Alexander Williams, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders




I am a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University where I work with Dr. Todd Farchione. In 2024, I earned my PhD from Northwestern University where I worked with Dr. Rick Zinbarg. My research explores the development of internalizing problems, such as anxiety and depression, the potential of mindfulness strategies to prevent their onset, and approaches to treating them in a cost-effective and scalable way. I am also interested in ways that hierarchical models of psychopathology (e.g., the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology) can be used to improve inference in clinical research.

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  1. Williams TF, Williams AL, Cowan HR, Walker EF, Cannon TD, Bearden CE, Keshavan M, Cornblatt BA, Addington J, Woods SW, Perkins DO, Mathalon DH, Cadenhead KS, Stone WS, Mittal VA. The hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology in clinical high risk for psychosis: Validation and extension. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2024 Apr; 133(3):235-244. PMID: 38546628; PMCID: PMC11273326; DOI: 10.1037/abn0000893;
     
  2. He Y, Zinbarg RE, Goldsmith JZ, Williams AL, Pinsof WM. Sensitivity to change of the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (STIC) intersession scales. Psychother Res. 2024 Apr; 34(4):461-474. PMID: 37695995; DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2023.2244150;
     
  3. Zinbarg RE, Schmidt M, Feinstein B, Williams AL, Murillo A, Echiverri-Cohen AM, Enders C, Craske M, Nusslock R. Personality predicts pre-COVID-19 to COVID-19 trajectories of transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2023 Aug; 132(6):645-656. PMID: 37261781; PMCID: PMC10524577; DOI: 10.1037/abn0000803;
     
  4. Zinbarg RE, Williams AL, Kramer AM, Schmidt MR. In R. F. Krueger & P. H. Blaney (Eds.),The Oxford textbook of psychopathology. Generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobia. Oxford University Press. 2023; 147-180.
  5. Yarrington JS, Vinograd M, Williams AL, Wolitzky-Taylor KB, Zinbarg RE, Mineka S, Waters AM, Craske MG. Fear-potentiated startle predicts longitudinal change in transdiagnostic symptom dimensions of anxiety and depression. J Affect Disord. 2022 Aug 15; 311:399-406. PMID: 35597470; DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.080;
     
  6. Zinbarg RE, Williams AL, Mineka S. A Current Learning Theory Approach to the Etiology and Course of Anxiety and Related Disorders. Annu Rev Clin Psychol. 2022 May 09; 18:233-258. PMID: 35134320; DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-072220-021010;
     
  7. Williams AL, Conway CC. Correlation between laboratory-based vicarious threat learning and emotional disorder symptom dimensions. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2022 Mar; 74:101696. PMID: 34678632; DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2021.101696;
     
  8. Williams AL, Craske MG, Mineka S, Zinbarg RE. Neuroticism and the longitudinal trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms in older adolescents. J Abnorm Psychol. 2021 Feb; 130(2):126-140. PMID: 33315412; DOI: 10.1037/abn0000638;
     
  9. Williams AL, Craske MG, Mineka S, Zinbarg RE. Reciprocal effects of personality and general distress: Neuroticism vulnerability is stronger than scarring. J Abnorm Psychol. 2021 Jan; 130(1):34-46. PMID: 33271037; DOI: 10.1037/abn0000635;
     
  10. Mineka S, Williams AL, Wolitzky-Taylor K, Vrshek-Schallhorn S, Craske MG, Hammen C, Zinbarg RE. Five-year prospective neuroticism-stress effects on major depressive episodes: Primarily additive effects of the general neuroticism factor and stress. J Abnorm Psychol. 2020 Aug; 129(6):646-657. PMID: 32478531; PMCID: PMC10988785; DOI: 10.1037/abn0000530;
     
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