Brian Bauer PhD

Dr. Bauer is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia. Dr. Bauer earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2022 after completing his pre-doctoral internship at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Medical Center. Dr. Bauer’s program of research uses a behavioral economic framework to help understand mental health-related decisions (e.g., help-seeking) and to influence people towards choices that align with their self-declared interests, with a particular emphasis on suicide prevention. Dr. Bauer has focused extensively on examining how cognitive heuristics and biases might contribute to suicide-related outcomes and inform prevention efforts and interventions. This line of research has been funded through several externally funded agencies, including from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.