Erik Woody
Professor Emeritus
PSYCHOLOGY
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Prof/Dr Erik Woody has received his PhD in Duke University. Currently, he is retired as Professor Emiritus in Waterloo University. He has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities asPsychology Professor. His research has included individual differences, underlying mechanisms, and clinical applications.
Research Interest
(1) the psychology of potential threat and obsessive-compulsive disorder; (2) hypnosis, including individual differences, underlying mechanisms, and clinical applications; (3) interpersonal theory, including the social aspects of personality and processes of social interaction; and (4) the development and promulgation of novel statistical methods for application in clinical psychology.
Publications
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Woody EZ, Szechtman H. Adaptation to potential threat: the evolution, neurobiology, and psychopathology of the security motivation system. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 2011 Mar 31;35(4):1019-33.
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Hinds AL, Woody EZ, Drandic A, Schmidt LA, Van Ameringen M, Coroneos M, Szechtman H. The psychology of potential threat: properties of the security motivation system. Biological psychology. 2010 Oct 31;85(2):331-7.
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Woody EZ, Szechtman H. Motivation, time course, and heterogeneity in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Response to Taylor, McKay, and Abramowitz (2005).
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Szechtman H, Woody EZ. Obsessive-compulsive disorder as a disturbance of security motivation: Constraints on comorbidity. Neurotoxicity research. 2006 Jun 1;10(2):103-12.
