Contact

Holly K. Orcutt
815-753-0372
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.