For a complete list of publications, please see Dr Ouimet's Google Scholar profile.
Selected Journal Articles
Cognitive and Behavioural Mechanisms of Anxiety
Ferguson, R. J., Ouimet, A. J., & Gardam, O. (2023). Judging others makes me forget: Assessing the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional consequences of other-evaluations on self-evaluations for social anxiety. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 101763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101763
Tutino, J. S., & Ouimet, A. J. (2021). Do words matter? Examining the influence of safety behaviour beliefs on speech task outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 12, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20438087211012161
Tutino, J. S., Ouimet, A. J., & Ferguson, R. J. (2020). Exploring the impact of safety behaviour use on cognitive, psychophysiological, and emotional responses during a speech task. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 48, 557-571. https://doi.org/10.1017/S13524658200007X
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2018.04.003
Ouimet, A. J., Radomsky, A. S., & Barber, K. C. (2012). Interrelationships between spider-fear associations, attentional disengagement and self-reported fear: A preliminary test of a dual-systems model. Cognition & Emotion, 26, 1428-1444. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2012.671175
Ouimet, A. J., Gawronski, B., & Dozois, D. J. A. (2009). Cognitive vulnerability to anxiety: A review and an integrative model. Clinical Psychology Review, 29, 459-470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2009.05.004
Emotion Regulation
Bahl, N., & Ouimet, A. J. (2022). Smiling won’t make you feel better, but it might make people like you more: Interpersonal and intrapersonal consequences of response-focused emotion regulation strategies. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39, 2262-2284. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02654075221077233 (Also available on PsyArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bgfwq)
Bahl, N., & Ouimet, A. J. (2022). Smiling won’t necessarily make you feel better: Response-focused emotion regulation strategies have little impact on cognitive, behavioural, physiological, and subjective outcomes. Journal of Behavioural Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2021.101695 (Also available on PsyArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9a2gn) *Included on journal’s list of top downloaded articles in previous 90 days (May 2022)*
Ouimet, A. J., Kane, L., & Tutino, J. S. (2016). Fear of anxiety or fear of emotions? Anxiety sensitivity is indirectly related to anxiety and depressive symptoms via emotion regulation. Cogent Psychology, 3, 1249132. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2016.1249132
Sex and Anxiety (with SAX-RG)
Shaughnessy, K., Fehr, C. J., Ashley, M., Braham, J., Labelle, P. R., Ouimet, A. J., Corsini-Munt, S., Ashbaugh, A. R., & Reissing, E. D. (2022). Technology-Mediated Sexual Interactions, Social Anxiety, and Sexual Wellbeing: A Scoping Review. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 12(8), 904–932. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe12080066
Kane, L., Dawson, S. J., Shaughnessy, K., Reissing, E. D., Ouimet, A. J., & Ashbaugh, A. R. (2019). A review of experimental research on anxiety and sexual arousal: Implications for the treatment of sexual dysfunction using cognitive-behavioural therapy. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 10. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2043808719847371
Tutino, J. S, Shaughnessy, K., & Ouimet, A. J. (2018). Looking at the bigger picture: Young men’s sexual health from a psychological perspective. Journal of Health Psychology, 23, 345-358. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317733321
Tutino, J. S, Ouimet, A. J., & Shaughnessy, K. (2017). How do psychological risk factors predict sexual outcomes? A comparison of four models of young women’s sexual health. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 14, 1232-1240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.07.011
International Collaborations
Sarr, F. S., Knight, S., Strauss, D., Ouimet, A. J., Cénat, Jude Mary, Williams, Monnica T., & Shaughnessy, K. (2022). Increasing the representation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour as students in psychology doctoral programs. Canadian Psychology, 63(4), 479-499. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000339
Jacob, G., Faber, S. C., Faber, N., Bartlett, A., Ouimet, A. J., & Williams, M. T. (in press). A systematic review of Black people coping with racism: Approaches, analysis, and empowerment. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Bottesi, G., Ouimet, A. J., Cerea, S., Granziol, U., Carraro, E., Sica, C., Ghisi, M. (2020). Comprehensive behavioral therapy of Trichotillomania: A multiple-baseline single-case experimental design. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1210. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01210
Tobon, J., Zipurskey, R. B., Streiner, D. L., Colvin, E., Bahl, N., Ouimet, A. J., Burckell, L., Jeffs, L., and Bieling, P. J. (2020). Motivational enhancement as a pretreatment to a transdiagnostic intervention for emerging adults with emotion dysregulation: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29, 132-148. https://www.cacap-acpea.org/wp-content/uploads/Motivational-Enhancement-as-a-Pretreatment.pdf
Bottesi, G., Cerea, S., Ouimet, A. J., Sica, C., & Ghisi, M. (2016). Affective correlates of trichotillomania across the pulling cycle: Findings from an Italian sample of self-identified hair pullers. Psychiatry Research, 246, 606–611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.10.080
Farrell, N., Ouimet, A. J., Rowa, K., Soreni, N., Swinson, R. P., & McCabe, R. E. (2016). Who gets better when? An examination of trajectories of change in group CBT for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 10, 35-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2016.05.003
Ghisi, M., Bottesi, G., Sica, C., Ouimet, A. J., & Sanavio, E. (2013). Prevalence, phenomenology and diagnostic criteria of hair-pulling in an Italian non-clinical sample: A preliminary study. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 2, 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2012.09.003
Experimental Methods
Ouimet, A. J., Ferguson, R. J., Burla, A., Gardam, O., & Oueis, J. (2022). Conducting experimental psychopathology research in an experimenter-guided online environment, Part 1: Clinical and ethical considerations for potentially vulnerable participants. SAGE Research Methods Cases: Doing Research Online. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529604276
Ferguson, R. J., Ouimet, A. J., Gardam, O., Oueis, J. & Burla, A. (2022). Conducting experimental psychopathology research in an experimenter-guided online environment, Part 2: Practical and technical considerations for experimental manipulations. SAGE Research Methods Cases: Doing Research Online. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529604085
Ouimet, A. J., Dixon-Luinenburg, T., & Rooyakkers, M. (2021). Experimental psychopathology at the crossroads: Reflections on past, present, and future contributions to cognitive behavioural therapy. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 14, 133-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41811-020-00093-4
Narvaez-Linares, N. F., Charron, V., Ouimet, A. J., Labelle, P. R., & Plamondon, H. (2020). A systematic review of the Trier Social Stress Test methodology: Issues in promoting study comparison and replicable research. Neurobiology of Stress, 13,100235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2020.100235
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations
Cognitive and Behavioural Mechanisms of Anxiety
Ferguson, R. J., Snyder, T., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2022). I judge myself but I judge others more: Cognitive effects of negative self-evaluations following false-feedback on negative other-evaluations. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies convention, Vancouver, BC/Virtual.
Ferguson, R. J., & Ouimet, A. J. (November, 2021). Not all judgments are created equal: Addressing how judgments of anxious others and social anxiety symptoms co-vary using a cluster analysis. Poster Presentation at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, Virtual.
Ouimet, A. J., Dixon-Luinenburg, T., & Tutino, J. S. (July, 2019). Yes and No: Understanding the impact of repeated negation and repeated reappraisal on automatic associations, spider fear, and spider approach behaviour. Poster presented at the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Berlin, GE.
Tutino, J.S., & Ouimet, A. J. (July, 2019). Do words matter? Exploring the effect of safety behaviour beliefs on exposure credibility, expectancy, and acceptability. Poster presented at the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Berlin, GE.
Ferguson, R. J., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2019). Evaluating the double-standard: Exploring the impact of negative other-evaluations in social anxiety. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies conference, Montreal, QC.
Dixon-Luinenburg, T. D., Tutino, J. S., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2019). Words matter! Manipulating people’s beliefs about safety behaviours can indirectly impact their willingness to engage in future speech exposure exercises. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies conference, Montreal, QC.
Tutino, J. S., Dixon-Luinenburg, T. L., Bowie, K. L. M., Rooyakkers, M., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2018). “I was so anxious that I barely remember my speech!” The influence of safety behaviour use on ability to gather disconfirmatory evidence during a speech task. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Vancouver, BC.
Ouimet, A. J., Bahl, N., Ferguson, R. J., Bowie, K. L. M., & Kalpak, M. (May, 2018). Thinking fast and slow in social anxiety: Implicit associations and mechanisms of change according to CBT models. In K. Barber & D. Moscovitch (Co-chairs), Innovations and advances in CBT processes for social anxiety: Mobilizing new knowledge from experimental and treatment studies. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies, Vancouver, BC.
Emotion Regulation
Haddad, A., Fehr, C. J., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2021). Not just about strategies: Exploring beliefs about emotions, regulation strategies, and state emotion dysregulation. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies convention, Virtual via Gather Town.
Bahl, N., Nachabe, J., Rooyakkers, M. & Ouimet, A. J. (July, 2019). Just smile and breathe! You will feel…better? Comparing the impacts of expressive suppression and expressive dissonance on indicators of sympathetic nervous system arousal. Poster presented at the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Berlin, GE.
Fehr, C., & Ouimet, A. J. (July, 2019). Do emotion regulation strategies mediate the relationship between perceived control & fear and avoidance in social anxiety? Poster presented at the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Berlin, GE.
Sex and Anxiety (with SAX-RG)
Birch, M. J., Noorishad, P.-G., Ashbaugh, A. R., Corsini-Munt, S., Ouimet, A. J., Reissing, E., & Shaughnessy, K. (May, 2022). Are technology-mediated sexual interactions forms of safety behaviour for people high in social anxiety. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Vancouver, BC/Virtual.
Kane, L., Dawson, S. J., Shaughnessy, K., Reissing, E. D., Ouimet, A. J., & Ashbaugh, A. R. (May, 2019). Anxiety inhibits sexual arousal… or does it? A review of the impact of cognitive-behavioral components of anxiety on sexual response. Poster presented at the Society for Sex Therapy & Research 44th Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON.
International Collaborations
Sarr, F., Knight, S., Strauss, D., Ouimet, A. J., Cénat, J.-M., Williams, M. T., & Shaughnessy, K. (June, 2022). Increasing the representation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour as Students in Psychology Doctoral Programs. Poster presented at the Canadian Psychological Association Convention, Calgary, AB.
Braham, J., Ashley, M., Fehr, C., Ashbaugh, A. R., Corsini-Munt, S., Labelle, P.,R., Ouimet, A. J., Reissing, E., & Shaughnessy, K. (May, 2022). Increasing the representation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour as Students in Psychology Doctoral Programs. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Vancouver, BC/Virtual.
Experimental Methods
Ferguson, R. J., Oueis, J., Burla, A., Gardam, O., & Ouimet, A. J. (May, 2022). Conducting clinical science and experimental psychopathology research in a virtual setting: Results from transitioning to an online lab. Poster presented at the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies convention, Vancouver, BC/Virtual.
Ouimet, A. J. (Chair) (July, 2019). Open Science and reproducibility in CBT research: Where do we go from here? Panel discussion (with M. G. Craske, B. A. Teachman, P. McEvoy, & A. Burger) presented at the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, Berlin, GE.
Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries
Cognitive and Behavioural Mechanisms of Anxiety
Ouimet, A. J., & Ashbaugh, A. R. (2017). Stepped-Care Treatment of Anxiety (pp. 253-275). In W. O’Donohue, L. James, & C. Snipes (Eds.) Practical strategies and tools to promote treatment engagement. Springer.
Ouimet, A. J. (2016). Integrating the Reflective Impulsive Model with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders (pp. 189-204). In R. Deutsch, B. Gawronski, & W. Hofmann (Eds.). Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Human Behavior. Psychology Press.
Manuscripts Under Review
Cognitive and Behavioural Mechanisms of Anxiety
Ferguson, R. J., & Ouimet, A. J. (under review). Negative self-evaluations do not cause negative other-evaluations: Findings from a false-feedback experiment examining cognitive and emotional consequences in social anxiety. Available on PsyArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pvhq8
Knowledge Transfer
Ferguson, R. J., Oueis, J., Burla, A., Gardam, O., & Ouimet, A. J. (2022). We found research in a COVID place: Reports from two years of conducting clinical science and experimental psychopathology research in the online lab. The Canadian Clinical Psychologist: Newsletter of the Clinical Section of the Canadian Psychological Association, Spring 2022, 11-12.
Ouimet, A. J. (Guest Editor), & Ferguson, R. J. (2019). Innovations and advances in cognitive behavioral therapy: Insights from experimental psychopathology. Special Collection Editorial, Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043808719874966
Ouimet, A. J., Shaughnessy, K., & Tutino, J. S. (2017). Transdiagnostic psychological factors and sexual health: Looking through a broader lens at men’s and women’s sexual experiences. The Canadian Clinical Psychologist: Newsletter of the Clinical Section of the Canadian Psychological Association, 28(1), 9-10.
Ouimet, A. J., & Radomsky, A. S. (2011). [Review of B. Gawronski & B. K. Payne (Eds.): Handbook of implicit social cognition: Measurement, theory, and applications. New York: Guilford, 2010]. Canadian Psychology, 52, 241-242. (Review selected for inclusion on Amazon.com)
Covin, R., Dozois, D. J. A., Ouimet, A. J., & Seeds, P. M. (2007). Don’t worry! CBT is an effective treatment for GAD: So now what? Advances in Cognitive Therapy, 9 (2/3), 5.