Tracy Dennis-Tiwary was born on January 11,1973 and is an American clinical psychologist, author, health technology entrepreneur, and professor of psychology and neuroscience at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
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Tracy Dennis-Tiwary's research explores emotion regulation and its role in mental health and illness, with a particular focus on anxiety and anxiety-related attention biases, as well as child emotional development.
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Since 2004, Tracy Dennis-Tiwary has worked as a professor in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she serves as the co-executive director of the Center for Health Technology, and as a member of the graduate faculty in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience as well as health psychology and clinical science at The Graduate School of the City University of New York.
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Tracy Dennis-Tiwary founded the Emotion Regulation Lab at Hunter College, where she examines biological, psychological, and social factors in the development of emotion regulation across the lifespan, its implications for mental health and illness, and neurocognitive processes underlying novel treatment approaches for anxiety, stress, addiction, and other behavioral health problems.
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Tracy Dennis-Tiwary further showed that these ERPs are developmentally sensitive, and predict individual differences in emotion regulation behaviors and adjustment in children and adults and in cognitive control capacities.
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Tracy Dennis-Tiwary is a leading researcher in the study of attention bias modification, a class of computerized cognitive training protocols that are designed to remediate attention biases underlying mental and behavioral health problems.
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Tracy Dennis-Tiwary created and clinically validated the first gamified mobile ABM app for reducing anxiety and stress called Personal Zen.
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Tracy Dennis-Tiwary has examined the impact of social media on emotional functioning, including the development of a validated questionnaire, the Social Media and Communication Questionnaire.
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Tracy Dennis-Tiwary's work was the subject of the 2013 documentary Changing Minds at Concord High and she appeared in the 2021 documentary I Am Gen Z She has spoken and presented her research at the United Nations, the National Institute of Mental Health, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Personal Democracy Forum, and the Rubin Museum Brainwave Festival.
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Tracy Dennis-Tiwary has served on the editorial boards of Affective Neuroscience since 2019 and the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology since 2017.
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Tracy Dennis-Tiwary is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science as well as a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
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Tracy Dennis-Tiwary served as a consultant to the NYC Public School System from 2017 to 2019 and the New York Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in 2020.