Psychology Faculty Profiles
Richard E. Zinbarg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Clinical Psychology, Personality Psychology
Office: Swift 302
Phone: (847) 467-2290
E-mail: rzinbarg@northwestern.edu
Research Interests
Research Interests...Personality traits that might act as vulnerability factors to the development of anxiety disorders including the cognitive and affective processes that might mediate these associations; psychotherapy for anxiety disorders with a main focus currently on generalized anxiety disorder; associations between anxiety disorders and couple functioning including the impact of couple functioning on the outcome of psychotherapy for anxiety disorders; the structure and measurement of anxiety and related affects; measurement and psychometric theory.
Selected Publications
Zinbarg, R., Yovel, I., Revelle, W. & McDonald, R. (In press). Estimating generalizability to a universe of indicators that all have one attribute in common: A comparison of estimators for . Applied Psychological Measurement. click here for pdf
Zinbarg, R., Revelle, W., Yovel, I. & Li, W. (2005). Cronbach’s , Revelle’s , and McDonald’s : Their relations with each other and two alternative conceptualizations of reliability. Psychometrika, 70, 123-133. click here for pdf
Zinbarg, R., Brown, T. A., Barlow, D. H. & Rapee, R. M. (2001). Anxiety sensitivity, panic and depressed mood: A Re-analysis teasing apart the contributions of the two levels in the hierarchical structure of the anxiety sensitivity index. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 372-378. click here for pdf
Zinbarg, R. & Mohlman, J. (1998). Individual differences in the acquisition of affectively-valenced associations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1024-1040. click here for pdf
