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  1. Fear‐potentiated startle response as an endophenotype: Evaluating metrics and methods for genetic applications

    Article • Psychophysiology, January 2019, Wiley

    Scott Vrana

  2. Assessing the coherence of narratives of traumatic events with latent semantic analysis.

    Article • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, October 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  3. Latent Semantic Analysis: A new measure of patient-physician communication

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2018, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  4. Graduate training implications of the Q-interactive platform for administering Wechsler intelligence tests.

    Article • Training and Education in Professional Psychology, August 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  5. Can a computer administer a Wechsler Intelligence Test?

    Article • Professional Psychology Research and Practice, June 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  6. Temporal stability of multiple response systems to 7.5% carbon dioxide challenge

    Article • Biological Psychology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  7. Alexithymia predicts arousal-based processing deficits and discordance between emotion response systems during emotional imagery.

    Article • Emotion, March 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  8. Acoustic startle and prepulse inhibition predict smoking lapse in posttraumatic stress disorder

    Article • Journal of Psychopharmacology, August 2015, SAGE Publications

    Scott Vrana

  9. Enhancing the Benefits of Written Emotional Disclosure Through Response Training

    Article • Behavior Therapy, May 2014, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  10. Efficacy of a Workbook to Promote Forgiveness: A Randomized Controlled Trial With University Students

    Article • Journal of Clinical Psychology, March 2014, Wiley

    Scott Vrana

  11. A test of Spielberger’s state-trait theory of anger with adolescents: Five hypotheses.

    Article • Emotion, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  12. Effects of smoking on the acoustic startle response and prepulse inhibition in smokers with and without posttraumatic stress disorder

    Article • Psychopharmacology, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Scott Vrana

  13. Survey of National Consortium of Torture Treatment Program therapists about the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the psychological sequelae of torture.

    Article • Traumatology An International Journal, June 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  14. Efficacy of a Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia and Nightmares in Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans With PTSD

    Article • Journal of Clinical Psychology, April 2013, Wiley

    Scott Vrana

  15. Modular Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of an Adolescent Female With Selective Mutism and Social Phobia

    Article • Clinical Case Studies, November 2012, SAGE Publications

    Scott Vrana

  16. Using everyday technology to enhance evidence-based treatments.

    Article • Professional Psychology Research and Practice, December 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  17. A startling absence of emotion effects: Active attention to the startle probe as a motor task cue appears to eliminate modulation of the startle reflex by valence and arousal

    Article • Biological Psychology, May 2011, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  18. The effect of nicotine and trauma context on acoustic startle in smokers with and without posttraumatic stress disorder

    Article • Psychopharmacology, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Scott Vrana, Ph.D. H. Ryan Wagner

  19. Effects of posttraumatic stress disorder status and covert hostility on cardiovascular responses to relived anger in women with and without PTSD

    Article • Biological Psychology, December 2009, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  20. Trait anxiety, disgust sensitivity, and the hierarchic structure of fears

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, August 2008, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  21. The effects of cigarette smoking on script-driven imagery in smokers with and without posttraumatic stress disorder

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, December 2007, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  22. Psychophysiology of anger: Introduction to the special issue

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, November 2007, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  23. Emotional dimensions as determinants of self-focused attention

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, July 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Scott Vrana

  24. Play it again Sam: Repeated exposure to emotionally evocative music polarises liking and smiling responses, and influences other affective reports, facial EMG, and heart rate

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Scott Vrana

  25. Psychophysiological Responses of Female Headache Sufferers and Controls Using a Picture-Viewing Paradigm

    Article • Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, November 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Scott Vrana

  26. Ethnic Social Comfort I: Construct Validity Through Social Distance Measurement

    Article • Journal of Black Psychology, November 2005, SAGE Publications

    Scott Vrana

  27. The effects of trauma recall on smoking topography in posttraumatic stress disorder and non-posttraumatic stress disorder trauma survivors

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, February 2005, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  28. Immediate Antecedents of Cigarette Smoking in Smokers With and Without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Preliminary Study.

    Article • Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, January 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  29. The Role of Self-Focus, Task Difficulty, Task Self-Relevance, and Evaluation Anxiety in Reaction Time Performance

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, June 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Scott Vrana

  30. Reactions to facial expressions: effects of social context and speech anxiety on responses to neutral, anger, and joy expressions

    Article • Biological Psychology, March 2004, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  31. Ambulatory monitoring and physical health report in Vietnam veterans with and without chronic posttraumatic stress disorder

    Article • Journal of Traumatic Stress, August 2003, Wiley

    Scott Vrana

  32. Magnitude and duration of cardiovascular response to anger in Vietnam veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Article • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  33. The role of ethnicity, gender, emotional content, and contextual differences in physiological, expressive, and self-reported emotional responses to imagery

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Scott Vrana

  34. The relationship among personality variables, exposure to traumatic events, and severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms

    Article • Journal of Traumatic Stress, January 2001, Wiley

    Scott Vrana

  35. The time course of emotional and attentional modulation of the startle eyeblink reflex during imagery

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, September 2000, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  36. Emotional imagery, the visual startle, and covariation bias: An affective matching account

    Article • Biological Psychology, March 2000, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  37. Effect of worrisome and relaxing thinking on fearful emotional processing

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, February 2000, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  38. The impact of imagining completed versus interrupted smoking on cigarette craving.

    Article • Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  39. Effect of self-focused attention on the startle reflex, heart rate, and memory performance among socially anxious and nonanxious individuals

    Article • Psychophysiology, May 1998, Wiley

    Scott Vrana

  40. Article • Journal of Traumatic Stress, January 1997, Wiley

    Scott Vrana

  41. Smoking withdrawal symptoms in response to a trauma-related stressor among vietnam combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, January 1996, Elsevier

    Scott Vrana

  42. Perceptual and perceptual-motor fluency as a basis for affective judgements: Individual differences in motor memory activation

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, November 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Scott Vrana

  43. Psychophysiological responses as indices of affective dimensions

    Article • Psychophysiology, September 1995, Wiley

    Scott Vrana

  44. Emotional modulation of skin conductance and eyeblink responses to a startle probe

    Article • Psychophysiology, July 1995, Wiley

    Scott Vrana

  45. Manipulation of smoking urges and affect through a brief-imagery procedure: Self-report, psychophysiological, and startle probe responses.

    Article • Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, May 1995, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  46. Emotional imagery in simple and social phobia: Fear versus anxiety.

    Article • Journal of Abnormal Psychology, May 1993, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  47. Fear imagery and the startle-probe reflex.

    Article • Journal of Abnormal Psychology, May 1990, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Scott Vrana

  48. Processing fearful and neutral sentences: Memory and heart rate change

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, July 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Scott Vrana