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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study181
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals149
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals135
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety134
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students87
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Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder75
Components of cognitive-behavioral interventions to prevent the onset of depression among the high-risk population: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis68
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials58
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events56
Exposure to images of post-bushfire disaster impacts fear learning and extinction54
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect52
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?51
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial51
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety45
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 setti42
Evaluation of a brief, online imagery rescripting intervention targeting fear-of-self in high obsessive-compulsive participants41
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance39
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Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic38
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures37
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder37
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping37
Overgeneral autobiographical memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the differential roles of executive function subcomponents and the impact on symptom severity36
Prior conceptual structure in shaping fear generalization: The impact of co-occurrence frequency and retrieval context36
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support35
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
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style35
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Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories34
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy34
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity33
Testing associations between negative interpretation inflexibility, anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty33
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans32
Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility32
Fear reacquisition and symptoms of combat-related PTSD: Specificity and preliminary examination of the influence of the 5-HT3A receptor gene32
Heart-Mind-Behavior Parent Training: Randomized controlled trial for Chinese parents of young children with ASD32
Repetitive negative thinking in daily life predicts psychopathology: Further validation of an ecological momentary assessment paradigm31
Downstream effects of observational threat learning: Generalization and reversal learning across development31
Induced awareness of stimulus differences impedes the generalization of extinction learning with various, highly similar stimuli29
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]29
No-think, No drink? Assessing the ability of reconsolidation interference by intentional forgetting to suppress alcohol memories in hazardous drinkers28
Effects of social buffering on fear extinction in adolescent rats28
Effectiveness of an online positive affect treatment targeting reward sensitivity in reducing depressive symptoms among college students: A randomized controlled trial27
Repetitive negative thinking and suicidal ideation in internalizing psychopathologies: A replication study27
A multilevel machine learning algorithm to predict session-by-session outcome for patients receiving cognitive-behavioural therapy26
When emotions persist: Emotional inertia predicts adolescent depression amid COVID-19 stress26
Decentering predicts attenuated perseverative thought and internalizing symptoms following stress exposure: A multi-level, multi-wave study25
Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review25
Is internet-based parent training for everyone? Predictors and moderators of outcomes in group vs. internet-based parent training for children with disruptive behavior problems24
Cognitive behavior therapy for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis24
The relative efficacy and efficiency of single- and multi-session exposure therapies for specific phobia: A meta-analysis24
Divergent experiences of U.S. veterans who did and did not complete trauma-focused therapies for PTSD: A national qualitative study of treatment dropout23
Visual attention during cognitive reappraisal in adolescent major depression: Evidence from two eye-tracking studies22
Psychological mechanisms of change in reducing co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol use: A causal mediation analysis of the online Inroads intervention22
Predicting responsiveness to a dialectical behaviour therapy skills training app for recurrent binge eating: A machine learning approach22
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Can placebos reduce intrusive memories?21
Imagery rescripting and extinction: Effects on US expectancy, US revaluation, and the generalization of fear reduction21
Performance-based attentional control, but not self-reported attentional control, predicts changes in depressive symptoms in short-term psychotherapy21
Threat sensitivity in emotion dynamics: Negativity effects and sex differences21
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
Role of social determinants in anxiety and depression symptoms during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adults in North Carolina and Massachusetts20
Advances in the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based interventions for historically marginalized groups19
Can cognitive behavioral additions improve the efficacy of self-help mindfulness intervention for depression and anxiety ?: A randomized controlled trial19
Contextual factors influence effectiveness of cognitive reappraisal.19
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Can integrating the Memory Support Intervention into cognitive therapy improve depression outcome? A randomized controlled trial18
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Guided internet-based LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: A randomized controlled trial among sexual minority men in China18
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Mechanisms of change in digital cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in patients with chronic back pain: A mediation analysis of a multicenter randomized clinical trial18
Developmental shifts in the anxiety and hazardous alcohol use relationship: Moderating factors from adolescence to young adulthood17
Translational assessment of anhedonia components: Significant associations between reward anticipation measured via behavioural task performance, daily smartphone reports, and general anhedonia questi17
“I'm not here to push you:” raising adolescents' treatment engagement via autonomy support17
To focus on a confederate or oneself? Attentional bias and state anxiety in socially anxious individuals during real-time online video calls17
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Corrigendum to “Multi-session online interpretation bias training for anxiety in a community sample” [Behaviour Research and Therapy, 142 (2021), 1–15 / 103864]16
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Using network analysis to characterize clinical improvement during cognitive processing therapy16
Real-world evidence from users of a behavioral digital therapeutic for chronic insomnia16
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Daily relationships among maternal rumination, mood and bonding with infant16
The impact of module dosage on treatment response in a modular transdiagnostic intervention for sleep and circadian dysfunction (TranS-C)16
A threat from within: Learning to fear by observing aversive bodily symptoms in others15
Improving treatments for mental disorders using computational models15
The effects of culturally adapted expressive writing interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms among Chinese American breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial15
Mediators and Moderators of two online interventions for managing pain, fear of progression and functional ability in rheumatoid arthritis15
Recalling and anticipating positive events to improve the positive affect and mental health of adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools15
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 pain15
Predicting Chinese adolescents’ non-suicidal self-injury urges at diathetic, environmental, and life-event levels——machine learning and network analysis14
From innovation to implementation: Artificial intelligence in cognitive behaviour therapy training and supervision14
A randomized-controlled trial comparing relative effects of mindfulness-based interoceptive exposure focus versus distraction on cold-pressor induced pain14
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Network intervention analysis of anxiety-related outcomes and processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxious cancer survivors13
Moderators of treatment effect of Prompt Mental Health Care compared to treatment as usual: Results from a randomized controlled trial13
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Safety behaviors toward innocuous stimuli can maintain or increase threat beliefs13
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Are biased and inflexible updating of interpretations broad or narrow transdiagnostic risk markers for psychopathology? A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) lens13
Do appearance related safety behaviors contribute to distress intolerance? A Multi-method examination12
Examining emotional processing theory and predictors of outcome in prolonged exposure for PTSD12
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Suicide-specific rumination as a predictor of suicide planning and intent12
Affective and computational determinants of threat extinction biases12
Changes in cognitive processes and coping strategies precede changes in symptoms during cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder12
Suicide and cognitive processes: Introduction to the special issue12
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: A summary and overview of the literature12
Prosody-focused feedback enhances the efficacy of anti-depressive self-statements in depressed individuals – A randomized controlled trial12
Identifying the active ingredients of cognitive-behavioural therapy: Conceptualisation, methods and evidence12
Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia12
The unique impacts of attentional control and experiential avoidance on PTSD symptomatology: Moderation of nonlinear effects11
Attentional bias modification in male college smokers: The changes of facilitated attention, difficulty in disengagement and the transfer effects of training11
Empirically supported treatments for all: Realizing equitable coverage of care for trauma survivors globally11
Breaking barriers: Addressing hostile attribution bias and aggression among future correctional officers11
Prospective relations between anxiety sensitivity and transdiagnostic anxiety following cognitive-behavioral therapy: Evidence from the Coordinated Anxiety Learning management trial11
Remembering and forgetting: A dynamic social retrieval theory of posttraumatic stress11
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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 disorder11
Toward a mechanistic understanding of LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: Testing treatment mediators in a randomized controlled trial with young gay and bisexual men11
Predictors of school-based cognitive behavior therapy outcome for youth with anxiety11
Effectiveness of two video-based multicomponent treatments for fibromyalgia: The added value of cognitive restructuring and mindfulness in a three-arm randomised controlled trial10
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Introduction to special issue honoring Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023)10
“It's safer to believe that others don't like me” – A qualitative study on the paradoxical value of negative core beliefs in depression10
Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments10
Neurocognitive mechanisms of mental imagery-based disgust learning10
Self-guided online treatment of disturbed grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in adults bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial10
Parenting Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An RCT of an online course with families of children with CP10
The benefit and neural mechanisms of computerized inhibitory control training for insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype: a rs-fMRI study10
What we got wrong about depression and its treatment10
Directional associations among real-time activity, sleep, mood, and daytime symptoms in major depressive disorder using actigraphy and ecological momentary assessment10
Corrigendum to “Evaluation of a brief, online imagery rescripting intervention targeting fear-of-self in high obsessive–compulsive participants” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 195 (2025) 104903]10
Fostering socio-emotional competencies in children on the autism spectrum using a parent-assisted serious game: A multicenter randomized controlled trial10
Facets of social problem-solving as moderators of the real-time relation between social rejection and negative affect in an at-risk sample10
Changing maladaptive trauma-related cognitions and emotional activation during trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy: Thematic content and relationships with posttraumatic stress symptoms10
Persistence of extensively trained avoidance is not elevated in anxiety disorders in an outcome devaluation paradigm10
Changes in trauma-related cognitions predict subsequent symptom improvement during prolonged exposure in patients with childhood abuse-related PTSD9
Implicit emotion regulation affects the emotional information updating function of high trait ruminators: An ERP study9
Past stories, future worries: sleep does not alter the emotional response to future-relevant or irrelevant negative memories9
No joy - why bother? Higher anhedonia relates to reduced pleasure from and motivation for threat avoidance9
Joy beyond fear: Positive emotions after exposure in patients with anxiety disorders and their link to threat expectancy and treatment outcome9
Reappraising negative situations after a night of sleep deprivation9
Eye-tracking to assess anxiety-related attentional biases among a large sample of preadolescent children9
The combination of physical exercise and slow-paced breathing on psychophysiological indices of emotion reactivity, psychosocial stress reactivity and recovery: A multimodal investigation9
Reflections on an emerging new science of mental disorders9
Corrigendum to “Measuring self-efficacy, executive function, and temporal discounting in Kenya” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 101 (2018) 30–45]9
The role of mental imagery in worry: Insights from aphantasia9
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Continuous theta burst stimulation to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in young adults with depression: Changes in resting frontostriatal functional connectivity relevant to positive mood9
Effects of positive and negative affect inductions on interpretive and response bias9
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
Using GIMME to model the emotional context of suicidal ideation based on clinical data: From research to clinical practice8
Jumping back onto the giants’ shoulders: Why emotional memory should be considered in a network perspective of psychopathology8
Does the network structure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms at treatment admission identify patients at risk for non-response?8
I've got a friend in me: The effect of self-compassion on affect via emotion regulation in adolescents using ecological momentary assessment8
Do I really have to do my homework? The role of homework compliance in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome8
Global precedence effect in fear generalization and the role of trait anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty8
Youth social functioning interacts with treatment arm, diagnosis, and gender to predict anxiety treatment outcome8
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Do trauma cue exposure and/or PTSD symptom severity intensify selective approach bias toward cannabis cues in regular cannabis users with trauma histories?8
Expanding, improving, and understanding behaviour research and therapy through digital mental health8
Moderators of outcome in self-guided internet-delivered cognitive-behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder8
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Stigmatized experience is associated with exacerbated pain perception in depressed patients8
The renewal reducing effect of unpaired unconditional stimuli presented during extinction is not specific to the unconditional stimulus used during acquisition8
Neurocognitive functioning in adults with trichotillomania: Predictors of treatment response and symptom severity in a randomized control trial8
Transdiagnostic and transtherapeutic strategies for optimising autobiographical memory8
Associations among threat prediction error, prediction change, and anxiety during an exposure therapy analogue in adults with healthy to clinical social anxiety7
Temporal associations between adolescents’ psychological inflexibility and posttraumatic stress symptoms after a super typhoon: Examining the mediation of cognitive emotion regulation7
Active contextualization reduces traumatic memory intrusions via memory integration7
Perseveration on suicidal thoughts and images in daily life: An examination of the cognitive model of suicide through a dynamic systems lens7
Self-report measures of fear learning and extinction and their association with internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy outcome7
Patterns of self-harm functions among clinic-referred youth: Associations with treatment outcomes7
Effects of patient response pattern distributions on comparisons of psychosocial treatments for major depressive disorder7
Exposure and response prevention versus stress management training for adults and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized clinical trial7
Biased and inflexible interpretations of social situations predict depressive symptoms and relational outcomes in parent-adolescent dyads7
Unpaired unconditional stimuli during fear extinction at full and reduced intensity reduce re-acquisition7
The efficacy of self-guided internet and mobile-based interventions for preventing anxiety and depression – A systematic review and meta-analysis7
Contamination fear and attention bias variability early in the COVID-19 pandemic7
Suicidal ideation trajectories among adults following psychiatric hospitalization7
Itsy bitsy spider: Fear and avoidance (generalization) in a free-exploratory virtual reality paradigm7
Efficacy of a transdiagnostic internet-based program for adolescents with emotional disorders: A randomized controlled trial7
Brief emotion regulation strategies to reduce alcohol craving: Mediating role of state difficulties in emotion regulation7
Optimizing indicated cognitive behavioral therapy to prevent child anxiety and depression: A cluster-randomized factorial trial7
Fear extinction using a conditioned stimulus that was temporally proximal to the unconditioned stimulus reduces physiological and subjective return of fear7
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 and7
A mental imagery intervention targeting suicidal ideation in university students: An assessor-blind, randomised controlled feasibility trial7
Differential effectiveness of dialectical behavioural therapy and schema therapy in patients with borderline personality disorder: a secondary analysis of a randomised clinical trial7
Not just “big” data: Importance of sample size, measurement error, and uninformative predictors for developing prognostic models for digital interventions7
A randomized controlled trial of brief behavioral activation plus savoring for positive affect dysregulation in university students7
Shifting threat criterion for morphed facial expressions reduces negative affect6
How well do Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Activation for depression repair anhedonia? A secondary analysis of the COBRA randomized controlled trial6
Long-term efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: A 2–8-year follow-up of two randomized controlled trials6
The role of relief in persistent avoidance of learnt fear6
Experiential processing increases positive affect and decreases dampening appraisals during autobiographical memory recall in an anhedonic sample6
Attentional processing of concern-related stimuli in dissociative identity disorder: No evidence for inter-identity differences6
Quantifying and addressing the impact of measurement error in network models6
Imagery rescripting: New developments special issue editorial6
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Effects of timing and type of trauma-focused treatment on psychosocial functioning: secondary outcomes from a randomized controlled trial in patients with co-occurring substance use disorder and postt6
Fluctuations in emotion regulation as a mechanism linking stress and internalizing psychopathology among adolescents: An intensive longitudinal study6
Effectiveness of body exposure for the treatment of body image disturbance: A meta-analysis6
The role of concreteness in repetitive negative thinking: Temporal dynamics and the predictive value for depression throughout psychological treatment6
Brief imagery rescripting is equivalent to imaginal exposure in improving response to worry images among high worry individuals6
Active positive searching versus passive negative avoidance: A comparative investigation of large-scale offline attention bias modification training in nonclinical adolescents6
Receiving self-compassion in the virtual world: Testing the potential value of biofeedback6
Pavlovian threat conditioning can generate intrusive memories that persist over time6
Effectiveness of intensive exposure therapy for persistent post-concussion symptoms: an aggregated single-case design approach6
Perseverative thinking is associated with features of spoken language6
A randomized controlled trial of online mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral interventions for sexual interest/arousal disorder in women: eSense6
Effects of safety behavior fading on social anxiety and emotional disclosure6
Using what we know about threat reactivity models to understand mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Augmenting in vivo exposure with reward-focused strategies: A randomized controlled trial providing preliminary evidence for improved outcomes in individuals with elevated anhedonia6
Pre-deployment threat learning predicts increased risk for post-deployment insomnia: Evidence from the Marine Resiliency Study6
On the importance of identifying mechanisms and active ingredients of psychological treatments6
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 gra5
Tailored internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for individuals experiencing psychological distress associated with climate change: A pilot randomized controlled trial5
Association between the behavioral response during social exclusion and recalled childhood maltreatment5
Examining concordance between emotion-dependent risk-taking in the laboratory and in the real-world5
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Can you learn to starve yourself? Inducing food avoidance in the laboratory5
Mechanisms of cognitive behavioral therapy vs. supportive psychotherapy in body dysmorphic disorder: An exploratory mediation analysis5
Differences in conditioning using unconditioned stimuli evoking fear, disgust or both emotions simultaneously5
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 schools5
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Predicting early dropout in online versus face-to-face guided self-help: A machine learning approach5
Mobile intervention to address cannabis use disorder among black adults: A proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial5
Supporting extinction memory updating to promote extinction generalization in a category-based fear conditioning paradigm5
Impact of a brief HRV-biofeedback intervention on emotion regulation following a real-life stressful event: A randomized controlled study5
Using electrodermal activity to estimate fear learning differences in anxiety: A multiverse analysis5
Examining the efficacy of the computerized anxiety sensitivity treatment in a guided, group format: A randomized controlled trial5
Testing theoretical processes that maintain paediatric social anxiety: A comparison between children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder, other mental disorders, and non-clinical controls5
Decision-making for concurrent reward and threat is differentially modulated by trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity5
Mindfulness-induced self-transcendence promotes universal love with consequent effects on opioid misuse5
Handholding reduces the recovery of threat memories and magnifies prefrontal hemodynamic responses5
Symptoms of a feather flock together? An exploratory secondary dynamic time warp analysis of 11 single case time series of suicidal ideation and related symptoms5
Should I stay or should I go? Investigating reward-based decision-making in anhedonic individuals5
Does self-harm have the desired effect? Comparing non-suicidal self-injury to high-urge moments in an ambulatory assessment design5
No distorted prediction error processing in depression? Pupillary responses to expected vs. unexpected emotional information in clinically depressed and healthy individuals5
Positive emotion up-regulation in the wake of a cognitively demanding task: An event-related potential study5
A randomized controlled trial of self-help acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for perfectionism5
Diversity in emotion regulation strategy use: Resilience against posttraumatic stress disorder5
Finding a positive me: Affective and neural insights into the challenges of positive autobiographical memory reliving in borderline personality disorder5
The effects of digital CBT-I on work productivity and activity levels and the mediational role of insomnia symptoms: Data from a randomized controlled trial with 6-month follow-up4
Same same but different: Threat expectancy change and fear reduction as readouts of exposure rationales are only weakly associated and contribute differentially to treatment outcome in anxiety disorde4
Results from a randomized controlled trial testing theory-driven enhancements – Growth mindsets and message framing -- to a brief CBT text-message invention for co-occurring PTSD symptoms and alcohol 4
Responses to autobiographical memories involving being a victim or perpetrator of betrayal in people with OCD and community controls4
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