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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Bethany A. Teachman is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a substantial output within the fields of experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, applied psychology, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of mental health, publishing prominently on topics such as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional focal areas include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, digital mental health interventions, behavioral health and interventions, mental health via writing, and suicide and self-harm studies.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Laura E. Barnes, Mehdi Boukhechba, Bunmi O. Olatunji, Katharine E. Daniel, and Scott O. Lilienfeld.

Publications have been featured in journals and venues such as Clinical Psychological Science, Behaviour Research and Therapy, arXiv (Cornell University), Cognitive Therapy and Research, and Clinical Psychology Science and Practice.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Teachman are:

  • "Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action." (2020) American Psychologist
  • "The Future of Women in Psychological Science" (2020) Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Implicit-Bias Remedies: Treating Discriminatory Bias as a Public-Health Problem" (2022) Gothic.net
  • "Insights into the accuracy of social scientists' forecasts of societal change" (2023) Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Toward the data-driven dissemination of findings from psychological science." (2020) American Psychologist

Bethany A. Teachman has also published books through Cambridge University Press, including two editions of "Introduction to Clinical Psychology" released in 2020 and 2024.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2019.

Best Publications

  • Implicit anti-fat bias among health professionals: is anyone immune?

    B.A. Teachman;K.D. Brownell

  • Reducing implicit racial preferences: I. A comparative investigation of 17 interventions.

    Calvin K. Lai;Maddalena Marini;Steven A. Lehr;Carlo Cerruti

  • Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy

    Bethany A. Teachman;Kathrine D. Gapinski;Kelly D. Brownell;Melissa Rawlins

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.

    June Gruber;Mitchell J. Prinstein;Lee Anna Clark;Jonathan Rottenberg

  • Intersection of Disgust and Fear: Normative and Pathological Views

    Sheila R. Woody;Bethany A. Teachman

  • Automatic processing in spider phobia: implicit fear associations over the course of treatment.

    Bethany A. Teachman;Sheila R. Woody

  • Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy.

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  • Implicit associations for fear-relevant stimuli among individuals with snake and spider fears.

    Bethany A. Teachman;Aiden P. Gregg;Sheila R. Woody

  • Implicit and Explicit Stigma of Mental Illness in Diagnosed and Healthy Samples

    Bethany A. Teachman;Joel G. Wilson;Irina Komarovskaya

  • Implicit and explicit stigma of mental illness: links to clinical care.

    Tara S. Peris;Bethany A. Teachman;Brian A. Nosek

  • How to remain neutral: an experimental analysis of neutralization.

    S. Rachman;R. Shafran;D. Mitchell;J. Trant

  • The Claustrophobia Questionnaire.

    Adam S Radomsky;S Rachman;Dana S Thordarson;Heather K McIsaac

  • Explicit and implicit cognition: a preliminary test of a dual-process theory of cognitive vulnerability to depression.

    Gerald J. Haeffel;Lyn Y. Abramson;Paige C. Brazy;James Y. Shah

  • Towards greater understanding of addiction stigma: Intersectionality with race/ethnicity and gender.

    Magdalena Kulesza;Mauri Matsuda;Jason J. Ramirez;Alexandra J. Werntz

  • Using Mobile Sensing to Test Clinical Models of Depression, Social Anxiety, State Affect, and Social Isolation Among College Students

    Philip I Chow;Karl Fua;Yu Huang;Wesley Bonelli

  • A new mode of fear expression: perceptual bias in height fear.

    Bethany A. Teachman;Jeanine K. Stefanucci;Elise M. Clerkin;Meghan W. Cody

  • A cognitive distortion associated with eating disorders: thought-shape fusion.

    Roz Shafran;Bethany A. Teachman;Sean Kerry;S. Rachman

  • Automaticity in anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder

    Bethany A. Teachman;Jutta Joormann;Shari A. Steinman;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Development of Social Anxiety: Social Interaction Predictors of Implicit and Explicit Fear of Negative Evaluation

    Bethany A. Teachman;Joseph P. Allen

  • I drink therefore I am: validating alcohol-related implicit association tests

    Kristen P. Lindgren;Clayton Neighbors;Bethany A. Teachman;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Psychopathology and thought suppression: a quantitative review.

    Joshua C. Magee;Joshua C. Magee;K. Paige Harden;Bethany A. Teachman

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Clayton Neighbors
Clayton Neighbors University of Houston
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University
Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Debra Kaysen
Debra Kaysen Stanford University
Scott A. Baldwin
Scott A. Baldwin Brigham Young University
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Steven D. Hollon
Steven D. Hollon Vanderbilt University
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Jeanette Norris
Jeanette Norris University of Washington

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