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Overview

Richard E. Zinbarg is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology and neuroscience, contributing extensively to the subfields of experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and behavioral neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

Among their recent papers are:

  • Neuroticism and Interpretive Bias as Risk Factors for Anxiety and Depression, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Neuroticism and the longitudinal trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms in older adolescents., 2020, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Five-year prospective neuroticism-stress effects on major depressive episodes: Primarily additive effects of the general neuroticism factor and stress., 2020, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Dysregulation of threat neurocircuitry during fear extinction: the role of anhedonia, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • A Current Learning Theory Approach to the Etiology and Course of Anxiety and Related Disorders, 2022, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

The scientist has published frequently in several academic journals, including:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Collaboration has been a consistent part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Michelle G. Craske
  • Robin Nusslock
  • Katherine S. Young
  • Susan Mineka
  • Susan Y. Bookheimer

Best Publications

  • Coefficients Alpha, Beta, Omega, and the glb: Comments on Sijtsma

    William Revelle;Richard E. Zinbarg

  • CRONBACH'S α, REVELLE'S β, AND MCDONALD'S ωH : THEIR RELATIONS WITH EACH OTHER AND TWO ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF RELIABILITY

    Richard E. Zinbarg;William Revelle;Iftah Yovel;Wen-Wen Li

  • A contemporary learning theory perspective on the etiology of anxiety disorders: It's not what you thought it was

    Susan Mineka;Richard Zinbarg

  • Uncontrollability and unpredictability in post-traumatic stress disorder: an animal model.

    Edna B. Foa;Richard Zinbarg;Barbara Olasov Rothbaum

  • Hierarchical structure and general factor saturation of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index : Evidence and implications

    Richard E. Zinbarg;David H. Barlow;Timothy A. Brown

  • What is an anxiety disorder

    Michelle G. Craske;Scott L. Rauch;Scott L. Rauch;Robert Ursano;Jason Prenoveau

  • Structure of anxiety and the anxiety disorders: A hierarchical model.

    Richard E. Zinbarg;David H. Barlow

  • Estimating Generalizability to a Latent Variable Common to All of a Scale's Indicators: A Comparison of Estimators for ωh

    Richard E. Zinbarg;Iftah Yovel;William Revelle;Roderick P. McDonald

  • Neuroticism as a common dimension in the internalizing disorders

    James W. Griffith;Richard E. Zinbarg;Michelle G. Craske;Susan Mineka

  • Lifetime comorbidity among anxiety disorders and between anxiety disorders and other mental disorders in adolescents.

    Peter M. Lewinsohn;Richard Zinbarg;John R. Seeley;Mark Lewinsohn

  • Prospective prediction of major depressive disorder from cortisol awakening responses in adolescence

    Emma K. Adam;Leah D. Doane;Richard E. Zinbarg;Susan Mineka

  • The DSM-IV field trial for mixed anxiety-depression.

    R E Zinbarg;D H Barlow;M Liebowitz;L Street

  • Racial/ethnic differences in cortisol diurnal rhythms in a community sample of adolescents.

    Amy S. DeSantis;Emma K. Adam;Leah D. Doane;Susan Mineka

  • Conditioning and ethological models of anxiety disorders: stress-in-dynamic-context anxiety models.

    Susan Mineka;Richard E Zinbarg

  • The cortisol awakening response predicts major depression: predictive stability over a 4-year follow-up and effect of depression history.

    S. Vrshek-Schallhorn;Leah Doane;S. Mineka;R. E. Zinbarg

  • Anxiety sensitivity, panic, and depressed mood: A reanalysis teasing apart the contributions of the two levels in the hierarchical structure of the anxiety sensitivity index

    Richard E. Zinbarg;Timothy A. Brown;David H. Barlow;Ronald M. Rapee

  • Dimensions of anxiety sensitivity

    Richard E Zinbarg;Jan Mohlman;Nicholas N Hong

  • Interpreting neutral faces as threatening is a default mode for socially anxious individuals.

    K. Lira Yoon;Richard E. Zinbarg

  • Longitudinal investigation of the impact of anxiety and mood disorders in adolescence on subsequent substance use disorder onset and vice versa.

    Kate Wolitzky-Taylor;Lyuba Bobova;Richard E. Zinbarg;Susan Mineka

  • Neural and behavioral evidence for affective priming from unconsciously perceived emotional facial expressions and the influence of trait anxiety

    Wen Li;Richard E. Zinbarg;Stephan G. Boehm;Ken A. Paller

Frequent Co-Authors

Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Susan Mineka
Susan Mineka Northwestern University
James W. Griffith
James W. Griffith Northwestern University
Emma K. Adam
Emma K. Adam Northwestern University
Allison M. Waters
Allison M. Waters Griffith University
Robin Nusslock
Robin Nusslock Northwestern University
Constance Hammen
Constance Hammen University of California, Los Angeles
William Revelle
William Revelle Northwestern University
David H. Barlow
David H. Barlow Boston University
Leah D. Doane
Leah D. Doane Arizona State University

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