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University of Wyoming

Daren C. Jackson, Ph.D.

E-mail: daren@uwyo.edu
Work Tel: 307-766-6304

Education and Positions


2004 – present Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Wyoming
2004 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1999 M.S. Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1992 B.A. Psychology, University of Oregon

Recent Publications


Journal Articles

Greischar, L. L., Burghy, C. A., VanReekum, C., Jackson, D. C., Mueller, C. J., Pizzagalli, D. A., & Davidson, R. J. (2004). Effects of electrode density and electrolyte spreading in dense array electroencephalographic recording. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115, 710-720.

Urry, H. L., Nitschke, J. B., Dolski, I., Jackson, D. C., Dalton, K. M., Mueller, C. J., Rosenkranz, M. A., Ryff, C. D., Singer, B. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2004). Making a life worth living: Neural correlates of well-being. Psychological Science, 15, 367-372.

Jackson, D. C., Mueller, C. J., Dolski, I., Dalton, K. M., Nitschke, J. B., Urry, H. L., Rosenkranz, M. A., Ryff, C. D., Singer, B. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2003). Now you feel it, now you don’t: Frontal EEG asymmetry and individual differences in emotion regulation. Psychological Science, 14, 612-617.

Rosenkranz, M. A., Jackson, D. C., Dalton, K. M., Dolski, I., Ryff, C. D., Singer, B. H., Muller, D., Kalin, N. H., & Davidson, R. J. (2003). Affective style and in vivo immune response: Neurobehavioral mechanisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 11148-52.

Schaefer, S. M., Jackson, D. C., Davidson, R. J., Aguirre, G. K., Kimberg, D. Y., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2002). Modulation of amygdalar activity by the conscious regulation of negative emotion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 913-921.

Silva, J. R., Pizzagalli, D. A, Larson, C. L., Jackson, D. C., & Davidson, R. J. (2002). Frontal brain asymmetry in restrained eaters. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 676-681.

Davidson, R. J., Jackson, D. C., & Kalin, N. H. (2000). Emotion, plasticity, context and regulation: Perspectives from affective neuroscience. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 890-906.

Jackson, D. C., Malmstadt, J. R., Larson, C. L., & Davidson, R. J. (2000). Suppression and enhancement of emotional responses to unpleasant pictures. Psychophysiology, 37, 515-522.

Larson, C. L., Davidson, R. J., Abercrombie, H. C., Ward, R. T., Schaefer, S. M., Jackson, D. C., Holden, J. E., & Perlman, S. B. (1998). Relations between PET-derived measures of thalamic glucose metabolism and EEG alpha power. Psychophysiology, 35, 162-169.

Book Chapters and Reviews

Gooding, D. C. & Jackson, D. C. (2003). Review of the book Psychophysiological Recording. Psychophysiology, 40, 314-315.

Davidson, R. J., Jackson, D. C., & Larson, C. L. (2000). Human electroencephalography. In J. T. Cacioppo, L. G. Tassinary, & G. G. Bernston (Eds.), Principles of Psychophysiology (2nd. ed., pp. 27-52). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Research Interests


Biological and cognitive aspects of emotion and emotion regulation

Frontal lobe function

Psychological well-being