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Overview

Daniel David is affiliated with Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a primary focus on clinical, experimental, and cognitive psychology.

Their research spans multiple topics, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychological Treatments and Assessments
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

David's recent works demonstrate a focus on mental health interventions and assessment tools. Notable recent publications include:

  • "How Effective are Serious Games for Promoting Mental Health and Health Behavioral Change in Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis," 2020, published in Child & Youth Care Forum
  • "Efficacy of cognitive bias modification interventions in anxiety and depressive disorders: a systematic review and network meta-analysis," 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Predictors of Anxiety in the COVID-19 Pandemic from a Global Perspective: Data from 23 Countries," 2021, Sustainability
  • "Global Perspective on Marital Satisfaction," 2020, Sustainability
  • "The effectiveness of a virtual reality attention task to predict depression and anxiety in comparison with current clinical measures," 2021, Virtual Reality

Their body of work appears frequently in specific academic journals, primarily including:

  • Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
  • Sustainability
  • Children
  • Psychiatry Research
  • Children and Youth Services Review

Daniel David collaborates regularly with several scholars, having the most frequent co-authorships with:

  • Liviu A. Fodor
  • Cristina Tomoiagă
  • Pim Cuijpers
  • Ioana Alexandra Iuga
  • Ronny Bruffaerts

The scientist's work is distributed predominantly across the main field of psychology, with significant contributions to the subfields of clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, education, and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Circulating microRNAs in sera correlate with soluble biomarkers of immune activation but do not predict mortality in ART treated individuals with HIV-1 infection : a case control study

    Daniel D. Murray;Kazuo Suzuki;Matthew Law;Jonel Trebicka

  • Virtual reality exposure therapy in anxiety disorders: a quantitative meta-analysis.

    David Opriş;Sebastian Pintea;Azucena García-Palacios;Cristina Botella

  • Why Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Is the Current Gold Standard of Psychotherapy.

    Daniel David;Ioana Cristea;Stefan G. Hofmann

  • Preferred Interpersonal Distances: A Global Comparison

    Agnieszka Sorokowska;Piotr Sorokowski;Peter Hilpert;Katarzyna Cantarero

  • Clinical Efficacy of Attentional Bias Modification Procedures: An Updated Meta‐Analysis

    Cristina Mogoaşe;Daniel David;Ernst H. W. Koster

  • The effectiveness of adjunctive hypnosis with surgical patients: a meta-analysis.

    Guy H. Montgomery;Daniel David;Gary Winkel;Jeffrey H. Silverstein

  • A Randomized Clinical Trial of a Brief Hypnosis Intervention to Control Side Effects in Breast Surgery Patients

    Guy H. Montgomery;Dana H. Bovbjerg;Julie B. Schnur;Daniel David

  • Rational and Irrational Beliefs: Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice

    Daniel David;Steven Jay Lynn;Albert Ellis

  • Children with Autism Social Engagement in Interaction with Nao, an Imitative Robot - A Series of Single Case Experiments

    Adriana Tapus;Andreea Peca;Amir Aly;Cristina A. Pop

  • The effectiveness of virtual reality based interventions for symptoms of anxiety and depression: A meta-analysis.

    Liviu A. Fodor;Carmen D. Coteț;Pim Cuijpers;Pim Cuijpers;Ștefan Szamoskozi

  • Another search for the hot cognitions: Appraisal, irrational beliefs, attributions, and their relation to emotion

    Daniel David;Julie Schnur;Alexandra Belloiu

  • Irrational Beliefs and Psychological Distress: A Meta-Analysis

    Andreea Vîslă;Christoph Flückiger;Martin grosse Holtforth;Martin grosse Holtforth;Daniel David;Daniel David

  • Rational emotive behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and medication in the treatment of major depressive disorder: a randomized clinical trial, posttreatment outcomes, and six …

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  • Using the social robot probo as a social story telling agent for children with ASD

    Bram Vanderborght;Ramona Simut;Jelle Saldien;Cristina Pop

  • A Synopsis of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT); Fundamental and Applied Research

    Daniel David;Aurora Szentagotai;Kallay Eva;Bianca Macavei

  • A Survey of Expectations About the Role of Robots in Robot-Assisted Therapy for Children with ASD: Ethical Acceptability, Trust, Sociability, Appearance, and Attachment

    Mark Coeckelbergh;Cristina Pop;Ramona Simut;Andreea Peca

  • Efficacy of cognitive bias modification interventions in anxiety and depressive disorders: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

    Liviu A Fodor;Raluca Georgescu;Pim Cuijpers;Ştefan Szamoskozi

  • Baseline Depression Severity as Moderator of Depression Outcomes Between Cognitive Behavioral Therapy vs Pharmacotherapy: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis.

    Erica S. Weitz;Steven D. Hollon;Jos Twisk;Annemieke van Straten

  • Cognitions in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapies; toward an integrative model.

    Daniel David;Daniel David;Aurora Szentagotai

  • Tratat de psihoterapii cognitive și comportamentale. Ed. II

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  • Anxiety: There is an app for that. A systematic review of anxiety apps

    Madalina Sucala;Madalina Sucala;Pim Cuijpers;Frederick Muench;Roxana Cardoș

  • Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions

    Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;Daniel David;Daniel David;Tom Beckers;Peter Muris

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy H. Montgomery
Guy H. Montgomery Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dana H. Bovbjerg
Dana H. Bovbjerg University of Pittsburgh
Steven Jay Lynn
Steven Jay Lynn Binghamton University
Agnieszka Sorokowska
Agnieszka Sorokowska University of Wrocław
Marina Butovskaya
Marina Butovskaya Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
Anu Realo
Anu Realo University of Warwick
Raymond DiGiuseppe
Raymond DiGiuseppe St. John's University
Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Martin Grosse Holtforth
Martin Grosse Holtforth University of Bern

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