Faculty Advisor: June Gruber
Education
- BA, University of California, Berkeley (Psychology, minor in Linguistics), 2013
- MA, University of Colorado Boulder (Psychology), 2021
Research Interests:
I am broadly interested in emotion-related processes in psychopathology, with a particular emphasis on individual differences in emotion language and emotion regulation as risk and maintenance factors in bipolar and unipolar mood disorders. I am also interested in how stigmas against talking about mental illness and expressing emotions may contribute to health inequities in minoritized communities.
Publications:
Villanueva, C. M., Silton, R. L., Heller, W., Barch, D. M., & Gruber, J. (2021). Change is on the horizon: Call to action for the study of positive emotion and reward in psychopathology. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 39, 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.11.008
Millgram, Y., Gruber, J., Villanueva, C. M., Rapaport, A., & Tamir, M. (2021). Motivations for emotions in bipolar disorder. Clinical Psychological Science, 2167702620979583. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620979583
Gruber, J., Villanueva, C., Burr, E., Purcell, J. R., & Karoly, H. (2019). Understanding and taking stock of positive emotion disturbance. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 14(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12515
Gibson, C. J., Richards, A., Villanueva, C., Barrientos, M., Neylan, T., Inslicht, S. (2017). Gender differences in subjective sleep related to posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in trauma-exposed adults. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2017.1409223
Conference Posters and Presentations:
Villanueva, C. M., Ibonie, S., Jensen, E., Eloy, L., D’Mello, S., & Gruber, J. (2021). Emotion differentiation in young adults at risk for bipolar disorder disturbance during the first year of college. Thematic flash talk presented at the 2021 Society for Affective Science (SAS) Annual Conference, United States. (virtual conference due to COVID-19)
Hoelscher, E., Villanueva, C. M., Silverman, L., Bryan, A., Cyders, M., Weinstock, L., Johnson, S. L., Borelli, J. L., Shiota, M. N., & Gruber, J. (2021). Bipolar disorder risk and emotion-related impulsivity in emerging adults during the first-year of college. Thematic flash talk presented at the 2021 Society for Affective Science (SAS) Annual Conference, United States. (virtual conference due to COVID-19)
Ibonie, S. G., Ploe, M. L., Villanueva, C. M., Silverman, L., & Gruber, J. (2021). Positive social side of bipolar disorder? Social networks and connectedness and mania risk and symptoms in college students. Thematic flash talk presented at the 2021 Society for Affective Science (SAS) Annual Conference, United States. (virtual conference due to COVID-19)
Preece, D. A., Becerra, R., Sauer-Zavala, S., Boyes, M., McEvoy, P., Villanueva, C., Ibonie, S., Gruber, J., Hasking, P., & Gross, J. J. (2021). Assessing emotion regulation ability for negative and positive emotions: Psychometric properties of the Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory (PERCI) in United States adults. Paper presented at the 2021 Society for Affective Science (SAS) Annual Conference, United States. (virtual conference due to COVID-19)
Hoelscher, E., Villanueva, C. M., Silverman, L., Johnson, S. L., Bryan, A., Cyders, M., Weinstock, L. M., Borelli, J. L., Shiota, M., & Gruber, J. (2020). Examining bipolar risk, emotion-relevant impulsivity, and academic success in first-year college students. Poster presented at the 2020 Special Interest Group (SIG) for Bipolar Disorder, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (virtual conference due to COVID-19)
Ibonie, S., Ploe, M. L., Kizeev, G., Villanueva, C. M., Silverman, L., & Gruber, J. (2020). Positive social side of bipolar disorder? Examining associations between social networks and connectedness with bipolar risk and mood disturbance dimensions among first-year college students. Poster presented at the 2020 Special Interest Group (SIG) for Bipolar Disorder, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (virtual conference due to COVID-19)
Villanueva, C. M., Mennin, D., Murray, G., Thompson, R. J., & Gruber, J. (2019). Experience-sampling approach to emotion differentiation across bipolar and unipolar mood disorders: Associations with emotion regulation and variability. Poster presented at the 2019 Chapel Hill Conference on Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Suicidality, Chapel Hill, NC.
Villanueva, C. M., Mennin, D., Murray, G., Thompson, R. J., & Gruber, J. (2018). Experience-sampling approach to emotion differentiation across bipolar and unipolar mood disorders: Associations with emotion regulation and variability. Poster presented at the 2018 Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
Teague, A., Villanueva, C., Bauder, L., Cooper, G., & Gruber, J. (2018). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia and emotion regulation in emerging adults at risk for bipolar disorder. Poster presented at the 2018 Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
Villanueva, C. M., Millgram, Y., Tamir, M., & Gruber, J. (2017). How we want to feel: Explicit preferences for emotion valence and volatility in bipolar I disorder. Poster presented at the 2017 Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
Gilbert, K., Villanueva, C., Bauder, L., Weston, L., & Gruber, J. (2017). Psychophysiological arousal to positive emotion: Reward reactivity and recovery. Psychophysiology beyond fear: What other contexts teach us about (dys)functions of emotional arousal. Poster presented at the 2017 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
Gibson, C. J., Barrientos, M., Villanueva, C., Neylan, T.C., & Inslicht, S.S. (2016). Gender differences in subjective sleep related to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in trauma-exposed adults. Poster presented at the 2016 Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.