Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is the most supported treatment for anxiety disorders. CBT models focus on the way that thoughts, feelings, and behaviours influence each other to cause, maintain, and alleviate anxiety symptoms. Although we are interested in studying diverse types of anxiety, we often focus on social anxiety. Our recent and ongoing projects in this area were designed to better understand:

• How people with anxiety pay attention to things in their environment
• How diverse types of automatic and controlled thinking affect anxiety symptoms like anxiety in social situations or fear of specific objects or situations (e.g., spiders, heights)
• Whether safety behaviours or beliefs about safety behaviours influence people’s speech anxiety, performance, and behaviour
• The relationship between evaluating ourselves and others negatively, as it applies to social anxiety
• How beliefs about anxiety overlap and are separate from beliefs related to emotion regulation
• Much more – check out our Recent and Ongoing Projects page!

By manipulating mechanisms that we believe are important to producing anxiety symptoms, we can test whether beliefs and behaviours actually cause problems with anxiety or simply result from those problems. We can then test whether targeting those mechanisms via CBT can imrprove the lives of people living with anxiety and related disorders.

Since founding the lab in 2014, our interests have evolved in response to our findings! Most notably, we’ve expanded into understanding the role of emotion regulation (ER) in anxiety. ER refers to a set of beliefs and strategies that people use to attempt to influence which emotion they experience, how intense it is, and how long it lasts Historically, researchers focused on understanding which strategies were adaptive and maladaptive. More recently, there have been persistent calls to better understand the degree to which contextual factors influence ER strategy use. Indeed, no ER strategy is inherently (mal)adaptive; rather, effective ER requires responding flexibly to the contextual demands of a situation and monitoring and modifying the ER response in real-time, depending on its short- and long-term consequences. For example, although hiding your outward feelings—expressive suppression—is considered maladaptive, showing anxiety and frustration at being put on the spot in a work meeting is unlikely to lead to positive outcomes. In other words, context matters. Moreover, some of our recent research demonstrated that even when people use an assigned ER strategy in experimental studies, they also spontaneously use their habitual ER strategies. Moving forward, we want to continue to test how conflicting beliefs about emotions (e.g., “It’s important to control emotions, but I’m not good at doing that.”) influence how people choose ER strategies, especially in social situations. We also want to understand how in-the-moment ER contributes to people’s difficulties with anxiety. Finally, ER develops in the context of one’s cultural background. We are dedicated to exploring and understanding the fundamental role of culture in ER generally, and specific to anxiety.

Across our research areas, we aim to adhere to best practices in quantitative and qualitative methods, experimental psychopathology, and Open and Inclusive Science. To that end, we aim to pre-register all of our studies before beginning data collection, and to publish our data along with our manuscripts. We also endeavour to recruit diverse samples, include people with lived experience in designing and implementing our studies, and maintain an inclusive research team of faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students, and research assistants from diverse backgrounds. Recently, we’ve published methods papers related to experimental psychopathology, conducting experiments and clinical science research online via videoconferencing, and using the Trier Social Stress Test.

We are fortunate to work with collaborators at uOttawa and internationally. See our recent publications page for more info!

Dr. Ouimet is a founding faculty member of the Sex and Anxiety Research Group (SAX-RG). The SAX-RG is currently supported by the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). SAX-RG research focuses on the relationship between anxiety and sexual response, including the role of social anxiety in sexual interactions. Learn more about the SAX-RG.

For more information about our mission, members, and past and ongoing research, please spend some time on the rest of our lab website!

• Congratulations to Ryan Ferguson (now Dr. Ryan Ferguson!) who received his PhD from the School of Psychology this past October. Congratulations Ryan! We’re so excited for you to join the profession of Clinical Psychology.
• Huge congratulations to Clinical Psychology PhD student Dalainey Drakes, who was awarded BOTH the Canada Graduate Scholarship from CIHR which she graciously accepted and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her proposed research on intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety among people living with chronic health and pain conditions. We are so proud of you!
• Honours' Thesis Students Mackenna Pattison and Kayleigh Angrove recently presented their honours' thesis posters at the Interdisciplinary Conference for Psychology and the Canadian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapies conference, respectively. Congratulations and job well done!
• Eldar Eftekhari will be presenting a 5-minute Snapshot of his research at CPA's 84th Annual National Convention, on June 23rd - 25th, 2023. The presentation will summarize his study on the relationship between self-efficacy, social support and perceived benefit to adversarial growth and post-traumatic stress symptoms. His co-authors, Dr. Ouimet, Jeremy Oueis, Mackenna Pattison and Kay Angrove, and the rest of the lab are cheering for him!
• Read about our rapid review of social isolation measures in older adults, in collaboration with Dr. Virginie Cobigo. Former Lab member Olivia Gardam and current lab member Ryan Ferguson spearheaded the project! You can get a summary from Olivia on Twitter!
• What happens when people judge others negatively? Do they judge themselves more harshly too? Read all about it in lab member Ryan Ferguson's recently published experiment, along with co-authors Olivia Gardam and Dr. Ouimet! It’s free to read for 50 days! You can also access the pre-print on PsyArXiv.
• Dr. Ouimet recently took on the role of Co-Director of the Clinical Program at uOttawa. Congratulations!
• Huge Congratulations to Ryan Ferguson, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation this Summer!
• One of our lab members, Cassandra Fehr, was interviewed by a magazine focused on supporting Franco-Ontarian farmers, Journal Agricom, about mental health issues. Read more about her French interview here! For more mental health resources in French, take a look at the following links:
  • Comprendre l’anxiéte et trouver de l’aide (Association canadienne pour la santé mentale Ontario)
  • L’anxiéte chez les adultes (eSantéMentale.ca)
  • Liste de contrôle des symptômes (DepressionHurts.ca)
  • Guide de discussion avec le médecin (DepressionHurts.ca)
  • Troubles de santé mentale (Biblio-Santé)
  • Vivre avec l’anxiété, la dépression et la bipolarité (Relief)
  • Podcast : Spleen (La Souffleuse)
  • Podcast : L’anxiéte (Salut, ça va ?)
• Congratulations to CADRe Lab members Kari-Ann Clow, Cassandra Fehr, and Ryan Ferguson who began their pre-doctoral internship in Clinical Psychology at the uOttawa Centre for Psychological Services & Research, Centre for Addiction & Mental Health, and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, respectively, in September 2022!
• How can we increase the representation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour in Psychology graduate programs? Learn about how we're starting to do so at the School of Psychology at uOttawa, in a paper recently published in Canadian Psychology. Dr. Ouimet was a co-author, along with first author Fatou Sarr, student co-authors Dana Strauss and Sommer Knight, and faculty colleagues Dr. Krystelle Shaughnessy, Dr. Monnica Williams, and Dr. Jude-Mary Cénat.
• Former lab member, Grace Jacob, is first author on a very interesting paper recently published in Perspectives on Psychological Science describing her Systematic Review conducted with Dr. Monnica Williams on how Black people cope with racism. Dr. Ouimet was also a co-author. We hope you take the time to read it!
• Smiling won’t make you feel better, but it might make people like you more! Read Dr. Bahl & Dr. Ouimet's article on how emotion regulation strategies impact interpersonal outcomes in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Our findings were also featured in a press release, and Dr. Ouimet gave radio interviews for Pour faire un monde and Sur le vif with Radio-Canada, All in a Day with CBC Radio, and Le Retour with Unique FM. Have a listen to learn more!
• COVID was tough for researchers too. Read about how we modified two of our experimental studies to be administered online (Case Study 1 and Case Study 2)! Lab member authors included Ryan Ferguson, Jeremy Oueis, Amélie Burla, Olivia Gardam, and Dr. Ouimet!

Dr. Ouimet is an Associate Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program, part of the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. She is also a licensed Clinical Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario.

She joined uOttawa in 2014, after completing her Ph.D in Clinical Psychology at Concordia University, which included a pre-doctoral residency in the Anxiety Treatment and Research Centre (ATRC) and Borderline Personality Disorder Service (DBT Program) at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. She completed her M.Sc. at the University of Western Ontario and her B.A. at Concordia University. 

Dr. Ouimet is the director of the CADRe Lab, and her research investigates how different types of cognition impact the development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders. More recently, she has been focusing on the role of emotion regulation in social anxiety. In particular, she wants to understand how diverse beliefs about emotions interact to determine what strategies people choose to manage specific emotion states (e.g., anxiety, anger, shame), how people monitor and switch strategies, and what the outcome of those strategies are in social situations. She prioritizes Open Science and inclusive science methods. 

Dr. Ouimet is the former Editor-in-Chief for Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, and is on the Editorial Board at Journal of Experimental Psychopathology and the Associate Editorial Board of Behaviour Research and Therapy. She is the 2018 laureate of the Canadian Psychological Association’s President’s New Researcher Award, has presented her research at several national and international conferences, and published in a variety of scientific journals.

Dr. Ouimet teaches graduate and undergraduate courses related to psychopathology, CBT, cognition, and emotion in English and French. She also supervises doctoral students and pre-doctoral interns in the provision of psychological services at uOttawa’s Centre for Psychological Services and Research. She has a small private practice where she provides assessment, psychotherapy, and small-group workshops related to managing anxiety (currently remote due to the pandemic).

Vanier Hall, 4088
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 4806
Work E-mail: allison.ouimet@uOttawa.ca

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• Kari-Ann Clow

Kari-Ann completed her Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology at the University of Western Ontario in 2016. She is currently in her fourth year of the PhD program in Clinical Psychology. She is writing her dissertation under the Supervision of Dr. Allison Ouimet.

Work E-mail: kclow096@uOttawa.ca

• Dalainey Drakes

Dalainey is completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology under the mentorship of Dr. Allison Ouimet. She graduated with her BA First Class Honours Psychology degree from St. Francis Xavier University and completed her MSc in Experimental Psychology, with specialization in Health and Wellness from Memorial University. She brings experience conducting health psychology and clinical epidemiological research working with diverse groups across the lifespan. She strives to promote patient centred research while contributing to multidisciplinary studies to support the development of targeted interventions to reduce the impact of comorbid anxiety and depressive-related disorders on chronic health and pain conditions. 

Dalainey is humbled to have been a recipient of the CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's (CGS M) award and the Canada Graduate Scholarship from CIHR which she graciously accepted for her Doctoral dissertation. Her research examines the impact of intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety among people living with chronic health and pain conditions. Her research embodies a patient-engaged approach incorporating knowledge synthesis, qualitative, and quantitative methods.

Work E-mail: dalainey.drakes@uottawa.ca

• Eldar Eftekhari

Eldar Eftekhari completed his BSc and MA in psychology at York University. He is currently a clinical psychology graduate student under the supervision of Dr. Allison Ouimet at uOttawa. His research interests generally include the relationship between various personality and socio-cultural factors and adversarial growth. He is also interested in how adversarial growth can be influenced and measured in an experimental setting.

Work E-mail: eefte077@uOttawa.ca

• Cassandra Fehr

Cassandra completed her BA in Honours Psychology at Concordia University in 2014. During that time, she worked in several laboratories, including the Vision and Psychophysics Lab as well as the Research Centre for Human Development. This experience allowed her to gain knowledge in attention and perception, eye-tracking as well as the role of cognitive processes in anxiety and mood disorders. In addition, Cassandra also has an interest in beliefs about emotions and the role it plays in emotion regulation. Given her experience, Cassandra is pursuing her Clinical graduate studies under the supervision of Dr.Allison Ouimet with the goal of looking at crucial topics such as emotion-regulation and anxiety sensitivity and the role they play in the maintenance and treatment of anxiety disorders. 

Cassandra’s dissertation is looking at controllability beliefs about emotion and its influence on adaptive emotion regulation. Moreover, Cassandra’s dissertation seeks to measure emotion regulation within a flexibility framework - a fairly recent conceptualization that proposes that adaptive emotion regulation is defined by one’s ability to regulate their emotions by implementing strategies that are synchronized with the current context and personal goals within that context. Her dissertation includes both, qualitative and quantitative methods. 

Cassandra is the recipient of both, the Master's and Doctoral Research Scholarship Award, Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC) and The Ontario Graduate Scholarship Award (OGS). 

Work E-mail: cfehr053@uOttawa.ca

• Morgan Joseph

Morgan (she/her) is a first-year student in the Clinical Psychology program under Dr. Allison Ouimet. Her research interests include intrusive behaviours, maladaptive emotion regulation, romantic relationships, sexual behaviour, cyberpsychology, and physiological synchrony.

Morgan completed her BA Honours Psychology degree at the University of Ottawa in 2020, and her MA in Experimental Psychology with a Concentration in Mental Health and Wellbeing at Carleton University in 2024. She is a past member of the INSITE Lab, Brain and Mind Research Institute, TRI Lab, and CUSP Lab. She was also a facilitator, then Mental Health Planner at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario’s mental health outpatient organization, YouthNet, and oversaw research and evaluation as well as intervention programs such as the Chronic Pain Peer Support Program.

Morgan is an Ottawa native and enjoys hiking, paddle boarding, cooking, DJing, and playing with her cat, Lupa.

Work Email: mjose018@uottawa.ca

• B. Göktürk Gök

B. Göktürk Gök is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. candidate from Hacettepe University. He joined the CADRe Lab in August 2023 as a visiting student researcher focusing on anxiety disorders, especially Social Anxiety Disorder. Göktürk completed his BA in Honours Psychology at Çağ University in 2016, and his MA in Clinical Psychology at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University in 2019. In his doctoral dissertation, he is trying to explore the mechanisms underlying social anxiety through longitudinal and cross-cultural research methods. During his time at the CADRe Lab, he aims to expand his research horizons and build cross-cultural collaborations to deepen the understanding of anxiety and related disorders.

Göktürk is a recipient of the 2214-A - International Research Fellowship Program for Doctoral Students scholarship from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

Work E-mail: bgok008@uottawa.ca

• Saray Velert Jiménez

Saray Velert Jiménez is currently in her fourth year of the PhD program in Research Psychology at the Universitat de València, thanks to a grant from the Ministry of Universities of Spain through the “Training Program for Academic Staff” (Programa de Formación de Profesorado Universitario, FPU). She is part of the team developing and validating emoWELL, an emotion regulation intervention program for emerging adults through new technologies. In September 2023, she joined the CADRe Lab as a visiting research student and continues to collaborate with the team.

https://educandoenemociones.com/en/team/

• Sogand Davoudzadeh

Sogand is an Honours BA Psychology student at the University of Ottawa. She is interested in deepening her understanding of mental disorders. She wishes to continue her studies by persuing a Master’s degree in clinical psychology. She is grateful for the opportunity to join the CADRe lab to complete her Undergrad Honours Thesis. Sogand aims to use the knowledge that she gains through her lab experience to effectively prepare herself for graduate studies.  

• Sasha Nassif

Sasha is in her 4th year of the Honours BA Psychology Program at the University of Ottawa. Upon completing her undergraduate degree, she wishes to complete a Masters and PHD in clinical Psychology. With the help of CADRe lab she is provided with the opportunity to expand her knowledge in terms of anxiety and related disorders and its interaction with our cognition and behavior. 

• Arghavan Nepton

Arghavan Nepton, PhD (cand.), is currently a doctoral student in Neuroscience, in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa. She has done research on cognitive functioning among adolescents and worked as a counsellor. She also received training in Assessment of Cognitive Functions of the Brain. All of these equipped her with the knowledge and expertise she needed to conduct research in the area of mind and brain. For her thesis project, Arghavan is focusing on Epigenetics and Ketamine therapy. She has joined to the CADRe Lab in September 2020 as a research assistant in order to collaborate in emotion regulation and cross-cultural study. She has interests in conducting research on mental health disorders. Arghavan is committed to improving social opportunity, psychological wellness, and mental health for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of color) and other historically racialized groups who suffer from racism and other artificial lines which separate people. In her spare time, you can find Arghavan reading novels, watching movies.

• Jaidon MacLean (she/her)

Jaidon recently completed her Honours B.A. in Psychology at the University of Ottawa. She joined the CADRe lab as a volunteer in September 2019 and is eager to learn more about the cognition aspect of psychological disorders. Jaidon continues to gain valuable research experience, assisting with multiple projects in the lab and she also works in the mental health department at CHEO in an effort to better prepare herself for graduate studies. 

• Naomi Olojo

Naomi is an Honours BA Psychology student at the University of Ottawa. Naomi also volunteers in the Relationship and Couples Health Lab. She is interested in the intersectional approaches to mental health education. She also has an interest in social media and making research more accessible for University of Ottawa students. Naomi hopes that the experience she gains in this lab will prepare her better for future graduate studies.

• Dani Leclair (they/them)

Dani is in their fourth year of the Honours BSc Psychology program at the University of Ottawa. They are honoured to join the CADRe lab through an NSERC USRA award where they can collaborate with the team on multiple research projects. Dani also works with the Health and Wellness sector on campus where they provide peer support to fellow students to build mental health support skills with which they can pursue graduate studies in clinical psychology.  

• Cynthia-Maria Kanaan

Cynthia recently graduated from the Honours BSc Psychology Program at the University of Ottawa. She joined the CADRe lab as a Research Assistant after winning the Research Assistantship of the First Generation Undergraduate and BIPOC competition through the School of Psychology. In addition to assisting on multiple projects in the lab, she volunteers in mental health and wellness programs and also works at Montfort Hospital. She hopes these valuable experiences will help her prepare for graduate studies. Cynthia believes that research and engagement are not only a fundamental part of academic excellence, but also building blocks of social improvement and better care. 

• Binty-Kamila Bangoura

Kamila currently is a student in the Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology program at the University of Ottawa. Kamila is also a volunteer for the Vulnerability, Trauma, Resilience and Culture Laboratory (V-TRaC).  She believes that broad public education, achieved through the collection and publication of culturally sensitive data specific to marginalized groups, is pivotal in addressing pervasive stigmas surrounding mental health. She intends to complete graduate studies and focus her practice on improving the accessibility to mental health resources for communities facing social barriers.

• José Rodrigo

José Rodrigo is a 4th-year student pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Clinical and Health Psychology at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He will join the CADRe Lab as a Visiting Research Student in the Fall of 2024. Through his involvement in the lab, José Rodrigo aims to acquire essential research skills and deepen his understanding of anxiety and other psychological factors that contribute to or sustain it. This experience will help prepare him for a future in clinical psychology and research.

• Abigail Trzebiatowski (she/her) 

Abigail is an Honours BA student in Psychology at the University of Ottawa. Currently, she is completing her honours thesis at the Social Moral Development lab, as well as volunteering at the Child and Adult Relationships and Environments Lab at the University of Ottawa. Abigail also has a strong interest in mental health and volunteers at the 988: Suicide Crisis Helpline. With the research experience gained at this lab, combined with her skills learned from 988, she plans to pursue her Doctor of Psychology.

• Noura Elmawazini

Noura is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the Honours BSc in Psychology program at the University of Ottawa. Noura is a volunteer research assistant at the CADRe Lab. She is also an honours thesis student at the ComBiNe Lab. After completing her undergraduate studies, she intends to conduct more research and pursue graduate studies in the fields of clinical psychology and mental health.

• Edwige Mayotte

• Weaam Madamani

Weaam is a 5th-year honors BSc Psychology student at Uottawa. She is grateful for the opportunity to be part of the CADRe lab, where she aims to deepen her understanding of anxiety disorders and gain research experience in preparation for graduate studies. Alongside her academic work, Weaam runs a successful business, where she creates and teaches art to clients worldwide, many of whom find comfort and healing in her work. She is passionate about eventually combining her entrepreneurial and academic expertise in psychology to promote mental health awareness, particularly in areas where it is often misunderstood or overlooked. 

• Nessrine Housni

• Béatrice Petit

Béatrice is a third-year Honours BA Psychology student at the University of Ottawa. She also volunteers in both the Developmental Methodology Lab and the Childhood Thinking Lab. In addition, Béatrice is Co-President of Coda uOttawa, a student-led initiative focused on raising awareness and funds for cancer research. Her primary research interests include cognitive development, social anxiety, and emotion regulation. She is passionate about understanding how emotional processes influence mental health and well-being, and she hopes the skills gained through her research experiences will prepare her for graduate studies in psychology.

• Johnny Guan

Johnny is in his 4th year at uOttawa. He is currently completing his undergraduate degree in Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Aside from CADRE, Johnny is also completing his undergraduate thesis concerning the intervention of music and movement on mental health in individuals with dementia at the Music and Health Research Institute. Johnny aims to gain valuable knowledge in research through the CADRE lab, with the goal of pursuing his interests in child psychology. 

• Erika Tandarich

Erika is an Honours BA Psychology student at the University of Ottawa. She also volunteers at the Child and Adult Relationships and Environments Lab, where she studies how parents and preschool-age children interact through play. Erika hopes to gain experience and necessary skills working in the lab environment to carry with her in her future graduate studies. Her research interests include neurochemical changes and plasticity in the brain, child development and language acquisition, and cognitive processes in Children. 

• Jihane Znadi
• Ellie Maynard
• Paulette Dadey

• Aamir, Zoya
• Albert, Gabrielle
• Angrove, Kay
• Asrat, Yodit
• Bahl, Nancy
• Bellavance, Justine
• Belloni, Julia
• Benzouak, Tarek
• Bowie, Kelsey
• Brock, Boden
• Burla, Amélie
• Cholmondeley, Karen
• Dixon, Talia
• Dixon-Luinenburg, Titania
• Ebeid, Mohamed
• Felix, Nereah
• Ferguson, Ryan
• Gabriel, Shaina
• Gardam, Olivia
• Gauthier, Ariane
• Grant, Kendra
• Gunpat , Sasha
• Haddad, Alexandra
• Hanna, Mariam
• Holt, Phoenix
• Hoyos, Estefania
• Hussein , Bashaer
• Jacob, Grace
• Kalpak, Midhula
• Kane, Leanne
• Kelly-Turner, Ken
• Kenny, Samantha
• Lamoureux, Alex-Anne
• Maslouhi, Safae
• McBride, Kyle
  
• Mcguire, Kathleen
  
• Munelith-Souksanh, Kristina
  
• Nachabe, Jude
  
• Oueis, Jeremy
  
• Painchaud, Mia
  
• Pilin, Maya
  
• Racine, Patrick
  
• Rocheleau, Jessica
  
• Rochon. Emmanuelle
• Rodriguez, Michela
  
• Rooyakkers, Molly
  
• Sabir, Zina
  
• Simmonds, Nicole
  
• Slaunwhite-Hay, Sydney
  
• Snyder, Tara
  
• Stragapede, Elisa
  
• Thomas, Anjali
  
• Tinsley, Carter
  
• Trepiak, Philip
  
• Tutino, Jessica
  
• Upadhyaya, Priyank
  
• Yu Niu, Kelvin

Ferguson, R. J., Ouimet, A. J., & Gardam, O. (2023). Judging others makes me forget: Assessing the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional consequences of other-evaluations on self-evaluations for social anxiety. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 101763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101763

Tutino, J. S., & Ouimet, A. J. (2021). Do words matter? Examining the influence of safety behaviour beliefs on speech task outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 12, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20438087211012161

Tutino, J. S., Ouimet, A. J., & Ferguson, R. J. (2020). Exploring the impact of safety behaviour use on cognitive, psychophysiological, and emotional responses during a speech task. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 48, 557-571. https://doi.org/10.1017/S13524658200007X

Ouimet, A. J., Ashbaugh, A. R., & Radomsky, A. S. (2019). Hoping for more: How cognitive science has and hasn’t been helpful to the OCD clinician. Clinical Psychology Review, 69, 14-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2018.04.003

Ouimet, A. J., Radomsky, A. S., & Barber, K. C. (2012). Interrelationships between spider-fear associations, attentional disengagement and self-reported fear: A preliminary test of a dual-systems model. Cognition & Emotion, 26, 1428-1444. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2012.671175

Ouimet, A. J., Gawronski, B., & Dozois, D. J. A. (2009). Cognitive vulnerability to anxiety: A review and an integrative model. Clinical Psychology Review, 29, 459-470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2009.05.004

Bahl, N., & Ouimet, A. J. (2022). Smiling won’t make you feel better, but it might make people like you more: Interpersonal and intrapersonal consequences of response-focused emotion regulation strategies. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39, 2262-2284. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02654075221077233 (Also available on PsyArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bgfwq)

Bahl, N., & Ouimet, A. J. (2022). Smiling won’t necessarily make you feel better: Response-focused emotion regulation strategies have little impact on cognitive, behavioural, physiological, and subjective outcomes. Journal of Behavioural Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2021.101695 (Also available on PsyArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9a2gn) *Included on journal’s list of top downloaded articles in previous 90 days (May 2022)*

Ouimet, A. J., Kane, L., & Tutino, J. S. (2016). Fear of anxiety or fear of emotions? Anxiety sensitivity is indirectly related to anxiety and depressive symptoms via emotion regulation. Cogent Psychology, 3, 1249132. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2016.1249132

Sex and Anxiety (with SAX-RG)

Shaughnessy, K., Fehr, C. J., Ashley, M., Braham, J., Labelle, P. R., Ouimet, A. J., Corsini-Munt, S., Ashbaugh, A. R., & Reissing, E. D. (2022). Technology-Mediated Sexual Interactions, Social Anxiety, and Sexual Wellbeing: A Scoping Review. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 12(8), 904–932. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe12080066

Kane, L., Dawson, S. J., Shaughnessy, K., Reissing, E. D., Ouimet, A. J., & Ashbaugh, A. R. (2019). A review of experimental research on anxiety and sexual arousal: Implications for the treatment of sexual dysfunction using cognitive-behavioural therapy. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 10. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2043808719847371

Tutino, J. S, Shaughnessy, K., & Ouimet, A. J. (2018). Looking at the bigger picture: Young men’s sexual health from a psychological perspective. Journal of Health Psychology, 23, 345-358. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317733321

Tutino, J. S, Ouimet, A. J., & Shaughnessy, K. (2017). How do psychological risk factors predict sexual outcomes? A comparison of four models of young women’s sexual health. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 14, 1232-1240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.07.011

Sarr, F. S., Knight, S., Strauss, D., Ouimet, A. J., Cénat, Jude Mary, Williams, Monnica T., & Shaughnessy, K. (2022). Increasing the representation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour as students in psychology doctoral programs. Canadian Psychology, 63(4), 479-499. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000339

Jacob, G., Faber, S. C., Faber, N., Bartlett, A., Ouimet, A. J., & Williams, M. T. (in press). A systematic review of Black people coping with racism: Approaches, analysis, and empowerment. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Bottesi, G., Ouimet, A. J., Cerea, S., Granziol, U., Carraro, E., Sica, C., Ghisi, M. (2020). Comprehensive behavioral therapy of Trichotillomania: A multiple-baseline single-case experimental design. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1210. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01210

Tobon, J., Zipurskey, R. B., Streiner, D. L., Colvin, E., Bahl, N., Ouimet, A. J., Burckell, L., Jeffs, L., and Bieling, P. J. (2020). Motivational enhancement as a pretreatment to a transdiagnostic intervention for emerging adults with emotion dysregulation: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29, 132-148. https://www.cacap-acpea.org/wp-content/uploads/Motivational-Enhancement-as-a-Pretreatment.pdf

Bottesi, G., Cerea, S., Ouimet, A. J., Sica, C., & Ghisi, M. (2016). Affective correlates of trichotillomania across the pulling cycle: Findings from an Italian sample of self-identified hair pullers. Psychiatry Research, 246, 606–611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.10.080

Farrell, N., Ouimet, A. J., Rowa, K., Soreni, N., Swinson, R. P., & McCabe, R. E. (2016). Who gets better when? An examination of trajectories of change in group CBT for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 10, 35-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2016.05.003

Ghisi, M., Bottesi, G., Sica, C., Ouimet, A. J., & Sanavio, E. (2013). Prevalence, phenomenology and diagnostic criteria of hair-pulling in an Italian non-clinical sample: A preliminary study. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 2, 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2012.09.003

Ouimet, A. J., Ferguson, R. J., Burla, A., Gardam, O., & Oueis, J. (2022). Conducting experimental psychopathology research in an experimenter-guided online environment, Part 1: Clinical and ethical considerations for potentially vulnerable participants. SAGE Research Methods Cases: Doing Research Online. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529604276

Ferguson, R. J., Ouimet, A. J., Gardam, O., Oueis, J. & Burla, A. (2022). Conducting experimental psychopathology research in an experimenter-guided online environment, Part 2: Practical and technical considerations for experimental manipulations. SAGE Research Methods Cases: Doing Research Online. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529604085

Ouimet, A. J., Dixon-Luinenburg, T., & Rooyakkers, M. (2021). Experimental psychopathology at the crossroads: Reflections on past, present, and future contributions to cognitive behavioural therapy. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 14, 133-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41811-020-00093-4

Narvaez-Linares, N. F., Charron, V., Ouimet, A. J., Labelle, P. R., & Plamondon, H. (2020). A systematic review of the Trier Social Stress Test methodology: Issues in promoting study comparison and replicable research. Neurobiology of Stress, 13,100235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2020.100235

Ferguson, R. J., Snyder, T., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2022). I judge myself but I judge others more: Cognitive effects of negative self-evaluations following false-feedback on negative other-evaluations. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies convention, Vancouver, BC/Virtual.

Ferguson, R. J., & Ouimet, A. J. (November, 2021). Not all judgments are created equal: Addressing how judgments of anxious others and social anxiety symptoms co-vary using a cluster analysis. Poster Presentation at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, Virtual.

Ouimet, A. J., Dixon-Luinenburg, T., & Tutino, J. S. (July, 2019). Yes and No: Understanding the impact of repeated negation and repeated reappraisal on automatic associations, spider fear, and spider approach behaviour. Poster presented at the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Berlin, GE.

Tutino, J.S., & Ouimet, A. J. (July, 2019). Do words matter? Exploring the effect of safety behaviour beliefs on exposure credibility, expectancy, and acceptability. Poster presented at the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Berlin, GE.

Ferguson, R. J., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2019). Evaluating the double-standard: Exploring the impact of negative other-evaluations in social anxiety. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies conference, Montreal, QC.

Dixon-Luinenburg, T. D., Tutino, J. S., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2019). Words matter! Manipulating people’s beliefs about safety behaviours can indirectly impact their willingness to engage in future speech exposure exercises. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies conference, Montreal, QC.

Tutino, J. S., Dixon-Luinenburg, T. L., Bowie, K. L. M., Rooyakkers, M., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2018). “I was so anxious that I barely remember my speech!” The influence of safety behaviour use on ability to gather disconfirmatory evidence during a speech task. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Vancouver, BC.

Ouimet, A. J., Bahl, N., Ferguson, R. J., Bowie, K. L. M., & Kalpak, M. (May, 2018). Thinking fast and slow in social anxiety: Implicit associations and mechanisms of change according to CBT models. In K. Barber & D. Moscovitch (Co-chairs), Innovations and advances in CBT processes for social anxiety: Mobilizing new knowledge from experimental and treatment studies. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies, Vancouver, BC.

Haddad, A., Fehr, C. J., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2021). Not just about strategies: Exploring beliefs about emotions, regulation strategies, and state emotion dysregulation. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies convention, Virtual via Gather Town.

Bahl, N., Nachabe, J., Rooyakkers, M. & Ouimet, A. J. (July, 2019). Just smile and breathe! You will feel…better? Comparing the impacts of expressive suppression and expressive dissonance on indicators of sympathetic nervous system arousal. Poster presented at the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Berlin, GE.

Fehr, C., & Ouimet, A. J. (July, 2019). Do emotion regulation strategies mediate the relationship between perceived control & fear and avoidance in social anxiety? Poster presented at the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Berlin, GE.

Sex and Anxiety (with SAX-RG)

Birch, M. J., Noorishad, P.-G., Ashbaugh, A. R., Corsini-Munt, S., Ouimet, A. J., Reissing, E., & Shaughnessy, K. (May, 2022). Are technology-mediated sexual interactions forms of safety behaviour for people high in social anxiety. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Vancouver, BC/Virtual.

Kane, L., Dawson, S. J., Shaughnessy, K., Reissing, E. D., Ouimet, A. J., & Ashbaugh, A. R. (May, 2019). Anxiety inhibits sexual arousal… or does it? A review of the impact of cognitive-behavioral components of anxiety on sexual response. Poster presented at the Society for Sex Therapy & Research 44^th Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON.

International Collaborations

Sarr, F., Knight, S., Strauss, D., Ouimet, A. J., Cénat, J.-M., Williams, M. T., & Shaughnessy, K. (June, 2022). Increasing the representation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour as Students in Psychology Doctoral Programs. Poster presented at the Canadian Psychological Association Convention, Calgary, AB.

Braham, J., Ashley, M., Fehr, C., Ashbaugh, A. R., Corsini-Munt, S., Labelle, P.,R., Ouimet, A. J., Reissing, E., & Shaughnessy, K. (May, 2022). Increasing the representation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour as Students in Psychology Doctoral Programs. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Vancouver, BC/Virtual.

Ferguson, R. J., Oueis, J., Burla, A., Gardam, O., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2022). Conducting clinical science and experimental psychopathology research in a virtual setting: Results from transitioning to an online lab. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies convention, Vancouver, BC/Virtual.

Ouimet, A. J. (Chair) (July, 2019). Open Science and reproducibility in CBT research: Where do we go from here? Panel discussion (with M. G. Craske, B. A. Teachman, P. McEvoy, & A. Burger) presented at the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Berlin, GE.

Ouimet, A. J., & Ashbaugh, A. R. (2017). Stepped-Care Treatment of Anxiety (pp. 253-275). In W. O’Donohue, L. James, & C. Snipes (Eds.) Practical strategies and tools to promote treatment engagement. Springer.

Ouimet, A. J. (2016). Integrating the Reflective Impulsive Model with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders (pp. 189-204). In R. Deutsch, B. Gawronski, & W. Hofmann (Eds.). Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Human Behavior. Psychology Press.

Ferguson, R. J., & Ouimet, A. J. (under review). Negative self-evaluations do not cause negative other-evaluations: Findings from a false-feedback experiment examining cognitive and emotional consequences in social anxiety. Available on PsyArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pvhq8

Ferguson, R. J., Oueis, J., Burla, A., Gardam, O., & Ouimet, A. J. (2022). We found research in a COVID place: Reports from two years of conducting clinical science and experimental psychopathology research in the online lab. The Canadian Clinical Psychologist: Newsletter of the Clinical Section of the Canadian Psychological Association, Spring 2022, 11-12.

Ouimet, A. J. (Guest Editor), & Ferguson, R. J. (2019). Innovations and advances in cognitive behavioral therapy: Insights from experimental psychopathology. Special Collection Editorial, Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043808719874966

Ouimet, A. J., Shaughnessy, K., & Tutino, J. S. (2017). Transdiagnostic psychological factors and sexual health: Looking through a broader lens at men’s and women’s sexual experiences. The Canadian Clinical Psychologist: Newsletter of the Clinical Section of the Canadian Psychological Association, 28(1), 9-10.

Ouimet, A. J., & Radomsky, A. S. (2011). [Review of B. Gawronski & B. K. Payne (Eds.): Handbook of implicit social cognition: Measurement, theory, and applications. New York: Guilford, 2010]. Canadian Psychology, 52, 241-242. (Review selected for inclusion on Amazon.com)

Covin, R., Dozois, D. J. A., Ouimet, A. J., & Seeds, P. M. (2007). Don’t worry! CBT is an effective treatment for GAD: So now what? Advances in Cognitive Therapy, 9 (2/3), 5.