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Fernandez, A., Quigley, L., Dobson, K.S., & Sears, C.R. (2025). Testing the cognitive vulnerability hypothesis in previously depressed women: Effects of a sad mood induction on attention and memory biases. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 16, 1-20. [Link]
Quigley, L., Russell, K., Yung, C., Dobson, K.S., & Sears, C.R. (2025). Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression. Cognition and Emotion, 39(6), 1271–1288. [Link]
Sears, C.R., & Cunningham, D.R. (2024). Individual differences in psychological stress associated with data breach experiences. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 4, 594-614. [Link]
Quigley, L., Dobson, K.S., Russell, K., & Sears, C.R. (2024). Negative affective priming: Reliability and associations with depression symptoms in three samples. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 5086-5102. [Link]
Drake, A.C., & Sears, C.R. (2023). Do humour styles moderate the association between hopelessness and suicide ideation? A comparison of student and community samples. PLoS ONE, 18(12): e0295995. [PDF]
Tobin, L.N., Sears, C.R., & von Ranson, K.M. (2023). Two eating disorder preventive interventions reduce attentional biases in body-dissatisfied university women: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 90, 911-924. [Link]
Fernandez, A., Quigley, L., Dobson, K.S., & Sears, C.R. (2022). Coherence of attention and memory biases in currently and previously depressed women. Cognition and Emotion, 36(7), 1239-1254. [Link]
McGrath, D.S., Sears. C.R., Fernandez, A., & Dobson, K.S. (2021). Attentional biases in low-risk and high-risk gamblers and the moderating effect of daily psychosocial stress. Addiction Research & Theory, 29, 166-174. [Link]
Sears, C.R., Quigley, L., Fernandez, A., Newman, K.R., & Dobson, K.S. (2019). The reliability of attentional biases for emotional images measured using a free-viewing eye-tracking paradigm. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2748-2760. [PDF]
Newman, K.R., Quigley, L., Fernandez, A., Dobson, K.S., & Sears, C.R. (2019). Concurrent and prospective relations between attentional biases for emotional images and relapse to depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 43, 893-909. [PDF]
Tobin, L.N., Barron, A.H., Sears, C.R., & von Ranson, K.M. (2019). Greater body appreciation moderates the association between maladaptive attentional biases and body dissatisfaction in undergraduate women. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 10, 1-5. [PDF]
Withnell, S., Sears, C.R., & von Ranson, K.R. (2019). How malleable are attentional biases in women with body dissatisfaction? Priming effects and their impact on attention to images of women’s bodies. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 10, 1-16. [PDF]
Speirs, C., Belchev, Z., Fernandez, A., Korol, S., & Sears, C.R. (2018). Are there age differences in attention to emotional images following a sad mood induction? Evidence from a free-viewing eye-tracking paradigm. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 25, 928-957. [PDF]
Tobin, L.N., Sears, C.R., Zumbusch, A.S., & von Ranson, K.R. (2018). Attention to fat- and thin-related words in body-satisfied and body-dissatisfied women before and after thin model priming. PLoS One, 13(2), e0192914. [PDF]
McGrath, D.S., Meitner, A., & Sears, C.R. (2018). The specificity of attentional biases by type of gambling: An eye tracking study. PLoS One, 13(1), e019061. [PDF]
Quigley, L., Wright, C.A., Dobson, K.S., & Sears, C.R. (2017). Measuring attentional control ability or beliefs? Evaluation of the factor structure and convergent validity of the Attentional Control Scale. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 39, 742-754. [PDF]
Frayn, M., Sears, C.R., & von Ranson, K.R. (2016). A sad mood increases attention to unhealthy food images in women with food addiction. Appetite, 100, 55-63. [PDF]
Soltani, S., Newman, K.R., Quigley, L., Fernandez, A., Dobson, K.S., & Sears, C.R. (2015). Temporal changes in attention to sad and happy faces distinguish currently and remitted depressed individuals from never depressed individuals. Psychiatry Research, 230, 454-463. [PDF]
Newman, K.R., & Sears, C.R. (2015). Eye gaze tracking reveals different effects of a sad mood induction on the attention of previously depressed and never depressed women. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39, 292-306. [PDF]
Popien, A., Frayn, M., von Ranson, K.M., & Sears, C.R. (2015). Eye gaze tracking reveals heightened attention to food in adults with binge eating when viewing images of real-world scenes. Appetite, 91, 233-240. [PDF]
Arndt, J.E., Newman, K.R., & Sears, C.R. (2014). An eye tracking study of the time course of attention to positive and negative images in dysphoric and non-dysphoric individuals. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 5, 399-413. [PDF]
Wright, C.A., Dobson, K.S., & Sears, C.R. (2014). Does a high working memory capacity attenuate the negative impact of trait anxiety on attentional control? Evidence from the antisaccade task. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26, 400-412. [PDF]
Stea, J.N., Lee, S.M., & Sears, C.R. (2013). Enhancement of false memory for negative material in dysphoria: Mood congruency or response bias? Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 1189-1200. [PDF]
Thomas, C.L., Goegan, L.D., Newman, K.R., Arndt, J.E., & Sears, C.R. (2013). Attention to threat images in individuals with clinical and subthreshold symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 27, 447-455. [PDF]
Sears, C.R., Newman, K.R., Ference, J.D., & Thomas, C.L. (2011). Attention to emotional images in previously depressed individuals: An eye tracking study. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 35, 517-528. [PDF]
Sears, C.R., Bisson, M.A.S., & Nielsen, K.E. (2011). Dysphoria and the immediate interpretation of ambiguity: Evidence for a negative interpretive bias in error rates but not response latencies. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 35, 469-476. [PDF]
Sears, C.R., Thomas, C.L., LeHuquet, J.M., & Johnson, J.C.S. (2010). Attentional biases in dysphoria: An eye-tracking study of the allocation and disengagement of attention. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 1349-1368. [PDF]
Bisson, M.A.S., & Sears, C.R. (2007). The effect of depressed mood on the interpretation of ambiguity, with and without negative mood induction. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 614-645. [PDF]