistry.  As an undergraduate at Duke, she worked in Dr. Elizabeth Marsh's cognitive psychology laboratory investigating errors in semantic memory.

Currently, Hayden is working on the Decision Science in Rehabilitation (DSR) grant project as a psychology extern at the Community Mental Health Center in Lincoln, NE.

Email Hayden: hayden.bottoms@gmail.com

Presentations & Posters
Marsh, E. J., Fazio, L. K., Eslick, A. N., & Bottoms, H. (2009). Knowledge neglect: Memorial consequences of failures to detect contradictions with stored knowledge.  Symposium presented at the Association for Psychological Science, California, May 2009.