
Contact
Holly K. Orcutt815-753-0372
Fax: 815-753-8088
horcutt@niu.edu
Psychology and Computer Science Building 305
Holly Orcutt, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Education
Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1998.
Research Interests
- Identifying risk factors that operate to increase individual vulnerability to PTSD following exposure to traumatic events.
- Identifying factors that mediate the link between trauma exposure and increased risk for subsequent trauma exposure.
- Identifying factors that increase or reduce sexual risk-taking behavior.
- Experiential avoidance, psychological acceptance, mindfulness and self-compassion.
- Fear conditioning/fear-potentiated startle.