Behaviour Research and Therapy

Papers
(The TQCC of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals194
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students158
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Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder79
Components of cognitive-behavioral interventions to prevent the onset of depression among the high-risk population: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis71
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect63
Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study60
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals59
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?56
Evaluation of a brief, online imagery rescripting intervention targeting fear-of-self in high obsessive-compulsive participants54
Exposure to images of post-bushfire disaster impacts fear learning and extinction45
Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setti43
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety40
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance40
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials40
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events39
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial39
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The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder36
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories35
Overgeneral autobiographical memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the differential roles of executive function subcomponents and the impact on symptom severity35
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style35
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support35
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity34
Prior conceptual structure in shaping fear generalization: The impact of co-occurrence frequency and retrieval context34
Sex differences in the effect of subjective sleep on fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction recall in individuals with a range of PTSD symptom severity33
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Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility31
Testing associations between negative interpretation inflexibility, anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty31
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping30
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy29
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic28
Effects of novelty and reward-based fear extinction on memory generalization28
Is internet-based parent training for everyone? Predictors and moderators of outcomes in group vs. internet-based parent training for children with disruptive behavior problems27
Effectiveness of an online positive affect treatment targeting reward sensitivity in reducing depressive symptoms among college students: A randomized controlled trial27
When emotions persist: Emotional inertia predicts adolescent depression amid COVID-19 stress26
Repetitive negative thinking and suicidal ideation in internalizing psychopathologies: A replication study26
Corrigendum to “Intolerance of uncertainty enhances adolescent fear generalization in both perceptual-based and category-based tasks: fNIRS studies” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 183 (2024) 104650]25
Downstream effects of observational threat learning: Generalization and reversal learning across development25
Induced awareness of stimulus differences impedes the generalization of extinction learning with various, highly similar stimuli24
Cognitive behavior therapy for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis24
A multilevel machine learning algorithm to predict session-by-session outcome for patients receiving cognitive-behavioural therapy23
Divergent experiences of U.S. veterans who did and did not complete trauma-focused therapies for PTSD: A national qualitative study of treatment dropout23
Heart-Mind-Behavior Parent Training: Randomized controlled trial for Chinese parents of young children with ASD23
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans23
Effects of social buffering on fear extinction in adolescent rats23
Repetitive negative thinking in daily life predicts psychopathology: Further validation of an ecological momentary assessment paradigm23
Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review22
Psychological mechanisms of change in reducing co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol use: A causal mediation analysis of the online Inroads intervention21
The relative efficacy and efficiency of single- and multi-session exposure therapies for specific phobia: A meta-analysis21
Contextual factors influence effectiveness of cognitive reappraisal19
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Role of social determinants in anxiety and depression symptoms during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adults in North Carolina and Massachusetts19
Performance-based attentional control, but not self-reported attentional control, predicts changes in depressive symptoms in short-term psychotherapy19
Predicting responsiveness to a dialectical behaviour therapy skills training app for recurrent binge eating: A machine learning approach19
Can placebos reduce intrusive memories?19
Can cognitive behavioral additions improve the efficacy of self-help mindfulness intervention for depression and anxiety ?: A randomized controlled trial19
Daily micropractice can augment single-session interventions: A randomized controlled trial of self-compassionate touch and examining their associations with habit formation in US college students18
Imagery rescripting and extinction: Effects on US expectancy, US revaluation, and the generalization of fear reduction18
Advances in the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based interventions for historically marginalized groups18
Guided internet-based LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: A randomized controlled trial among sexual minority men in China18
Threat sensitivity in emotion dynamics: Negativity effects and sex differences18
Mechanisms of change in digital cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in patients with chronic back pain: A mediation analysis of a multicenter randomized clinical trial17
Can integrating the Memory Support Intervention into cognitive therapy improve depression outcome? A randomized controlled trial17
To focus on a confederate or oneself? Attentional bias and state anxiety in socially anxious individuals during real-time online video calls16
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“I'm not here to push you:” raising adolescents' treatment engagement via autonomy support16
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Developmental shifts in the anxiety and hazardous alcohol use relationship: Moderating factors from adolescence to young adulthood15
Using network analysis to characterize clinical improvement during cognitive processing therapy15
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Daily relationships among maternal rumination, mood and bonding with infant15
Corrigendum to “Multi-session online interpretation bias training for anxiety in a community sample” [Behaviour Research and Therapy, 142 (2021), 1–15 / 103864]14
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The effect of exercise engagement on low back disability at 12-months is mediated by pain and catastrophizing in a community sample of people with chronic low back pain14
The impact of module dosage on treatment response in a modular transdiagnostic intervention for sleep and circadian dysfunction (TranS-C)14
Mediators and Moderators of two online interventions for managing pain, fear of progression and functional ability in rheumatoid arthritis14
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The effects of culturally adapted expressive writing interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms among Chinese American breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial13
Recalling and anticipating positive events to improve the positive affect and mental health of adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools13
Predicting Chinese adolescents’ non-suicidal self-injury urges at diathetic, environmental, and life-event levels——machine learning and network analysis13
Translational assessment of anhedonia components: Significant associations between reward anticipation measured via behavioural task performance, daily smartphone reports, and general anhedonia questi13
Affective and computational determinants of threat extinction biases13
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A threat from within: Learning to fear by observing aversive bodily symptoms in others13
From innovation to implementation: Artificial intelligence in cognitive behaviour therapy training and supervision13
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Prosody-focused feedback enhances the efficacy of anti-depressive self-statements in depressed individuals – A randomized controlled trial12
Improving treatments for mental disorders using computational models12
Do appearance related safety behaviors contribute to distress intolerance? A Multi-method examination12
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Changes in cognitive processes and coping strategies precede changes in symptoms during cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder12
Are biased and inflexible updating of interpretations broad or narrow transdiagnostic risk markers for psychopathology? A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) lens12
A randomized-controlled trial comparing relative effects of mindfulness-based interoceptive exposure focus versus distraction on cold-pressor induced pain12
Safety behaviors toward innocuous stimuli can maintain or increase threat beliefs12
Moderators of treatment effect of Prompt Mental Health Care compared to treatment as usual: Results from a randomized controlled trial12
Network intervention analysis of anxiety-related outcomes and processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxious cancer survivors12
Toward a mechanistic understanding of LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: Testing treatment mediators in a randomized controlled trial with young gay and bisexual men11
Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia11
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Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: A summary and overview of the literature11
Predictors of school-based cognitive behavior therapy outcome for youth with anxiety11
Examining emotional processing theory and predictors of outcome in prolonged exposure for PTSD11
Identifying the active ingredients of cognitive-behavioural therapy: Conceptualisation, methods and evidence11
Breaking barriers: Addressing hostile attribution bias and aggression among future correctional officers11
Attentional bias modification in male college smokers: The changes of facilitated attention, difficulty in disengagement and the transfer effects of training11
Suicide and cognitive processes: Introduction to the special issue11
Prospective relations between anxiety sensitivity and transdiagnostic anxiety following cognitive-behavioral therapy: Evidence from the Coordinated Anxiety Learning management trial11
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Neurocognitive mechanisms of mental imagery-based disgust learning10
Effectiveness of two video-based multicomponent treatments for fibromyalgia: The added value of cognitive restructuring and mindfulness in a three-arm randomised controlled trial10
The unique impacts of attentional control and experiential avoidance on PTSD symptomatology: Moderation of nonlinear effects10
Parenting Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An RCT of an online course with families of children with CP10
Introduction to special issue honoring Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023)10
Directional associations among real-time activity, sleep, mood, and daytime symptoms in major depressive disorder using actigraphy and ecological momentary assessment10
The longitudinal structure of sleep disturbance: Time-varying and time-invariant components and associations with psychological distress10
Concurrent and prospective associations between negative social-evaluative beliefs, safety behaviours, and symptoms during and following cognitive behavioural group therapy for social anxiety disorder10
Corrigendum to “Evaluation of a brief, online imagery rescripting intervention targeting fear-of-self in high obsessive–compulsive participants” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 195 (2025) 104903]10
Persistence of extensively trained avoidance is not elevated in anxiety disorders in an outcome devaluation paradigm10
Empirically supported treatments for all: Realizing equitable coverage of care for trauma survivors globally10
Suicide-specific rumination as a predictor of suicide planning and intent10
Processes of change in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for procrastination: moderation and longitudinal mediation analyses of randomized controlled trial data10
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Remembering and forgetting: A dynamic social retrieval theory of posttraumatic stress10
Using GIMME to model the emotional context of suicidal ideation based on clinical data: From research to clinical practice9
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Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments9
No joy - why bother? Higher anhedonia relates to reduced pleasure from and motivation for threat avoidance9
The combination of physical exercise and slow-paced breathing on psychophysiological indices of emotion reactivity, psychosocial stress reactivity and recovery: A multimodal investigation9
“It's safer to believe that others don't like me” – A qualitative study on the paradoxical value of negative core beliefs in depression9
Corrigendum to “Measuring self-efficacy, executive function, and temporal discounting in Kenya” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 101 (2018) 30–45]9
Continuous theta burst stimulation to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in young adults with depression: Changes in resting frontostriatal functional connectivity relevant to positive mood9
Past stories, future worries: sleep does not alter the emotional response to future-relevant or irrelevant negative memories9
Facets of social problem-solving as moderators of the real-time relation between social rejection and negative affect in an at-risk sample9
What we got wrong about depression and its treatment9
Stigmatized experience is associated with exacerbated pain perception in depressed patients9
Self-guided online treatment of disturbed grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in adults bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial9
Changes in trauma-related cognitions predict subsequent symptom improvement during prolonged exposure in patients with childhood abuse-related PTSD9
Changing maladaptive trauma-related cognitions and emotional activation during trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy: Thematic content and relationships with posttraumatic stress symptoms9
The benefit and neural mechanisms of computerized inhibitory control training for insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype: a rs-fMRI study9
Reflections on an emerging new science of mental disorders9
Effects of positive and negative affect inductions on interpretive and response bias9
Implicit emotion regulation affects the emotional information updating function of high trait ruminators: An ERP study8
Youth social functioning interacts with treatment arm, diagnosis, and gender to predict anxiety treatment outcome8
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Does the network structure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms at treatment admission identify patients at risk for non-response?8
Expanding, improving, and understanding behaviour research and therapy through digital mental health8
Joy beyond fear: Positive emotions after exposure in patients with anxiety disorders and their link to threat expectancy and treatment outcome8
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Suicidal ideation trajectories among adults following psychiatric hospitalization8
Do trauma cue exposure and/or PTSD symptom severity intensify selective approach bias toward cannabis cues in regular cannabis users with trauma histories?8
Effects of patient response pattern distributions on comparisons of psychosocial treatments for major depressive disorder8
Reappraising negative situations after a night of sleep deprivation8
The role of mental imagery in worry: Insights from aphantasia8
One research question, two meta-analyses, three conclusions: Commentary on “A systematic review with meta-analysis of Cognitive Bias Modification interventions for anger and aggression”8
Moderators of outcome in self-guided internet-delivered cognitive-behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder8
Neurocognitive functioning in adults with trichotillomania: Predictors of treatment response and symptom severity in a randomized control trial8
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