Behaviour Research and Therapy

Papers
(The median citation count of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study165
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals142
Predicting positive outcomes and successful completion in an online parenting program for parents of children with disruptive behavior: An integrated data analysis126
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events104
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect97
Does raising heart rate prior to a behavioural test enhance learning in cognitive therapy for anxiety? An experimental test for the treatment of fear of heights using virtual reality76
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals72
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students64
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance58
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder53
Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setti51
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials50
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety49
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?49
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial49
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety41
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Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity39
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support36
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories36
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder35
Sex differences in the effect of subjective sleep on fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction recall in individuals with a range of PTSD symptom severity35
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic34
Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility33
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style33
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping33
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures33
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy33
Towards personalizing cognitive remediation therapy: Examining moderators of response for euthymic people with bipolar disorder32
The causes and consequences of shame in obsessive-compulsive disorder31
Fear reacquisition and symptoms of combat-related PTSD: Specificity and preliminary examination of the influence of the 5-HT3A receptor gene30
Is internet-based parent training for everyone? Predictors and moderators of outcomes in group vs. internet-based parent training for children with disruptive behavior problems30
Psychological mechanisms of change in reducing co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol use: A causal mediation analysis of the online Inroads intervention29
No-think, No drink? Assessing the ability of reconsolidation interference by intentional forgetting to suppress alcohol memories in hazardous drinkers29
Repetitive negative thinking and suicidal ideation in internalizing psychopathologies: A replication study28
Decentering predicts attenuated perseverative thought and internalizing symptoms following stress exposure: A multi-level, multi-wave study28
Cognitive behavior therapy for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis27
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans27
Effects of social buffering on fear extinction in adolescent rats27
Corrigendum to “Intolerance of uncertainty enhances adolescent fear generalization in both perceptual-based and category-based tasks: fNIRS studies” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 183 (2024) 104650]26
Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review26
The relative efficacy and efficiency of single- and multi-session exposure therapies for specific phobia: A meta-analysis26
Downstream effects of observational threat learning: Generalization and reversal learning across development26
Heart-Mind-Behavior Parent Training: Randomized controlled trial for Chinese parents of young children with ASD26
Induced awareness of stimulus differences impedes the generalization of extinction learning with various, highly similar stimuli26
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Divergent experiences of U.S. veterans who did and did not complete trauma-focused therapies for PTSD: A national qualitative study of treatment dropout25
Performance-based attentional control, but not self-reported attentional control, predicts changes in depressive symptoms in short-term psychotherapy24
Outcomes of the Transdiagnostic Intervention for Sleep and Circadian Dysfunction (TranS-C) in a community setting: Unpacking comorbidity24
Mechanisms of change in digital cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in patients with chronic back pain: A mediation analysis of a multicenter randomized clinical trial24
Can integrating the Memory Support Intervention into cognitive therapy improve depression outcome? A randomized controlled trial24
Visual attention during cognitive reappraisal in adolescent major depression: Evidence from two eye-tracking studies24
Imagery rescripting and extinction: Effects on US expectancy, US revaluation, and the generalization of fear reduction24
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Threat sensitivity in emotion dynamics: Negativity effects and sex differences23
The effect of concreteness training on peri-traumatic processing and intrusive memories following an analogue trauma23
Predicting responsiveness to a dialectical behaviour therapy skills training app for recurrent binge eating: A machine learning approach23
Guided internet-based LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: A randomized controlled trial among sexual minority men in China22
Advances in the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based interventions for historically marginalized groups22
Responsibility, probability, and severity of harm: An experimental investigation of cognitive factors associated with checking-related OCD21
Can placebos reduce intrusive memories?21
Repetitive negative thinking and depressive symptoms are differentially related to response inhibition: The influence of non-emotional, socio-emotional, and self-referential stimuli21
Role of social determinants in anxiety and depression symptoms during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adults in North Carolina and Massachusetts21
Retraction notice to “Changes in degree of sclerosis as a function of prophylactic treatment in cancer-prone and CHD-prone probands” ‘Behaviour Research and Therapy’ Volume 29, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 3420
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Daily micropractice can augment single-session interventions: A randomized controlled trial of self-compassionate touch and examining their associations with habit formation in US college students20
Mediators and Moderators of two online interventions for managing pain, fear of progression and functional ability in rheumatoid arthritis20
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The attenuation of spider avoidance action tendencies in spider-fearful individuals and its impact on explicit evaluation of spider stimuli19
Using network analysis to characterize clinical improvement during cognitive processing therapy19
Daily relationships among maternal rumination, mood and bonding with infant19
A threat from within: Learning to fear by observing aversive bodily symptoms in others19
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The impact of module dosage on treatment response in a modular transdiagnostic intervention for sleep and circadian dysfunction (TranS-C)18
The effect of exercise engagement on low back disability at 12-months is mediated by pain and catastrophizing in a community sample of people with chronic low back pain17
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The integrated constructionist approach to emotions: A theoretical model for explaining alterations to positive emotional experiences in the aftermath of trauma17
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Translational assessment of anhedonia components: Significant associations between reward anticipation measured via behavioural task performance, daily smartphone reports, and general anhedonia questi17
To focus on a confederate or oneself? Attentional bias and state anxiety in socially anxious individuals during real-time online video calls17
Feeling safe: Judgements of safety and anxiety as a function of worry and intolerance of uncertainty17
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The effects of culturally adapted expressive writing interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms among Chinese American breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial16
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“I'm not here to push you:” raising adolescents' treatment engagement via autonomy support16
Recalling and anticipating positive events to improve the positive affect and mental health of adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools16
Real-world evidence from users of a behavioral digital therapeutic for chronic insomnia16
Safety behaviors toward innocuous stimuli can maintain or increase threat beliefs15
Moderators of treatment effect of Prompt Mental Health Care compared to treatment as usual: Results from a randomized controlled trial15
Do appearance related safety behaviors contribute to distress intolerance? A Multi-method examination15
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Safety behaviours in social anxiety: An examination across adolescence15
Mechanistic pathways of change in twice weekly versus once weekly sessions of psychotherapy for depression15
Prosody-focused feedback enhances the efficacy of anti-depressive self-statements in depressed individuals – A randomized controlled trial15
Improving treatments for mental disorders using computational models15
Changes in cognitive processes and coping strategies precede changes in symptoms during cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder15
Network intervention analysis of anxiety-related outcomes and processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxious cancer survivors14
Examining emotional processing theory and predictors of outcome in prolonged exposure for PTSD14
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: A summary and overview of the literature14
Affective and computational determinants of threat extinction biases14
Suicide and cognitive processes: Introduction to the special issue13
Attentional bias modification in male college smokers: The changes of facilitated attention, difficulty in disengagement and the transfer effects of training13
Predictors of school-based cognitive behavior therapy outcome for youth with anxiety13
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Concurrent and prospective associations between negative social-evaluative beliefs, safety behaviours, and symptoms during and following cognitive behavioural group therapy for social anxiety disorder12
Suicide-specific rumination as a predictor of suicide planning and intent12
Empirically supported treatments for all: Realizing equitable coverage of care for trauma survivors globally12
The effect of depression and anxiety symptom severity on clinical outcomes and app use in digital mental health treatments: Meta-regression of three trials12
Directional associations among real-time activity, sleep, mood, and daytime symptoms in major depressive disorder using actigraphy and ecological momentary assessment12
Appraisals of insomnia identity in a clinical sample12
Improving mental health in low-resource settings: A feasibility randomized controlled trial of a transdiagnostic psychological intervention among Burundian refugee adolescents and their caregivers12
Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia12
Neurocognitive mechanisms of mental imagery-based disgust learning12
Prospective relations between anxiety sensitivity and transdiagnostic anxiety following cognitive-behavioral therapy: Evidence from the Coordinated Anxiety Learning management trial12
Identifying the active ingredients of cognitive-behavioural therapy: Conceptualisation, methods and evidence12
Effectiveness of two video-based multicomponent treatments for fibromyalgia: The added value of cognitive restructuring and mindfulness in a three-arm randomised controlled trial12
Neural correlates of fear conditioning and fear extinction and its association with cognitive-behavioral therapy outcome in adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder12
An online, single-session intervention for adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Results from a randomized trial11
Reflections on an emerging new science of mental disorders11
Self-guided online treatment of disturbed grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in adults bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial11
What we got wrong about depression and its treatment11
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Persistence of extensively trained avoidance is not elevated in anxiety disorders in an outcome devaluation paradigm11
Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments11
The benefit and neural mechanisms of computerized inhibitory control training for insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype: a rs-fMRI study11
Parenting Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An RCT of an online course with families of children with CP11
Introduction to special issue honoring Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023)11
Facets of social problem-solving as moderators of the real-time relation between social rejection and negative affect in an at-risk sample11
Continuous theta burst stimulation to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in young adults with depression: Changes in resting frontostriatal functional connectivity relevant to positive mood11
“It's safer to believe that others don't like me” – A qualitative study on the paradoxical value of negative core beliefs in depression11
Optimising exposure for adolescents with public speaking anxiety: Affect labelling or positive coping statements?11
No joy - why bother? Higher anhedonia relates to reduced pleasure from and motivation for threat avoidance10
Corrigendum to “Measuring self-efficacy, executive function, and temporal discounting in Kenya” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 101 (2018) 30–45]10
Using GIMME to model the emotional context of suicidal ideation based on clinical data: From research to clinical practice10
Eye-tracking to assess anxiety-related attentional biases among a large sample of preadolescent children10
Temporal and specific pathways of change in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for depression10
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Stigmatized experience is associated with exacerbated pain perception in depressed patients10
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Global precedence effect in fear generalization and the role of trait anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty10
Fostering socio-emotional competencies in children on the autism spectrum using a parent-assisted serious game: A multicenter randomized controlled trial10
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Effects of positive and negative affect inductions on interpretive and response bias10
Changes in trauma-related cognitions predict subsequent symptom improvement during prolonged exposure in patients with childhood abuse-related PTSD10
Moderators of outcome in self-guided internet-delivered cognitive-behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder9
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Does the network structure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms at treatment admission identify patients at risk for non-response?9
Transdiagnostic and transtherapeutic strategies for optimising autobiographical memory9
Youth social functioning interacts with treatment arm, diagnosis, and gender to predict anxiety treatment outcome9
Neurocognitive functioning in adults with trichotillomania: Predictors of treatment response and symptom severity in a randomized control trial9
Do trauma cue exposure and/or PTSD symptom severity intensify selective approach bias toward cannabis cues in regular cannabis users with trauma histories?9
Targeting image-based autobiographical memory in childhood to prevent emotional disorders: Intervention development and a feasibility randomised controlled trial9
Do I really have to do my homework? The role of homework compliance in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome9
Efficacy of a transdiagnostic internet-based program for adolescents with emotional disorders: A randomized controlled trial9
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Itsy bitsy spider: Fear and avoidance (generalization) in a free-exploratory virtual reality paradigm9
A randomized controlled trial of brief behavioral activation plus savoring for positive affect dysregulation in university students9
Generalization of conditioned disgust and the attendant maladaptive avoidance: Validation of a novel paradigm and effects of trait disgust-proneness9
Brief emotion regulation strategies to reduce alcohol craving: Mediating role of state difficulties in emotion regulation9
Contamination fear and attention bias variability early in the COVID-19 pandemic8
Self-report measures of fear learning and extinction and their association with internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy outcome8
Perseveration on suicidal thoughts and images in daily life: An examination of the cognitive model of suicide through a dynamic systems lens8
Jumping back onto the giants’ shoulders: Why emotional memory should be considered in a network perspective of psychopathology8
Corrigendum to “Brief training in mindfulness meditation reduces symptoms in patients with a chronic or recurrent lifetime history of depression: A randomized controlled study” [Behaviour Research and8
Active contextualization reduces traumatic memory intrusions via memory integration8
Exposure and response prevention versus stress management training for adults and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized clinical trial8
Fluctuations in emotion regulation as a mechanism linking stress and internalizing psychopathology among adolescents: An intensive longitudinal study8
The renewal reducing effect of unpaired unconditional stimuli presented during extinction is not specific to the unconditional stimulus used during acquisition8
Expanding, improving, and understanding behaviour research and therapy through digital mental health8
Associations among threat prediction error, prediction change, and anxiety during an exposure therapy analogue in adults with healthy to clinical social anxiety8
Perseverative thinking is associated with features of spoken language8
Optimizing indicated cognitive behavioral therapy to prevent child anxiety and depression: A cluster-randomized factorial trial8
Linguistic analysis of Latinx patients’ responses to a text messaging adjunct during cognitive behavioral therapy for depression8
One research question, two meta-analyses, three conclusions: Commentary on “A systematic review with meta-analysis of Cognitive Bias Modification interventions for anger and aggression”8
Not just “big” data: Importance of sample size, measurement error, and uninformative predictors for developing prognostic models for digital interventions8
A mental imagery intervention targeting suicidal ideation in university students: An assessor-blind, randomised controlled feasibility trial8
Shifting threat criterion for morphed facial expressions reduces negative affect7
A randomized controlled trial of online mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral interventions for sexual interest/arousal disorder in women: eSense7
The role of concreteness in repetitive negative thinking: Temporal dynamics and the predictive value for depression throughout psychological treatment7
Diversity in emotion regulation strategy use: Resilience against posttraumatic stress disorder7
Seeking proxies for internal states (SPIS): Towards a novel model of obsessive-compulsive disorder7
The effectiveness of affective compared to neutral working memory training in university students with test anxiety7
Experiential processing increases positive affect and decreases dampening appraisals during autobiographical memory recall in an anhedonic sample7
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Pre-deployment threat learning predicts increased risk for post-deployment insomnia: Evidence from the Marine Resiliency Study7
Quantifying and addressing the impact of measurement error in network models7
Effects of safety behavior fading on social anxiety and emotional disclosure7
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Pavlovian threat conditioning can generate intrusive memories that persist over time7
Receiving self-compassion in the virtual world: Testing the potential value of biofeedback7
Unguided low intensity cognitive behaviour therapy for anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomised trial7
The efficacy of self-guided internet and mobile-based interventions for preventing anxiety and depression – A systematic review and meta-analysis7
Examining concordance between emotion-dependent risk-taking in the laboratory and in the real-world7
Long-term efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: A 2–8-year follow-up of two randomized controlled trials7
Handholding reduces the recovery of threat memories and magnifies prefrontal hemodynamic responses7
Supporting extinction memory updating to promote extinction generalization in a category-based fear conditioning paradigm7
On the importance of identifying mechanisms and active ingredients of psychological treatments7
Using what we know about threat reactivity models to understand mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic7
How well do Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Activation for depression repair anhedonia? A secondary analysis of the COBRA randomized controlled trial7
Finding a positive me: Affective and neural insights into the challenges of positive autobiographical memory reliving in borderline personality disorder6
Should I stay or should I go? Investigating reward-based decision-making in anhedonic individuals6
Tailored internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for individuals experiencing psychological distress associated with climate change: A pilot randomized controlled trial6
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Does acceptance lead to change? Training in radical acceptance improves implementation of cognitive reappraisal6
Mechanisms of cognitive behavioral therapy vs. supportive psychotherapy in body dysmorphic disorder: An exploratory mediation analysis6
A randomized controlled trial of self-help acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for perfectionism6
Time is a great healer: Peak-end memory bias in anxiety – Induced by threat of shock6
Predicting early dropout in online versus face-to-face guided self-help: A machine learning approach6
Mindfulness-induced self-transcendence promotes universal love with consequent effects on opioid misuse6
Differences in conditioning using unconditioned stimuli evoking fear, disgust or both emotions simultaneously6
Association between the behavioral response during social exclusion and recalled childhood maltreatment6
The temporal sequence of change in PTSD symptoms and hypothesized mediators in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Written Exposure Therapy for PTSD6
Comparative effectiveness of remote digital gamified and group CBT skills training interventions for anxiety and depression among college students: Results of a three-arm randomised controlled trial6
When emotions cannot be efficiently used to guide attention: Flexible, goal-relevant utilization of facial emotions is hindered by social anxiety6
Heightened generalized conditioned fear and avoidance in women and underlying psychological processes6
Examining the efficacy of the computerized anxiety sensitivity treatment in a guided, group format: A randomized controlled trial6
Using electrodermal activity to estimate fear learning differences in anxiety: A multiverse analysis6
Considerations of diversity, equity, and inclusion in mental health apps: A scoping review of evaluation frameworks6
The effect of universal school-based mindfulness on anhedonia and emotional distress and its underlying mechanisms: A cluster randomised controlled trial via experience sampling in secondary schools6
Can you learn to starve yourself? Inducing food avoidance in the laboratory6
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy—Taking it Further (MBCT-TiF) compared to Ongoing Mindfulness Practice (OMP) in the promotion of well-being and mental health: A randomised controlled trial with gra6
Does self-harm have the desired effect? Comparing non-suicidal self-injury to high-urge moments in an ambulatory assessment design6
Effects of imagery rescripting and imaginal exposure on voluntary memory6
Decision-making for concurrent reward and threat is differentially modulated by trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity6
Testing theoretical processes that maintain paediatric social anxiety: A comparison between children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder, other mental disorders, and non-clinical controls6
Symptoms of a feather flock together? An exploratory secondary dynamic time warp analysis of 11 single case time series of suicidal ideation and related symptoms6
When does imagery rescripting become a double-edged sword? - Investigating the risk of memory distortion through imagery rescripting in an online Trauma film study5
Attention mechanisms of social anxiety in daily life: Unique effects of negative self-focused attention on post-event processing5
Ecological momentary assessment of post-event processing in between two speech tasks: Relationships with cognitive and affective factors involved in the maintenance of social anxiety5
Indicators of early change in cognitive behaviour therapy that predict eating disorder remission5
Neuromodulation of heart rate and heart rate variability in a randomized controlled trial of tDCS-augmented in vivo exposure for specific fears5
A Tribute to Jack (Stanley) Rachman5
The effects of presenting additional stimuli resembling the CS+ during extinction on extinction retention and generalisation to novel stimuli5
A randomized controlled trial of two 10-session cognitive behaviour therapies for eating disorders: An exploratory investigation of which approach works best for whom5
Responses to autobiographical memories involving being a victim or perpetrator of betrayal in people with OCD and community controls5
Cognitive bias modification as a web-based intervention for problem drinkers: A randomized controlled trial with a factorial design5
Negative attention bias and attentional control as mechanisms in the association between insomnia and depression in young people5
Effectiveness of behavioral activation and mindfulness in increasing reward sensitivity and reducing depressive symptoms - A randomized controlled trial5
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Heterogeneity in suicide risk: Evidence from personalized dynamic models5
Fear learning, avoidance, and generalization are more context-dependent for adults than adolescents5
The relation between cognitive-behavioural responses to symptoms in patients with long term medical conditions and the outcome of cognitive behavioural therapy for fatigue – A secondary analysis of fo5
Psychoneuroimmunology in the time of COVID-19: Why neuro-immune interactions matter for mental and physical health5
Efficacy and mechanisms of change in exposure-based and cognitive stand-alone body image interventions in women with overweight and obesity5
Efficacy and mediators of online cognitive therapy for taboo obsessions in adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Randomized controlled trial5
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Predictors of trauma-related diagnostic overshadowing bias5
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