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Susan Mineka is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Psychology. Their work spans several subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Education, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's research topics concentrate on areas such as Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Mental Health Research Topics, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Child Abuse and Trauma, Early Childhood Education and Development, and Suicide and Self-Harm Studies.

Mineka has contributed multiple publications to various academic venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Susan Mineka include:

  • 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
  • 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
  • A Current Learning Theory Approach to the Etiology and Course of Anxiety and Related Disorders. (2022), Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • Reciprocal effects of neuroticism and life stress in adolescence. (2020), Journal of Affective Disorders

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mineka include:

  • Richard E. Zinbarg
  • Michelle G. Craske
  • Alexander L. Williams
  • Allison Metts
  • Julia S. Yarrington

Best Publications

  • Fears, phobias and preparedness: Toward an evolved module of fear and fear learning

    Arne Öhman;Susan Mineka

  • Temperament, personality, and the mood and anxiety disorders.

    Lee Anna Clark;David Watson;Susan Mineka

  • COMORBIDITY OF ANXIETY AND UNIPOLAR MOOD DISORDERS

    Susan Mineka;David Watson;Lee Anna Clark

  • A modern learning theory perspective on the etiology of panic disorder

    Mark E. Bouton;Susan Mineka;David H. Barlow

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

    Susan Mineka;Richard Zinbarg

  • Observational conditioning of snake fear in rhesus monkeys.

    Susan Mineka;Mark Davidson;Michael Cook;Richard Keir

  • Comorbidity of anxiety and depressive disorders: A helplessness-hopelessness perspective.

    Lauren B. Alloy;Kelly A. Kelly;Susan Mineka;Caroline M. Clements

  • Phobias and preparedness: the selective, automatic, and encapsulated nature of fear

    Susan Mineka;Arne Öhman

  • The relevance of recent developments in classical conditioning to understanding the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders.

    Susan Mineka;Katherine Oehlberg

  • The Malicious Serpent: Snakes as a Prototypical Stimulus for an Evolved Module of Fear

    Arne Öhman;Susan Mineka

  • Observational conditioning of fear to fear-relevant versus fear-irrelevant stimuli in rhesus monkeys.

    Michael Cook;Susan Mineka

  • Neuroticism as a common dimension in the internalizing disorders

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

  • Overgeneral autobiographical memory as a predictor of the course of depression: a meta-analysis.

    Jennifer A. Sumner;James W. Griffith;Susan Mineka

  • Mechanisms involved in the observational conditioning of fear.

    Susan Mineka;Michael Cook

  • Unpredictable and uncontrollable events: a new perspective on experimental neurosis.

    Susan Mineka;John F. Kihlstrom

  • Extinction in human fear conditioning.

    Dirk Hermans;Michelle G. Craske;Susan Mineka;Peter F. Lovibond

  • Social Separation in Monkeys.

    Susan Mineka;Stephen J. Suomi

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

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

  • Cognitive Biases and the Emotional Disorders

    Susan Mineka;Steven K. Sutton

  • Controllability and predictability in acquired motivation.

    Susan Mineka;Robert W. Hendersen

  • A Memory-Based Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder : Evaluating Basic Assumptions Underlying the PTSD Diagnosis. Commentary. Authors' reply

    David C. Rubin;Dorthe Berntsen;Malene Klindt Bohni;Scott M. Monroe

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Zinbarg
Richard E. Zinbarg Northwestern University
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
James W. Griffith
James W. Griffith Northwestern University
Emma K. Adam
Emma K. Adam Northwestern University
Allison M. Waters
Allison M. Waters Griffith University
Constance Hammen
Constance Hammen University of California, Los Angeles
Leah D. Doane
Leah D. Doane Arizona State University
James N. Butcher
James N. Butcher University of Minnesota
Suzanne L. Pineles
Suzanne L. Pineles Boston University
Stephen J. Suomi
Stephen J. Suomi National Institutes of Health

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