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Willerman Award Winners

2021

Santiago Papini"The impact of prior and ongoing threat on the false alarm threshold for facial discrimination" 

2020

Aliza Stein "Looking Beyond Depression: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Behavioral Activation of Depression, Anxiety, and Activation"
Travis Mallard "Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia is Associated with Substance Use in Emerging Adulthood: An Event-Level Polygenic Prediction Model"

2019

Amelia Stanton
"Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Increases Sexual Arousal Among Women with Female Sexual Arousal Disorder: Results from a Randomized-Controlled Trial"

2018

Andrew Grotzinger
"Genetic and Environmental Influences on Pubertal Hormones in Human Hair Across Development"

2017

Scarlett Baird
"Reducing Approach Bias to Achieve Smoking Cessation: A Pilot Randomized Placebo-controlled Trial"

2016

Sonya Kaur
"Central Adiposity and Cortical Thickness in Midlife”

2015

Rahel Pearson "Association Between Serotonin Cumulative Genetic Score and the Behavioral Approach System (BAS): Moderation by Early Life Environment"

2014 

Peter Clasen "Cognitive Control Network Connectivity in Adolescent Women With and Without a Parental History of Depression"

2013 

Patrick Quinn "An Event-Level Examination of Sex Differences and Subjective Intoxication in Alcohol-Related Aggression"

2012

Tierney Ahrold "Acute Exercise Improves Physical Sexual Arousal in Women Taking Antidepressants"

2011

Mitzi Gonzales "Insulin Sensitivity as a Mediator of the Relationship Between BMI and Working Memory-Related Brain Activation"

2010

Tony Wells "Serotonin Transporter and BDNF Genetic Variants Interact To Predict Cognitive Reactivity in Healthy Adults"

2009

Chris Harte "The Inhibitory Effects of Nicotine on Physiological Sexual Arousal in Nonsmoking Women: Results from a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Cross-Over Trial"
Kate Wolitzky-Taylor "Augmenting In Vivo Exposure with Fear Antagonistic Actions: A Preliminary Test"

2008

Hanjoo Lee "Attentional Biases in Social Anxiety: An Investigation Using the Inattentional Blindness Paradigm"

2007

Lisa Groesz "An Experimental Test of the Effects of Dieting on Bulimic Symptoms: The Impact of Eating Episode Frequency"

2006

Alessandra Rellini "Psychophysiological Sexual Arousal in Women with a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse"

2005

Mark Powers "Disentangling the Effects of Safety Behavior Utilization and Safety-Behavior Availability during Exposure-Based Treatment: A Placebo-Controlled Trial"

2004

Emily Burton "A Prospective Test of the Stress-Buffering Model of Depression in Adolescent Girls: No Support Once Again"

2002

Katherine Presnell "An Experimental Test of the Effect of Weight-Loss Dieting on Bulimic Pathology: Tipping the Scales in a Different Direction"

2001

Bryan Hartzler "Cognitive-behavioral Profiles of College Risk-takers with Type II and Psychopathic Traits"

2000

Penny Frohlich "Evidence that Serotonin Affects Female Sexual Functioning Via Peripheral Mechanisms"