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Overview

Bunmi O. Olatunji is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Psychology and Neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional subfields of study include Social Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics within the behavioral and clinical sciences. Key areas of focus include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Other notable research interests involve the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, mental health research topics, posttraumatic stress disorder research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and sleep-related disorders.

Olatunji has contributed to the academic literature with several recent papers, including:

  • "Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action." (2020), published in American Psychologist
  • "Specificity of trait anxiety in anxiety and depression: Meta-analysis of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory" (2020), published in Clinical Psychology Review
  • "Sleep in the anxiety-related disorders: A meta-analysis of subjective and objective research" (2020), published in Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • "Anxiety and safety behavior usage during the COVID-19 pandemic: The prospective role of contamination fear" (2020), published in Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • "Pre-pandemic disgust proneness predicts increased coronavirus anxiety and safety behaviors: Evidence for a diathesis-stress model" (2020), published in Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Frequent co-authors include Sarah C. Jessup, Rebecca C. Cox, Bethany A. Teachman, Alexandra M. Adamis, and Douglas A. Bernstein.

Olatunji's publications are commonly found in several venues such as Behavior Therapy, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Journal of Affective Disorders, and Clinical Psychology Science and Practice.

In addition to journal articles, Olatunji has contributed to the book literature, with publications through Cambridge University Press. Notably, they authored or co-authored "Introduction to Clinical Psychology," with editions in 2020 and 2024.

Best Publications

  • Eye tracking of attention in the affective disorders: a meta-analytic review and synthesis.

    Thomas Armstrong;Bunmi O. Olatunji

  • Quality of life in the anxiety disorders: A meta-analytic review

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Josh M. Cisler;David F. Tolin

  • The Disgust Scale: Item Analysis, Factor Structure, and Suggestions for Refinement.

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Nathan L. Williams;David F. Tolin;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz

  • Assessment of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions: development and evaluation of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale.

    Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Brett J. Deacon;Bunmi O. Olatunji;Michael G. Wheaton

  • Emotion Regulation and the Anxiety Disorders: An Integrative Review.

    Josh M. Cisler;Bunmi O. Olatunji;Matthew T. Feldner;John P. Forsyth

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a meta-analysis of treatment outcome and moderators

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Michelle L. Davis;Mark B. Powers;Jasper A.J. Smits

  • Anxiety sensitivity and the anxiety disorders: A meta-analytic review and synthesis.

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor

  • 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

  • Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: A Review of Meta-Analytic Findings

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Josh M. Cisler;Brett J. Deacon

  • Psychological Predictors of Anxiety in Response to the H1N1 (Swine Flu) Pandemic

    Michael G. Wheaton;Jonathan S. Abramowitz;Noah C. Berman;Laura E. Fabricant

  • A systematic review of sleep disturbance in anxiety and related disorders.

    Rebecca C. Cox;Bunmi O. Olatunji

  • Disgust, fear, and the anxiety disorders: a critical review.

    Josh M. Cisler;Bunmi O. Olatunji;Jeffrey M. Lohr

  • DISGUST: CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES, SOCIAL MANIFESTATIONS, AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Craig N. Sawchuk

  • Cognitive vulnerabilities to the development of PTSD: a review of four vulnerabilities and the proposal of an integrative vulnerability model.

    Lisa S. Elwood;Kathryn S. Hahn;Kathryn S. Hahn;Bunmi O. Olatunji;Nathan L. Williams

  • The Cruelest Cure? Ethical Issues in the Implementation of Exposure-Based Treatments

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Brett J. Deacon;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz

  • Specificity of trait anxiety in anxiety and depression: Meta-analysis of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.

    Kelly A. Knowles;Bunmi O. Olatunji

  • Health anxiety, hypochondriasis, and the anxiety disorders.

    Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Bunmi O. Olatunji;Brett J. Deacon

  • Core, animal reminder, and contamination disgust: Three kinds of disgust with distinct personality, behavioral, physiological, and clinical correlates

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Jonathan Haidt;Dean McKay;Bieke David

  • Specificity of Rumination in Anxiety and Depression: A Multimodal Meta‐Analysis

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Kristin Naragon-Gainey;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor

  • Emotion Regulation and Anxiety Disorders

    Josh M. Cisler;Bunmi O. Olatunji

  • Specificity of disgust sensitivity in the prediction of behavioral avoidance in contamination fear.

    Brett Deacon;Bunmi O. Olatunji

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey M. Lohr
Jeffrey M. Lohr University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Josh M. Cisler
Josh M. Cisler University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jonathan S. Abramowitz
Jonathan S. Abramowitz University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dean McKay
Dean McKay Fordham University
David F. Tolin
David F. Tolin Yale University
Brett J. Deacon
Brett J. Deacon University of Wollongong
Peter J. de Jong
Peter J. de Jong University of Groningen
David H. Zald
David H. Zald Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jasper A. J. Smits
Jasper A. J. Smits The University of Texas at Austin
Andrew J. Tomarken
Andrew J. Tomarken Vanderbilt University

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