Ann Kring, professor of psychology

Ann M. Kring is professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and former director of the Clinical Science Program and Psychology Clinic. She received a B.S. from Ball State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her current research focus is on emotion and psychopathology, with a specific interest in the emotional features of schizophrenia, assessing negative symptoms in schizophrenia, and the linkage between cognition and emotion in schizophrenia. She has received numerous awards, including a Young Investigator award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award, and a Distinguished Teaching Award from UC Berkeley. She is currently a member of the Executive Board for the Society for Research in Psychopathology and the International Society for Research in Emotion. She is also Associate Editor for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and a member of the editorial board for the journals Emotion, and Psychological Science in the Public Interest,. She is the author /editor of two books and the author of several scholarly papers in the top journals in the field.