Robert E. Fite
Psychology · Indiana University
Publications
18
Citations
104
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
54
Publishing since 1973
Robert E. Fite conducts research in clinical psychology, focusing on cognitive-behavioral therapies and how they work to treat conditions like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. A recurring theme is examining the mechanisms behind psychological treatments, including cognitive reappraisal (reframing how one interprets a situation) and related beliefs such as magical thinking and thought-action fusion. The work also addresses how to broaden and improve access to mental health treatment.
Publication activity has grown over the last decade, with output increasing notably from 2023 onward after several earlier years with few or no publications.
Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026
- The role of cognitive reappraisal in cognitive–behavioral therapies: Myths, misconceptions, and future directions.
Clinical Psychology Science and Practice · 2026
- Current distress does not moderate the efficacy of cognitive reappraisal
PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) · 2026
- Current distress does not moderate the efficacy of cognitive reappraisal
2026
- Obsessive Beliefs in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy · 2025
- Wider, faster, more: Reenvisioning depression treatment research in the United States.
Practice Innovations · 2024
- Brief family involvement enhances veteran homework quality during trauma-focused psychotherapy.
Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy · 2024
- Transitioning to college: Testing cognitive bias modification for interpretations as an inoculation tool for social anxiety in college first-years
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry · 2024
- Saying it doesn’t make it so: The requirement of proof for claims of improved outcomes from active ingredients research
2024
- A mechanistic approach to psychotherapy? Critically evaluating the hype
2024
- Why am I craving? The role of elaboration on ambiguous desire states
Journal of American College Health · 2023
- The Role of Magical Thinking, Sensitivity, and Thought Content in Thought-Action Fusion
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology · 2022
- Biting into the apple: or how religiosity may be linked to moral thought-action fusion through moral vitalism
Mental Health Religion & Culture · 2021
- Do you believe in magical thinking? Examining magical thinking as a mediator between obsessive-compulsive belief domains and symptoms
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy · 2020
- Knowing oneself and long-term goal pursuit: Relations among self-concept clarity, conscientiousness, and grit
Personality and Individual Differences · 2016
- Personality and Individual Differences×1
- Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy×1
- Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology×1
- Journal of Traumatic Stress×1
- Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy×1
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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.
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