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Overview

Elaine Fox is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a particular focus on clinical psychology and experimental and cognitive psychology. Additional areas of study include cognitive neuroscience, public health, environmental and occupational health, and social psychology.

The scientist's work encompasses several key research topics, including:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to mental health and psychological processes. Notable papers include:

  • Mental health in UK Biobank - development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants: a reanalysis (2020, BJPsych Open)
  • The effect of intolerance of uncertainty on anxiety and depression, and their symptom networks, during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023, BMC Psychiatry)
  • Anxiety, stress, and binge eating tendencies in adolescence: a prospective approach (2021, Journal of Eating Disorders)
  • Social determinants of mental health during a year of the COVID-19 pandemic (2022, Development and Psychopathology)
  • A Cognitive Model of Pathological Worry in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review (2020, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review)

Elaine Fox frequently publishes in several academic venues, including:

  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BJPsych Open

Throughout their career, they have collaborated with several coauthors, among whom the most frequent include:

  • Annabel Songco
  • Savannah Minihan
  • Susanne Schweizer
  • Cecile D. Ladouceur
  • Louise Mewton

Best Publications

  • Do threatening stimuli draw or hold visual attention in subclinical anxiety

    Elaine Fox;Riccardo Russo;Robert Bowles;Kevin Dutton

  • Attentional Bias for Threat: Evidence for Delayed Disengagement from Emotional Faces.

    Elaine Fox;Riccardo Russo;Kevin Dutton

  • Facial expressions of emotion: Are angry faces detected more efficiently?

    Elaine Fox;Victoria Lester;Riccardo Russo;R.J. Bowles

  • Negative priming from ignored distractors in visual selection: A review.

    Elaine Fox

  • Sensory Processing Sensitivity in the context of Environmental Sensitivity: A critical review and development of research agenda.

    Corina U. Greven;Corina U. Greven;Francesca Lionetti;Charlotte Booth;Elaine N. Aron

  • Processing emotional facial expressions: the role of anxiety and awareness.

    Elaine Fox

  • Psychological Science needs a standard practice of reporting the reliability of cognitive behavioural measurements

    Sam Parsons;Anne-Wil Kruijt;Elaine Fox

  • Emotion Science: Cognitive and Neuroscientific Approaches to Understanding Human Emotions

    Elaine Fox

  • Introduction to the Special Section on Cognitive Bias Modification in Emotional Disorders

    Ernst H. W. Koster;Elaine Fox;Colin MacLeod

  • Whither cognitive bias modification research? Commentary on the special section articles.

    Colin MacLeod;Ernst H. W. Koster;Elaine Fox

  • The role of perceptual load in negative priming.

    Nilli Lavie;Elaine Fox

  • The face of fear: Effects of eye gaze and emotion on visual attention

    Andrew Mathews;Elaine Fox;Jenny Yiend;Andy Calder

  • Looking on the bright side: biased attention and the human serotonin transporter gene

    Elaine Fox;Anna Ridgewell;Chris Ashwin

  • Focusing on fear: Attentional disengagement from emotional faces

    George A Georgiou;Cheryl Bleakley;James Hayward;Riccardo Russo

  • Allocation of visual attention and anxiety

    Elaine Fox

  • Anxiety modulates the degree of attentive resources required to process emotional faces.

    Elaine Fox;Riccardo Russo;George A. Georgiou

  • ATTENTIONAL BIAS IN ANXIETY: SELECTIVE OR NOT?

    Elaine Fox

  • Anxiety and sensitivity to gaze direction in emotionally expressive faces.

    Elaine Fox;Andrew Mathews;Andrew J. Calder;Jenny Yiend

  • Mental health in UK Biobank: development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants

    Katrina A S Davis;Jonathan R I Coleman;Mark Adams;Naomi Allen

  • Attentional bias in anxiety: A defective inhibition hypothesis

    Elaine Fox

Frequent Co-Authors

Riccardo Russo
Riccardo Russo University of Essex
Chris Ashwin
Chris Ashwin University of Bath
Matthew Hotopf
Matthew Hotopf King's College London
Colin MacLeod
Colin MacLeod University of Western Australia
Jennifer Y. F. Lau
Jennifer Y. F. Lau Queen Mary University of London
Daniel J. Smith
Daniel J. Smith University of Edinburgh
Chris Dickens
Chris Dickens University of Exeter
Louise M. Howard
Louise M. Howard King's College London
Nazanin Derakshan
Nazanin Derakshan Birkbeck, University of London
Naomi E. Allen
Naomi E. Allen University of Oxford

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