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Last published 2026
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Matt R. Judah

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High Impact

Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: Oklahoma State University (2012–2019); University of New Mexico (2018); University of Colorado System (2018); Dominion University College (2018–2020); Virginia Clinical Research (2018–2020); Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City (2013–2016); Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center (2017); Nisshin Steel (Japan) (2017); Old Dominion University (2018–2026)

Faculty Researcher

22 h-index 79 pubs 1,634 cited

  • Humans
  • Female
  • Male
  • Anxiety
  • Attention
  • Adult
  • Young Adult
  • Evoked Potentials
  • Emotions
  • Electroencephalography
  • Adolescent
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Cognition
  • Fear
  • Surveys and Questionnaires

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Matt R. Judah's research investigates the intersection of psychological states, emotional regulation, and cognitive processes, with a particular focus on anxiety and depression. His work often utilizes electrophysiological measures, such as electroencephalography (EEG) and evoked potentials, to examine brain activity related to emotional stimuli and attentional control.

His publications explore topics including the impact of loneliness and negative thinking on college students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the relationship between emotion regulation strategies and affect, and how cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression moderate associations between social anxiety and depression. Judah has also studied attentional bias towards safety cues in individuals experiencing worry and the role of intolerance of uncertainty in generalized anxiety disorder. He has contributed to research on reward processing in depression and the evaluation of suicide prevention training programs.

Judah's research network includes several collaborators from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications. His scholarly output is marked by a high citation count and a significant number of publications, reflecting his active engagement in the field. He holds a high-impact researcher designation, indicating his work is frequently cited by others in the academic community.

Metrics

  • h-index: 22
  • Publications: 79
  • Citations: 1,634

Selected Publications

  • Reward Deficits in Co‐Occurring Social Anxiety and Depression: The Roles of Anhedonia, Boredom, Loneliness, and COVID‐19 Social Restriction (2026)
    Journal of Clinical Psychology DOI OpenAlex
  • Depression history and deficits in executive control following stress: A role for the expected value of control (2026)
    Journal of Affective Disorders DOI OpenAlex
  • LPP slopes index attention dynamics: Evidence from mindfulness inductions (2026)
    Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience DOI OpenAlex
  • Negative social interpretation bias and suicidality: Indirect pathways through social anxiety and perceived burdensomeness (2026)
    BMC Psychology DOI OpenAlex
  • The role of sleep hygiene in the co-occurrence of GAD and MDD symptoms in an undergraduate sample (2026)
    Journal of American College Health DOI OpenAlex
  • Indirect effects of threat processing on worry: The roles of emotion dysregulation and contrast avoidance (2026)
    International Journal of Psychophysiology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The Temporal Dynamics of Attention to Threat and <scp>GAD</scp> Symptoms: A Study of <scp>LPP</scp> Slopes (2025)
    Psychophysiology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • 1203 The Role of Sleep Hygiene in the Comorbidity of GAD and MDD Symptoms in an Undergraduate Sample (2025)
    SLEEP DOI OpenAlex
  • Anxiety Sensitivity and Intolerance of Uncertainty Uniquely Explain the Association of the Late Positive Potential With Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms (2025)
    Psychophysiology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Emotion regulation strategies explain associations of theta and Beta with positive affect (2024)
    Psychophysiology 14 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Anticipatory processing increases attentional biases to disgust faces in socially anxious individuals: Evidence from the N2pc and CDA (2024)
    Biological Psychology 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Social Anxiety is Related to Worse Recognition Memory of Angry Faces (2024)
    Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment DOI OpenAlex
  • Electrophysiological effects of smartphone notifications on cognitive control following a brief mindfulness induction (2023)
    Biological Psychology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Social concerns about anxious arousal explain the association between neural responses to anxious arousal pictures and social anxiety (2023)
    Biological Psychology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The association of emotion regulation with distress tolerance depends on a neural correlate of cognitive control (2023)
    Biological Psychology 4 citations DOI OpenAlex

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