Erik Benau

Assistant Professor of Psychology

SUNY College at Old Westbury

United States

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Erik Benau is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at SUNY College at Old Westbury, located in the United States. His research focuses on various aspects of mental health, including suicidal ideation among LGBTQ+ individuals, emotion dysregulation, and the impact of racism-related experiences on youth. Additionally, he investigates the interplay between cognitive factors, such as attentional control and death anxiety, and their implications for psychological well-being.

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Lucy Serpell

University College London

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Alix Timko

Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry

University of Pennsylvania

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Jillian Zavodnick

Thomas Jefferson University

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Assistant Professor

The New School

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Correlates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among bisexual+, gay/lesbian, and heterosexual young adults

Dimensions of Emotion Dysregulation and Childhood Adversities Differentiate Young Adults With Histories of Suicide Ideation and Attempts

The power of protective factors to mitigate LGBTQ+ suicide risk: Improving positive aspects of one’s identity in a vacuum is not enough.

Racism-Related Experiences and Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Ethnoracially Minoritized Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Reduced attentional control in individuals with a history of suicide attempts compared to those with suicidal ideation: Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis

Initial evidence of reliability and validity of an implicit association test assessing attitudes toward individuals who use substances

Not so terrifying after all? A set of failed replications of the mortality salience effects of Terror Management Theory.

Self-reported interoceptive accuracy and interoceptive attention differentially correspond to measures of visual attention and self-regard

Internalization of Appearance Ideals and Not Religiosity Indirectly Impacts the Relationship Between Acculturation and Disordered Eating Risk in South and Southeast Asian Women Living in the United States.

Delay of Gratification, Gender Role Attitudes, and Death Reflections Predict Death Anxiety

How Does Fasting Affect Cognition? An Updated Systematic Review (2013–2020)

The Blink and the Body

Time flies faster when you’re feeling blue: sad mood induction accelerates the perception of time in a temporal judgment task

Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Alexithymia, and Social Phobia Are Associated With Disordered Eating in Male and Female Undergraduate Athletes

Some Compliments (and Insults) Are More Heartfelt

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Lucy Serpell

Alix Timko

Jillian Zavodnick

Lillian Polanco-Roman

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