Bethany G. Ciesielski (Gonzales)
Education and Training
May 2008 - Bachelor of Arts, Psychology- Research Concentration, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Professional Affiliations and Memberships
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (student member)
Anxiety Disorders Association of America (student member)
Publications
1. David, B., Olatunji, B. O., Armstrong, T., Ciesielski, B., Bondy, C., & Broman-Fulks, J. (in press). Incremental specificity of disgust sensitivity in the prediction of obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms: Cross-sectional and prospective approaches. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
2. Olatunji, B. O., Ciesielski, B., & Tolin, D.F. (in press). Fear and loathing: A meta-analytic review of the specificity of anger in PTSD. Behavior Therapy.
3. Olatunji, B. O., Etzel, E.N., & Ciesielski, B.G. (2010). Vasovagal syncope and donor return: Examination of the role of experience and affective expectancies. Behavior Modification, 34, 164 - 174.
4. Olatunji, B. O., Moretz, M., Wolitzky-Taylor, K. B., McKay, D., McGrath, P., & Ciesielski, B. (in press). Disgust vulnerability and symptoms of contamination-based OCD: Descriptive tests of incremental specificity. Behavior Modification
5. Olatunji, B. O., Sawchuk, C., Moretz, M., David, B., Armstrong, T., & Ciesielski, B. (2010). Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Injection Phobia Scale-Anxiety, Psychological Assessment, 22, 167 - 179.
6. Olatunji, B. O., Wolitzky-Taylor. K.B., Ciesielski, B., Armstrong, T., Etzel, E. & David, B. (2009). Fear and disgust processing during repeated exposure to threat-relevant stimuli in spider phobia. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 671-679.
7. Olatunji, B. O., Wolitzky-Taylor. K., Elwood, L., Connolly, K., Gonzales, B., & Armstrong, T. (2009). Anxiety sensitivity and health anxiety in a nonclinical sample: Specificity and prospective relations with clinical stress. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 33. 416-424.
8. Viar, M., Etzel, E., Ciesielski, B., & Olatunji, B.O. (in press). Disgust, anxiety, and vasovagal syncope sensations: Comparison among injection fearful and nonfearful blood donors. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
Ciesielski, B.G., Armstrong, T., Olatunji, B.O., & Zald, D.H. Content and Temporal Characteristics of Emotion Modulation of Attention. submitted for review.
Olatunji, B.O., Ciesielski, B.G. Armstrong, T., & Zald, D.H. Emotional Facial Expressions and Visual Search Efficiency: Specificity and Effects of Individual Differences in Anxiety. Under review.
Olatunji, B.O., Etzel, E.N., Ciesielski, B.G. & Deacon, B. The effects of safety behaviors on health anxiety: An experimental investigation. Under review.
Olatunji, B.O., Wolitzky-Taylor, K.B., & Ciesielski, B.G. Worry and the Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analytic Review of Specificity to GAD.Under review.
Olatunji, B. O., Broman-Fulks, J., Ciesielski, B, Zawilinski, L. L., Shoemaker, S., & Wall, D. (2010-invited resubmission). A taxometric examination of the latent structure of eating disorders. In preparation.
Olatunji, B. O., Ciesielski, B., Wolitzky-Taylor, K. B, Wentworth, B. J., & Viar, M. The effects of disgust cues on habituation during repeated exposure to threat-relevant stimuli in blood-injection-injury phobia. In preparation.
Presentations
Ciesielski, B.G., Armstrong, T., David, B., & Olatunji, B.O. (November, 2010). Are disgust experiences specific to OCD? A comparison across anxiety disorders. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco, CA.
Ciesielski, B.G., Olatunji, B.O., & Zald, D.H. (November, 2009). Emotion Modulation of Attention in OCD. Paper accepted for presentation at the 43rd annual convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
David, B., Ciesielski, B. G., Smits, J. A., McGrath, P. B., & Olatunji, B. O. (November, 2009). Changes in disgust sensitivity mediate changes in OCD washing symptoms during exposure and response prevention. Paper accepted for presentation at the 43rd annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
David, B., Gonzales, B. G., Divack, M., Olatunji, B. O. (November, 2008). Specificity of Cognitive and Affect-Based Vulnerabilities in the prediction of Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms: A prospective Study. Poster presented at the 42nd annual convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL.
David, B., Simmons, C.R., Etzel, E.N., Gonzales, B.G., & Olatunji, B.O. (May, 2008). Disgust Guides Moral Judgment. Poster presented at the 20th annual convention of the Association of Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
Olatunji, B.O. Ciesielski, B.G., & Tolin, D.F. (March, 2009). A Meta-Analytic Review of the Specificity of Anger in PTSD. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Viar, M., Etzel, E., Ciesielski, B.G.,David, B., & Olatunji, B.O. (November, 2010). Disgust, anxiety, and vasovagal syncope sensations in injection-fearful and nonfearful blood donors. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco, CA.
Biographical Sketch
Academic:
Bethany (Gonzales) Ciesielski, received her BA in Psychology (2008) and began a full time research position at Vanderbilt in August of 2008 with Dr. Bunmi Olatunji. As a sophomore Bethany was part of a high school depression intervention program in Lebanon High School with Dr. Judy Garber where she learned about cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal prevention programs. Bethany has been a Research Assistant in E.A.R.L. since the Spring of 2007 where she serves as coordinator of research at EARL, previously coordinating (i.e., data collection, data entry and management) a large scale cross-sectional study examining the relation between disgust and various anxiety-related disorders. While a member of EARL Mrs. Ciesielski began to learn several programming languages (JAVA, Eprime, Python) and continues to enjoy learning and teaching other lab members how to utilze programming languages to expedite research processes and produce creative experimental designs. Bethany also oversees the administrative purchasing, training Research Assistants, writing IRB proposals, data transformation, entry, and analysis (in SPSS), lab scheduling and coordinates weekly lab meetings.
Her other duties include serving as study coordinator for the study that was recently awarded an RO3 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. This grant will examine the role of specific emotions on attentional biases in obsessive compulsive disorder. Mrs. Ciesielski's additional lab skills include programming in JAVA, Python, and E-prime, and serving as the EARL webmaster (HTML)
Extracurricular : As an undergraduate she held the positions of Community Service Chair and President of the multicultural sorority, Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc.
Bethany was active in promoting cultural and political awareness as she participate in Vanderbilt Association of Hispanic Students annual Cafe con Leche dance performance and as a MOSAIC weekend host for Vanderbilt's minority recruitment. She was a part of Vanderbilt Students Volunteering for Science team, which spent time in middle school classes teaching children about science by directing lab experiments, with hopes to spark an interest in the sciences as well as fostering aspirations for college. She also participated annually in the The Clothesline Project, which addresses the issue of violence against women that ends in a "Take Back the Night" march across town. Bethany married Peter Ciesielski in July of 2008.
this page was last updated on March 25, 2010
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