Garrett Baber

Graduate Student

He/him/his

Contact Info

Email:

garrett.baber@ku.edu

Education —

B.S. in Psychology , Middle Tennessee State University

M.A. in Psychology, University of Kansas, 2024

Research —

Advisor: Nancy Hamilton, PhD

Research Lab: Hamilton Sleep and Health Lab

I am interested in the relationships between sleep, memory, and emotional health. This includes investigating the etiology and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and related sleep disorders such as insomnia and posttraumatic nightmares. I apply advanced methods including sentiment analysis and machine learning to answer these questions.

Selected Publications —

Baber, G.R. Hamilton, N.A., Girard, J.M., Cohen, J.M., Gratton, M.K.P., Ellis, S., Hemmer, E. (in press). It’s the Sentiment that Counts: Comparing Sentiment Analysis Tools for Estimating Affective Valence in Dream Reports. SLEEP.

Baber, G. R., Wells, M., Hamilton, N. A., & Gratton, M. K. P. (2024). A gender disparity in the experience of fear in dreams. Sleep, 47(Supplement_1), A48. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsae067.0109

Virnoche, R., Gratton, M.K.P., *Baber, G.R., & Hamilton, N. (2024). Bisexual women are more prone to nightmares and insomnia compared to straight women in a sample of college students. Sleep, 47(Supplement_1), A313. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsae067.0731

Youngren, W. A., Hamilton, N. A., Preacher, K. J., & *Baber, G. R. (2023). Testing the nightmare cognitive arousal processing model. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Awards & Honors —

Montie McMickell Award

Graduate Research Fund. Dreaming in Color: Testing the Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Dream Animations