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Jonathan S. Abramowitz is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology with a significant focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Additional areas of interest include psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

The scientist's work extensively covers multiple topics, with particular emphasis on obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Other research topics include eating disorders and behaviors, autism spectrum disorder research, body image and dysmorphia studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and sexuality, behavior, and technology.

Jonathan S. Abramowitz has contributed to a range of recent academic papers, including:

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action, 2020, American Psychologist
  • The therapeutic alliance in exposure therapy for anxiety-related disorders: A critical review, 2020, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Severity benchmarks and contemporary clinical norms for the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R), 2020, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • The OCI-12: A syndromally valid modification of the obsessive-compulsive inventory-revised, 2021, Psychiatry Research
  • Intolerance of uncertainty and obsessive-compulsive disorder dimensions, 2021, Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jonathan S. Abramowitz include:

  • Dean McKay
  • Heidi J. Ojalehto
  • Eric A. Storch
  • Samantha N. Hellberg
  • Jennifer L. Buchholz

Publications by this scientist often appear in the following venues:

  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy

Jonathan S. Abramowitz has also authored book publications, including the title Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Adults, published by Hogrefe Publishing eBooks in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Robust dimensions of anxiety sensitivity: Development and initial validation of the anxiety sensitivity index-3

    Steven Taylor;Michael J. Zvolensky;Brian J. Cox;Brett Deacon

  • The Disgust Scale: Item Analysis, Factor Structure, and Suggestions for Refinement.

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Nathan L. Williams;David F. Tolin;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz

  • Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

    Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Steven Taylor;Dean McKay

  • Assessment of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions: development and evaluation of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale.

    Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Brett J. Deacon;Bunmi O. Olatunji;Michael G. Wheaton

  • Paradoxical effects of thought suppression: a meta-analysis of controlled studies

    Jonathan S Abramowitz;David F Tolin;Gordon P Street

  • Effectiveness of psychological and pharmacological treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a quantitative review.

    Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz

  • A critical evaluation of obsessive-compulsive disorder subtypes: symptoms versus mechanisms.

    Dean McKay;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;John E. Calamari;Michael Kyrios

  • Symptom presentation and outcome of cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Jonathan S. Abramowitz;Martin E. Franklin;Stefanie A. Schwartz;Jami M. Furr

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.

    June Gruber;Mitchell J. Prinstein;Lee Anna Clark;Jonathan Rottenberg

  • Intolerance of uncertainty in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    David F. Tolin;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Bartholomew D. Brigidi;Edna B. Foa

  • A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Stephen P. Whiteside;John D. Port;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Jonathan S. Abramowitz

  • Cognitive and behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders: A review of meta-analytic findings

    Brett J. Deacon;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz

  • Psychological Predictors of Anxiety in Response to the H1N1 (Swine Flu) Pandemic

    Michael G. Wheaton;Jonathan S. Abramowitz;Noah C. Berman;Laura E. Fabricant

  • Effectiveness of exposure and ritual prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder: Randomized compared with nonrandomized samples.

    Martin E. Franklin;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Michael J. Kozak;Michael J. Kozak;Jill T. Levitt

  • Exposure Therapy for Anxiety: Principles and Practice

    Jonathan S. Abramowitz;Brett J. Deacon;Stephen P. H. Whiteside

  • Variants of Exposure and Response Prevention in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis

    Jonathan S. Abramowitz

  • The Psychological Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Jonathan S Abramowitz

  • The neuropsychology of adult obsessive–compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis

    Amitai Abramovitch;Jonathan S. Abramowitz;Andrew Mittelman

  • Psychometric properties and construct validity of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory--Revised: Replication and extension with a clinical sample.

    Jonathan S. Abramowitz;Brett J. Deacon

Frequent Co-Authors

Dean McKay
Dean McKay Fordham University
Brett J. Deacon
Brett J. Deacon University of Wollongong
Michael G. Wheaton
Michael G. Wheaton Barnard College
Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor University of British Columbia
David F. Tolin
David F. Tolin Yale University
Bunmi O. Olatunji
Bunmi O. Olatunji Vanderbilt University
Bradley C. Riemann
Bradley C. Riemann Memorial Hospital of South Bend
Eric A. Storch
Eric A. Storch Baylor College of Medicine
Michael P. Twohig
Michael P. Twohig Utah State University

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