Rate My Professor Tina Gupta

Tina Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. She earned her BA in 2011 from the University of Colorado Boulder and her PhD in 2022 from Northwestern University. Gupta's research centers on clinical psychology, with primary interests in adolescent development, risk for severe mental illness, psychosis-risk, resilience, emotion, negative symptoms, reward processing, early intervention and prevention, and affective neuroscience. She investigates emotional processes in adolescents at familial or transdiagnostic risk for severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, to understand risk markers, symptom emergence, and protective factors during development. Her multi-method approach incorporates clinical interviews, behavioral tasks, facial expression analysis via electromyography, neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling to elucidate mechanisms underlying affective psychopathology such as anhedonia.

Gupta has authored numerous influential publications on these topics. Key works include 'Two-year trajectories of anhedonia in adolescents at transdiagnostic risk for severe mental illness: Association with clinical symptoms and brain-symptom links' (Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 2024); 'Anhedonia in adolescents at transdiagnostic familial risk for severe mental illness: Clustering by symptoms and mechanisms of association with behavior' (Journal of Affective Disorders, 2024); 'Annual Research Review: Puberty and the development of anhedonia–considering childhood adversity and inflammation' (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2024); 'Alterations in facial expressions in individuals at risk for psychosis: a facial electromyography approach using emotionally evocative film clips' (Psychological Medicine, 2023); 'Skills program for awareness, connectedness, and empowerment: A conceptual framework of a skills group for individuals with a psychosis-risk syndrome' (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023); 'Deconstructing negative symptoms in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis: evidence for volitional and diminished emotionality subgroups that predict clinical presentation and functional outcome' (Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2021); and 'Alterations in facial expressivity in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis' (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2019). In recognition of her innovative early-career contributions to psychological science, Gupta received the Rising Star designation from the Association for Psychological Science. She is committed to developing intervention strategies to support at-risk youth.