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Overview

David A. F. Haaga is affiliated with American University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychology, with 36 publications in the field, emphasizing clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, physiology, applied psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's work covers topics including obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, sexuality, behavior, and technology, autism spectrum disorder research, smoking behavior and cessation, behavioral health and interventions, as well as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Recent publications by David A. F. Haaga include the following:

  • "Comprehensive Behavioral (ComB) Treatment of Trichotillomania: A Randomized Clinical Trial" (2021, Behavior Therapy)
  • "Measuring ACT in context: Challenges and future directions" (2023, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science)
  • "Looming Vulnerability and Smoking Cessation Attempts" (2020, Nicotine & Tobacco Research)
  • "Extended follow-up of a comprehensive behavioral (ComB) treatment sample during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders)
  • "The affective consequences of self-handicapping" (2023, American University Research Archive)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David A. F. Haaga include Emily Carlson, Elizabeth J. Malloy, Amanda Kaufmann, Meghan K. Flannery, and Allison F. Coyne.

The main venues that have published their work are:

  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
  • Behavior Therapy
  • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation

Best Publications

  • Update on Empirically Validated Therapies, II

    Dianne L. Chambless;Mary J. Baker;Donald H. Baucom;Larry E. Beutler

  • Empirical status of cognitive theory of depression

    David A. Haaga;Murray J. Dyck;Donald Ernst

  • Unconditional Self-Acceptance and Psychological Health

    John M. Chamberlain;David A. F. Haaga

  • Sampling of empirically supported psychological treatments from health psychology: Smoking, chronic pain, cancer, and bulimia nervosa.

    Bruce E. Compas;David A. F. Haaga;Francis J. Keefe;Harold Leitenberg

  • Introduction to the special section on stepped care models in psychotherapy.

    David A. F. Haaga

  • Normative values for the Beck Anxiety Inventory, Fear Questionnaire, Penn State Worry Questionnaire, and Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory.

    Martha M. Gillis;David A. F. Haaga;Gary T. Ford

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial on Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Blood Pressure, Psychological Distress, and Coping in Young Adults

    Sanford I. Nidich;Maxwell V. Rainforth;David A.F. Haaga;John Hagelin

  • Binge Eating in Overweight Treatment-Seeking Adolescents

    Deborah R. Glasofer;Marian Tanofsky-Kraff;Kamryn T. Eddy;Kamryn T. Eddy;Susan Z. Yanovski

  • Effects of Transcendental Meditation practice on brain functioning and stress reactivity in college students.

    Fred Travis;David A.F. Haaga;John Hagelin;Melissa Tanner

  • COLLEGE STUDENTS' WILLINGNESS TO SEEK HELP FOR THEIR LEARNING DISABILITIES

    Heather M. Hartman-Hall;David A. F. Haaga

  • Is clinical depression distinct from subthreshold depressive symptoms? A review of the continuity issue in depression research.

    Ari Solomon;David A. F. Haaga;Bruce A. Arnow

  • A self-referential default brain state: patterns of coherence, power, and eLORETA sources during eyes-closed rest and Transcendental Meditation practice

    Fred Travis;David A. F. Haaga;John Hagelin;Melissa Tanner

  • Perspectives on depressive realism: implications for cognitive theory of depression.

    David A.F. Haaga;Aaron T. Beck

  • The specificity of attributional style and expectations to positive and negative affectivity, depression, and anxiety

    Anthony H. Ahrens;David A. F. Haaga

  • Unconditional Self-Acceptance and Responses to Negative Feedback

    John M. Chamberlain;David A. F. Haaga

  • Self-efficacy for recovery from a lapse after smoking cessation

    David A. F. Haaga;Bonnie L. Stewart

  • Negative Self-Concept: Specificity to Depressive Symptoms and Relation to Positive and Negative Affectivity☆

    Elisha M. Tarlow;David A.F. Haaga

  • OPTIMAL AND NORMAL AFFECT BALANCE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY OF MAJOR DEPRESSION: EVALUATION OF THE BALANCED STATES OF MIND MODEL

    Robert M. Schwartz;Charles F. Reynolds;Michael E. Thase;Ellen Frank

  • The effects of the transcendental meditation program on mindfulness.

    Melissa A. Tanner;Fred Travis;Carolyn Gaylord-King;David A. F. Haaga

  • Social problem-solving deficits, dependency, and depressive symptoms

    David A. F. Haaga;Jennifer A. Fine;Diana Roscow Terrill;Bonnie L. Stewart

  • Scientific Foundations of Cognitive Theory and Therapy of Depression.

    David A. F. Haaga

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald C. Davison
Gerald C. Davison University of Southern California
Aaron T. Beck
Aaron T. Beck University of Pennsylvania
Robert J. DeRubeis
Robert J. DeRubeis University of Pennsylvania
Marian Tanofsky-Kraff
Marian Tanofsky-Kraff Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Dianne L. Chambless
Dianne L. Chambless University of Pennsylvania
Jay L. Lebow
Jay L. Lebow Northwestern University
Kamryn T. Eddy
Kamryn T. Eddy Harvard University
Barbara S. McCrady
Barbara S. McCrady University of New Mexico
Mary Ann Dutton
Mary Ann Dutton Georgetown University Medical Center
Dean H. Hamer
Dean H. Hamer National Institutes of Health

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