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Kieron O'Connor

Kieron O'Connor

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Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
8707
World Ranking
5481
National Ranking
371

Overview

Kieron O'Connor is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and has a research focus primarily within the field of Psychology. Their work extensively addresses Clinical Psychology, with 36 publications in the subfield, alongside contributions to Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Emergency Medical Services.

The main research topics in O'Connor's body of work include Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, which are covered in 34 publications. Other significant topics include Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes. Additional areas of study encompass Body Image and Dysmorphia, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Schizophrenia research and treatment, and broader Mental Health Research Topics.

Frequent publication venues for O'Connor's research include the Journal of Clinical Medicine, where they have published four papers. Other notable venues are the Proceedings of The Nutrition Society, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, and the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Efficacy and Moderators of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis Versus Other Psychological Interventions: An Individual-Participant Data Meta-Analysis (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Shame on you": The impact of shame in body-focused repetitive behaviors and binge eating (2021), published in Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Evaluation of Inference-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial with Three Treatment Modalities (2022), published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • A transdiagnostic perspective of constructs underlying obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: An international Delphi consensus study (2020), published in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Experimental priming of feared self-perceptions increases obsessive-compulsive symptoms in a clinical OCD sample (2020), published in Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

O'Connor has collaborated frequently with co-authors including Frederick Aardema, J. Leclerc, Marc E. Lavoie, Pierre J. Blanchet, and Steffen Moritz. These collaborations highlight a network of researchers focused on overlapping and complementary psychological areas.

Best Publications

  • Auditory processing in autism spectrum disorder: a review.

    K. O’Connor

  • Intrusive thoughts, obsessions, and appraisals in obsessive–compulsive disorder: A critical review

    Dominic Julien;Kieron P. O'Connor;Frederick Aardema

  • Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Reasoning Processes in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Disorders

    Kieron O'Connor;Frederick Aardema;Marie-Claude Pélissier

  • Emotion regulation and other psychological models for body-focused repetitive behaviors.

    Sarah Roberts;Kieron O'Connor;Claude Bélanger

  • The Menace Within: Obsessions and the Self

    Frederick Aardema;Kieron O'Connor

  • The specificity of belief domains in obsessive–compulsive symptom subtypes

    Dominic Julien;Kieron P. O’Connor;Frederick Aardema;Christo Todorov

  • Virtual reality therapy for refractory auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia: A pilot clinical trial.

    Olivier Percie du Sert;Stéphane Potvin;Olivier Lipp;Laura Dellazizzo

  • Video lottery: winning expectancies and arousal

    Robert Ladouceur;Serge Sévigny;Alexander Blaszczynski;Kieron O'Connor

  • Virtual reality induces dissociation and lowers sense of presence in objective reality.

    Frederick Aardema;Kieron O'Connor;Sophie Côté;Annie Taillon

  • Inferential confusion in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the inferential confusion questionnaire.

    Frederick Aardema;Kieron P. O’Connor;Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;André Marchand

  • The EEG as a measure of cerebral functional organization.

    J C Shaw;K P O'Connor;C Ongley

  • Behavioral activity associated with onset in chronic tic and habit disorder.

    Kieron O’Connor;Hélène Brisebois;Mathilde Brault;Sophie Robillard

  • An experimental analysis of fearlessness and courage

    D. Cox;R. Hallam;K. O'Connor;S. Rachman

  • Evaluation of a cognitive-behavioural program for the management of chronic tic and habit disorders.

    K.P O’Connor;M Brault;S Robillard;J Loiselle

  • Deductive and inductive reasoning in obsessive‐compulsive disorder

    Marie-Claude Pélissier;Kieron P. O'Connor

  • Inference processes in obsessive-compulsive disorder: some clinical observations.

    Kieron O'Connor;Sophie Robillard

  • Evaluation of an inference-based approach to treating obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    K P O'Connor;F Aardema;D Bouthillier;S Fournier

  • Recollections of parent–child relationships in patients with obsessive‐compulsive disorder and panic disorder with agoraphobia

    L. Turgeon;K. P. O'Connor;A. Marchand;M. H. Freeston

  • The impact of DSM-IV symptom and clinical significance criteria on the prevalence estimates of subthreshold and threshold anxiety in the older adult population.

    Sébastien Grenier;Michel Préville;Richard Boyer;Kieron O’Connor;Kieron O’Connor

  • Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy and Medication in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Controlled Study:

    K O'Connor;C Todorov;S Robillard;F Borgeat

  • Intrusivethoughts,obsessions,andappraisalsinobsessive-compulsive disorder: A critical review

    Dominic Julien;Kieron P. O'Connor;Frederick Aardema

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick Aardema
Frederick Aardema University of Montreal
Adam S. Radomsky
Adam S. Radomsky Concordia University
Mark H. Freeston
Mark H. Freeston Newcastle University
Stéphane Guay
Stéphane Guay University of Montreal
Steffen Moritz
Steffen Moritz University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Robert M. Roth
Robert M. Roth Dartmouth College
Yasser Khazaal
Yasser Khazaal University of Lausanne
Paul M. G. Emmelkamp
Paul M. G. Emmelkamp University of Amsterdam
Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Leonardo F. Fontenelle Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Carol Hudon
Carol Hudon Université Laval

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