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At its core, Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is an interpersonal disorder characterized by a fear of negative evaluation (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). Prior work has revealed a number of maladaptive interpersonal behaviors...
Anxiety disorders affect more than 40 million Americans and represent a significant public health and individual burden. The existing literature supports intolerance of uncertainty (IU) as an important transdiagnostic risk factor in the...
Individuals with social anxiety have been found to exhibit hypervigilance to detection of socially-relevant threat cues. Additionally, it has been posited that socially anxious individuals experience increased anxiety when attending to a...
Anxiety sensitivity (AS) has become one of the most well researched risk factors for the development of psychopathology. Research has found that the AS subfactor of cognitive concerns may be play an important role in PTSD, depression, ...
Examined the taxonicity of child and adolescent depression among 1, 532 youths, ages 5 to 19 years. Depression was measured using the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI; Kovacs, 1983). Indicators derived from the CDI were based on...
Although social comparisons have been observed in social anxiety, the effects from the direction of the social comparison have not been adequately tested in social anxiety. This study examined the impact of an upward comparison (UC) vs....
With the U.S. population becoming increasingly diverse, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000) acknowledged the importance of understanding psychopathology...
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disabling form of psychopathology characterized by negative alterations in cognitions and mood, re-experiencing, avoidance of trauma reminders, and hyperarousal symptoms resulting from exposure...
Hoarding disorder (HD) is characterized by an inability to discard possessions that contributes to clutter that interferes with the use of one’s home. One of the core features of HD is an emotional attachment to possessions. Initial...
Recent research using TF analysis has suggested that two processes underlie performance feedback event-related potentials (ERPs): a reward sensitive process in the delta range (delta-reward positivity; 0-3 Hz) and a loss sensitive...
Elevated levels of anxiety sensitivity (AS), the fear of anxiety and its consequences, places individuals at an increased risk for the development of anxiety disorders, especially panic disorder. It has shown that treating AS may reduce...
Despite the growing population of ethnic minority groups in the United States, there have only been a few investigations of the differential manifestation of psychopathology in these groups. The limited existing literature suggests...
Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) has been proposed as an important transdiagnostic variable within various anxiety and mood disorders. It has been suggested that individuals high in IU may interpret ambiguous information in a more...
College is an ideal setting to evaluate and treat mental health issues. Most mental health disorders have first onset by young adulthood and half of all young adults attend some form of post-secondary institution. Additionally, many...
Accumulating evidence suggests that individuals with a history of multiple traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are at increased risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when compared to trauma exposed individuals without a...
Research has shown that social anxiety is associated with increased rates of cannabis and alcohol use, but the mechanisms underlying the relationship between social anxiety and substance use are still largely unknown. One individual...
Compulsive hoarding has been defined as the accumulation of and failure to discard a large number of possessions that appear to have little or no value, to the extent that ones living spaces are precluded from everyday use. Current...
The error-related negativity (ERN) is an event-related potential component related to risk for anxious and obsessive-compulsive pathologies. Self-reported clinical perfectionism and the ERN may represent multimodal indices of an...
Tonic Immobility (TI) is a common defensive response in situations involving extreme fear such as physical and sexual assault. Although TI is adaptive in certain circumstances, it has been shown to contribute to increases in negative...
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