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Overview

Graham C. L. Davey is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers on the field of Psychology, with a focus on subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Applied Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The main research topics addressed by Davey include:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Communication in Education and Healthcare

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Davey encompass a range of themes within psychological science. These include:

  • What's Worrying Our Students? Increasing Worry Levels over Two Decades and a New Measure of Student Worry Frequency and Domains, 2021, Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Student Worry Questionnaire, 2022, PsycTESTS Dataset

Davey has also collaborated with other researchers, notably frequent co-authors such as Frances Meeten and Andy P. Field, each with two joint publications, and Gary Britton with one joint publication.

Their work has been published in a variety of venues, including:

  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

These diverse publication venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of Davey's research, spanning cognitive and clinical aspects of psychological science as well as methodological contributions such as test dataset creation.

Best Publications

  • Worrying: Perspectives on theory, assessment and treatment.

    Graham C. L. Davey;Frank Tallis

  • Some characteristics of worrying: Evidence for worrying and anxiety as separate constructs

    Graham C.L. Davey;James Hampton;Jola Farrell;Sue Davidson

  • Disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity: separate constructs that are differentially related to specific fears.

    W. J. M. van Overveld;de Peter Jong;M. L. Peters;K. Cavanagh

  • A test of a disease-avoidance model of animal phobias

    George Matchett;Graham C.L. Davey

  • A comparison of three worry questionnaires

    Graham C.L. Davey

  • Classical conditioning and the acquisition of human fears and phobias: A review and synthesis of the literature

    Graham C.L Davey

  • Dental phobias and anxieties: Evidence for conditioning processes in the acquisition and modulation of a learned fear

    Graham C.L. Davey

  • Worry and its Psychological Disorders : Theory, Assessment and Treatment

    Graham C.L. Davey;Adrian Wells

  • Self-reported fears to common indigenous animals in an adult UK population: The role of disgust sensitivity

    Graham C. L. Davey

  • Worrying, social problem-solving abilities, and social problem-solving confidence

    Graham C.L. Davey

  • Beliefs about the consequences of worrying

    Graham C. L. Davey;Frank Tallis;Nicola Capuzzo

  • The phenomenology of non-pathological worry: A preliminary investigation.

    Frank Tallis;Graham C. L. Davey;Nicola Capuzzo

  • Pathological worrying as exacerbated problem-solving.

    Graham C. L. Davey

  • Cognitive processes and Pavlovian conditioning in humans

    Graham Davey

  • Phobias: A Handbook of Theory, Research and Treatment

    Graham C. L. Davey

  • The "Disgusting" Spider: The Role of Disease and Illness in the Perpetuation of Fear of Spiders

    Graham C. L. Davey

  • A cross-cultural study of animal fears

    Graham C.L. Davey;Angus S. McDonald;Uma Hirisave;G.G. Prabhu

  • Disgust: the disease-avoidance emotion and its dysfunctions.

    Graham C. L. Davey

  • Characteristics of individuals with fear of spiders

    Graham C.L. Davey

  • Preparedness and phobias: Specific evolved associations or a generalized expectancy bias?

    Graham C. L. Davey

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy P. Field
Andy P. Field University of Sussex
Kate Cavanagh
Kate Cavanagh University of Sussex
Peter J. de Jong
Peter J. de Jong University of Groningen
Patrick W. L. Leung
Patrick W. L. Leung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Madelon L. Peters
Madelon L. Peters Maastricht University
Adrian Wells
Adrian Wells University of Manchester
Sarah N. Garfinkel
Sarah N. Garfinkel University College London
Ross G. Menzies
Ross G. Menzies University of Technology Sydney
Theodora Duka
Theodora Duka University of Sussex

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