Bethany A Teachman
Biographic Data
| ID | 113116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bethany A Teachman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bethany A |
| FAMILY NAME | Teachman |
| SIGNATURE | TEACHMAN B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9031-9343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Anxiety identity centrality is associated with avoidant coping in anxious adults
Introduction: Some have suggested that labeling oneself as having clinical anxiety may promote avoidant coping, which is associated with poor clinical outcomes. However, the construct of anxiety identity centrality (seeing one's anxiety as relatively important to one's self-concept) has rarely been assessed, and its relationship with avoidant coping has not been investigated. Methods: In a sample of 1,234 high-anxiety adults, we analyzed the rela…
Anxiety, Worry, and Difficulty Concentrating: A Longitudinal Examination of Concurrent and Prospective Symptom Relationships
Worry was associated with difficulty concentrating across three pandemic timepoints. • Anxiety predicted worry three months later, controlling for concurrent worry. • Worry partially mediated the path from T1 anxiety to T3 difficulty concentrating. • Mediation was not robust to controlling for outcomes at previous timepoints. Difficulty concentrating is an understudied cognitive phenomenon, despite its status as a diagnostic criterion for general…
Emerging Adults With a Suicide Attempt History Text More Emotionally With Peers than Family Members
Emotional communication is central to strong interpersonal relationships and mental health. For emerging adults, much of their interpersonal communication happens via texting, but we know little about how and with whom their emotional texting occurs. Understanding these patterns may be especially critical for emerging adults experiencing mental health crises (e.g., suicidality). This study examined how the emotional tone of texts (sent and receiv…
A contest study to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment
Discrimination in the evaluation of others is a key cause of social inequality around the world. However, relatively little is known about psychological interventions that can be used to prevent biased evaluations. The limited evidence that exists on these strategies is spread across many methods and populations, making it difficult to generate reliable best practices that can be effective across contexts. In the present work, we held a research …
Effects of Mass Shootings on Mental Illness Stigma in the United States
Although the vast majority of people with mental illness (PWMI) are not violent, Americans tend to think they are more dangerous than the general population. Because negative media portrayals may contribute to stigma, we used time-series analyses to examine changes in the public’s perceived dangerousness of PWMI around six mass shootings whose perpetrators were reported to have a mental illness. From 2011 to 2019, 38,094 U.S. participants complet…
Investigating psychiatric symptoms as predictors of the reasons people do not regulate their emotions in daily life
Investigations into emotion dysregulation predominantly focus on ineffective strategy selection and implementation. However, little empirical attention has been given to the possibility that failure to engage in emotion regulation (ER) may also indicate emotion dysregulation, especially when the reason for not regulating suggests skill or motivational deficits. We randomly sampled ER strategy use up to six times per day for 5 weeks in 113 adults …
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists' forecasts of societal change
When and Where Do People Regulate Their Emotions? Patterns of Emotion Regulation in Unselected and Socially Anxious Young Adults
Introduction: The current studies examined how smartphone-assessed contextual features (i.e., location, time-of-day, social situation, and affect) contribute to the relative likelihood of emotion regulation strategy endorsement in daily life. Methods: Emotion regulation strategy endorsement and concurrent contextual features were assessed either passively (e.g., via GPS coordinates) or via self-report among unselected (Study 1: N = 112; duration …
Implicit trauma identity associations in treatment-seeking U.S. military personnel do not predict or change in response to cognitive processing therapy for PTSD
More tailoring of implicit trauma measures for military personnel and/or treatment-seeking patients may be needed. The measure may lack sensitivity to change in response to treatment and have reduced utility in treatment-seeking samples with high symptom burden and less variability in symptoms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
The role of uncertainty, worry, and control in well-being: Evidence from the Covid-19 outbreak and pandemic in U.S. and China
Uncertainty about the future often leads to worries about what the future will bring, which can have negative consequences for health and well-being. However, if worry can act as a motivator to promote efforts to prevent undesirable future outcomes, those negative consequences of worry may be mitigated. In this article, we apply a novel model of uncertainty, worry, and perceived control to predict psychological and physical well-being among four …
Development and Validation of the Flexibility in Partner Perspectives Scale
Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of Covid-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.
The Future of Women in Psychological Science
There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus of discussion or systematic review, despite our field’s investment in questions of equity, status, well-being, gender bias, and gender disparities. In the present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women’s career advancement in psychological science. We focus on issu…
Explicit-Implicit Discrepancy in Macro-Level Mental Illness Stigma Is Linked to Prevalence and Care
Introduction: This study explores the associations in the United States between each state's stereotypes about the dangerousness of people with mental illness and important outcomes for people with mental illness. Methods: Implicit association test and questionnaire data from 17,312 online participants were aggregated within states and years. Each state's annual average implicit and explicit stereotypes were used to predict state differences in p…
Tangle: A New Measure of Time Series Complexity
Dynamical systems analysis and the study of time series data provide a rich source of information for researchers interested in studying psychological phenomena. While many methods exist for quantifying linear behavior from a given time series, considerably fewer methods exist for quantifying complex and nonlinear time series. Of existing methods for quantifying complex and nonlinear time series, most either: a) require a restrictive number of da…
Toward the data-driven dissemination of findings from psychological science
The public health impact of psychological science is maximized when it is disseminated clearly and compellingly to audiences who can act on it. Dissemination research can generate knowledge to help achieve this, but dissemination is understudied in the field of implementation science. As a consequence, the designs of dissemination strategies are typically driven by anecdote, not evidence, and are often ineffective. We address this issue by synthe…
Remembering or knowing how we felt: Depression and anxiety symptoms predict retrieval processes during emotional self-report
Researchers and clinicians routinely rely on patients' retrospective emotional self-reports to guide diagnosis and treatment, despite evidence of impaired autobiographical memory and retrieval of emotional information in depression and anxiety. To clarify the nature and specificity of these impairments, we conducted two large online data collections (Study 1, N = 1,983; Study 2, N = 900) examining whether depression and/or anxiety symptoms would …
A comparison of status and stigma processes: Explicit and implicit appraisals of “mentally ill people” and “uneducated people
In prior work, we proposed that the related processes of status differentiation and stigmatization both diminish the status of negatively labeled groups, but that only stigma also engenders social rejection, in part via appraisals of abnormality (Lucas, & Phelan, 2012, Phelan, Lucas, Ridgeway, & Tay
Dynamically tracking anxious individuals’ affective response to valenced information
Past research has shown that an individual's feelings at any given moment reflect currently experienced stimuli as well as internal representations of similar past experiences. However, anxious individuals' affective reactions to streams of interrelated valenced information (vs. reactions to static stimuli that are arguably less ecologically valid) are rarely tracked. The present study provided a first examination of the newly developed Tracking …
Cognitive Bias Modification in Mental
Cognitive biases refer to a tendency to favor a particular way of processing information, such as habitually attending to threatening information in the environment, or interpreting ambiguous information in a negative way. Importantly, cognitive biases are linked to a number of emotional problems, such as anxiety and depression, raising the question of whether altering cognitive biases could relieve the symptoms of these disorders. Cognitive bias…
Physical Triggers of Anxiety in African Americans
Understanding the primary triggers of anxiety for African Americans, and the cultural factors associated with these triggers, can enhance our knowledge of emotional responding in African Americans and can ultimately influence how we assess and treat anxiety disorders in this population. In the current study, we investigated the experience of anxiety for African Americans following physical stressors, with an emphasis on cardiovascular arousal. Sp…
Expectancy bias in anxious samples
Although it is well documented that anxious individuals have negative expectations about the future, it is unclear what cognitive processes give rise to this expectancy bias. Two studies are reported that use the Expectancy Task, which is designed to assess expectancy bias and illuminate its basis. This task presents individuals with valenced scenarios (Positive Valence, Negative Valence, or Conflicting Valence), and then evaluates their tendency…
A new mode of fear expression: Perceptual bias in height fear
Emotion and psychopathology researchers have described the fear response as consisting of four main components--subjective affect, physiology, cognition, and behavior. The current study provides evidence for an additional component in the domain of height fear (perception) and shows that it is distinct from measures of cognitive processing. Individuals High (N = 35) and Low (N = 36) in acrophobic symptoms looked over a two-story balcony ledge and…
Ethnic Group Differences in Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Markers of Anxiety
Ethnic group differences in affective, behavioral, and cognitive measures of anxiety were examined to better characterize the unique triggers and modes of anxious responding across different groups. Using an ethnically diverse sample ( N = 112; 39 African Americans, 34 Asian Americans, and 39 European Americans), the study examined differences in anxious responding following three anxiety provocations (physical, social interpersonal, and social p…
Implicit and Explicit Stigma of Mental Illness in Diagnosed and Healthy Samples
The stigma of mental illness remains a serious social problem and critical impediment to treatment seeking among diagnosed individuals. Study 1 evaluated explicit attitudes and stereotypes about persons with mental illness relative to persons with physical illness, and also implicit attitudes that lie outside conscious control (using the Implicit Association Test) in a college sample (N = 119). Study 2 extended the evaluation of explicit and impl…
Implicit and Explicit Stigma of Mental Illness in Diagnosed and Healthy Samples
The stigma of mental illness remains a serious social problem and critical impediment to treatment seeking among diagnosed individuals. Study 1 evaluated explicit attitudes and stereotypes about persons with mental illness relative to persons with physical illness, and also implicit attitudes that lie outside conscious control (using the Implicit Association Test) in a college sample (N = 119). Study 2 extended the evaluation of explicit and impl…
A comparison of status and stigma processes: Explicit and implicit appraisals of “mentally ill people” and “uneducated people
In prior work, we proposed that the related processes of status differentiation and stigmatization both diminish the status of negatively labeled groups, but that only stigma also engenders social rejection, in part via appraisals of abnormality (Lucas, & Phelan, 2012, Phelan, Lucas, Ridgeway, & Tay
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists' forecasts of societal change
Physical Triggers of Anxiety in African Americans
Understanding the primary triggers of anxiety for African Americans, and the cultural factors associated with these triggers, can enhance our knowledge of emotional responding in African Americans and can ultimately influence how we assess and treat anxiety disorders in this population. In the current study, we investigated the experience of anxiety for African Americans following physical stressors, with an emphasis on cardiovascular arousal. Sp…
Ethnic Group Differences in Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Markers of Anxiety
Ethnic group differences in affective, behavioral, and cognitive measures of anxiety were examined to better characterize the unique triggers and modes of anxious responding across different groups. Using an ethnically diverse sample ( N = 112; 39 African Americans, 34 Asian Americans, and 39 European Americans), the study examined differences in anxious responding following three anxiety provocations (physical, social interpersonal, and social p…
Anxiety, Worry, and Difficulty Concentrating: A Longitudinal Examination of Concurrent and Prospective Symptom Relationships
Worry was associated with difficulty concentrating across three pandemic timepoints. • Anxiety predicted worry three months later, controlling for concurrent worry. • Worry partially mediated the path from T1 anxiety to T3 difficulty concentrating. • Mediation was not robust to controlling for outcomes at previous timepoints. Difficulty concentrating is an understudied cognitive phenomenon, despite its status as a diagnostic criterion for general…
A contest study to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment
Discrimination in the evaluation of others is a key cause of social inequality around the world. However, relatively little is known about psychological interventions that can be used to prevent biased evaluations. The limited evidence that exists on these strategies is spread across many methods and populations, making it difficult to generate reliable best practices that can be effective across contexts. In the present work, we held a research …
Toward the data-driven dissemination of findings from psychological science
The public health impact of psychological science is maximized when it is disseminated clearly and compellingly to audiences who can act on it. Dissemination research can generate knowledge to help achieve this, but dissemination is understudied in the field of implementation science. As a consequence, the designs of dissemination strategies are typically driven by anecdote, not evidence, and are often ineffective. We address this issue by synthe…
Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy.
Implicit and Explicit Stigma of Mental Illness in Diagnosed and Healthy Samples
The stigma of mental illness remains a serious social problem and critical impediment to treatment seeking among diagnosed individuals. Study 1 evaluated explicit attitudes and stereotypes about persons with mental illness relative to persons with physical illness, and also implicit attitudes that lie outside conscious control (using the Implicit Association Test) in a college sample (N = 119). Study 2 extended the evaluation of explicit and impl…
A new mode of fear expression: Perceptual bias in height fear
Emotion and psychopathology researchers have described the fear response as consisting of four main components--subjective affect, physiology, cognition, and behavior. The current study provides evidence for an additional component in the domain of height fear (perception) and shows that it is distinct from measures of cognitive processing. Individuals High (N = 35) and Low (N = 36) in acrophobic symptoms looked over a two-story balcony ledge and…
Ethnic Group Differences in Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Markers of Anxiety
Ethnic group differences in affective, behavioral, and cognitive measures of anxiety were examined to better characterize the unique triggers and modes of anxious responding across different groups. Using an ethnically diverse sample ( N = 112; 39 African Americans, 34 Asian Americans, and 39 European Americans), the study examined differences in anxious responding following three anxiety provocations (physical, social interpersonal, and social p…
Expectancy bias in anxious samples
Although it is well documented that anxious individuals have negative expectations about the future, it is unclear what cognitive processes give rise to this expectancy bias. Two studies are reported that use the Expectancy Task, which is designed to assess expectancy bias and illuminate its basis. This task presents individuals with valenced scenarios (Positive Valence, Negative Valence, or Conflicting Valence), and then evaluates their tendency…
Cognitive Bias Modification in Mental
Cognitive biases refer to a tendency to favor a particular way of processing information, such as habitually attending to threatening information in the environment, or interpreting ambiguous information in a negative way. Importantly, cognitive biases are linked to a number of emotional problems, such as anxiety and depression, raising the question of whether altering cognitive biases could relieve the symptoms of these disorders. Cognitive bias…
Physical Triggers of Anxiety in African Americans
Understanding the primary triggers of anxiety for African Americans, and the cultural factors associated with these triggers, can enhance our knowledge of emotional responding in African Americans and can ultimately influence how we assess and treat anxiety disorders in this population. In the current study, we investigated the experience of anxiety for African Americans following physical stressors, with an emphasis on cardiovascular arousal. Sp…
Dynamically tracking anxious individuals’ affective response to valenced information
Past research has shown that an individual's feelings at any given moment reflect currently experienced stimuli as well as internal representations of similar past experiences. However, anxious individuals' affective reactions to streams of interrelated valenced information (vs. reactions to static stimuli that are arguably less ecologically valid) are rarely tracked. The present study provided a first examination of the newly developed Tracking …
Remembering or knowing how we felt: Depression and anxiety symptoms predict retrieval processes during emotional self-report
Researchers and clinicians routinely rely on patients' retrospective emotional self-reports to guide diagnosis and treatment, despite evidence of impaired autobiographical memory and retrieval of emotional information in depression and anxiety. To clarify the nature and specificity of these impairments, we conducted two large online data collections (Study 1, N = 1,983; Study 2, N = 900) examining whether depression and/or anxiety symptoms would …
A comparison of status and stigma processes: Explicit and implicit appraisals of “mentally ill people” and “uneducated people
In prior work, we proposed that the related processes of status differentiation and stigmatization both diminish the status of negatively labeled groups, but that only stigma also engenders social rejection, in part via appraisals of abnormality (Lucas, & Phelan, 2012, Phelan, Lucas, Ridgeway, & Tay
Explicit-Implicit Discrepancy in Macro-Level Mental Illness Stigma Is Linked to Prevalence and Care
Introduction: This study explores the associations in the United States between each state's stereotypes about the dangerousness of people with mental illness and important outcomes for people with mental illness. Methods: Implicit association test and questionnaire data from 17,312 online participants were aggregated within states and years. Each state's annual average implicit and explicit stereotypes were used to predict state differences in p…
Tangle: A New Measure of Time Series Complexity
Dynamical systems analysis and the study of time series data provide a rich source of information for researchers interested in studying psychological phenomena. While many methods exist for quantifying linear behavior from a given time series, considerably fewer methods exist for quantifying complex and nonlinear time series. Of existing methods for quantifying complex and nonlinear time series, most either: a) require a restrictive number of da…
Toward the data-driven dissemination of findings from psychological science
The public health impact of psychological science is maximized when it is disseminated clearly and compellingly to audiences who can act on it. Dissemination research can generate knowledge to help achieve this, but dissemination is understudied in the field of implementation science. As a consequence, the designs of dissemination strategies are typically driven by anecdote, not evidence, and are often ineffective. We address this issue by synthe…
Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of Covid-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.
The Future of Women in Psychological Science
There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus of discussion or systematic review, despite our field’s investment in questions of equity, status, well-being, gender bias, and gender disparities. In the present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women’s career advancement in psychological science. We focus on issu…
When and Where Do People Regulate Their Emotions? Patterns of Emotion Regulation in Unselected and Socially Anxious Young Adults
Introduction: The current studies examined how smartphone-assessed contextual features (i.e., location, time-of-day, social situation, and affect) contribute to the relative likelihood of emotion regulation strategy endorsement in daily life. Methods: Emotion regulation strategy endorsement and concurrent contextual features were assessed either passively (e.g., via GPS coordinates) or via self-report among unselected (Study 1: N = 112; duration …
Implicit trauma identity associations in treatment-seeking U.S. military personnel do not predict or change in response to cognitive processing therapy for PTSD
More tailoring of implicit trauma measures for military personnel and/or treatment-seeking patients may be needed. The measure may lack sensitivity to change in response to treatment and have reduced utility in treatment-seeking samples with high symptom burden and less variability in symptoms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
The role of uncertainty, worry, and control in well-being: Evidence from the Covid-19 outbreak and pandemic in U.S. and China
Uncertainty about the future often leads to worries about what the future will bring, which can have negative consequences for health and well-being. However, if worry can act as a motivator to promote efforts to prevent undesirable future outcomes, those negative consequences of worry may be mitigated. In this article, we apply a novel model of uncertainty, worry, and perceived control to predict psychological and physical well-being among four …
Development and Validation of the Flexibility in Partner Perspectives Scale
Effects of Mass Shootings on Mental Illness Stigma in the United States
Although the vast majority of people with mental illness (PWMI) are not violent, Americans tend to think they are more dangerous than the general population. Because negative media portrayals may contribute to stigma, we used time-series analyses to examine changes in the public’s perceived dangerousness of PWMI around six mass shootings whose perpetrators were reported to have a mental illness. From 2011 to 2019, 38,094 U.S. participants complet…
Investigating psychiatric symptoms as predictors of the reasons people do not regulate their emotions in daily life
Investigations into emotion dysregulation predominantly focus on ineffective strategy selection and implementation. However, little empirical attention has been given to the possibility that failure to engage in emotion regulation (ER) may also indicate emotion dysregulation, especially when the reason for not regulating suggests skill or motivational deficits. We randomly sampled ER strategy use up to six times per day for 5 weeks in 113 adults …
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists' forecasts of societal change
Emerging Adults With a Suicide Attempt History Text More Emotionally With Peers than Family Members
Emotional communication is central to strong interpersonal relationships and mental health. For emerging adults, much of their interpersonal communication happens via texting, but we know little about how and with whom their emotional texting occurs. Understanding these patterns may be especially critical for emerging adults experiencing mental health crises (e.g., suicidality). This study examined how the emotional tone of texts (sent and receiv…
A contest study to reduce attractiveness-based discrimination in social judgment
Discrimination in the evaluation of others is a key cause of social inequality around the world. However, relatively little is known about psychological interventions that can be used to prevent biased evaluations. The limited evidence that exists on these strategies is spread across many methods and populations, making it difficult to generate reliable best practices that can be effective across contexts. In the present work, we held a research …
Anxiety identity centrality is associated with avoidant coping in anxious adults
Introduction: Some have suggested that labeling oneself as having clinical anxiety may promote avoidant coping, which is associated with poor clinical outcomes. However, the construct of anxiety identity centrality (seeing one's anxiety as relatively important to one's self-concept) has rarely been assessed, and its relationship with avoidant coping has not been investigated. Methods: In a sample of 1,234 high-anxiety adults, we analyzed the rela…
Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Anxiety (10 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (9 works) · Mental Health Research Topics (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 works)