Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Center for Human Evolution and Diversity
University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
Dr. Fisher received his doctorate from the Pennsylvania State University and joined the Clinical Science faculty at UC Berkeley after a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford. The broad goal of Dr. Fisher’s research is to understand psychopathology as a set of dynamic processes – in which thoughts, feelings, and actions are idiosyncratically organized within each individual. To this end he leverages intensive repeated measures data to better understand within-individual processes that inform psychotherapy and psychopathology. He employs salivary measures in experimental and ecological paradigms to investigate the physiological and endocrinological correlates of depression, anxiety, and trauma.