Jordan Zimmerman
Jordan Zimmerman is a second-year PhD student in the Clinical Science program at Harvard University, under the mentorship of Dr. Jill Hooley. Jordan’s research interests broadly fall at the intersection of cognition and psychopathology, and how cognitive biases contribute to transdiagnostic mental health symptoms, especially within digital contexts. She is specifically interested in building on the existing understanding of the complex relationship between social media and wellbeing by exploring the potentially mediating roles certain cognitive processing biases (e.g., interpretation, attention, memory biases) play in this relationship.
Before joining the Clinical Research Lab, Jordan worked at Massachusetts General Hospital for two years, researching college mental health, neural markers of depression and psychosis, and preventative treatments for young adults at-risk for developing severe mental illness. Prior to that, she graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2018 and then worked as a lab manager at Vanderbilt studying memory bias for social media content among individuals with disordered eating symptomology.
Outside of research, Jordan enjoys rescuing animals (and has a side interest in animal cognition), running, cycling, exploring new Boston restaurants, and feeding the squirrels in the Public Gardens!