Hannah Snyder

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Departments/Programs

Neuroscience
Psychology
Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Degrees

University of Colorado at Boulder, Ph.D.
University of Colorado at Boulder, M.A.
Oberlin College, B.A.

Expertise

Executive function, anxiety & depression, developmental psychopathology, stress, adolescence & emerging adulthood

Profile

Adolescence and emerging adulthood (early 20s) are periods of heightened risk for mental health problems, including anxiety and depression. In the Cognition, Psychopathology, Environment (CoPE) lab, we seek to better understand risk and resilience factors for mental health during this period, focusing on how stress, cognitive function (especially executive function), and coping strategies interact. By identifying who is at risk, and why, the ultimate aim of this research is to identify strategies for screening, prevention and intervention. For more information about our current research projects, please see our lab website: http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/cope-lab Webpage

Courses Taught

NEUR	91g	Introduction to Research Practice
NPSY	182a	Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Infancy through Adolescence
PSYC	33a	Developmental Psychology
PSYC	91g	Introduction to Research Practice

Awards and Honors

Perlmutter Award (2019)

R01 MH105501, Co-Investigator (MPIs: Benjamin Hankin & Marie Banich), Prefrontal Mechanisms of Selection: Disrupted in Internalizing Psychopathology? (2015 - 2020)

R21 MH102210, Co-Investigator (PI: Benjamin Hankin), Links Among Adolescent Executive Function, Effortful Control and Psychopathology (2014 - 2016)

F32 MH098481 Links Between Depression and Executive Function Impairments in Adolescents (2013 - 2015)

Scholarship

Schweizer, T. H., Snyder, H. R., Young, J. F., & Hankin, B. L.. "The prospective prediction of depression and anxiety by integrating negative emotionality and cognitive vulnerabilities in children and adolescents.." Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (2021). (forthcoming)

Taylor, M. M. & Snyder, H. R.. "Repetitive negative thinking shared across rumination and worry predicts symptoms of depression and anxiety.." Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment (2021). (forthcoming)

Taylor, M. T. & Snyder, H. R.. "Dependent stress generation mediates the relation between poor cognitive control and repetitive negative thinking in emerging adults." Emerging Adulthood (2021). (forthcoming)

Taylor, M. T., Wicks, J. J., Fassett-Carman, A. N., & Snyder, H. R. "Differences in depression, anxiety and coping in emerging adults prior to vs. during the COVID-19 pandemic." Translational Issues in Psychological Science (2021). (forthcoming)

Swales, D. A., Snyder, H. R., Hankin, B. L., Sandman, C. A., Glynn, L. M., & Davis, E. P. "Maternal depressive symptoms predict general and internalizing-specific liability in child psychopathology." Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychology Online ahead of print. (2020). (forthcoming)

Rychik, T., Fassett-Carman, A., & Snyder, H.R.. "Dependent stress mediates the relation between ADHD symptoms and depressive symptoms." Journal of Attention Disorders 25. 12 (2021): 1676-1686.

Snyder, H. R., Friedman, N. P. & Hankin, B. L.. "Associations Between Task Performance and Self-Report Measures of Cognitive Control: Shared Versus Distinct Abilities." Assessment 28. 4 (2021): 1080-1096.

Amado, S., Snyder, H. R., & Gutchess, A.. "Mind the gap: The role of identity gaps in cultural adaptation." Frontiers in Psychology 11. (2020): 1156.

Banich, M. T., Smith, L. L., Smolker, H. R., Hankin, B. L., & Snyder, H. R.. "Common and specific dimensions of internalizing disorders are characterized by unique patterns of brain activity on a task of emotional cognitive control." International Journal of Psychophysiology 151. (2020): 80-93.

Fassett-Carman, A., DiDeminico, G., von Steiger, J., & Snyder, H. R.. "Clarifying stress-internalizing associations: Stress frequency and appraisals of severity and controllability are differentially related to depression-specific, anxiety-specific, and transdiagnostic internalizing factors." Journal of Affective Disorders 260. (2020): 638-645.

Mullin, B. C., Perks, E. L., Haraden, D. A., Snyder, H. R., & Hankin, B. L.. "Subjective Executive Function Weaknesses Are Linked to Elevated Internalizing Symptoms Among Community Adolescents." Assessment 27. (2020): 560-571.

Schweizer, T. H., Snyder, H. R., & Hankin, B. L.. "A Reformulated Architecture of Cognitive Risks for Psychopathology: Common and Specific Dimensions and Links to Internalizing Outcomes in Adolescence." Assessment 27. (2020): 334-355.

Schweizer, T. H., Snyder, H. R., Young, J. F., & Hankin, B. L.. "The breadth and potency of transdiagnostic cognitive risks for psychopathology in youth." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 88. (2020): 196-211.

Wang, K., Smolker, H. R., Brown, M. S., Snyder, H. R., Hankin, B. L., & Banich, M. T. "Association of γ−aminobutyric acid and glutamate/glutamine in the lateral prefrontal cortex with patterns of intrinsic functional connectivity in adults." Brain Structure and Function 225. (2020): 1903-191.

Banich, M. T., Smolker, H. R., Snyder, H. R., Lowis-Peacock, J. A., Godinez, D. A., Wager, T. D., & Hankin, B. L.. "Turning down the heat: Neural mechanisms of cognitive control for inhibiting task-irrelevant emotional information during adolescence." Neuropsychologia 125. 4 (2019): 93-108.

Fassett-Carman, A., Hankin, B. L., & Snyder, H. R.. "Appraisals of dependent stressor controllability and severity are associated with depression and anxiety symptoms in youth." Anxiety, Stress and Coping 32. (2019): 32-49.

Hamlat, E. J., Snyder, H. R., Young, J. F., & Hankin, B. L.. "Pubertal Timing as a Transdiagnostic Risk for Psychopathology in Youth." Clinical Psychological Science 7. (2019): 411-429.

Snyder, H. R. & Hankin, B. L.. "Cognitive function in mood and anxiety disorders." Oxford Handbook of Adult Cognitive Disorders. Ed. Stern, R. A. & Alosco, M. L.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 249-273.

Snyder, H. R., Friedman, N. P., & Hankin, B. L.. "Transdiagnostic mechanisms of psychopathology in youth: Executive functions, dependent stress and rumination." Cognitive Therapy and Research 43. (2019): 834-851.

Kaiser, R. H., Snyder, H. R., Goer, F., Glegg, R., Ironside, M., & Pizzagalli, D. A.. "Attention bias in rumination and depression: Cognitive mechanisms and brain networks." Clinical Psychological Science 6. (2018): 765-782.

Snyder, H. R. & Hankin, B. L.. "Working memory and youth depression." Working Memory and Clinical Developmental Disorders: Theories Debates and Interventions. Ed. Alloway, T. P.. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2018. 196-209.

Vargas, T., Snyder, H.R., Newberry, R., Banich, M.T., Mittal, VM. "Altered selection during language processing in individuals at high risk for psychosis." Schizophrenia Research 202. (2018): 303-309.

Hankin, B. L., Davis, E. P., Snyder, H. R., Young, J. F., Glynn, L. M., & Sandman, C. A.. "Temperament factors and dimensional, latent bifactor models of child psychopathology: Transdiagnostic and specific associations in two youth samples." Psychiatry Research 252. (2017): 139-146.

Snyder, H. R. & Hankin, B. L.. "All Models Are Wrong, but the p Factor Model Is Useful Reply to Widiger and Oltmanns, and Bonifay, Lane, and Reise." Clinical Psychological Science 5. 1 (2017): 187-189.

Snyder, H. R., Hankin, B. L., Sandman, C. A., Head, K., & Davis, E. P.. "Distinct patterns of reduced prefrontal and limbic grey matter volume in childhood general and internalizing psychopathology." Clinical Psychological Science 5. 6 (2017): 1001-1013.

Snyder, H. R., Young, J. F., & Hankin, B. L.. "Chronic stress exposure and generation are related to the p factor and externalizing specific psychopathology in youth." Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (2017).

Snyder, HR, Young, JF, & Hankin, BL. "Strong homotypic continuity in common psychopathology, internalizing and externalizing specific factors over time in adolescents." Clinical Psychological Science 5. 1 (2017): 98-110.

Hankin, B. L., Snyder, H. R., & Gulley, L. D.. "Cognitive risks in developmental psychopathology.." Developmental Psychopathology. 3rd ed. Ed. D. Cicchetti. Hoboken, N. J.: Wiley, 2016. 312-385.

Hankin, B. L., Snyder, H. R., Gulley, L. G., Schweizer, T. H., Bijttebier, P., Nelis, S., Toh, G., & Vasey, M. W.. "Understanding comorbidity among internalizing problems: Integrating hierarchical structural models of psychopathology and risk mechanisms." Development and Psychopathology 28. (2016): 987-1012.

Snyder, H. R., & Hankin, B. L.. "Spiraling out of control: Stress generation and subsequent rumination mediate the link between poor cognitive control and internalizing psychopathology." Clinical Psychological Science 4. 6 (2016): 1047-1064.

Snyder, H. R., Gulley, L. D., Bijttebier, P., Hatman, C. A., Oldehinkel, A. J., Mezulis, A., Young, J. F., & Hankin, B. L. "Adolescent emotionality and effortful control: Core latent constructs and links to psychopathology and functioning." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences 109. (2015): 1132-1159.

Snyder, H. R., Kaiser, R. H., Warren, S. L., & Heller, W.. "Obsessive compulsive disorder is associated with broad impairments in executive function: A meta-analysis." Clinical Psychological Science 3. (2015): 301-330.

Snyder, H. R., Miyake, A., & Hankin, B. L.. "Advancing understanding of executive function impairments and psychopathology: Bridging the gap between clinical and cognitive approaches.." Frontiers in Psychology 6. (2015): 328.

Barker, J. E., Semenov, A. D., Michaelson, L., Proven, L. S., Snyder, H. R., & Munakata, Y.. "Less structured time in children’s daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning." Frontiers in Psychology 5. (2014): 593.

De La Vega, A., Brown, M., Snyder, H. R., Sigal, D., Munakata, Y. & Banich, M. T.. "Individual differences in the balance of GABA to glutamate in prefrontal cortex predicts the ability to select among competing options." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26. (2014): 2490-2502.

Snyder, H. R., Banich, M. T., & Munakata, Y.. "All competition is not alike: Neural mechanisms for resolving underdetermined and prepotent competition." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26. (2014): 2608-2623.

Snyder, H. R., Kaiser, R. H., Whisman, M. A., Turner, A. E. J., Guild, R. M., & Munakata, Y.. "Opposite effects of anxiety and depressive symptoms on executive function: The case of selecting among competing options." Cognition & Emotion 28. (2014): 893-902.

Munakata, Y., Chatham, C.H., & Snyder, H.R.. "Mechanistic accounts of frontal lobe development." Principles of Frontal Lobe Function. 2nd ed. Ed. D.T. Stuss & R.T. Knight. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 185-206.

Munakata, Y., Snyder, H. R., & Chatham, C. H.. "Developing cognitive control: The costs and benefits of active, abstract representations." Developing Cognitive Control Processes: Mechanisms, Implications, and Interventions. Ed. P. D. Zelazo & M. D. Sera. Hoboken, N. J.: Wiley, 2013. 55-90.

Snyder, H. R., & Munakata, Y. "So many options, so little control: Abstract representations can reduce selection demands to increase children's self-directed flexibility." Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 116. (2013): 659-673.

Snyder, H. R.. "Major depressive disorder is associated with broad impairments on neuropsychological measures of executive function: A meta-analysis and review." Psychological Bulletin 139. (2013): 81-132.

Henderson Kaiser, R., Snyder, H. R., Gupta, T., & Banich, M. T.. "hen does stress help or harm? The effects of stress controllability and subjective stress response on Stroop performance." Frontiers in Psychology 31. (2012): 179.

Munakata, Y., Snyder, H. R. & Chatham, C. H.. "Developing cognitive control: Three key transitions." Current Directions in Psychological Science 21. (2012): 71-77.

Snyder, H. R., Banich, M. T., & Munakata, Y.. "Choosing our words: Selection and retrieval processes recruit shared neural substrates in left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23. (2011): 3470-3482.

Snyder, H. R., & Munakata, Y.. "Becoming self-directed: Abstract representations support endogenous flexibility in children." Cognition 116. (2010): 155-302.

Snyder, H. R., Hutchison, N., Nyhus, E., Curran, T., Banich, M. T., O’Reilly, R. C., & Munakata, Y.. "Neural inhibition enables selection during language processing.." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107. (2010): 16483-16488.

Snyder, H. R., & Munakata, Y.. "So many options, so little time: The roles of association and competition in underdetermined responding." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 15. (2008): 1083-1088.

Snyder, H. R., Feigenson, K., & Thompson-Schill, S. L.. "Prefrontal cortical response to conflict during semantic and phonological tasks.." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19. (2007): 761-775.