Christopher Beevers, Ph.D.

Christopher Beevers, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Dell Medical School and in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts, where he serves as the director of the Institute for Mental Health Research.

He received his doctorate in adult clinical psychology from the University of Miami in 2002. His clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship were completed in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Human Behavior at Brown University. 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. He also is interested in using experimental psychopathology methods to understand why treatments work and translating these same methods into effective interventions for depression and related psychopathology (e.g., anhedonia, negative affect).

Beevers is particularly interested in the interplay between biology and cognitive risk and maintaining factors for depression. Current projects use behavioral, eye tracking and EEG methodologies to measure cognitive bias combined with smartphone methods to measure negative affect in its natural environment.