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Alexandra Adamis

Doctoral Candidate
Research Area: Clinical Science


Attentional bias and control, perseverative thinking, ecological momentary assessment, anxiety

Representative Publications

Olatunji, B.O., Adamis, A.M., Mosby, M., Liu, Q. (In Press). Self-reported executive dysfunction predicts COVID-19 traumatic stress: A Prospective study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.
 
Adamis, A.M., Jessup, S.C., & Olatunji, B.O. (In Press). Unique and interactive effects of intolerance of uncertainty and emotion regulation on daily negative emotionality. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. 1-14. 
 
Adamis, A.M., Walske, S., & Olatunji, B.O. (In Press). Attention mechanisms of social anxiety in daily life: Unique effects of negative self-focused attention on post-event processing. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 191. 
 
Adamis, A.M., Boyne, A., Harper, C., & Olatunji, B.O. (2025). Specificity of attentional control deficits in predicting symptoms of social anxiety. Journal of Affective Disorders 365, 8-16. 
 
Jessup, S.C., Adamis, A.M., & Olatunji, B.O. (2025). Preliminary examination of sympathetic magic as a psychological endophenotype for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behavior Therapy, 56(1), 83-94
 
Olatunji, B.O. & Adamis, A.M. (2024 ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù). Federal funding shapes knowledge in clinical science. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3(10), 644-645. 
 
Adamis, A.M., Lebovitz, J., Oberlin, L., Chen, S., Phan, D., Burns, K.C., Gunning, F., & Burdick, K.E. (2024 ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù). Predictors of Psychosocial Impairment in a Transdiagnostic Sample: Unique Effects of Repetitive Negative Thinking. Journal of Affective Disorders, 366, 74-82, 
 
Adamis, A.M. & Olatunji, B.O. (2024 ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù). Reconciling attentional bias in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, 100895, ISSN 2211-3649, doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2024 ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù.100896.
 
Adamis, A.M., Jessup, S.C., & Olatunji, B.O. (2024 ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù). Effects of internal, external, and neutral attentional allocation on post-event processing in social anxiety. Cognitive Research and Therapy. 
 
Adamis, A.M., Jessup, S.C., Cole, D.A., & Olatunji, B.O. (2024 ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù). Ecological momentary assessment of the unique effects of trait worry on daily negative emotionality: Does arousal matter? Cognition and Emotion, 39(3), 714-721. 
 
Jessup, S.C., Adamis, A.M., Rast, C., Cox, R.C., Olatunji, B.O. (2024 ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù). Unique and interactive effects of emotion regulation difficulties and perceived stress on COVID-19 traumatic stress, anxiety, and safety behavior use: A Four-year prospective study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 176, 104503, ISSN 0005-7967
 
Adamis, A.M. & Olatunji, B.O. (2024 ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù). Specific emotion regulation difficulties and executive function explain the link between worry and subsequent stress: A prospective moderated mediation study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 348, 88-96
 
Adamis, A.M., Jessup, S.C., & Olatunji, B.O. (2023). Strengths and shortcomings of a mindful approach to the treatment of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Clinical Psychology, Science and Practice. 
 
Adamis, A.M., Cole, D.A., & Olatunji, B.O. (2023). Intolerance of uncertainty and worry prospectively predict COVID-19 anxiety and distress: A 4-year longitudinal study. Behavior Therapy, 55, 320-330.  
 
Adamis, A.M. & Olatunji, B.O. (2023). The promise and potential pitfalls of iCBT for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Clinical Psychology, Science and Practice, 30(2), 163-166. 

Honors

2025 Vanderbilt Award for Doctoral Discovery, ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù College of Arts and Sciences 

2025 Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) Award VR73394 

2025 Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Fellowship, the Graduate School at ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù 

2024 ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) Award VR72543 

2023 Graduate School Travel Grant, ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù Department of Psychology 

2023 Gayle Fambrough Fellowship Award, ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù Department of Psychology

2023 Summer Research Award, ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù College of Arts and Sciences 

2023 Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) Award VR67441

2023 Graduate School Travel Grant, ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù Department of Psychology 

2022 University Graduate Fellowship, the Graduate School at ÎåÒ»²è¹Ý¶ù 

2019 Highest GPA in the School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

2018 Order of Omega Honors Society, Northwestern University

2017 Mortar Board Honors Society, Northwestern University

2017 Win Hill Nominee for Best Research Methods Paper, Northwestern University