Publications 

Working papers

• Hitchcock, P. (preprint). Repetitive Negative Thinking Naturally Emerges in a Model that Learns to Gate Affective Content into Working Memory. 

• Hitchcock, P.,  Kim, J., & Frank, M. (submitted). Working Memory and Reinforcement Learning Interactions when Simultaneously Pursuing Reward and Avoiding Punishment: No Relationship to Internalizing Symptoms. [code] 

• Bedder, R., Hitchcock, P., & Sharp, P. (submitted). Unraveling Repetitive Negative Thinking With Reinforcement Learning. 

• Berwian, I., Hitchcock, P., Pisupati, S., Schoen, G., Niv, Y. (submitted). Using Learning Theories to Advance Psychotherapy Theory and Research. 

2024 

• Hitchcock, P. (2024). Of Strong Swords and Fine Scalpels: Developing Robust Clinical Principles to Cut through Heterogeneity. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. 133(8), 605–608. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000896 

• Hitchcock, P., Frank, M. (2024). The Challenge of Learning Adaptive Mental Behavior. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. 133(5), 413–426. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000924. PMCID: PMC11229419 [code] 

• Hitchcock, P., Frank, M. (2024). From Tripping and Falling to Ruminating and Worrying: A Meta-Control Account of Repetitive Negative Thinking. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101356

• Deisenhofer, A. K., … Hitchcock, P., … & Cohen, Z. D. (2024). Implementing precision methods in personalizing psychological therapies: Barriers and possible ways forward.172. 1-16. Behaviour Research and Therapy. PMID: 38086157

2023

• Hitchcock, P., Britton, W., Mehta, K., Frank, M. (2023). Self-judgment Dissected: A Computational Modeling Analysis of Valenced Self-referential Processing and its Relationship to Trait Mindfulness and Depression Symptoms. 23, 171-189. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-022-01033-9. PMCID: PMC9931629 [code]

2022

• Hitchcock, P., Fried, E., & Frank, M. (2022). Computational Psychiatry Needs Time and Context. Annual Review of Psychology, 73, 243-270. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-021621-124910. PMCID: PMC8822328 

• Hitchcock, P., Forman, E., Rothstein, N. J., Zhang, F., Kounios, J., Niv, Y.,* & Sims, C. R.* (2022). Rumination Derails Reinforcement Learning with Possible Implications for Ineffective Behavior. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(4). 714-733. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211051324. PMCID: PMC9354806 [code] 

2021 and before

• Badal, V., Depp, C., Hitchcock, P., Penn, D., Harvey, P., & Pinkham, A. (2021). Computational Methods for Integrative Evaluation of Confidence, Accuracy, and Reaction Time in Facial Affect Recognition in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, 25, 100196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scog.2021.100196. PMCID: PMC8093458

• Niv, Y., Hitchcock, P., Berwian, I. Schoen, G. (2021). Toward Precision Cognitive Behavioral Therapy via Reinforcement Learning Theory. In L.M. Williams & L.M. Hack (Eds.) Precision Psychiatry. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association. 

• Herbert, J., Forman, E., Kaye, J., Gershkovich, M., Goetter, E., Yuen, E., Glassman, L., Goldstein, S., Hitchcock, P., Tronieri, J., Berkowitz, S., Marando-Blanck, S. (2018). Randomized Control Trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy versus traditional Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: Symptomatic and behavioral outcomes. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 9, 88-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2018.07.008

• Hitchcock, P., Radulescu, A., Niv, Y., Sims, C. (2017). Translating a Reinforcement Learning Task into a Computational Psychiatry Assay: Challenges and strategies. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 39, 2217-2222. 

• Hitchcock, P., Martin, L., Fischer, L., Marando-Blanck, S., Herbert, J. (2016). Popular Conceptions of Mindfulness: Awareness and Emotional Control. Mindfulness, 7(4), 940-949. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-016-0533-9 

• Hitchcock, P., Forman, E., Herbert, J. (2016). Best Learning Practices for Internet Treatments. The Behavior Therapist, 39(2), 51-55. 

• Herbert, J., Forman, E., & Hitchcock, P. (2015).  Contextual Approaches to Psychotherapy: Defining, Distinguishing, and Common Features. In R. D. Zettle, S. C. Hayes, D. Barnes-Holmes, & T. Biglan (Eds.), Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science (pp. 287 – 302). West Sussex, UK: Wiley.

• Britton, W., Brown, A., Kaplan, C., Goldman, R., DeLuca, M., Rojiani, R., Reis, H., Xi, M., Chou, J., McKenna, F., Hitchcock, P., Rocha, T., Himmelfarb, J., Margolis, D., Niles, H., Eckert, A., Frank, A. (2015). Contemplative Science: An Insider’s Prospectus. In Marilla Svinicki (ed). New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Contemplative Studies in Higher Education (pp. 13 – 29). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

• Capecelatro, M., Sacchet, M., Hitchcock, P., Miller, S., & Britton, W. (2013). Major Depression Duration Reduces Appetitive Word Use: An Elaborated Verbal Recall of Emotional Photographs. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 47(6), 809-815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.01.022

• Van Vugt, M., Hitchcock, P., Shahar, B., & Britton, W. (2012). The Effects of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy on Affective Memory Recall Dynamics in Depression: A Mechanistic Model of Rumination. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 257. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00257. PMCID: PMC3446543

* equal contribution