Rate My Professor Kristin Gainey

Prior to recent accolades including recognition in The Australian's 2025 Research Magazine for Academic and Psychological Testing, Gainey has secured funding from the Australian Research Council, including a Future Fellowship, and the National Institutes of Health. Notable awards encompass the School of Psychological Science Mid-Career Research Award in 2023, the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Psychopathology) in 2018, and the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award in 2016. She holds editorial positions as Associate Editor for American Psychologist, Psychological Assessment, and Emotion, and co-chairs the measurement group of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology consortium. Gainey serves on the board of the Western Australia branch of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy. Her influential publications include "The structure of common emotion regulation strategies: A meta-analytic examination" (Psychological Bulletin, 2017), "Meta-analysis of the relations of anxiety sensitivity to the depressive and anxiety disorders" (Psychological Bulletin, 2010), and "Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): III. Emotional dysfunction superspectrum" (World Psychiatry, 2022).