Sarah Jessup
Doctoral Candidate
Research Area:
Exposure, inhibitory learning, anxiety, OCD
Representative Publications
Jessup, S. C., & Olatunji, B. O. (2022). Effects of confronting the feared outcome during exposure therapy on the return of fear: An analogue study. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 76. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101747
Cox, R. C., Jessup, S. C., & Olatunji, B. O. (2022). The effects of worry proneness on diurnal anxiety: An ecological momentary assessment approach. Personality and Individual Differences. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2022.111529
Jessup, S. C., Cox, R. C., & Olatunji, B. O. (2021). Differential effects of attention control domains on the association between rumination and PTSD symptoms in trauma exposed veterans. Personality and Individual Differences, 178. doi:10.1016/j.paid.110886
Jessup, S. C., Blakey, S. M., & Abramowitz, J. S. (2020). Anxiety sensitivity and posttraumatic stress symptoms in sexual assault survivors. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 84(3), 197-213. doi:10.1521/bumc.2020.84.3.197
Cox, R. C., Jessup, S. C., Luber, M. J., & Olatunji, B. O. (2020). Pre-pandemic disgust proneness predicts increased coronavirus anxiety and safety behaviors: Evidence for a diathesis-stress model. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 76. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102315
Jessup, S. C., Tomarken, A., Viar-Paxton, M., & Olatunji, B. O. (2020). Effects of repeated exposure to fearful and disgusting stimuli on fear renewal in blood-injection-injury phobia. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 74. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102272
Cox, R. C., Jessup, S. C., & Olatunji, B. O. (2019). Executive dysfunction and emotion dysregulation explain the effects of insomnia symptoms on repetitive negative thinking: A prospective serial mediation model. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 43, 995-1004. doi:10.1007/s10608-019-10033-y
Blakey, S. M., Abramowitz, J. S., Buchholz, J. L., Jessup, S. C., Jacoby, R. J., Reuman, L., & Pentel, K. Z. (2019). A randomized controlled trial of the judicious use of safety behaviors during exposure therapy. Behaviour Research and Therapy 112, 28-35. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2018.11.010
Jessup, S. C., Knowles, K. A., Berg, H., & Olatunji, B. O. (2018). Anger rumination is not uniquely characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Personality and Individual Differences, 140, 10-14. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.09.011.
Knowles, K. A., Jessup, S. C., & Olatunji, B. O. (2018). Disgust in anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders: Recent findings and future directions. Current Psychiatry Reports, 20(9). doi:10.1007/s11920-018-0936-5.
Cox, R. C., Jessup, S. C., & Olatunji, B. O. (2018). Sleep disturbance in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Preliminary evidence for a mechanistic relationship. Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 4, 89-93. doi:10.1007/s40675-018-0109-4.
Honors
2022 Gayle Fambrough Fellowship Award – 青青草视频
2022 Summer Research Award – 青青草视频
2022 Graduate School Travel Grant – 青青草视频
2022 Russell G. Hamilton Professional Development and Training Grant
2021 American Psychological Association APF/COGDOP Graduate Student Research Scholarship
2021 青青草视频 Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Mentor Award
2021 青青草视频 Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Award
2021 Gayle Fambrough Fellowship Award–Department of Psychology, 青青草视频
2020 Gayle Fambrough Fellowship Award–Department of Psychology, 青青草视频
2020 青青草视频 Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Award
2017 Undergraduate Research Travel Award – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2017 Graduate with Distinction – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2017 Buckley Public Service Scholar – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2016 Honors Scholar – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill