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Shannon Sauer-Zavala

Shannon Sauer-Zavala

University of Kentucky
United States

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2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
39
Citations
7156
World Ranking
687
National Ranking
105

Psychology

D-Index
41
Citations
7959
World Ranking
7841
National Ranking
4216

Shannon Sauer-Zavala publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shannon Sauer-Zavala sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 151 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Shannon Sauer-Zavala D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shannon Sauer-Zavala sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Shannon Sauer-Zavala is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States and has a primary focus in the field of Psychology, with a substantial body of work comprising 206 publications. Their research spans several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Philosophy.

The scientist's main research topics cover an extensive range of psychological and mental health themes. These include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Resilience and Mental Health

Their recent papers illustrate the focus within these topics and are as follows:

  • A systematic review of Unified Protocol applications with adult populations: Facilitating widespread dissemination via adaptability, 2020, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Does the unified protocol really change neuroticism? Results from a randomized trial, 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Relations with Affective Symptoms in a United States General Community Sample, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • How minority stress becomes traumatic invalidation: An emotion-focused conceptualization of minority stress in sexual and gender minority people, 2021, Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
  • Integrating and differentiating personality and psychopathology in cognitive behavioral therapy, 2020, Journal of Personality

Shannon Sauer-Zavala has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Matthew W. Southward (35 joint publications)
  • R. Nicholas Carleton (25 joint publications)
  • Gregory P. Krätzig (23 joint publications)
  • Taylor A. Teckchandani (23 joint publications)
  • Tracie O. Afifi (22 joint publications)

Among the preferred journals and publication venues for their work are:

  • Behavior Therapy (8 publications)
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment (8 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (5 publications)
  • Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology (5 publications)
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (4 publications)

Shannon Sauer-Zavala is also an author of books published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra eBooks, including:

  • Protocolo Unificado para o Tratamento Transdiagnóstico das Perturbações Emocionais: Manual de Exercícios, 2023
  • Protocolo Unificado para o Tratamento Transdiagnóstico das Perturbações Emocionais: Manual do Terapeuta, 2023

Best Publications

  • The Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Neuroticism Back to the Future

    David H. Barlow;Shannon Sauer-Zavala;Jenna R. Carl;Jacqueline R. Bullis

  • The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders Compared With Diagnosis-Specific Protocols for Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    David H. Barlow;Todd J. Farchione;Jacqueline R. Bullis;Jacqueline R. Bullis;Matthew W. Gallagher;Matthew W. Gallagher

  • The Origins of Neuroticism.

    David H. Barlow;Kristen K. Ellard;Shannon Sauer-Zavala;Jacqueline R. Bullis

  • Current Definitions of “Transdiagnostic” in Treatment Development: A Search for Consensus

    Shannon Sauer-Zavala;Cassidy A. Gutner;Todd J. Farchione;Hannah T. Boettcher

  • The association between nonsuicidal self-injury and the emotional disorders: A meta-analytic review

    Kate H. Bentley;Clair F. Cassiello-Robbins;Lisa Vittorio;Shannon Sauer-Zavala

  • Anxiety sensitivity and interoceptive exposure: a transdiagnostic construct and change strategy.

    James F. Boswell;Todd J. Farchione;Shannon Sauer-Zavala;Heather W. Murray

  • Compassion-Based Therapy for Trauma-Related Shame and Posttraumatic Stress: Initial Evaluation Using a Multiple Baseline Design

    Teresa M. Au;Shannon Sauer-Zavala;Matthew W. King;Nicola Petrocchi

  • The role of negative affectivity and negative reactivity to emotions in predicting outcomes in the unified protocol for the transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders.

    Shannon Sauer-Zavala;James F. Boswell;Matthew W. Gallagher;Kate H. Bentley

  • Patient Characteristics and Variability in Adherence and Competence in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Panic Disorder.

    James F. Boswell;Matthew W. Gallagher;Shannon E. Sauer-Zavala;Jacqueline Bullis

  • What is an emotional disorder? A transdiagnostic mechanistic definition with implications for assessment, treatment, and prevention

    Jacqueline R. Bullis;Jacqueline R. Bullis;Hannah Boettcher;Shannon Sauer‐Zavala;Todd J. Farchione

  • The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders Preliminary Exploration of Effectiveness for Group Delivery

    Jacqueline R. Bullis;Shannon Sauer-Zavala;Kate H. Bentley;Johanna Thompson-Hollands

  • Comparing Mindfulness-Based Intervention Strategies: Differential Effects of Sitting Meditation, Body Scan, and Mindful Yoga

    Shannon E. Sauer-Zavala;Erin C. Walsh;Tory A. Eisenlohr-Moul;Emily L. B. Lykins

  • A systematic review of Unified Protocol applications with adult populations: Facilitating widespread dissemination via adaptability.

    Clair Cassiello-Robbins;Matthew W. Southward;Julianne Wilner Tirpak;Shannon Sauer-Zavala

  • Five-Factor Measure of Borderline Personality Traits

    Stephanie N Mullins-Sweatt;Maryanne Edmundson;Shannon Sauer-Zavala;Donald R Lynam

  • Addressing neuroticism in psychological treatment.

    Shannon Sauer-Zavala;Julianne G. Wilner;David H. Barlow

  • TRANSDIAGNOSTIC TREATMENT OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER AND COMORBID DISORDERS: A CLINICAL REPLICATION SERIES

    Shannon Sauer-Zavala;Kate H. Bentley;Julianne G. Wilner

  • Does the unified protocol really change neuroticism? Results from a randomized trial.

    Shannon Sauer-Zavala;Jay C Fournier;Stephanie Jarvi Steele;Brittany K Woods

  • Efficacy of the Unified Protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of comorbid psychopathology accompanying emotional disorders compared to treatments targeting single disorders.

    Stephanie Jarvi Steele;Todd J. Farchione;Clair Cassiello-Robbins;Amantia Ametaj

  • A preliminary investigation of the effects of the unified protocol on temperament.

    Jenna R. Carl;Matthew W. Gallagher;Shannon E. Sauer-Zavala;Kate H. Bentley

  • What is an emotional disorder? A transdiagnostic mechanistic definition with implications for assessment, treatment, and prevention.

    Unknown

  • Relationships among adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and psychopathology during the treatment of comorbid anxiety and alcohol use disorders.

    Laren R. Conklin;Clair Cassiello-Robbins;C. Alex Brake;Shannon Sauer-Zavala

Frequent Co-Authors

David H. Barlow
David H. Barlow Boston University
Todd J. Farchione
Todd J. Farchione Boston University
Kate H. Bentley
Kate H. Bentley Massachusetts General Hospital
James F. Boswell
James F. Boswell University at Albany, State University of New York
Matthew W. Gallagher
Matthew W. Gallagher University of Houston
Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt
Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt Oklahoma State University
Phillip J. Tully
Phillip J. Tully University of Adelaide
Ruth A. Baer
Ruth A. Baer University of Kentucky
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Donald R. Lynam
Donald R. Lynam Purdue University West Lafayette

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