Faculty profile
Christine Purdon
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Latest papers
Predictors of worry-related safety behaviours and avoidance.
The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026 · senior author
A preliminary investigation of the relationships between attachment insecurity, fear of compassion, and OCD severity.
The British journal of clinical psychology · 2025 · senior author
A study of doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry · 2023 · senior author
Latest funding
- $50,202
Why is Once Sometimes Not Enough? The Persistence of Safety Routines
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $21,140
Why is Once Sometimes Not Enough? The Persistence of Safety Routines
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $231,541
The persistence of unwanted thoughts
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
27 publications.
Predictors of worry-related safety behaviours and avoidance.
Crawford T, Purdon C
A preliminary investigation of the relationships between attachment insecurity, fear of compassion, and OCD severity.
McNeil A, Purdon C
A study of doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Chiang B, Purdon C
Anxiety disorders, COVID-19 fear, and vaccine hesitancy.
McNeil A, Purdon C
Avoidance of mild threat observed in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) using eye tracking.
Nelson AL, Quigley L, Carriere J, Kalles E, Smilek D, Purdon C
How are OCD patients and their families coping with the COVID-19 pandemic? A qualitative study.
Tandt HLN, Van Parys H, Leyman L, Purdon C, Lemmens GMD
How are OCD Patients and Family Members Dealing with the Waxing and Waning Pattern of the COVID-19 Pandemic? Results of a Longitudinal Observational Study.
Tandt HL, Debruyckere I, Leyman L, Colman R, De Jaeghere EA, Van Parys H, Baeken C, Purdon C, Lemmens GM
Fear of compassion is associated with treatment ambivalence and negative expectations for treatment in people with anxiety.
Merritt OA, Purdon C
A transdiagnostic perspective of constructs underlying obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: An international Delphi consensus study
Fontenelle LF, Oldenhof E, Moreira-de-Oliveira ME, Abramowitz JS, Antony MM, Cath D, Carter A, Dougherty D, Ferrão YA, Figee M
A study of the Repeated Actions Diary in patients suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder.
Bouvard M, Fournet N, Denis A, Achachi O, Purdon C
Why is Once Sometimes Not Enough? The Persistence of Safety Routines
Principal investigators: Purdon, Christine
Keywords: safety routines; anxiety; checking; washing; habits; rituals
Why is Once Sometimes Not Enough? The Persistence of Safety Routines
Principal investigators: Purdon, Christine
Keywords: safety routines; anxiety; checking; washing; habits; rituals
The persistence of unwanted thoughts
Principal investigators: Purdon, Christine L.
Keywords: unwanted thoughts; anxiety; thought suppression
Vulnerability to bizarre beliefs the role of embodied cognition
Principal investigators: Coelho, Jennifer S.
Keywords: beliefs; individual differences; superstition; embodied cognition
Anxiety and sexual functioning difficulties
Principal investigators: Purdon, Christine L.
Keywords: anxiety; sexual dysfunction; cognitive-behaviour therapy
Anxiety and cognitive interference in sexual dysfunction
Principal investigators: Purdon, Christine L.
Keywords: anxiety; spectatoring; sexual functioning; sexual satisfaction
The insidious effects of intentional mental control: an experimental approach
Principal investigators: Clark, David
Keywords: Mental control; intrusive thoughts; thought suppression; cognitive aspects of emotion
Suppression of obsessional thoughts: motivation, strategies and emotional impact
Principal investigators: Purdon, Christine
Keywords: intrusive; thoughts; thought suppression; obsessions
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Randi McCabe and Karen Rowa: 84 shared papers
- Randi McCabe and Martin Antony: 83 shared papers
- Martin Antony and Karen Rowa: 43 shared papers
- Stephanie Waechter and Karen Rowa: 6 shared papers
- Randi McCabe and Stephanie Waechter: 5 shared papers
- Daniel Smilek and Christine Purdon: 5 shared papers
- Martin Antony and Christine Purdon: 3 shared papers
- Martin Antony and Stephanie Waechter: 2 shared papers
- Randi McCabe and Christine Purdon: 1 shared paper
- Martin Antony and Kieron O'Connor: 1 shared paper
- Martin Antony and Peggy Richter: 1 shared paper
- Stephanie Waechter and Christine Purdon: 1 shared paper
- Karen Rowa and Christine Purdon: 1 shared paper
- Kieron O'Connor and Peggy Richter: 1 shared paper
- Kieron O'Connor and Christine Purdon: 1 shared paper
- Howard Steiger and Christine Purdon: 1 shared paper
- Peggy Richter and Christine Purdon: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Smilek and Jonathan Carriere: 1 shared paper
- Jonathan Carriere and Christine Purdon: 1 shared paper
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
- Psychology
- Behavioural Psychology
- Psychiatry
- Department of Psychiatry
- Other
Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Daniel Smilek
Psychology
5 shared papers, latest 2022
Martin Antony
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
3 shared papers, latest 2020
Karen Rowa
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2005
Kieron O'Connor
Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Howard Steiger
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Peggy Richter
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Randi McCabe
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Jonathan Carriere
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Stephanie Waechter
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2015
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