Amanda McCleery

• PSYC 7022 - Psycho-educational Assessment & Measurement 1
• PSYC 7550 - Intellectual and Cognitive Assessment 
   

Dr. McCleery received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University, and completed postdoctoral training in cognition, schizophrenia, and lifespan developmental psychopathology at UCLA. Prior to joining the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba in 2025, she was a faculty member in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa. 
 

• PhD (Clinical Psychology), Kent State University
• MA (Clinical Psychology), Kent State University
• BSc Honours (Psychology and Biology), University of Toronto

Research interests

• Psychosis and psychosis-risk
• Schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
• Bipolar disorder
• Perception
• Cognition
• Social cognition
• Functional outcomes
   

Research summary

Schizophrenia is a devastating illness that has tremendous personal and societal costs. Even when symptoms of psychosis have remitted, many people with schizophrenia suffer marked functional disability (i.e., impaired social, occupational, and community functioning). Understanding the contributors to functional disability in schizophrenia is paramount for development of effective, recovery-based interventions. The overarching aim of our research is to use a multimethod approach to identify and understand predictors of functional outcome in schizophrenia-spectrum conditions within a lifespan developmental framework. To date, most of our work has focused on perceptual processing, social and non-social cognition, and motivation/beliefs. 
 

• Filip, T. F., Hellemann, G. S., Ventura, J., Subotnik, K. L., Green, M. F., Nuechterlein, K. H., & McCleery, A. (2024). Defeatist performance beliefs in individuals with recent-onset schizophrenia: Relationships with cognition and negative symptoms. Schizophrenia research, 270, 212-219.
• Thakkar, K. N., McCleery, A., Minor, K. S., Lee, J., Humpston, C. S., Chopik, W. J., ... & Park, S. (2023). Moving from risk to resilience in psychosis research. Nature Reviews Psychology, 2(9), 537-555.
• McCleery, A., Wynn, J. K., Novacek, D. M., Reavis, E. A., Senturk, D., Sugar, C. A., ... & Green, M. F. (2024). The impact of psychological strengths on Veteran populations’ mental health trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 59(1), 111-120.
  McCleery, A., Wynn, J. K., Lee, J., Reavis, E. A., Ventura, J., Subotnik, K. L., ... & Nuechterlein, K. H. (2020). Early visual processing is associated with social cognitive performance in recent-onset schizophrenia. Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 823.
• McCleery, A., & Nuechterlein, K. H. (2019). Cognitive impairment in psychotic illness: prevalence, profile of impairment, developmental course, and treatment considerations. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 21(3), 239-248.
  McCleery, A., Mathalon, D. H., Wynn, J. K., Roach, B. J., Hellemann, G. S., Marder, S. R., & Green, M. F. (2019). Parsing components of auditory predictive coding in schizophrenia using a roving standard mismatch negativity paradigm. Psychological medicine, 49(7), 1195-1206.
• McCleery, A., Lee, J., Fiske, A. P., Ghermezi, L., Hayata, J. N., Hellemann, G. S., ... & Green, M. F. (2016). Longitudinal stability of social cognition in schizophrenia: A 5-year follow-up of social perception and emotion processing. Schizophrenia research, 176(2-3), 467-472.