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Born to fear: non-associative vs associative factors in the etiology of phobiasSusan Mineka
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 2710, USA
Behav Res Ther 40:173-84. 2002..Overall, we call for major methodological improvements in this area, in the context of theoretical developments pointing to interacting vulnerability and invulnerability factors...- Attentional biases to internal and external sources of potential threat in social anxietySuzanne L Pineles
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:314-8. 2005..Results showed that socially anxious participants exhibited an attentional bias toward cues of internal, but not external, sources of potential threat... - A contemporary learning theory perspective on the etiology of anxiety disorders: it's not what you thought it wasSusan Mineka
Department of PsychologyNorthwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 2710, USA
Am Psychol 61:10-26. 2006..This range of variables can lead to a rich and nuanced understanding of the etiology and course of anxiety disorders... 
Incorporating hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis measures into preventive interventions for adolescent depression: are we there yet?Emma K Adam
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Dev Psychopathol 20:975-1001. 2008....- The relevance of recent developments in classical conditioning to understanding the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disordersSusan Mineka
Northwestern University, Psychology Swift Hall, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, United States
Acta Psychol (Amst) 127:567-80. 2008..Finally, we discuss recent developments in basic experimental research on fear conditioning and anxiety, with particular attention to research on contextual learning, and indicate the relevance of these findings to anxiety disorders... 
The Northwestern-UCLA youth emotion project: Associations of cognitive vulnerabilities, neuroticism and gender with past diagnoses of emotional disorders in adolescentsRichard E Zinbarg
Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Behav Res Ther 48:347-58. 2010..These results suggest that, at least for retrospective associations with past anxiety and unipolar mood disorders, the cognitive and other personality-cognitive vulnerabilities are non-specific facets of neuroticism...- Are anxiety and depression just as stable as personality during late adolescence? Results from a three-year longitudinal latent variable studyJason M Prenoveau
Department of Psychology, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 120:832-43. 2011..These findings indicate that symptoms of depression are more episodic in nature, whereas symptoms of anxiety are more similar to personality variables in their expression of stability... - The role of neuroticism and extraversion in the stress-anxiety and stress-depression relationshipsAmanda A Uliaszek
Department of Clinical Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Anxiety Stress Coping 23:363-81. 2010..Additionally, the stress-social phobia relationship is highlighted with no evidence supporting an association between other anxiety disorders and CLS... - Elevated responding to safe conditions as a specific risk factor for anxiety versus depressive disorders: evidence from a longitudinal investigationMichelle G Craske
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:315-24. 2012..In sum, elevated responding to safe conditions following an aversive stimulus appears to be a specific, prospective risk factor for the first onset of anxiety disorders... - A longitudinal examination of stress generation in depressive and anxiety disordersAmanda A Uliaszek
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:4-15. 2012..The present findings have implications regarding the specificity of the stress generation model to depressive disorders, as well as variables involved in the stress generation process... - Overgeneral autobiographical memory and chronic interpersonal stress as predictors of the course of depression in adolescentsJennifer A Sumner
Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, 2029 Sheridan Road, Suite 102, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Cogn Emot 25:183-92. 2011..Thus, our findings suggest that OGM, in interaction with chronic interpersonal stress, predicts the course of depression among adolescents, and highlight the importance of measuring interpersonal stress in OGM research... - The relationship between anxiety sensitivity and latent symptoms of emotional problems: A structural equation modeling approachAlison R Lewis
Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, 2029 Sheridan Road, Swift Hall 102, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Behav Res Ther 48:761-9. 2010.... - Prospective prediction of major depressive disorder from cortisol awakening responses in adolescenceEmma K Adam
School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60640, United States
Psychoneuroendocrinology 35:921-31. 2010..In summary, the CAR is a significant prospective risk factor for the development of MDD in young adults, providing some support for the possibility that a heightened CAR may play a role in the etiology of major depressive disorder... - Neuroticism and introversion are associated with salivary cortisol patterns in adolescentsKatherina K Y Hauner
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 2710, United States
Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:1344-56. 2008.... - Testing a hierarchical model of anxiety and depression in adolescents: a tri-level modelJason M Prenoveau
Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Anxiety Disord 24:334-44. 2010..Implications for DSM classification and arrangement of anxiety and depressive disorders are discussed as is how present findings help bridge existing research conducted at symptom and diagnostic levels... - Cognitive vulnerability to depressive symptoms in adolescents in urban and rural Hunan, China: a multiwave longitudinal studyJohn R Z Abela
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 120:765-78. 2011..e., symptom specificity), and the ability of cognitive vulnerability factors to predict prospective change in depressive symptoms above and beyond the effects of trait neuroticism (i.e., etiological specificity)... - Evaluating the invariance and validity of the structure of dysfunctional attitudes in an adolescent populationJason M Prenoveau
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Calfornia 90095 1563, USA
Assessment 16:258-73. 2009..The structure displays partial metric invariance in female and male students as well as in Caucasian and Non-Caucasian students... - An item response theory/confirmatory factor analysis of the Autobiographical Memory TestJames W Griffith
Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 750 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Memory 17:609-23. 2009..In addition, item response theory analyses showed that the AMT is most precise for people who score low on memory specificity. Implications for using the AMT with high-functioning samples are discussed... - Does neuroticism in adolescents moderate contextual and explicit threat cue modulation of the startle reflex?Michelle G Craske
Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, California, USA
Biol Psychiatry 65:220-6. 2009..This study evaluated the relationship between neuroticism (N), a probable risk factor for emotional disorders, and modulation of startle reflexes (SRs)... - Time-course of attention to negative stimuli: negative affectivity, anxiety, or dysphoria?Katherine A Oehlberg
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Emotion 12:943-59. 2012.... - Exposure therapy triggers lasting reorganization of neural fear processingKatherina K Hauner
Department of Neurology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:9203-8. 2012..These effects were linked to fear-extinction mechanisms identified in animal models, thus opening new opportunities for the treatment and prevention of debilitating anxiety disorders... - Examining the mechanisms of overgeneral autobiographical memory: capture and rumination, and impaired executive controlJennifer A Sumner
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Memory 19:169-83. 2011..We found no evidence of interactions between these mechanisms. Findings are interpreted with respect to current autobiographical memory models. Future directions for OGM mechanism research are discussed... - Overgeneral autobiographical memory as a predictor of the course of depression: a meta-analysisJennifer A Sumner
Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, 2029 Sheridan Road, Suite 102, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Behav Res Ther 48:614-25. 2010..These findings highlight OGM as a predictor of the course of depression, and future studies should investigate the mechanisms underlying this relationship... - Interpersonal appraisals of emotionally distressed persons by anxious and dysphoric individualsSuzanne L Pineles
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Swift Hall, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
J Anxiety Disord 18:779-97. 2004..However, anxious and dysphoric participants did not differ from control participants in their ratings of the videos... - Phobias and preparedness: the selective, automatic, and encapsulated nature of fearSusan Mineka
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-2710, USA
Biol Psychiatry 52:927-37. 2002..Finally, we propose that there are two levels of fear conditioning, with an emotional level that is relatively independent of the cognitive contingency level, each mediated by different brain areas... - Changes in caffeine states enhance return of fear in spider phobiaJayson L Mystkowski
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 71:243-50. 2003..Results demonstrated state-dependent learning. Participants experiencing incongruent drug states during treatment and follow-up (CP and PC) exhibited greater return of fear than those experiencing congruent drug states (CC and PP)... - Placing the mnemonic model in context: diagnostic, theoretical, and clinical considerationsScott M Monroe
Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Psychol Rev 115:1084-98; discussion 1099-107. 2008..The present authors conclude with suggestions for future theory and research to help differentiate between memory's role in the origins of PTSD and memory's role in the clinical course of the disorder... - Evaluating the invariance of the factor structure of the EPQ-R-N among adolescentsNilly Mor
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, USA
J Pers Assess 90:66-75. 2008..The 3 group factors varied across ethnicity and sex. We discuss the implications of these findings for conceptualization and assessment of neuroticism using the EPQ-R-N... - Racial/ethnic differences in cortisol diurnal rhythms in a community sample of adolescentsAmy S DeSantis
Program on Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy and the Cells to Society Center, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
J Adolesc Health 41:3-13. 2007.... - Who sees trees before forest? The obsessive-compulsive style of visual attentionIftah Yovel
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 15 Parkman St, ACC 812, Boston, MA 02114 3117, USA
Psychol Sci 16:123-9. 2005..Specifically, the obsessive-compulsive cognitive style was associated with local interference, which reflects the effects of distraction by to-be-ignored small details on identification of global information... - Extinction in human fear conditioningDirk Hermans
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Biol Psychiatry 60:361-8. 2006....