Psychology Publications
The Psychology Department at Western has over 50 faculty members representing four Clusters of Research Excellence. Our faculty work with talented graduate and post-graduate students on cutting-edge questions about human and animal behavior. Undergraduate students in Psychology often participate in these exciting research programs. Clinical Science and Psychopathology (CSP) Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences (CDB) Industrial/Organizational Psychology (I/O) Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology (SPDP).
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Submissions from 2009
Changes in self-schema structure in cognitive therapy for major depressive disorder: a randomized clinical trial., David J A Dozois, Peter J Bieling, Irene Patelis-Siotis, Lori Hoar, Susan Chudzik, Katie McCabe, and Henny A Westra
Working It Out Together: Family Caregivers' Perceptions of Relationship-Building With In-Home Service Providers, Thomas W. Gantert, Carol L. McWilliam, Catherine Ward-Griffin, and Natalie Allen
Shared Features Dominate Semantic Richness Effects for Concrete Concepts, Ray Grondin, Stephen J. Lupker, and Ken McRae
The Wind Chilled the Spectators, but the Wine Just Chilled: Sense, Structure, and Sentence Comprehension, Mary Hare, Jeffrey L. Elman, Tracy Tabaczynski, and Ken McRae
Activating Event Knowledge, Mary Hare, Michael Jones, Caroline Thomson, Sarah Kelly, and Ken McRae
Semantic Richness and the Activation of Concepts in Semantic Memory: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials, John Kounios, Deborah L. Green, Lisa Payne, Jessica I. Fleck, Ray Grondin, and Ken McRae
Context Matters: The Impact of Unit Leadership and Empowerment on Nurses’ Organizational Commitment, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Joan Finegan, and Piotr Wilk
People Use Their Knowledge of Common Events to Understand Language, and Do so as Quickly as Possible, Ken McRae and Kazunaga Matsuki
Conceptual Hierarchies in a Flat Attractor Network: Dynamics of Learning and Computations, Christopher M. O'Connor, George S. Cree, and Ken McRae
Cognitive vulnerability to anxiety: A review and an integrative model., Allison J Ouimet, Bertram Gawronski, and David J A Dozois
The Relation between Common Sleep Problems and Emotional and Behavioral Problems among 2- and 3-year-olds in the Context of Known Risk Factors for Psychopathology, Graham J. Reid, Ryan Y. Hong, and Terrance J. Wade
Validation of a Short Version of the Maternal Behavior Q-set Applied to a Brief Video Record of Mother–infant Interaction, George M. Tarabulsy, Marc A. Provost, Stéphanie Bordeleau, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Greg Moran, David R. Pederson, Myriam Trabelsi, Jean-Pascal Lemelin, and Tamarha Pierce
Adding a motivational interviewing pretreatment to cognitive behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: a preliminary randomized controlled trial., Henny A Westra, Hal Arkowitz, and David J A Dozois
Submissions from 2008
The Effect of Forearm Posture on Wrist Flexion in Computer Workers with Chronic Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders, Ronald A. Burgess, R. Terry Thompson, and Gary B. Rollman
Distinct Haptic Cues Do Not Reduce Interference When Learning to Reach in Multiple Force Fields, Nicholas Cothros, Jeremy Wong, and Paul L. Gribble
A meta-analysis of CBT for pathological worry among clients with GAD., Roger Covin, Allison J Ouimet, Pamela M Seeds, and David J A Dozois
Selective attention to threat versus reward: meta-analysis and neural-network modeling of the dot-probe task., Paul A Frewen, David J A Dozois, Marc F Joanisse, and Richard W J Neufeld
Neuroimaging studies of psychological interventions for mood and anxiety disorders: empirical and methodological review., Paul A Frewen, David J A Dozois, and Ruth A Lanius
Meta-analysis of alexithymia in posttraumatic stress disorder., Paul A Frewen, David J A Dozois, Richard W J Neufeld, and Ruth A Lanius
Letting Go: Mindfulness and Negative Automatic Thinking, Paul A. Frewen, Elspeth M. Evans, Nicholas Maraj, and David J. A. Dozois
Clinical and neural correlates of alexithymia in posttraumatic stress disorder., Paul A Frewen, Ruth A Lanius, David J A Dozois, Richard W J Neufeld, Clare Pain, James W Hopper, Maria Densmore, and Todd K Stevens
The Key to Me: Seniors' Perceptions of Relationship-Building with In-Home Service Providers, Thomas W. Gantert, Carol L. McWilliam, Catherine Ward-Griffin, and Natalie J. Allen
Behavioral Genetic Studies of Personality: An Introduction and Review of the Results of 50+ Years of Research, Andrew M. Johnson, Philip A. Vernon, and Amanda R. Feiler
Situational and Dispositional Predictors of Nurse Manager Burnout: A time-lagged Analysis, Heather K. Spence Laschinger and Joan Finegan
The Roots of Depression in Early Attachment Experiences, Greg Moran, Heidi N. Bailey, and Carey Anne DeOliveira