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Justin W. Weeks is affiliated with the University of Nebraska Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily centers on psychology, with notable contributions across experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, behavioral neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics related to anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Their work also addresses child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics, perfectionism, procrastination, anxiety studies, stress responses and cortisol, emotion and mood recognition, as well as neuroscience and music perception.

Among the recent published papers are:

  • The Fears of Evaluation About Performance (FEAP) Task: Inducing Anxiety-Related Responses to Direct Exposure to Negative and Positive Evaluations, 2020, Behavior Therapy
  • Vulnerabilities in Social Anxiety: Integrating Intra- and Interpersonal Perspectives, 2024, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Targeting Fear of Positive Evaluation in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder via a Brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Protocol: A Proof-of-Principle Study, 2020, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
  • An Initial Examination of Fear of Negative and Positive Evaluation in Youth, 2023, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Re-assessing the Assessment of Fears of Positive and Negative Evaluation: Scale Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Bivalent Fear of Evaluation Scale (BFOES), 2024, Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Frequent coauthors of Justin W. Weeks include:

  • Richard G. Heimberg
  • Andres De Los Reyes
  • Thomas M. Olino
  • Ashley N. Howell
  • Melanie F. Lipton

The scientist's work is published notably in venues such as the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Behavior Therapy, Clinical Psychology Review, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, and Journal of Affective Disorders. The Journal of Anxiety Disorders is a particularly frequent venue for their research.

Justin W. Weeks' research engages deeply with anxiety-related conditions, with several studies focusing on fears of evaluation, both positive and negative, and their impact in clinical contexts. This includes efforts to measure and treat social anxiety disorder through cognitive behavioral therapy approaches and psychometric scale development.

Best Publications

  • Empirical validation and psychometric evaluation of the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale in patients with social anxiety disorder.

    Justin W. Weeks;Richard G. Heimberg;David M. Fresco;Trevor A. Hart

  • Problematic smartphone use and relations with negative affect, fear of missing out, and fear of negative and positive evaluation.

    Claire A. Wolniewicz;Mojisola F. Tiamiyu;Justin W. Weeks;Jon D. Elhai

  • The Fear of Positive Evaluation Scale: Assessing a proposed cognitive component of social anxiety

    Justin W. Weeks;Richard G. Heimberg;Thomas L. Rodebaugh

  • Exploring the relationship between fear of positive evaluation and social anxiety.

    Justin W. Weeks;Richard G. Heimberg;Thomas L. Rodebaugh;Peter J. Norton

  • Whether, how, and when social anxiety shapes positive experiences and events: a self-regulatory framework and treatment implications.

    Todd B. Kashdan;Justin W. Weeks;Antonina A. Savostyanova

  • The Bivalent Fear of Evaluation Model of Social Anxiety: Further Integrating Findings on Fears of Positive and Negative Evaluation

    Justin W Weeks;Ashley N Howell

  • Depression and emotion regulation predict objective smartphone use measured over one week

    Jon D. Elhai;Mojisola F. Tiamiyu;Justin W. Weeks;Jason C. Levine

  • Depression and social anxiety in relation to problematic smartphone use: The prominent role of rumination

    Jon D. Elhai;Mojisola Tiamiyu;Justin Weeks

  • Social appearance anxiety, perfectionism, and fear of negative evaluation: distinct or shared risk factors for social anxiety and eating disorders?

    Cheri A. Levinson;Thomas L. Rodebaugh;Emily K. White;Andrew R. Menatti

  • Social anxiety and eating disorder comorbidity and underlying vulnerabilities: Using network analysis to conceptualize comorbidity.

    Cheri A. Levinson;Leigh C. Brosof;Irina Vanzhula;Caroline Christian

  • GAZE AVOIDANCE IN SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER

    Justin W. Weeks;Ashley N. Howell;Philippe R. Goldin

  • Social anxiety and the Big Five personality traits: the interactive relationship of trust and openness.

    Simona C Kaplan;Cheri A Levinson;Thomas L Rodebaugh;Andrew Menatti

  • COMPARING AND CONTRASTING FEARS OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EVALUATION AS FACETS OF SOCIAL ANXIETY

    Justin W. Weeks;Tejal A. Jakatdar;Richard G. Heimberg

  • “To Avoid Evaluation, Withdraw”: Fears of Evaluation and Depressive Cognitions Lead to Social Anxiety and Submissive Withdrawal

    Justin W. Weeks;Justin W. Weeks;Thomas L. Rodebaugh;Richard G. Heimberg;Peter J. Norton

  • Psychometric evaluation of the Fear of Positive Evaluation Scale in patients with social anxiety disorder.

    Justin W. Weeks;Richard G. Heimberg;Thomas L. Rodebaugh;Philippe R. Goldin

  • Social anxiety disorder and quality of life: How fears of negative and positive evaluation relate to specific domains of life satisfaction.

    M. Taylor Dryman;Shani Gardner;Justin W. Weeks;Richard G. Heimberg

  • Exploring thE rolE of BEhavioral SuBmiSSivEnESS in Social anxiEty

    Justin W. Weeks;Richard G. Heimberg;Reinhardt Heuer

  • Psychometric evaluation of the mini-social phobia inventory (Mini-SPIN) in a treatment-seeking sample.

    Justin W. Weeks;Megan E. Spokas;Richard G. Heimberg

  • Assessing the latent structure of the intolerance of uncertainty construct: an initial taxometric analysis.

    R. Nicholas Carleton;Justin W. Weeks;Ashley N. Howell;Gordon J.G. Asmundson

  • Impact of cognitive-behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder on the neural bases of emotional reactivity to and regulation of social evaluation

    Philippe R. Goldin;Michal Ziv;Hooria Jazaieri;Justin Weeks

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard G. Heimberg
Richard G. Heimberg Temple University
Thomas L. Rodebaugh
Thomas L. Rodebaugh Washington University in St. Louis
R. Nicholas Carleton
R. Nicholas Carleton University of Regina
Peter J. Norton
Peter J. Norton Monash University
Gordon J.G. Asmundson
Gordon J.G. Asmundson University of Regina
Franklin R. Schneier
Franklin R. Schneier Columbia University
Martin M. Antony
Martin M. Antony Toronto Metropolitan University
Philippe R. Goldin
Philippe R. Goldin University of California, Davis
Andres De Los Reyes
Andres De Los Reyes University of Maryland, College Park
Debra A. Hope
Debra A. Hope University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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