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David A. Moscovitch

David A. Moscovitch

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Psychology

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5493
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653

Overview

David A. Moscovitch is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and applied psychology.

Their research explores a range of topics, including anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Other areas of study include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics, perfectionism, procrastination, anxiety studies, identity, memory, therapy, death anxiety, social exclusion, grief, bereavement, and mental health.

David A. Moscovitch has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

They have collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Taylor Hudd
  • Jonathan D. Huppert
  • Jolie T.K. Ho
  • Peter M. McEvoy
  • Matthew P. Hyett

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by David A. Moscovitch include:

  • "Effects of mask-wearing on social anxiety: an exploratory review," 2021, Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • "The moderating effects of reported pre-pandemic social anxiety, symptom impairment, and current stressors on mental health and affiliative adjustment during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic," 2021, Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • "Imagery-enhanced v. verbally-based group cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder: a randomized clinical trial," 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • "Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond," 2023, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "None the wiser: Year-long longitudinal study on effects of adversity on wisdom," 2021, European Journal of Personality

Best Publications

  • What Is the Core Fear in Social Phobia? A New Model to Facilitate Individualized Case Conceptualization and Treatment.

    David A. Moscovitch

  • The nature and expression of social phobia: toward a new classification.

    Stefan G. Hofmann;Nina Heinrichs;David A. Moscovitch

  • On the belief in God : Towards an understanding of the emotional substrates of compensatory control

    Kristin Laurin;Aaron C. Kay;David A. Moscovitch

  • Randomness, Attributions of Arousal, and Belief in God

    Aaron C. Kay;David A. Moscovitch;Kristin Laurin

  • The worried mind: autonomic and prefrontal activation during worrying.

    Stefan G. Hofmann;David A. Moscovitch;Brett T. Litz;Hyo-Jin Kim

  • Anger experience and expression across the anxiety disorders.

    David A. Moscovitch;Randi E. McCabe;Martin M. Antony;Martin M. Antony;Laura Rocca

  • Sudden gains during therapy of social phobia.

    Stefan G. Hofmann;Stefan M. Schulz;Alicia E. Meuret;David A. Moscovitch

  • Changes in self-perception during treatment of social phobia.

    Stefan G. Hofmann;David A. Moscovitch;Hyo Jin Kim;Andrea N. Taylor

  • Frontal EEG asymmetry and symptom response to cognitive behavioral therapy in patients with social anxiety disorder

    David A. Moscovitch;Diane L. Santesso;Vladimir Miskovic;Randi E. McCabe

  • The impact of self-construals on social anxiety: a gender-specific interaction

    David A. Moscovitch;Stefan G. Hofmann;Brett T. Litz

  • Retrieval properties of negative vs. positive mental images and autobiographical memories in social anxiety: outcomes with a new measure.

    David A. Moscovitch;Dubravka L. Gavric;Colleen Merrifield;Tatiana Bielak

  • Exposure-Based Treatments for Anxiety Disorders: Theory and Process

    David A. Moscovitch;Martin M. Antony;Richard P. Swinson

  • Mediation of changes in anxiety and depression during treatment of social phobia.

    David A. Moscovitch;Stefan G. Hofmann;Michael K. Suvak;Tina In-Albon

  • Autonomic correlates of social anxiety and embarrassment in shy and non-shy individuals.

    Stefan G. Hofmann;David A. Moscovitch;Hyo-Jin Kim

  • Material-specific deficits in "remembering" in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy and excisions.

    David A. Moscovitch;Mary Pat McAndrews;Mary Pat McAndrews

  • Self-portrayal concerns and their relation to safety behaviors and negative affect in social anxiety disorder.

    David A. Moscovitch;Karen Rowa;Karen Rowa;Jeffrey R. Paulitzki;Maria D. Ierullo

  • When ambiguity hurts: social standards moderate self-appraisals in generalized social phobia.

    David A. Moscovitch;Stefan G. Hofmann

  • Changes in EEG Cross-Frequency Coupling During Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder

    Vladimir Miskovic;David A. Moscovitch;Diane L. Santesso;Randi E. McCabe

  • Super face-inversion effects for isolated internal or external features, and for fractured faces.

    Morris Moscovitch;David A. Moscovitch

  • A self-applied, Internet-based intervention for fear of public speaking.

    Cristina Botella;Stefan G. Hofmann;David A. Moscovitch

  • Social anxiety is characterized by biased learning about performance and the self

    Leonie Koban;Rebecca Schneider;Yoni K. Ashar;Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna

Frequent Co-Authors

Randi E. McCabe
Randi E. McCabe McMaster University
Stefan G. Hofmann
Stefan G. Hofmann Philipp University of Marburg
Martin M. Antony
Martin M. Antony Toronto Metropolitan University
Diane L. Santesso
Diane L. Santesso University of Winnipeg
Vladimir Miskovic
Vladimir Miskovic Binghamton University
Louis A. Schmidt
Louis A. Schmidt McMaster University
Jonathan D. Huppert
Jonathan D. Huppert Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michael K. Suvak
Michael K. Suvak Suffolk University
Thomas L. Rodebaugh
Thomas L. Rodebaugh Washington University in St. Louis
Morris Moscovitch
Morris Moscovitch University of Toronto

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