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Price, M. M., Bradford, D.E., Jha, A.P. (in press). Dance course participation is associated with reductions in anxiety sensitivity physical concerns in college students. Scientific Reports.
Whittaker, F.*, DeFalco, A.*, Goldblum, R.S., Curtin, J.J., Bradford, D.E. (2026). Alcohol’s effects on decision making and cognitive processing in a reward uncertainty task. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 40(4), 417–421.
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Whittaker, F., DeFalco, A., Sanders, S.M., Perkings, E.R., Joyner, K. J., Bradford, D.E. (2025). Racial biases in skin conductance response-based polygraphs and their legal implications. Nature Human Behavior, 9(1).
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Oldham, J.R., DeFalco, A., Willwerth, S., Nagle, S., Whittaker, F., Mannix, R., Meehan, W.P., Bradford, D.E. (2025). Concussion-related suppression of general startle reactivity in adolescent Athletes. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 40(1).
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Seligowski, A.V., Clancy, K.J., Akman, Eylül, Lewis, M., May, V., Ravichandran, C., Jobson, S.A., Bradford, D.E., Hammack, S.E., Carlezon, W.A., Ressler, K.J., Rauch, S.L., Rosso, I.M. (2025). Associations between PACAP levels and psychophysiological indicators of fear and arousal in adults with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, 11.
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Kerr, D.C.R., Kasimanickman, M.R., Bradford, D.E., Baie, H., Parks, K.A. (2025). Problematic alcohol behaviors and sexual assault on college campuses: How are student reports and institution-reported crime data related? Journal of American College Health, 73(5), 2158–2165.
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Bradford, D.E., Dev, A.S., DeFalco, A., Whittaker, F., Timpano, K.R. (2024). Increasing ecological validity in neuropsychopharmacology research on the relationship between alcohol use and uncertain stressors. Neuropsychopharmacology, 49, 353–354.
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Lewis, M.W.*, Bradford, D.E.*, Akman, E., Frederiks, K., Pace-Schott, E.F., Rosso, I.M. (2024). Unconditioned response to a naturally aversive stimulus is associated with sensitized defensive responding and self-reported fearful traits in a PTSD sample. Psychophysiology, 61(3).
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Dev, A.S., Bradford, D.E., Timpano, K.R. (2024). Sociability alcohol expectancies shape predictions of drinking behavior and anxiety in a novel affective forecasting task. Substance Use and Misuse, 0(0), 1-12.
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Perkins, E. R., Bradford, D. E., Verona, E., Hamilton, R. H., Joyner, K. J. (2023). The intersection of racism and neuroscience technology: A cautionary tale for the criminal legal system. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10(2), 279-286.
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Lewis, M.W., Bradford, D.E., Pace-Schott, E.F., Rauch, S.L., Rosso, I.M. (2023). Multiverse analyses of fear acquisition and extinction retention in posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychophysiology, 00, e14263.
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Morrris J., Abend, R., Zika, O., Bradford, D.E., Mertens, G. (2023). Neural and psychophysiological markers of intolerance of uncertainty. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 184, 94-99.
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Kim, H.C., Kaplan, C.M., Islam, S., Anderson, A.S., Piper, M.E., Bradford, D.E., Curtin, J.J., DeYoung, K.A., Smith, J.F., Fox, A.S., Shackman, A.J. (2023). Acute nicotine abstinence amplifies subjective withdrawal symptoms and threat-evoked fear and anxiety, but not extended amygdala reactivity. PLoS One, 18, e0288544.
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Bradford, D.E.*, DeFalco, A.*, Perkins, E.R., Carvajal, I., Kwasa, J., Goodman, F.R., Jackson, F., Richardson, L.N.S., Woodley, N., Neuberger, L., Sandoval, J.A., Huang, H.J., Joyner, K.J. (2022). Whose signals are being amplified? Towards a more equitable clinical psychophysiology. Clinical Psychological Science, 12(2).
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*These authors contributed equally.
Bradford, D.E., Shireman, J. M., Sant’Ana, S.J., Fronk, G.E., Schneck, S.E., Curtin, J.J. (2022). Alcohol’s effects during uncertain and uncontrollable stressors in the laboratory. Clinical Psychological Science, 10, 885-900.
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Victor, S., Schleider, J., Ammerman, B., Bradford, D.E., Devendorf, A., Gruber, J., Gunaydin, L., Hallion, L., Kaufman, E., Lewis, S., Stage, D L. (2022). Leveraging the strengths of psychologists with lived experience of psychopathology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17, 1624-1632.
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Morriss, J., Bradford, D.E., Wake, S., Biagi, N., Tanovic, E., Kaye, J.T., Joormann, D. (2022). Intolerance of uncertainty and physiological responses during instructed uncertain threat: multi-lab investigation. Biological Psychology, 167.
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Goodman, F.R., Brown, B.A., Silva, G.M., Bradford, D.E., Tennen, H.A., Kashdan, T.B. (2022). Motives and consequences of alcohol use in people with social anxiety disorder: A daily diary study. Behavior Therapy, 53, 600-613.
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Pavlov, Y. G., Adamian, N., Appelhoff, S … Bradford, D.E. … Mushtaq, F. (2021). #EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments. Cortex, 144, 213-229.
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Rutherford, A.V., Tanovic, E., Bradford, D.E., & Joormann, D. (2020). Psychophysiological correlates of anxious apprehension: Trait worry is associated with startle response to threat. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 158, 136-142.
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Bradford, D.E., Fronk, G.E., Sant’Ana, S.J., Magruder, K.P., Kaye, J.T., Curtin, J.J. (2018). The need for precise answers for the goals of precision medicine in alcohol dependence to succeed. Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, 1799–1800.
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Lakens D., Adolfi F.G., Albers C.J. … Bradford D.E. … Zwaan R.A. (2018). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behavior, 2, 168-171.
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Hur, J., Kaplan, C.M., Smith, J.S., Bradford, D.E., Fox, A.S., Curtin, J.J., Shackman, A.J. (2018). Acute alcohol administration dampens central extended amygdala reactivity. Scientific Reports, 8.
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Bradford, D.E., Motschman, C.A., Starr, M.J., Curtin, J.J. (2017). Alcohol’s effects on emotionally motivated attention, defensive reactivity, and subjective anxiety during uncertain threat. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(11), 1823–1832.
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Moberg, C.A., Bradford, D.E., Kaye, J.T., Curtin, J.J. (2017). Increased startle potentiation to unpredictable stressors in alcohol dependence: Possible stress neuroadaptation in humans. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126(4), 441-453.
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Kaye J.T., Bradford D.E., Magruder K.P., Curtin J.J. (2017). Probing for neuroadaptations to unpredictable stressors in addiction: translational methods and emerging evidence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 78(3), 353-371.
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Kaye J.T., Bradford D.E., Curtin J.J. (2016). Psychometric properties of startle and corrugator response in NPU, Affective Picture Viewing, and Resting State Tasks. Psychophysiology, 53(8), 1241-1255.
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Bradford, D.E., Curtin, J.J., Piper, M.E. (2015). Anticipation of smoking sufficiently dampens stress reactivity for nicotine deprived smokers. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124(1), 128-136.
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Bradford, D.E., Starr, M.J., Shackman, A.J., Curtin, J. J. (2015). Empirically-based comparisons of the reliability and validity of common quantification approaches for eyeblink startle potentiation in humans. Psychophysiology, 52(12), 1669-1681.
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Green, C.S., Eichenbaum, A., Kattner, F., Bradford, D.E., Gentile, D.A., Choo, H., Hsueh, V., Chen, H., Khoo, A. (2015). The role of game genres and the development of internet gaming disorder in school-aged children. Journal of Addictive Behaviors, Therapy & Rehabilitation, 4(3).
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Eichenbaum, A., Kattner, F., Bradford, D.E., Gentile, D.A., Green, C.S. (2015). Role-playing and real-time strategy games associated with greater probability of internet gaming disorder. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 18(8), 480-485.
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Bradford, D.E., Kaye, J.T., Curtin, J.J. (2014). Not just noise: Individual differences in general startle reactivity predict startle reactivity to uncertain and certain threat. Psychophysiology, 51(5), 707-411.
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Bradford, D.E.*, Magruder, K.P.*, Korhumel, R.A., Curtin, J.J. (2014). Using the threat probability task to assess anxiety and fear to uncertain and certain threat. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (91).
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*These authors contributed equally.
Lissek, S., Bradford, D.E., Alvarez, R.P., Burton, P., Espensen-Sturges, T., Reynolds, R.C., and Grillon, C. (2014). Neural substrates of classically conditioned fear-generalization in humans: A parametric fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(8), 1134-1142.
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Bradford, D.E., Shapiro, B.L., Curtin, J.J. (2013). How bad could it be? Alcohol dampens stress responses to threat of uncertain intensity. Psychological Science, 24(12), 2541-2549.
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Lissek, S., Rabin S., McDowell D., Dvir S., Bradford, D.E., Geraci, M., Pine, S., Grillon, C. (2009). Impaired discriminative fear-conditioning resulting from elevated fear-responding to learned safety cues among individuals with panic disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47(2), 111–118.
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