Aminda J. O'Hare

Director of Neuroscience and Associate Professor of Psychological Science at Weber State University

Research Expertise

Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Cognition-Emotion Interactions

Anxiety

Mindfulness

Psychiatry and Mental health

Neurology

Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

Cognitive Neuroscience

Developmental and Educational Psychology

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Neurology (clinical)

Social Psychology

Applied Psychology

Education

About

Dr. Aminda O’Hare is the Director of Neuroscience and an associate professor of Psychological Science at Weber State University in Ogden, UT. She specializes in teaching topics in affective and cognitive neuroscience both in the classroom and in her research lab. The CAPES Lab (Cognitive and Affective Psychophysiology and Experimental Science Lab) is particularly interested in how training in mindfulness practices alters emotion-cognition interactions in the brain. Aminda is an advocate for incorporating practices of wellbeing and healthy habits of mind into higher education for all participants in campus communities (i.e., students, staff, faculty). Aminda loves the outdoors, being in the mountains, spending time with her husband, and being with her dogs and cats.

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Publications

Relationships among cognition, emotion, and motivation: implications for intervention and neuroplasticity in psychopathology

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

2013

Processing of Emotional Distraction Is Both Automatic and Modulated by Attention: Evidence from an Event-related fMRI Investigation

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

2012

Biased processing of sad faces: An ERP marker candidate for depression susceptibility

Cognition and Emotion

2013

Activation of the posterior cingulate by semantic priming: A co-registered ERP/fMRI study

Brain Research

2008

Increased neural sensitivity to self‐relevant stimuli in major depressive disorder

Psychophysiology

2019

Depression reduces perceptual sensitivity for positive words and pictures

Cognition & Emotion

2012

The power of deep reading and mindful literacy: An innovative approach in contemporary education

Unknown Venue

2019

Evidence for automatic sentence priming in the fusiform semantic area: Convergent ERP and fMRI findings

Brain Research

2008

Meditation interventions among heart failure patients: An integrative review

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

2019

Emotion words: Facing change

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

2018

Valence and arousal influence the late positive potential during central and lateralized presentation of images

Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition

2016

The Fear Survey Schedule as a measure of anxious arousal: Evidence from ERPs

Neuroscience Letters

2008

Individual differences in social intelligence and perception of emotion expression of masked and unmasked faces

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

2022

Emotion Words’ Effect on Visual Awareness and Attention of Emotional Faces

Frontiers in Psychology

2020

A Mixed Method Investigation of Past Trainees’ Perceptions of a Critical Incident Situational Awareness Training Program

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

2018

Sweet-cheeks vs. pea-brain: embodiment, valence, and task all influence the emotional salience of language

Cognition and Emotion

2017

The effects of short interventions of focused-attention vs. self-compassion mindfulness meditation on undergraduate students: Evidence from self-report, classroom performance, and ERPs

PLOS ONE

2023

Teaching undergraduates to understand published research through structured practice in identifying key research concepts.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology

2023

Risking Being Yourself: Owning Your Identity Within the Academic Framework

Academia from the Inside

2021

Central and Divided Visual Field Presentation of Emotional Images to Measure Hemispheric Differences in Motivated Attention

Journal of Visualized Experiments

2017

Integrated Learning in a Science of Kriyayoga Course

Dev Sanskriti Interdisciplinary International Journal

2019

A Review ofThe Handbook of Cognition and Emotion

The Journal of Social Psychology

2013

Emotion disrupts neural activity during selective attention in psychopathy

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

2011

Neural Correlates of Local and Global Expectations: A Test of the Janus Model

NeuroImage

2009

Neural Correlates of Sentence Priming: Convergent ERP and fMRI Findings

PsycEXTRA Dataset

2007

Education

University of Kansas

Ph.D., Experimental Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience / July, 2010

Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

University of Kansas

M.A., Experimental Psychology / May, 2007

Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

University of Wyoming

B.A., Psychology / May, 2005

Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

Experience

Weber State University

Director of Neuroscience / May, 2020 — Present

Run the Neuroscience Program, including organizing events and lectures, student advising, course offerings, and program administration.

Associate Professor of Psychological Science / July, 2022 — Present

Teaching, scholarship, and service.

Weber State University

Assistant Professor of Psychological Science / July, 2019 — June, 2022

Teaching, scholarship, service.

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Associate Professor of Psychology / August, 2018 — June, 2019

Teaching, scholarship, service

Assistant Professor of Psychology / August, 2012 — July, 2018

Teaching, scholarship, service

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Postdoctoral Fellow / August, 2010 — July, 2012

Research associate

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