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Ann O'Leary is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology, with a particular focus on clinical and applied psychology, as well as social psychology. They have contributed to fields intersecting with endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics related to personality disorders and psychopathology, psychotherapy techniques and applications, attachment and relationship dynamics, behavioral health and interventions, optimism, hope, and well-being, as well as diabetes management and education. Their research also covers health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life.

Ann O'Leary has published in several academic venues, including:

  • Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
  • Journal of Health Psychology
  • European Urology

Their recent papers include:

  • "I'm fighting with BPD instead of my partner": A dyadic interpretative phenomenological analysis of the lived experience of couples navigating borderline personality disorder, 2023, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
  • Assessing the relationship between present bias and diabetes self-care behavior, 2025, Journal of Health Psychology
  • A0692 - Stockholm3: A cost-effective tool for prostate cancer risk stratification amid UK staff shortages, 2025, European Urology

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Ashley L. Landers
  • Jeffrey B. Jackson
  • Mary Turner DePalma
  • Kennedey Taylor Heichel
  • Clara Cerrato

Best Publications

  • Stress, emotion, and human immune function.

    Ann O'Leary

  • Perceived self-efficacy and pain control: opioid and nonopioid mechanisms.

    Albert Bandura;Ann O'Leary;C. Barr Taylor;Janel Gauthier

  • Impact of perceived self-efficacy in coping with stressors on components of the immune system.

    Sue A. Wiedenfeld;Ann O'Leary;Albert Bandura;Shirley Brown

  • Impact of Ebola experiences and risk perceptions on mental health in Sierra Leone, July 2015

    Mohamed F Jalloh;Wenshu Li;Rebecca E Bunnell;Kathleen A Ethier

  • A cognitive-behavioral treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.

    Ann O'Leary;Stanford Shoor;Kate Lorig;Halsted R. Holman

  • Effects on sexual risk behavior and STD rate of brief HIV/STD prevention interventions for African American women in primary care settings.

    Loretta Sweet Jemmott;John B. Jemmott;Ann O’Leary

  • Predictors of safer sex on the college campus: a social cognitive theory analysis.

    Ann O'leary;Fern Goodhart;Loretta Sweet Jemmott;Daria Boccher-Lattimore

  • From child sexual abuse to adult sexual risk: Trauma, revictimization, and intervention.

    Linda J. Koenig;Lynda S. Doll;Ann O'Leary;Willo Pequegnat

  • Self-efficacy and health: Behavioral and stress-physiological mediation

    Ann O'Leary

  • Personality and health.

    Richard J. Contrada;Howard Leventhal;Ann O'Leary

  • The Efficacy of HIV/STI Behavioral Interventions for African American Females in the United States: A Meta-Analysis

    Nicole Crepaz;Khiya J. Marshall;Latrina W. Aupont;Elizabeth D. Jacobs

  • A Double-Blind Study of Citalopram Versus Placebo in the Treatment of Compulsive Sexual Behaviors in Gay and Bisexual Men

    Milton L. Wainberg;Frederick Muench;Jon Morgenstern;Eric Hollander

  • Childhood sexual abuse and sexual transmission risk behaviour among HIV-positive men who have sex with men

    A. O'leary;D. Purcell;R. H. Remien;C. Gomez

  • Mediation analysis of an effective sexual risk-reduction intervention for women: the importance of self-efficacy.

    Ann O'Leary;Loretta Sweet Jemmott;John B Jemmott

  • Women at risk for HIV from a primary partner: balancing risk and intimacy.

    Ann O'leary

  • Theory of planned behaviour predictors of intention to use condoms among Xhosa adolescents in South Africa

    J. B. Jemmott;G. A. Heeren;Z. Ngwane;N. Hewitt

  • Addressing poverty as risk for disease: recommendations from CDC's consultation on microenterprise as HIV prevention.

    Dale Stratford;Yuko Mizuno;Kim Williams;Cari Courtenay-Quirk

  • Sexual behavior among hiv‐positive men who have sex with men: What's in a label?

    Trevor A. Hart;Richard J. Wolitski;David W. Purcell;Cynthia Gómez

  • Reducing heavy drinking in HIV primary care: a randomized trial of brief intervention, with and without technological enhancement.

    Deborah S. Hasin;Efrat Aharonovich;Ann O'Leary;Eliana Greenstein

  • Measurement of condom use self-efficacy and outcome expectancies in a geographically diverse group of STD patients.

    Colleen DiIorio;Edward Maibach;Ann O'Leary;Catherine A. Sanderson

Frequent Co-Authors

John B. Jemmott
John B. Jemmott University of Pennsylvania
Deborah S. Hasin
Deborah S. Hasin Columbia University
Jeffrey T. Parsons
Jeffrey T. Parsons City University of New York
B. R. Simon Rosser
B. R. Simon Rosser University of Minnesota
Keith J. Horvath
Keith J. Horvath San Diego State University
Jon Morgenstern
Jon Morgenstern Columbia University
Marcela Raffaelli
Marcela Raffaelli University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Erich Labouvie
Erich Labouvie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Suzanne M. Miller
Suzanne M. Miller Fox Chase Cancer Center
Richard J. Contrada
Richard J. Contrada Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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