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Overview

Julia D. Buckner is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research is focused primarily within the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Clinical Psychology, Pharmacology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Epidemiology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's main topics of work include Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, and Suicide and Self-Harm Studies.

Frequent venues for publication include Substance Use & Misuse, Addictive Behaviors, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, American Journal on Addictions, and Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment.

Recent papers highlight key areas of study, such as:

  • Biopsychosocial Model Social Anxiety and Substance Use Revised, 2021, Current Psychiatry Reports
  • Increases in distress during stay-at-home mandates During the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study, 2021, Psychiatry Research

Other notable recent papers coauthored by colleagues include:

  • Psychological, addictive, and health behavior implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Association of opioid misuse with anxiety and depression: A systematic review of the literature, 2021, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Cannabis use and social anxiety in young adulthood: A meta-analysis, 2022, Addictive Behaviors

Julia D. Buckner has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Michael J. Zvolensky, Paige E. Morris, Lorra Garey, Caroline R. Scherzer, and Justin M. Shepherd.

Best Publications

  • Attention training for generalized social anxiety disorder.

    Norman B. Schmidt;J. Anthony Richey;Julia D. Buckner;Kiara R. Timpano

  • Specificity of social anxiety disorder as a risk factor for alcohol and cannabis dependence.

    Julia D. Buckner;Norman B. Schmidt;Alan R. Lang;Jason W. Small

  • Problematic alcohol and cannabis use among young adults: The roles of depression and discomfort and distress tolerance

    Julia D. Buckner;Meghan E. Keough;Norman B. Schmidt

  • Marijuana use motives and social anxiety among marijuana-using young adults.

    Julia D. Buckner;Marcel O. Bonn-Miller;Michael J. Zvolensky;Norman B. Schmidt

  • Social anxiety and problematic alcohol consumption: the mediating role of drinking motives and situations.

    Julia D. Buckner;A. Meade Eggleston;Norman B. Schmidt

  • Anxiety Sensitivity As a Prospective Predictor of Alcohol Use Disorders

    Norman B. Schmidt;Julia D. Buckner;Meghan E. Keough

  • Difficulty Disengaging Attention from Social Threat in Social Anxiety

    Julia D. Buckner;Julia D. Buckner;Jon K. Maner;Norman B. Schmidt

  • Anxiety sensitivity, distress tolerance, and discomfort intolerance in relation to coping and conformity motives for alcohol use and alcohol use problems among young adult drinkers.

    Ashley N. Howell;Teresa M. Leyro;Julianna Hogan;Julia D. Buckner

  • Exploration of anxiety sensitivity and distress tolerance as vulnerability factors for hoarding behaviors.

    Kiara R. Timpano;Julia D. Buckner;Anthony Richey J. Anthony Richey;Dennis L. Murphy

  • A biopsychosocial model of social anxiety and substance use

    Julia D. Buckner;Richard G. Heimberg;Anthony H. Ecker;Christine Vinci

  • College cannabis use: the unique roles of social norms, motives, and expectancies.

    Julia D. Buckner

  • Mental health problems and interest in marijuana treatment among marijuana-using college students.

    Julia D. Buckner;Anthony H. Ecker;Alex S. Cohen

  • Marijuana effect expectancies: Relations to social anxiety and marijuana use problems

    Julia D. Buckner;Norman B. Schmidt

  • A randomized pilot study of motivation enhancement therapy to increase utilization of cognitive-behavioral therapy for social anxiety.

    Julia D. Buckner;Norman B. Schmidt

  • Psychological, addictive, and health behavior implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Michael J. Zvolensky;Michael J. Zvolensky;Lorra Garey;Andrew H. Rogers;Norman B. Schmidt

  • Randomized Controlled Trial of False Safety Behavior Elimination Therapy: A Unified Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Anxiety Psychopathology

    Norman B. Schmidt;Julia D. Buckner;Andrea Pusser;Kelly Woolaway-Bickel

  • Immediate antecedents of marijuana use: An analysis from ecological momentary assessment

    Julia D. Buckner;Ross D. Crosby;Jose Silgado;Stephen A. Wonderlich

  • Implications of comorbid alcohol dependence among individuals with social anxiety disorder.

    Julia D. Buckner;Kiara R. Timpano;Michael J. Zvolensky;Natalie Sachs-Ericsson

  • Social anxiety and insomnia: the mediating role of depressive symptoms

    Julia D. Buckner;Rebecca A. Bernert;Kiara R. Cromer;Thomas E. Joiner

  • Social anxiety and problematic cannabis use: evaluating the moderating role of stress reactivity and perceived coping.

    Julia D. Buckner;Norman B. Schmidt;Leonardo Bobadilla;Jeanette Taylor

  • Lifetime associations between cannabis, use, abuse, and dependence and panic attacks in a representative sample

    Michael J. Zvolensky;Amit Bernstein;Natalie Sachs-Ericsson;Norman B. Schmidt

  • Distress Tolerance: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications

    Julia D. Buckner

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Zvolensky
Michael J. Zvolensky University of Houston
Norman B. Schmidt
Norman B. Schmidt Florida State University
Richard G. Heimberg
Richard G. Heimberg Temple University
Joseph W. Ditre
Joseph W. Ditre Syracuse University
Thomas E. Joiner
Thomas E. Joiner Florida State University
Alex S. Cohen
Alex S. Cohen Louisiana State University
Samantha G. Farris
Samantha G. Farris Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jasper A. J. Smits
Jasper A. J. Smits The University of Texas at Austin
Stephen A. Wonderlich
Stephen A. Wonderlich University of North Dakota
Peter J. Norton
Peter J. Norton Monash University

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