Jolie Wormwood

Jolie Wormwood
Nationality	American
Occupation	Psychologist
Known for	Psychophysiology, interoceptive sensitivity, emotion and affect research

Jolie Wormwood is an American psychologist who serves as an associate professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Her research addresses psychophysiology, emotion, and affective experience, including the measurement of interoceptive sensitivity and physiological indices of stress and challenge.

Career

Wormwood began working in 2018 as a Statistical Scientist at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital. That same year, she joined the University of New Hampshire as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, a position she held until 2024, when she was promoted to Associate Professor.

Research

According to Semantic Scholar, Wormwood has published 98 papers that have collectively been cited approximately 1,300 times, with an h-index of 20. Her research includes work on methods for assessing interoceptive sensitivity through heartbeat detection, computational modeling of interpersonal trust, automated quality assessment procedures for ambulatory electrodermal activity data, and the development of open-source tools for extracting features from peripheral physiological data. Other work has examined how affect influences visual perception of faces, physiological indices of challenge and threat during stress tasks, and the categorization of emotion across brain, body, and subjective experience.

Selected publications

• "Methodological Recommendations for a Heartbeat Detection-Based Measure of Interoceptive Sensitivity" (2015), Psychophysiology
• "Computationally modeling interpersonal trust" (2013), Frontiers in Psychology
• "Simple, Transparent, and Flexible Automated Quality Assessment Procedures for Ambulatory Electrodermal Activity Data" (2017), IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
• "Context-aware experience sampling reveals the scale of variation in affective experience" (2020), Scientific Reports
• "An Open-Source Feature Extraction Tool for the Analysis of Peripheral Physiological Data" (2018), IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
• "The Influence of Fear on Risk Taking: A Meta-Analysis" (2020), Cognition & Emotion
• "Seeing what you feel: Affect drives visual perception of structurally neutral faces" (2018), Psychology Science
• "Facial Expression Predictions as Drivers of Social Perception" (2018), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• "Comparing supervised and unsupervised approaches to emotion categorization in the human brain, body, and subjective experience" (2020), Scientific Reports
• "Physiological Indices of Challenge and Threat: A Data-Driven Investigation of Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity During an Active Coping Stressor Task" (2019), Psychophysiology

External links

• ORCID profile