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Steven Taylor is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and specializes in the field of psychology with a focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, and health. Their research has contributed primarily to understanding mental health issues, especially related to anxiety and responses to pandemics.

Their work prominently addresses several main topics including:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

Steven Taylor has published extensively in a range of academic journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • PLoS ONE
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Personality and Individual Differences

Selected recent papers by Steven Taylor include:

  • Development and initial validation of the COVID Stress Scales, 2020, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • COVID stress syndrome: Concept, structure, and correlates, 2020, Depression and Anxiety

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Gordon J. G. Asmundson
  • Michelle M. Paluszek
  • Geoffrey S. Rachor
  • Caeleigh A. Landry
  • Dean McKay

Steven Taylor has also contributed to book publications. Notable books include The Psychology of Pandemics published by the National Institutes of Health in 2022, and Die Pandemie als psychologische Herausforderung published by Psychosozial-Verlag eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Robust dimensions of anxiety sensitivity: Development and initial validation of the anxiety sensitivity index-3

    Steven Taylor;Michael J. Zvolensky;Brian J. Cox;Brett Deacon

  • The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Disease

    Steven Taylor

  • Cognitive assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Randy Frost;Gail Steketee;Nader Amir;Martine Bouvard

  • Comparative efficacy of treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder: a meta-analysis

    Michelle L. Van Etten;Steven Taylor

  • Coronaphobia: Fear and the 2019-nCoV outbreak.

    Gordon J.G. Asmundson;Steven Taylor

  • Development and initial validation of the COVID Stress Scales.

    Steven Taylor;Caeleigh A. Landry;Michelle M. Paluszek;Thomas A. Fergus

  • Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

    Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;Steven Taylor;Dean McKay

  • How does anxiety sensitivity vary across the anxiety disorders

    Steven Taylor;William J. Koch;Richard J. McNally

  • PTSD and the Experience of Pain: Research and Clinical Implications of Shared Vulnerability and Mutual Maintenance Models:

    Gordon J G Asmundson;Michael J Coons;Steven Taylor;Joel Katz

  • How health anxiety influences responses to viral outbreaks like COVID-19: What all decision-makers, health authorities, and health care professionals need to know.

    Gordon J.G. Asmundson;Steven Taylor

  • Comparative efficacy, speed, and adverse effects of three PTSD treatments: Exposure therapy, EMDR, and relaxation training.

    Steven Taylor;Dana S. Thordarson;Louise Maxfield;Ingrid C. Fedoroff

  • Anxiety Sensitivity : theory, Research, and Treatment of the Fear of Anxiety

    Steven Taylor

  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Twin Study

    Murray B. Stein;Kerry L. Jang;Steven Taylor;Philip A. Vernon

  • Psychometric validation of the obsessive belief questionnaire and interpretation of intrusions inventory - Part 2: Factor analyses and testing of a brief version

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Sunil Bhar;Martine Bouvard

  • A critical evaluation of obsessive-compulsive disorder subtypes: symptoms versus mechanisms.

    Dean McKay;Jonathan Stuart Abramowitz;John E. Calamari;Michael Kyrios

  • Development and initial validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory.

    M Freeston;G Steketee;R Frost;N Amir

  • Psychometric validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory: Part I

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Sunil Bhar;Martine Bouvard

  • COVID stress syndrome: Concept, structure, and correlates.

    Steven Taylor;Caeleigh A. Landry;Michelle M. Paluszek;Thomas A. Fergus

  • Meta-analysis of cognitive-behavioral treatments for social phobia

    Steven Taylor

  • Psychological and pharmacological treatments of social phobia: a meta-analysis.

    Ingrid C. Fedoroff;Steven Taylor

  • Comparative Efficacy of Treatments for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder:

    Michelle L. Van Etten;Steven Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon J.G. Asmundson
Gordon J.G. Asmundson University of Regina
Dean McKay
Dean McKay Fordham University
Jonathan S. Abramowitz
Jonathan S. Abramowitz University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kerry L. Jang
Kerry L. Jang University of British Columbia
Brian J. Cox
Brian J. Cox University of Manitoba
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego
Sherry H. Stewart
Sherry H. Stewart Dalhousie University
Michael Kyrios
Michael Kyrios Flinders University
David A. Clark
David A. Clark University of New Brunswick
Sheila R. Woody
Sheila R. Woody University of British Columbia

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