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Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J., Westemeier*, O., & Corbin, W.R. (in press). College men markedly underestimate peers’ use of protective behavioral strategies for sexual aggression, risky sexual behavior, and heavy episodic drinking. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Waddell*, J.T., King*, S.E., Corbin, W.R., Treat, T.A., Witkiewitz, K., & Viken, R.J. (2025). An easily accessible, semi-automated approach to creating personalized normative feedback and risk feedback graphics. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 86, 177-185.
Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J., Westemeier*, O., & Corbin, W.R. (2024). College men’s use of protective behavioral strategies for sexual aggression, risky sexual behavior, and heavy episodic drinking. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 38, 360-371.
Boyd-Rogers*, C., Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J, & Corbin, W.R. (2024). Normative misperception of behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs associated with sexual assault. Psychology of Violence, 14, 66-76.
Boyd-Rogers*, C., Treat, T.A, Corbin, W.R., & Viken, R.J. (2022). Social cognitive processes underlying normative misperception of sexual judgments. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 3183-3195.
Boyd-Rogers*, C., Treat, T.A, Corbin, W.R., & Viken, R.J. (2022). BDSM proclivity among college students. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, 3169-3181.
Treat, T.A., Corbin, W.R., Papova*, A., Richner*, K., Craney, R., & Fromme, K. (2021). Selection and socialization effects related to fraternity membership and sexual aggression during college. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 35, 337-350.
Treat, T.A., Corbin, W.R., & Viken, R.J. (2021). Protective behavioral strategies for sexual aggression and risky sexual behavior. Aggressive Behavior, 47, 284-295.
Yeater, E.A., Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J., & Bryan, A.D. (2020). Risk processing and college women’s risk for sexual victimization. Psychology of Violence, 10, 575–583.
Miller*, J.E., Windschitl, P.D., Treat, T.A., & Scherer, A.M. (2020). Comparisons as predictors of people’s beliefs about the importance of changing their health behaviors. European Journal of Health Psychology, 27, 14-29.
Treat, T.A., McMurray, B., Smith*, J.R., & Viken, R.J. (2020). Tracking men’s perceptions of women’s sexual interest. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29, 71-79.
Miller*, J.E., Windschitl, P.D., Treat, T.A., & Scherer, A.M. (2019). Unhealthy and unaware? Misjudging social comparative standing for health-relevant behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 2019.
Rinehart*, J.K., Yeater, E.A., Treat, T.A., & Viken, R.J. (2018). Cognitive processing underlying the self-other perspective in women’s judgments of victimization risk. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 35, 1381-1399.
Rizk*, M.T., & Treat, T.A. (2018). The effects of caloric education, trial-by-trial feedback, and their interaction on college-aged women’s abilities to estimate caloric content. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 52, 606-612.
Treat, T.A., & Viken, R.J. (2018). Sexual-perception processes in acquaintance-targeted sexual aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 44, 316-326.
Smith*, J.R., Treat, T.A., Farmer, T.A., & McMurray, B. (2018). Dynamic competition account of men’s perceptions of women’s sexual interest. Cognition, 174, 43-54.
Yeater, E.A., Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J., & Lenberg, K.L. (2018). Sexual attitudes moderate the effects of alcohol intoxication on women’s risk judgments. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 33, 228-249.
Treat, T.A., Church*, E.K., & Viken, R.J. (2017). Effects of gender, rape-supportive attitudes, and explicit instruction on perceptions of women’s momentary sexual interest. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24, 979-986.
Woodward*, H.E., Treat, T.A., Cameron, D.C., & Yegorova, V. (2017). Valenced and arousal-based affective evaluations of foods. Eating Behaviors,24, 26-33.
Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J., Farris*, C.A., & Smith*, J.R. (2016). Enhancing the accuracy of men’s perceptions of women's sexual interest in the laboratory. Psychology of Violence, 6, 562-572.
Treat, T.A., Hinkel*, H., Smith*, J.R., & Viken, R.J. (2016). Men's perceptions of women's sexual interest: Effects of environmental context, sexual attitudes, and women's characteristics. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 1:8.
Corbin, W.R., Scott, C.J., & Treat, T.A. (2016). Sociosexual attitudes, behavior, and alcohol use. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77, 629-637. (
Woodward*, H. E., Cameron, D.C., & Treat, T. A. (2016). Enhancing the conceptualization and measurement of implicit and explicit affective evaluations: A case study in disordered eating. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10, 252-264.
Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J., & Summers, S. (2015). Contextual influences on men’s perceptions of women’s sexual interest. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 2256-2271.
Rizk*, M.T., & Treat, T.A. (2015). Perceptions of food healthiness among free-living women. Appetite, 95, 390-398.
Morean*, M.E., Corbin, W.R., & Treat, T.A. (2015). Evaluating the accuracy of alcohol expectancies relative to subjective response to alcohol. Addictive Behaviors, 51, 197-203.
Weierich*, M.R., & Treat, T.A. (2015). Mechanisms of visual threat detection in specific phobia. Cognition and Emotion, 29, 992-1006. (
Rizk*, M.T., & Treat, T.A. (2015). Sensitivity to portion size of unhealthy foods. Food Quality and Preference, 45, 121-131.
Woodward*, H., & Treat, T.A. (2015). Binge eating concerns link to influences on self-evaluation. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 34, 348-364.
Morean*, M.E., Corbin, W.R., & Treat, T. (2015). Differences in subjective response to alcohol by gender, family history, binge drinking, heavy episodic drinking, and cigarette use: Refining and broadening the scope of measurement. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 76, 287-95.
Woodward*, H., & Treat, T.A. (2015). Unhealthy how?: Implicit and explicit affective evaluations of different types of unhealthy foods. Eating Behaviors, 17, 27-32.
Treat, T.A., Farris, C.A., Viken, R.J., & Smith*, J.R. (2015). Influence of sexually degrading music on men’s perceptions of women’s dating-relevant cues. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29, 135-141.
McFall, R.M., Treat, T.A., & Simons, R.F. (2015). Clinical science model. In (R. L. Cautin and S. O. Lillienfeld, Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology.
Bootzin, R.R., & Treat, T.A. (2015). Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS). In (R. L. Cautin and S. O. Lillienfeld, Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology.
Treat, T.A., & Bootzin, R.R. (2015). McFall, Richard M. In (R. L. Cautin and S. O. Lillienfeld, Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology.
Farach*, F.J., Treat, T.A., & Jungé, J.A. (2014). Effects of induced and naturalistic mood on the temporal allocation of attention to emotional information. Cognition and Emotion, 28, 993-1011.
Dirks*, M. A., Treat, T. A., & Weersing, V. R. (2014). Youth responses to peer provocation: Links to symptoms of anxiety and depression. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 36, 339-349.
Rizk*, M.T., & Treat, T.A. (2014). An indirect approach to the measurement of nutrient-specific perceptions of food healthiness. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 48, 17-25.
Gearhardt*, A.N., Rizk*, M.T., and Treat, T.A. (2014). The association of food characteristics and individual differences with ratings of craving and liking. Appetite, 79, 166-173.
Woodward*, H., Rizk*, M.T., Wang*, S.W., & Treat, T.A. (2014). Disordered eating links to body-relevant and body-irrelevant influences on self-evaluation. Eating Behaviors, 15, 205-208.
Morean*, M.E., Corbin, W.R., & Treat, T. (2013). The Subjective Effects of Alcohol Scale: Development and psychometric evaluation of a novel assessment tool for measuring subjective response to alcohol.Psychological Assessment, 25, 780-795.
Treat, T.A., & Viken, R.J. (2012). Measuring test performance with signal detection theory techniques. Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Gearhardt*, A.N., Treat, T.A., Hollingworth, A., & Corbin, W.R. (2012) The relationship between eating-related individual differences and visual attention to foods high in added fat and sugar. Eating Behaviors, 13, 371-374.
Wisco*, B. E., Treat, T. A., & Hollingworth, A. (2012). Visual attention to emotion in depression: Facilitation and withdrawal processes. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 602-614.
Morean*, M.E., Corbin, W.R., & Treat, T.A. (2012). The Anticipated Effects of Alcohol Scale: Development and psychometric evaluation of a novel assessment tool for measuring alcohol expectancies. Psychological Assessment, 24, 1008-1023.
Treat, T.A., Viken, R.M., Kruschke, J.K. & McFall, R.M. (2011). Men’s memory for women’s affective cues: Normative findings and links to rape-supportive attitudes. Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 802-810.
Dirks*, M.A., Treat, T.A., & Weersing, V.R. (2011). The latent structure of youth responses to peer provocation. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment,33, 58-68.
Teachman, B. A., & Treat, T.A. (2011). Reactions to the call to reboot psychotherapy research and practice: Introduction to special section of comments on Kazdin and Blasé (2011). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 475-477.
Dirks*, M. A., Treat, T. A., & Weersing, V. R. (2011). Social competence. In R. J. Levesque (Ed), The Encyclopedia of Adolescence (pp. 2751-2759). New York, New York: Springer.
Treat, T.A., Kruschke, J.K., Viken, R.J., & McFall, R.M. (2011). Application of associative-learning paradigms to clinically relevant individual differences in cognitive processing. Associative learning and conditioning: Human and animal applications. Oxford University Press.
Dirks*, M.A., Treat, T.A., & Weersing, V.R. (2010). The judge-specificity of evaluations of youth social behavior: The case or peer provocation. Social Development.
Farris*, C.A., Viken, R.J., & Treat, T.A. (2010). Perceived association between diagnostic and non-diagnostic cues of women's sexual interest: General Recognition Theory predictors of risk for sexual coercion. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 54, 184-195.
Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J., Kruschke, J.K., & McFall, R.M. (2010). Role of attention, memory, and covariation-detection processes in clinically significant eating-disorder symptoms. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 54, 184-195.
Yeater, E., Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J., & McFall, R.M. (2010). Cognitive processes underlying women’s risk judgments: Associations with sexual victimization history and rape myth acceptance. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 78, 375-386.
Farris*, C.A., Treat, T.A., & Viken, R.J. (2010). Alcohol alters men’s perceptual and decisional processing of women’s sexual interest. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 427-432.
Treat, T.A., & Viken, R.J. (2010). Cognitive processing of weight and emotional information in disordered eating. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 81-85.
Weierich*, M.R., Treat, T.A., & Hollingworth, A.H. (2008). Theories and measurement of visual attentional processing in anxiety. Cognition and Emotion, 22, 985-1018.
Treat, T.A., McCabe*, E.B., Gaskill, J.A., & Marcus, M.D. (2008). Treatment of anorexia nervosa in a specialty care continuum. International Journal of Eating Disorders.
Wang*, S.W., Treat, T.A., & Brownell, K.D. (2008). Cognitive processing in the classroom: Teachers’ attention to and utilization of girls’ body size, ethnicity, attractiveness, and facial affect in classroom contexts. Journal of Educational Psychology, 100, 473-489.
Farris*, C.A., Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J., & McFall, R.M. (2008b). Gender differences in perception of women’s sexual intent. Psychological Science, 19, 348-354.
Turk-Browne*, N.B., Isola, P.J., Scholl, B.J., & Treat, T.A. (2008). Multidimensional visual statistical learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 399-407.
Farris*, C.A., Treat, T.A., Viken, R.J., & McFall, R.M. (2008a). Sexual coercion and the misperception of sexual intent. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 48-66.
Perepletchikova*, F., Treat, T.A., & Kazdin, A.E. (2007). Treatment integrity in treatment-outcome research. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 829-841.
Dirks*, M.A., Treat, T.A., & Weersing, V.R. (2007b). The situation-specificity of youth responses to provocation by peers. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 36, 621-628.
Treat, T.A., Bootzin, R.R., & Baker, T.B. (Eds.) (2007). Psychological clinical science: Papers in honor of Richard McFall. new York: Taylor & Francis Group.
Treat, T.A., & Dirks*, M.A. (2007). Bridging clinical and cognitive science. In T.A. Treat, R.R. Bootzin, and T.B. Baker (Eds), Psychological clinical science: Papers in honor of Richard McFall. New York: Taylor & Francis Group.
Dirks*, M.A., Treat, T.A., & Weersing, V.R. (2007a). Integrating theoretical, measurement, and intervention models of youth social competence.Clinical Psychology Review, 27, 327-347.
Treat, T.A., McFall, R.M., Viken, R.J., Kruschke, J.K., Nosofsky, R.M., & Wang*, S.S. (2007). Clinical-cognitive science: Applying quantitative models of cognitive processing to examination of cognitive aspects of psychopathology. In R.W.J. Neufeld (Ed.), Advances in clinical-cognitive science: Formal modeling and assessment of processes and symptoms (pp. 179-205). Washington DC: APA Books.
Farris*, C.A., Viken, R.J., Treat, T.A., & McFall, R.M. (2006). Heterosocial perceptual organization: A choice model application to sexual coercion. Psychological Science, 17, 869-875.
Treat, T.A., Gaskill, J.A., McCabe*, E.B., Ghinassi, F.A. , Luczak, A.D., & Marcus, M.D (2005). Short-term outcome of psychiatric inpatients with anorexia nervosa in the current care environment. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 38, 123-133.
Viken, R.J., Treat, T.A., Bloom, S. L. & McFall, R.M. (2005). Illusory correlation for body type and happiness: Covariation bias and its relationship to eating disorder symptoms. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 38, 65-72.
Treat, T.A., & Weersing, V.R. (2005). Use of statistics in clinical psychology. In Encyclopedia of statistics in behavioral science, (vol.1, pp. 290-301). Chichester, England: Wiley. (pdf)
Lease, A.M., McFall, R. M., Treat, T. A., & Viken, R. J. (2003). Assessing children’s representations of their peer group using a multidimensional scaling technique. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 20, 707-728.
Viken, R.J., Treat, T.A., Nosfosky, R.M., McFall, R.M., & Palmeri, T. (2002). Modeling individual differences in perceptual and attentional processes related to bulimic symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 598-609.
Treat, T.A., McFall, R.M., Viken, R.J., Nosfosky, R.M., MacKay, D.B., & Kruschke, J.K. (2002). Assessing clinically relevant perceptual organization with multidimensional scaling techniques. Psychological Assessment, 14, 239-252.
Treat, T.A., McFall, R.M., Viken, R.J., & Kruschke, J.K. (2001). Using cognitive science methods to assess the role of social information processing in sexually coercive behavior. Psychological Assessment, 13, 549-565.
Stuart, G.L., Treat, T.A., & Wade, W.A. (2000). Effectiveness of an empirically supported treatment for panic disorder delivered in a service clinic setting: One-year follow-up. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 506-512.
McFall, R. M., Eason, B. J., Edmondson, C. B., & Treat, T. A. (1999). Social competence and eating disorders: Development and validation of the anorexia and bulimia problem inventory. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 21, 365-394.
McFall, R. M., & Treat, T. A. (1999). Quantifying the information value of clinical assessments with signal detection theory. Annual Review of Psychology, 50, 215-241.
McFall, R. M., Treat, T. A., & Viken, R. J. (1998). Contemporary cognitive approaches to studying clinical problems. In D. K. Routh & R. J. DeRubeis (Eds.), The science of clinical psychology: Accomplishments and future directions (pp. 163-197). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Wade, W.A., Treat, T.A., & Stuart, G.L. (1998). Exporting an empirically validated treatment of panic disorder to a naturalistic community setting: A benchmarking strategy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 66, 231-239.
McFall, R. M., Treat, T. A., & Viken, R. J. (1997). Contributions of cognitive theory to new behavioral treatments. Psychological Science, 8, 174-176.