Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

+ 2024

Sandstrom, A. & Radomsky, A.S. (2024). Beliefs about losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: An experimental investigation. Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 82, 101919. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2023.101919.

Radomsky, A.S., Ouellet-Courtois, C., Golden, E., Senn, J.M., Parrish, C.M. (2024). Putting things right: An experimental investigation of memory biases related to symmetry, ordering and arranging behaviour. Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 82, 101914. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2023.101914.

+ 2023

Kelly-Turner, K. & Radomsky, A.S. (2023). At the mercy of myself: A thematic analysis of beliefs about losing control. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. doi.org/10.1111/papt.12515.

Sandstrom, A., Krause, S., Ouellet-Courtois, C., Kelly-Turner, K. & Radomsky, A.S. (2023). What's control got to do with it? A systematic review of control beliefs in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Clinical Psychology Review, 102372. doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2023.102372.

Ouellet-Courtois, C. & Radomsky, A.S. (2023). Can immorality be contracted? Appraisals of moral disgust and contamination fear. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 104336. doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104336.

Krause, S. & Radomsky, A.S. (2023). An experimental investigation of moral self-violation and mental contamination. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 47. doi.org/10.1007/s10608-023-10388-3.

+ 2022

Kelly-Turner, K. & Radomsky, A.S. (2022). Always saying the wrong thing: Negative beliefs about losing control cause symptoms of social anxiety. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 46 (6). doi.org/10.1007/s10608-022-10325-w.

Radomsky, A.S. (2022). The fear of losing control. Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 77, 101768. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101768.

Krause, S., Ouellet-Courtois, C., Sandstrom, A. & Radomsky, A.S. (2022). Thinking about disgust: Cognitive processes mediate the associations between disgust proneness and OCD symptom domains. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 15 (3). doi.org/10.1007/s41811-022-00138-w.

Radomsky, A.S., Alcolado, G.M., Dugas, M.J. & Lavoie, S.L. (2022). Responsibility, probability, and severity of harm: An experimental investigation of cognitive factors associated with checking-related OCD. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 150, 104034. doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104034.

+ 2021

Krause, S. & Radomsky, A.S. (2021). "Was I asking for it?" An experimental investigation of perceived responsibility, mental contamination, and workplace sexual harassment. Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 71, 101633. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101633.

Gagné, J-.P., Radomsky, A.S., O'Connor, R.M. (2021). Manipulating alcohol expectancies in social anxiety: A focus on beliefs about losing control. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 45. doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10165-6.

Radomsky, A.S., Neal, R.L., Parrish, C.L., Lavoie, S.L. & Schell, S.E. (2021). The Covert and Overt Reassurance Seeking Inventory (CORSI): Development, validation and psychometric analyses. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 49(1). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465820000703

+ 2020

Gagné, J-.P., Radomsky, A.S. (2020). Beliefs about losing control, obsessions, and caution: An experimental investigation. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 126, 103574. doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103574

Krause, S., Wong, S., Giraldo-O’Meara, M., Aardema, F., & Radomsky, A.S. (2020). It’s not so much about what you touch: Mental contamination mediates the relationship between feared self-perceptions and contact contamination. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 25, 100507. doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2020.100507

Radomsky, A.S., & Gagné, J.-P. (2020). The development and validation of the Beliefs about Losing Control Inventory (BALCI). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 49(2), 97-112. doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2019.1614978

Radomsky, A.S., Giraldo-O’Meara, M., Wong, S.F., M., Dugas, M.J., Gelfand, L.A., Rachman, S., Schell, S., Senn, J.M., Shafran, R., & Whittal, M.L. (2020). Cognitive therapy for compulsive checking in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A pilot trial. Psychiatry Research, 286, 112850. doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112850

Radomsky, A.S., Wong, S.F., Giraldo-O’Meara, M., Dugas, M.J., Gelfand, L.A., Myhr, G., Schell, S., Senn, J.M., Shafran, R., & Whittal, M.L. (2020). When it’s at: An examination of when cognitive change occurs during cognitive therapy for compulsive checking in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 67, 101442. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2018.12.003

+ 2019

Leonhart, M.W., & Radomsky, A.S. (2019). Responsibility causes reassurance seeking, too: An experimental investigation. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 20, 66-74. doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2017.10.005

Neal, R.L., & Radomsky, A.S. (2019). How do I say this? An experimental comparison of the effects of partner feedback styles on reassurance seeking behaviour. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 43, 748-758. doi.org/10.1007/s10608-019-10007-0

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. doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2018.04.003

Poli, A., Melli, G., & Radomsky, A.S. (2019). Different disgust domains specifically relate to mental and contact contamination fear in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Evidence from a path analytic model in an Italian clinical sample. Behavior Therapy, 50(2), 380-394. doi:10.1016/j.beth.2018.07.006

Radomsky, A.S., Wong, S.F., Dussault, D., Gilchrist, P.T., & Tesolin, S.B. (2019). Prediction errors in depression: A quasi-experimental analysis. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 33(4), 320-330. doi:10.1891/0889-8391.33.4.320

+ 2018

Aardema, F., Moulding, R., Melli, G., Radomsky, A.S., Doron, G., Audet, J.-S., Lalonde, M. (2018). The role of feared possible selves in obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: A comparative analysis of a core cognitive self-construct in clinical samples. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 25, e19-e29. doi:10.1002/cpp.2121

Gagné, J.-P., Kelly-Turner, K., & Radomsky, A.S., (2018). From the laboratory to the clinic (and back again): How experiments have informed cognitive-behaviour therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, (October-December), 1-22. doi.org/10.1177/2043808718810030

Kazantzis, N., Dattilio, F.M., McGinn, L.K., Persons, J.B., & Radomsky, A.S. (2018). Defining the role and function of the therapeutic relationship in cognitive behavioral therapy: A modified Delphi panel. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 11(2), 158-183. doi:10.1007/s41811-018-0014-0

Radomsky, A.S., Coughtrey, A., Shafran, R., & Rachman, S. (2018). Abnormal and normal mental contamination. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 17, 46-51. doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2017.08.011

Senn, J.M., & Radomsky, A.S. (2018). Too much, too little, or just right? Does the amount of distraction make a difference during contamination-related exposure? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 59, 1-11. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.10.004

+ 2017

Gagné, J.-P., & Radomsky, A.S. (2017). Manipulating beliefs about losing control causes checking behaviour. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 15, 34-42. doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2017.08.013

Ouimet, A.J., Bahl, N., & Radomsky, A.S. (2017). Thinking high but feeling low: An exploratory cluster analysis investigating how ‘implicit’ and ‘explicit’ spider fear co-vary. Cognition and Emotion, 31(7), 1333-1344. doi:10.1080/02699931.2016.1223019

+ 2016

Chiang, B., Purdon, C., & Radomsky, A.S. (2016). Development and initial validation of the Fear of Guilt Scale for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 11, 63-73. doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2016.08.006

Toffolo, M.B.J., van den Hout, M., Radomsky, A.S., & Engelhard, I.M. (2016). Check, check, double check: Investigating memory deterioration within multiple sessions of repeated checking. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 53, 59-67. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.09.001

Alcolado, G.M., & Radomsky, A.S. (2016). A novel cognitive intervention for compulsive checking: Targeting maladaptive beliefs about memory. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 53, 75-83. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.02.009

Levy, H.C., & Radomsky, A.S. (2016). Are all safety behaviours created equal? A comparison of novel and routinely-used safety behaviors in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 45(5), 367-379. doi:10.1080/16506073.2016.1184712

Levy, H.C., & Radomsky, A.S. (2016). It’s the who not the when: An investigation of safety behaviour fading in exposure to contamination. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 39, 21-29. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.02.006

+ 2015

Levy, H.C., & Radomsky, A.S. (2015). Validation of a self-report measure of self-efficacy in contamination fear: The Contamination Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES). Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39(4), 542-551. doi:10.1007/s10608-015-9678-4

Melli, G., Carraresi, C., Stopani, E., Radomsky, A.S., & Bulli, F. (2015). Factor structure and temporal stability of the Vancouver Obsessional Compulsive Inventory – Mental Contamination Scale (VOCI-MC) and psychometric properties of its Italian version. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 58, 198-204. doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.12.017

Milosevic, I., Levy, H.C., Alcolado, G.M., & Radomsky, A.S. (2015). The Treatment Acceptability/Adherence Scale: Moving beyond the assessment of treatment effectiveness. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 44(6), 456-469. doi:10.1080/16506073.2015.1053407

Neal, R.L., & Radomsky, A.S. (2015). An experimental investigation of contamination-related reassurance seeking: Familiar versus unfamiliar others. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 49(Part B), 188-194. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.03.014

Ouellet-Courtois, C., Coelho, J.S., Radomsky, A.S., Israël, M., & Steiger, H. (2015). A feeling you can’t let go: Temporal stability of thought-shape fusion in individuals with eating disorders and differences in susceptibility. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39(5), 678-687. doi:10.1007/s10608-015-9691-7

Senn, J.M., & Radomsky, A.S. (2015). Measuring beliefs about distraction: Might the function of distraction matter more than distraction itself? Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39(6), 826-840. doi: 10.1007/s10608-015-9703-7

Yorulmaz, O., Inozu, M., Clark, D.A., & Radomsky, A.S. (2015). Psychometric properties of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised in a Turkish analogue sample. Psychological Reports: Measures & Statistics, 117(3), 1-13. doi:10.2466/08.PR0.117c25z4

Media Appearances

Books

Rachman, S., Shafran, R., Coughtrey, A.E., & Radomsky, A.S. (2015). Oxford guide to the treatment of mental contamination.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Alcolado, G.M., Giraldo-O’Meara, M., Krause, S., Leonhart, M., & Radomsky, A.S. (2023). Information processing in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. In G. Steketee (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (2nd Ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Neal, R.L., Alcolado, G.M., & Radomsky, A.S. (2017). Responsibility, checking, and reassurance seeking in OCD.  In J. Abramowitz, McKay, D., & Storch, E. (2017). Handbook of obsessive-compulsive disorder across the lifespan.  Wiley.

Shafran, R., & Radomsky, A.S. (2013).  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. In R. Shafran, L. Brosnan, & P. Cooper (Eds.), The Complete CBT Guide to Anxiety. London: Constable & Robinson.

Radomsky, A.S., Ashbaugh, A.R, Gelfand, L.A., & Dugas, M.J. (2008). Doubting and compulsive checking. In J. Abramowitz, S. Taylor & D. McKay (Eds.), Obsessive compulsive disorder: Subtypes and spectrum conditions. The Netherlands: Elsevier Press.

Radomsky, A.S., Bohne, A., & O’Connor, K.P. (2007). Treating comorbid presentations: OCD and disorders of impulse control. In M. Antony, C. Purdon & L. Summerfeldt (Eds.), Psychological treatment of OCD: Fundamentals and beyond. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Dugas, M.J., & Radomsky, A.S., & Brillon, P. (2004). Tertiary intervention for anxiety and prevention of relapse. In D.J.A. Dozois & K.S. Dobson (Eds.). The prevention of anxiety and depression: Theory, research, and practice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Rayburn, N.R., Farach, F.J., Radomsky, A.S., & Otto, M. W. (2003). Cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder. In M.H. Pollack, N.M. Simon, & M.W. Otto (Eds.), Social anxiety disorder: Research and practice. NY: Professional Publishing Group Ltd.

Radomsky, A.S., & Otto, M.W. (2001). The cognitive-behavioral treatment of social anxiety disorder. In F. Schneier (Ed.), The Psychiatric Clinics of North America: Social Anxiety Disorder, 24(4), 805-815. PA: W.B. Saunders.