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Open Access 24-05-2024 | Original Article

Unscrambling the Dynamics of Danger: Scientific Foundations and Evidence for the Looming Vulnerability Model and Looming Cognitive Style in Anxiety

Drawing from the works of evolutionary psychologists (see Cosmides & Tooby, 1994 ), the looming vulnerability model (Riskind, 1997 ; Riskind & Rector, 2018 ; Riskind & Williams, 2006 ) contends that cognitive models of anxiety must make …

Auteur:: John H. Riskind

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Open Access 24-05-2024 | Original Article

Hitting the Rewind Button: Imagining Analogue Trauma Memories in Reverse Reduces Distressing Intrusions

Intrusions of a traumatic event form a hallmark symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). They are easily triggered during daily life by stimuli resembling some aspects of the traumatic event and …

Auteurs:: Julina A. Rattel, Sarah Danböck, Stephan F. Miedl, Michael Liedlgruber, Frank H. Wilhelm

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23-05-2024 | Original Article

A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Stepped Care Cognitive-behavioral Therapy for Internalizing Distress in Adults

Depression and anxiety, two leading causes of disability worldwide, are part of an internalizing “distress” dimension of psychopathology (Watson et al., 2022 ). These symptoms of internalizing distress are hypothesized to emerge from failures to …

Auteurs:: Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, Clare Dierckman, Colton Lind, Allison Peipert, Robinson de Jesús-Romero, John F. Buss, Israel Ramirez, Isabella Starvaggi, Sydney Adams, Jacqueline Howard, Robert E. Fite

22-05-2024 | Original Article

The Interactive Effects of Rejection and Rumination on Diurnal Cortisol among Adolescent Girls: A Preliminary Daily Diary Study

As youth transition from childhood to adolescence, the social world becomes increasingly salient. Past evidence suggests that this shift is especially pronounced for girls and is accompanied by heightened emotional reactivity to social rejection …

Auteurs:: Chrystal Vergara-Lopez, Matthew D. Scalco, Allison E. Gaffey, Brie M. Reid, Margaret H. Bublitz, Sharon Y. Lee, Andrea Gomez, Nadia Mercado, Laura R. Stroud

Open Access 15-05-2024 | Original Article

Intolerance of Uncertainty is Associated with Heightened Arousal During Extinction Learning and Retention: Preliminary Evidence from a Clinical Sample with Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

Principles of associative threat and safety learning have supported human models of the development, treatment, and relapse of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) (Craske et al., 2008 ; Jacoby & Abramowitz, 2016 ). In particular …

Auteurs:: Jayne Morriss, Claudia Rodriguez-Sobstel, Shari A. Steinman

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12-05-2024 | Original Article

What Are You Ruminating About? The Development and Validation of a Content-Dependent Measure of Rumination

Despite the richness of the extant rumination literature, the lack of content-related measures has constrained the field to the investigation of general levels of rumination. The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable domain …

Auteurs:: Christopher Marcin Kowalski, Donald H. Saklofske, Julie Aitken Schermer

Open Access 09-05-2024 | Original Article

Intergenerational Transmission of Social Anxiety: The Role of Parents’ Fear of Negative Child Evaluation and Their Self-Referent and Child-Referent Interpretation Biases

Auteurs:: Melis Dülger, Bram Van Bockstaele, Mirjana Majdandžić, Wieke de Vente

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Open Access 29-04-2024 | Original Article

How Are You Feeling Today? Dynamic and Static Indices of Daily Affect Predict Psychological Adjustment One Year Later in a Multi-cohort, Longitudinal Investigation

It is well established that the presence of both acute and chronic stress pose risk for the development of affective symptoms and related disorders (Grant et al., 2004 ; Shields & Slavich, 2017 ). Yet how daily reports of emotion during those …

Auteurs:: Benjamin J. Mitchell, Brittany Baugher, Emily Gawlik, Julia Richmond, Pooja G. Sidney, Jennifer M. Taber, Clarissa A. Thompson, Karin G. Coifman

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Open Access 24-04-2024 | Original Article

Intrusive Mental Imagery in Chronic Pain: Prevalence and Associations with Common Comorbidities

Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists for more than three months and characterised by significant emotional distress (International Classification of Diseases, 2021 ; ICD-11). Sub-categories include musculoskeletal pain, cancer-related pain …

Auteurs:: Jake Maxwell Watts, Simon E. Blackwell, Jo Daniels

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23-04-2024 | Original Article

The Regretted Actions and Inactions of Military Veterans and Psychological Problems

Military Service Members confront a wide variety of scenarios and events that are associated with psychological difficulties and long-lasting functional impairment (e.g., Maguen et al., 2020 ). Stein and colleagues ( 2012 ) found evidence for the …

Auteurs:: Christian L. Williams, Howard Berenbaum

23-04-2024 | Original Article

Interpretation Bias and Adolescent Social Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Pre- and Post-Event Rumination

The purpose of Study 1 was to examine whether the inclination to interpret social cues increases adolescents’ SA via pre- and post-event rumination. We hypothesized that the level of IB at baseline would enhance participants’ pre-event rumination …

Auteurs:: Meng Yu, Jianping Wang

23-04-2024 | Original Article

A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Conflict Reappraisal Intervention for Community Couples with Young Children

The Love Together, Parent Together research program (L2P2) was designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of bolstering the relationships of parents with young children and preserving family well-being (Prime et al., 2022 , 2023 …

Auteurs:: Heather Prime, Amy Muise, Marc Jambon, Maya Koven, Alexandra Markwell, Mark Wade

28-03-2024 | Original Article

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Factors Related to Outcomes in Depression Among Youth with HIV

Youth with HIV (YWH) have high rates of comorbid depression (Benton et al., 2019 ; Brown et al., 2021 ), with some reports as high as 37% (Lynn et al., 2019 ). Treating depressive symptoms is critical, as depression can interfere with HIV treatment …

Auteurs:: Betsy D. Kennard, Larry K. Brown, Kristin Baltrusaitis, Miriam Chernoff, Graham J. Emslie, Jessica Jones, Sarah Buisson, Jaime Deville, Megan Wilkins, Amber Bunch, Chivon McMullen Jackson, Christy Beneri, David E. Shapiro, and IMPAACT 2002 Team

Open Access 25-03-2024 | Original Article

Attention and Interpretation Bias Modification Transfers to Memory Bias: Testing the Combined Cognitive Bias Hypothesis

Depression, as underscored by cognitive theories and empirical evidence, is marked by emotional cognitive biases. This suggests a preference for processing negative information over neutral or positive information (for a review, see Mathews & …

Auteurs:: Zhen Zhang, Janna N. Vrijsen, Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez, Ernst H.W. Koster, Eni S. Becker

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21-03-2024 | Original Article

Therapeutic Potential of Embodied Cognition for Clinical Psychotherapies: From Theory to Practice

The field of clinical psychology faces fragmentation stemming from diverse theoretical traditions, impeding a unified understanding of mental health (Gilbert, 2019 ; Gilbert & Kirby, 2019 ; Salvatore, 2011 ). The oversimplification of mental …

Auteurs:: Jennifer M. B. Fugate, Sheila L. Macrine, Eva M. Hernandez-Cuevas

16-03-2024 | Brief Report

Task Control in the Affordance Task as the Underlying Mechanism for the Imbalance Between the Goal-Directed and Habit Formation Systems in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

Auteurs:: Hadar Naftalovich, Dan Sacks, Eldad Keha, Eyal Kalanthroff

16-03-2024 | Original Article

Relationship Between Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Social Support and Their Effects on Depressive Symptoms in Korean Emerging Adults

Emerging adulthood is a distinct developmental phase that falls between adolescence and adulthood (Arnett, 2000 ). During this period, these groups suffer from external transitions (Goldscheider & Goldscheider, 1999 ), which naturally leads to …

Auteurs:: Hyunmo Seong, Hajin Lim, Gi-Eun Jang, Gippeum Park, Jieun Kang, Sang Min Lee

04-03-2024 | Brief Report

Social Anxiety, Drinking Game Motives, and Drinking Game Outcomes Among a Large Multisite Sample of University Students

Using a large, multisite sample of undergraduates, the current study builds on prior work (e.g., George et al., 2019 ; Johnson et al., 1998 ; Kenney et al., 2014 ; Mulligan et al., 2016 ) by conducting a secondary analysis of an existing dataset of …

Auteurs:: Katherine Walukevich-Dienst, Byron L. Zamboanga, Amie R. Newins, Makayla L. Dehmer, Lindsay S. Ham, Timothy J. Grigsby, Su Yeong Kim

04-03-2024 | Original Article

Hopelessness as a Mechanism of the Relationship between Physical Pain and Thoughts of Suicide: Results from Two Smartphone-Based Real-Time Monitoring Samples

A review of the literature by Kirtley et al. ( 2020 ) highlights the multitude of psychological factors that are shared by chronic pain and suicidal populations (e.g., future orientation, defeat, and mental imagery). Moreover, there is a growing …

Auteurs:: Hannah R. Krall, Allison K. Ruork, Shireen L. Rizvi, Evan M. Kleiman

04-03-2024 | Original Article

Altered Neural Activity during Negative Reinforcement in People with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) causes significant disability and societal costs worldwide (Murray et al., 1996 ). OCD is characterized by obsessions (repetitive and intrusive internal events, including thoughts and images) and compulsions …

Auteurs:: Benjamin Panny, Rebecca B. Price, Anna Wears, Susanne E. Ahmari

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