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Abado, Elinor

Elinor Abado is a postdoctoral fellow at the in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology at the University of Göttingen. Her studies focus on emotion-cognition interactions in anxiety.

Research Interests

  • Interaction between cognitive biases (expectancy, interpretation, attention) and their combined effects on anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty
  • Using ERPs for the assessment of cognitive biases
  • Cognitive bias modification

Scientific & Social Media Profile

osf.jpg Open Science Framework : https://osf.io/6eu3z/
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orcid.jpg ORCID: 0000-0002-9114-6245

Other External Professional Activities

  • Member of the editorial review board at Experimental Psychopathology
  • Member of the Association for Cognitive Bias Modification (ACBM)
  • 2024: Intern junior editor at Journal of Experiment Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Publications

Preprints

  • Abado, E., Kunna, M., Würtz, F., Laflör, L., Blank, L., Blackwell, S. E., Salemink, E., Adolph, D., Dietel, F. A., Wolf, O. T., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2025). Multi-session CBM-I for Social Anxiety: Examining Psychopathology, Cognitive, Neural, and Psychophysiological Effects in a Randomized Controlled Trial. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2bv3x_v1

  • Abado, E., Kunna, M., Würtz, F., Laflör, L., Blackwell, S. E., Salemink, E., Adolph, D., Dietel, F., Wolf, O., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2025). CBM-I for social anxiety: Examining clinical, cognitive, neural, and psychophysiological effects in a randomized controlled trial. OSF Preprints. https://osf.io/2bv3x

Journal articles

in press
  • Würtz, F., Kunna, M., Lindgraf, C., Abado, E., Amanvermez, Y., Blackwell, S. E., Margraf, J., Everaert, J., & Woud, M. L. (in press). Interpretation Biases in Anxiety – A Three-Level Meta-Analysis. Clinical Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026251392855
2025
  • Zoabi, D., Abado, E., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Peled-Avron, L. (2025). Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience, nsaf064.  https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf064
2024

  • Abado, E., Aue, T., Pourtois, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2024). Expectancy and attention bias to spiders: Dissecting anticipation and allocation processes using ERPs. Psychophysiology, 00, e14546. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14546

2023
  • Abado, E., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2023). Spider vs. Guns: Expectancy and attention biases to phylogenetic threat do not extend to ontogenetic threat. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1232985
2021
2020
  • Abado, E., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). The Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: A Review on the Interactive Nature of A-Priori Expectancies and Attention Bias toward Threat. Brain Sciences, 10(10), 745.‏ https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10100745
  • Abado, E., Richter, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). Attention biases toward negative stimuli. In T. Aue & H. Okon-Singer (Eds.), Cognitive biases in health and psychiatric disorders: Neurophysiological foundations. San Diego: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816660-4.00002-7
  • Abado, E., Sagi, J., Silber, N., De Houwer, J., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). Reducing attention bias in spider fear by manipulating expectancies. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 135, 103729.‏ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103729

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