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Overview

John H. Riskind is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on psychology, with significant contributions across experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and applied psychology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors

Key recent publications authored or co-authored by John H. Riskind include:

  • The Relationship of Neuroticism with Sleep Quality: The Mediating Role of Emotional, Cognitive and Metacognitive Factors (2021), Behavioral Sleep Medicine
  • Looming Cognitive Style and Its Associations with Anxiety and Depression: A Meta-analysis (2020), Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Looming Cognitive Style More Consistently Predicts Anxiety than Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from a 3-Wave Yearlong Study (2021), Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Unscrambling the Dynamics of Danger: Scientific Foundations and Evidence for the Looming Vulnerability Model and Looming Cognitive Style in Anxiety (2024), Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • A cognitive dissonance perspective on threats to self-concept in obsessive-compulsive disorder (2020), Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Frequent co-authors who collaborate with John H. Riskind include:

  • Edward C. Wright
  • Esther Calvete
  • Elahe Zamani
  • Mehdi Akbari
  • Shahram Mohammadkhani

Their research is commonly published in these venues:

  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Behavioral Sleep Medicine
  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Best Publications

  • Differentiating anxiety and depression: a test of the cognitive content-specificity hypothesis.

    Aaron T. Beck;Gary Brown;Robert A. Steer;Judy I. Eidelson

  • Psychometric validation of the obsessive belief questionnaire and interpretation of intrusions inventory - Part 2: Factor analyses and testing of a brief version

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Sunil Bhar;Martine Bouvard

  • Psychometric validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory: Part I

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Sunil Bhar;Martine Bouvard

  • Physical posture: Could it have regulatory or feedback effects on motivation and emotion?

    John H. Riskind;Carolyn C. Gotay

  • Gratitude and grit indirectly reduce risk of suicidal ideations by enhancing meaning in life: Evidence for a mediated moderation model

    Evan M. Kleiman;Leah M. Adams;Todd B. Kashdan;John H. Riskind

  • Taking the measure of anxiety and depression. Validity of the reconstructed Hamilton scales.

    John H. Riskind;Aaron T. Beck;Gary Brown;Robert A. Steer

  • Reliability of DSM-III diagnoses for major depression and generalized anxiety disorder using the structured clinical interview for DSM-III.

    John H. Riskind;Aaron T. Beck;Robert J. Berchick;Gary Brown

  • Looming vulnerability to threat: a cognitive paradigm for anxiety.

    John H. Riskind

  • They stoop to conquer: Guiding and self-regulatory functions of physical posture after success and failure.

    John H. Riskind

  • The looming maladaptive style: anxiety, danger, and schematic processing.

    John H. Riskind;Nathan L. Williams;Theodore L. Gessner;Linda D. Chrosniak

  • Nonverbal Expressions and the Accessibility of Life Experience Memories: A Congruence Hypothesis

    John H. Riskind

  • Social Support and Positive Events as Suicide Resiliency Factors: Examination of Synergistic Buffering Effects

    Evan M. Kleiman;John H. Riskind;Karen E. Schaefer

  • The looming of spiders: The fearful perceptual distortion of movement and menace

    John H. Riskind;Roger Moore;Laurie Bowley

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Features in Pathological Lottery and Scratch-Ticket Gamblers

    Randy O. Frost;Beth M. Meagher;John H. Riskind

  • A Social Comparison of Abilities Interpretation of Risk-Taking Behavior.

    Jerald M. Jellison;John Riskind

  • Emotional states and memory biases: effects of cognitive priming and mood.

    William S. Rholes;John H. Riskind;James W. Lane

  • Cognitive accessibility and the capacity of cognitions to predict future depression: A theoretical note

    John H. Riskind;William S. Rholes

  • Utilized social support and self-esteem mediate the relationship between perceived social support and suicide ideation. A test of a multiple mediator model.

    Evan M. Kleiman;John H. Riskind

  • Levels of hopelessness in DSM-III disorders: A partial test of content specificity in depression.

    Aaron T. Beck;John H. Riskind;Gary Brown;Robert A. Steer

  • Relationships between the Beck Depression Inventory and the Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression in depressed outpatients

    Robert A. Steer;Aaron T. Beck;John H. Riskind;Gary Brown

  • Adult Romantic Attachment and Cognitive Vulnerabilities to Anxiety and Depression: Examining the Interpersonal Basis of Vulnerability Models

    Nathan L. Williams;John H. Riskind

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil A. Rector
Neil A. Rector Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Evan M. Kleiman
Evan M. Kleiman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Aaron T. Beck
Aaron T. Beck University of Pennsylvania
Esther Calvete
Esther Calvete University of Deusto
Robert A. Steer
Robert A. Steer Rowan University
Claudio Sica
Claudio Sica University of Florence
Gary Brown
Gary Brown Royal Holloway University of London
Richard T. Liu
Richard T. Liu Harvard Medical School
Stephanie E. Cassin
Stephanie E. Cassin Toronto Metropolitan University
Golan Shahar
Golan Shahar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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