Northern Illinois University
Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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.