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Featured PEARL Publications

  • *Sweet, A. M., *Pearlstein, S. L., Paulus, M. P., Stein, M. B., & Taylor, C. T. (2021). Computer-delivered behavioural activation and approach-avoidance training in major depression: Proof of concept and initial outcomes. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60(3). | View in: Wiley Online Library
  • Evans, T. C., Taylor, C. T., & Britton, J. C. (2021). Characterizing the time course of automatic action tendencies to affective facial expressions and its dysregulation in social anxiety disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 78. | View in: Science Direct
  • Harlé, K. M., Simmons, A. N., Bomyea, J., Spadoni, A. D., & Taylor, C. T. (2021). Higher affective congruency in the approach-avoidance task is associated with insular deactivation to dynamic facial expressions. Neuropsychologia, 141. | View in: Science Direct
  • Taylor, C .T, *Tsai, T. C., & *Smith, T. R. (2020). Examining the link between positive affectivity and anxiety reactivity to social stress in individuals with and without social anxiety disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. | View in: Science Direct
  • Taylor, C. T., *Pearlstein, S. L., Kakaria, S., Lyubomirsky, S., & Stein, M. B. (2020). Enhancing social connectedness in anxiety and depression through Amplification of Positivity: Preliminary treatment outcomes and process of change. Cognitive Therapy and Research. | View in: Springer
  • Taylor, C. T., *Pearlstein, S. L., Stein, M. B. (2020). A tale of two systems: Testing a positive and negative valence systems framework to understand social disconnection across anxiety and depressive disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders, 266, 207-214. | View in: Science Direct
  • Taylor, C. T., Knapp, S. E., Bomyea, J. A., Ramsawh, H. J., Paulus, M. P., & Stein, M. B. (2017). What good are positive emotions for treatment? Trait positive emotionality predicts response to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for anxiety. Behavior Research and Therapy, 93, 6-12. | View in: Science Direct, PubMed
  • Taylor, C. T., Lyubomirsky, S., & Stein, M. B. (2017). Upregulating the positive affect system in anxiety and depression: Outcomes of a positive activity intervention. Depression and Anxiety, 34(3), 267-280. | View in: Wiley Online Library, PubMed
  • Taylor, C. T., *Pearlstein, S. L., & Stein, M. B. (2017). The affective tie that binds: Examining the contribution of positive emotions and anxiety to relationship formation in social anxiety disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 49, 21-30. | View in: Science Direct, PubMed

*Italicized authors are current or previous PEARL staff, trainees, and/or students.

Publications by Dr. Charles Taylor

Jacobus, J., Taylor, C. T., Gray, K. M., Meredith, L. R., Porter, A. M., Li, I., Castro, N., & Squeglia, L. M. (2018). A multi-site proof-of-concept investigation of computerized approach-avoidance training in adolescent cannabis users. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 187, 195-204. | View in: PubMed

Bomyea, J., Taylor, C. T., Spadoni, A. D., & Simmons, A. N. (2018). Neural mechanisms of interference control in working memory capacity. Human Brain Mapping, 39(2), 772-782. | View in: PubMed

Campbell-Sills, L., Kessler, R. C., Ursano, R. J., Sun, X., Taylor, C. T., Heeringa, S. G., … Stein, M. B. (2018). Predictive validity and correlates of self-assessed resilience among U.S. Army soldiers. Depression and Anxiety, 35(2), 122-131. | View in: PubMed

Jacobus, J., Squeglia, L. M., Escobar, S., McKenna, B. M., Hernandez, M. M., Bagot, K. S., … Huestis, M. A. (2017). Changes in marijuana use symptoms and emotional functioning over 28-days of monitored abstinence in adolescent marijuana users. Psychopharmacology, 234(23-24), 3431-3442. | View in: PubMed

Taylor, C. T., Pearlstein, S. L., & Stein, M. B. (2017). The affective tie that binds: Examining the contribution of positive emotions and anxiety to relationship formation in social anxiety disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 49, 21-30. | View in: Science Direct, PubMed

Taylor, C. T., Knapp, S. E., Bomyea, J. A., Ramsawh, H. J., Paulus, M. P., & Stein, M. B. (2017). What good are positive emotions for treatment? Trait positive emotionality predicts response to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for anxiety. Behavior Research and Therapy, 93, 6-12. | View in: Science Direct, PubMed

Paulus, M. P., Stein, M. B., Craske, M. G., Bookheimer, S., Taylor, C. T., Simmons, A. N., Sidhu, N., Young, K. S., & Fan, B. (2017). Latent variable analysis of positive and negative valence processing focused on symptom and behavioral units of analysis in mood and anxiety disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders, 216, 17-29. | View in: PubMed

Taylor, C. T., Lyubomirsky, S., & Stein, M. B. (2017). Upregulating the positive affect system in anxiety and depression: Outcomes of a positive activity intervention. Depression and Anxiety, 34(3), 267-280. | View in: Wiley Online Library, PubMed

Taylor, C. T., Cross, K., & Amir, N. (2016). Attentional control moderates the relationship between social anxiety symptoms and attentional disengagement from threatening information. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 50, 68-76. | View in: PubMed

Squeglia, L. M., Sorg, S. F., Jacobus, J., Brumback, T., Taylor, C. T., & Tapert, S. F. (2015). Structural connectivity of neural reward networks in youth at risk for substance use disorders. Psychopharmacology, 232(13), 2217-26. | View in: PubMed, PubMed Central

Taylor, C. T., Aupperle, R. L., Flagan, T., Simmons, A. N., Amir, N., Stein, M. B., & Paulus, M. P. (2014). Neural correlates of a computerized attention modification program in anxious subjects. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(9), 1379-87. | View in: PubMed, PubMed Central

Taylor, C. T., & Amir, N. (2012). Modifying automatic approach action tendencies in individuals with elevated social anxiety symptoms. Behaviour Research Therapy, 50(9), 529-36. | View in: PubMed, PubMed Central

Amir, N., & Taylor, C. T. (2012). Interpretation training in individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 80(3), 497-511. | View in: PubMed

Amir, N., Taylor, C. T., & Donohue, M. C. (2011). Predictors of response to an attention modification program in generalized social phobia. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 79(4), 533-41. | View in: PubMed, PubMed Central

Plasencia, M. L., Alden, L. E., & Taylor, C. T. (2011). Differential effects of safety behaviour subtypes in social anxiety disorder. Behavior Research and Therapy, 49(10), 665-75. | View in: PubMed

Amir, N., & Taylor, C. T. (2012). Combining computerized home-based treatments for generalized anxiety disorder: an attention modification program and cognitive behavioral therapy. Behavior Therapy, 43(3), 546-59. | View in: PubMed, PubMed Central

Taylor, C. T., & Alden, L. E. (2011). To see ourselves as others see us: an experimental integration of the intra and interpersonal consequences of self-protection in social anxiety disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120(1), 129-41. | View in: PubMed

Taylor, C. T., Bomyea, J., & Amir, N. (2011). Malleability of attentional bias for positive emotional information and anxiety vulnerability. Emotion, 11(1), 127-138. | View in: PubMed, PubMed Central

Alden, L. E., & Taylor C. T. (2011). Relational treatment strategies increase social approach behaviors in patients with Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 25(3), 309-18. | View in: PubMed

Taylor, C. T., Bomyea, J., & Amir, N. (2010). Attentional bias away from positive social information mediates the link between social anxiety and anxiety vulnerability to a social stressor. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24(4), 403-8. | View in: PubMed, PubMed Central

Taylor, C. T., & Alden, L. E. (2010). Safety behaviors and judgmental biases in social anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48(3), 226-37. | View in: PubMed

Amir, N., Beard, C., Taylor, C. T., Klumpp, H., Elias, J., Burns, M., & Chen, X. (2009). Attention training in individuals with generalized social phobia: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77(5), 961-973. | View in: PubMed

Amir, N., Taylor, C. T., Bomyea, J. A., & Badour, C. L. (2009). Temporal allocation of attention toward threat in individuals with posttraumatic stress symptoms. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23(8), 1080-5. | View in: PubMed, PubMed Central

Amir, N., Weber, G., Beard, C., Bomyea, J., & Taylor, C. T. (2008). The effect of a single-session attention modification program on response to a public-speaking challenge in socially anxious individuals. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117(4), 860-868. | View in: PubMed, PubMed Central

Taylor, C. T., Hirshfeld-Becker, D. R., Ostacher, M. J., Chow, C. W., LeBeau, R. T., Pollack, M. H., … Simon, N. M. (2008). Anxiety is associated with impulsivity in bipolar disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22(5), 868-76. | View in: PubMed

Alden, L. E., Taylor, C. T., Mellings, T. M., & Laposa, J. M. (2008). Social anxiety and the interpretation of positive social events. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22(4), 577-90. | View in: PubMed

Taylor C. T., & Alden, L. E. (2005). Social interpretation bias and generalized social phobia: the influence of developmental experiences. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43(6), 759-77. | View in: PubMed