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Overview

Donald J. Robinaugh is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of psychology. Their work spans various subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, statistical and nonlinear physics, and social psychology.

The scientist's research focuses broadly on mental health, with key topics including mental health research topics, functional brain connectivity studies, grief, bereavement, and mental health, migration, health and trauma, complex network analysis techniques, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and suicide and self-harm studies.

Notable recent papers by Donald J. Robinaugh include:

  • Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction, 2021, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Network analysis of multivariate data in psychological science, 2021, published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Revisiting the theoretical and methodological foundations of depression measurement, 2022, published in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Modeling psychopathology: From data models to formal theories, 2021, published in Psychological Methods
  • Systems all the way down: embracing complexity in mental health research, 2020, published in BMC Medicine

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Nature Reviews Methods Primers, Psychological Methods, BMC Medicine, Psychological Review, and Depression and Anxiety. Their collaborations include co-authorship with researchers such as Eiko I. Fried, Denny Borsboom, Richard J. McNally, Sacha Epskamp, and Lourens Waldorp.

Donald J. Robinaugh's body of work often engages with complex analytic techniques and theoretical foundations in psychological science, contributing to the understanding of psychopathology and the measurement challenges in mental health research.

Best Publications

  • Identifying highly influential nodes in the complicated grief network.

    Donald J. Robinaugh;Alexander J. Millner;Richard J. McNally

  • Network analysis of multivariate data in psychological science

    Denny Borsboom;Marie K. Deserno;Mijke Rhemtulla;Sacha Epskamp

  • Mental Disorders as Causal Systems: A Network Approach to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Richard J. McNally;Donald J. Robinaugh;Gwyneth W. Y. Wu;Li Wang

  • The network approach to psychopathology: a review of the literature 2008-2018 and an agenda for future research.

    Donald J. Robinaugh;Ria H. A. Hoekstra;Emma R. Toner;Denny Borsboom

  • Randomized controlled trial of mindfulness meditation for generalized anxiety disorder: effects on anxiety and stress reactivity.

    Elizabeth A. Hoge;Eric Bui;Luana Marques;Christina A. Metcalf

  • A Bayesian network analysis of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults reporting childhood sexual abuse.

    Richard J. McNally;Alexandre Heeren;Alexandre Heeren;Donald John Robinaugh

  • Network analysis of persistent complex bereavement disorder in conjugally bereaved adults.

    Donald John Robinaugh;Nicole Jennifer Leblanc;Heidi A. Vuletich;Richard J. McNally

  • Revisiting the theoretical and methodological foundations of depression measurement

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  • Change in Decentering Mediates Improvement in Anxiety in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

    Elizabeth A. Hoge;Eric Bui;Elizabeth Goetter;Donald J. Robinaugh

  • Trauma Centrality and PTSD Symptom Severity in Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse

    Donald John Robinaugh;Richard J. McNally

  • Understanding the relationship of perceived social support to post-trauma cognitions and posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Donald J. Robinaugh;Luana Marques;Lara N. Traeger;Elizabeth H. Marks

  • Autobiographical memory for shame or guilt provoking events: association with psychological symptoms

    Donald J. Robinaugh;Richard J. McNally

  • Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction.

    Donald J. Robinaugh;Jonas M. B. Haslbeck;Oisín Ryan;Eiko I. Fried

  • Modeling Psychopathology: From Data Models to Formal Theories

    Jonas M. B. Haslbeck;Oisín Ryan;Donald J. Robinaugh;Lourens J. Waldorp

  • Systems all the way down: embracing complexity in mental health research.

    Eiko I. Fried;Donald J. Robinaugh

  • Cross-cultural variations in the prevalence and presentation of anxiety disorders

    Luana Marques;Donald J Robinaugh;Nicole J LeBlanc;Devon Hinton

  • Robustness and replicability of psychopathology networks.

    Denny Borsboom;Donald J. Robinaugh;Mijke Rhemtulla;Angélique O.J. Cramer

  • Advancing the Understanding of Suicide: The Need for Formal Theory and Rigorous Descriptive Research.

    Alexander J. Millner;Donald J. Robinaugh;Matthew K. Nock

  • THE STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR COMPLICATED GRIEF: RELIABILITY, VALIDITY, AND EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS

    Eric Bui M.D.;Christine Mauro;Donald J. Robinaugh;Natalia A. Skritskaya

  • Does attachment avoidance help people cope with loss? The moderating effects of relationship quality.

    Anthony D Mancini;Don Robinaugh;Katherine Shear;George A Bonanno

  • Complicated grief after suicide bereavement and other causes of death

    Ilanit Tal;Christine Mauro;Charles F. Reynolds;M. Katherine Shear

  • Advancing the Network Theory of Mental Disorders: A Computational Model of Panic Disorder

    Robinaugh D;Haslbeck Jmb;Waldorp L;Kossakowski Jj

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally Harvard University
Naomi M. Simon
Naomi M. Simon New York University
Eiko I. Fried
Eiko I. Fried Leiden University
M. Katherine Shear
M. Katherine Shear Columbia University
Denny Borsboom
Denny Borsboom University of Amsterdam
Alexandre Heeren
Alexandre Heeren Université Catholique de Louvain
Sheila A.M. Rauch
Sheila A.M. Rauch Emory University
Angélique O. J. Cramer
Angélique O. J. Cramer University of Amsterdam
Julie Loebach Wetherell
Julie Loebach Wetherell University of California, San Diego
Birgit Kleim
Birgit Kleim University of Zurich

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