Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
I got my bachelor and master in clinical psychology from Iran and worked on the role of attentional bias in chronic pain and PTSD for my research projects there. Then I moved to Australia for continuing my research as a PhD student. I work in the Centre for the Advancement of Research on Emotion (CARE) under the supervision of Professor Colin MacLeod and Dr. Ben Grafton.
2018 University of Western Australia
2013- 2016 M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology, University of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, Tehran
2009 -2013 B.S. in Clinical Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran
Current projects
My current project focuses on the functional relationships between attentional bias to social threat, attentional control, and pre-event worry, post-event rumination in social anxiety.
Funding overview
2018 - Australian government international research training program (RTP) fees offset, stipend and UWA safety net top-up scholarships
2009-2015 Recognized eligible by Iranian National Elite Foundation to receive financial support for educational and living expenses during bachelor and master studies
Previous positions
- 2015 - 2017 Working in Arzeshafarin Vista Co. as a psychologist, administrating psychological tests and coordinating assessment teams activities.
- 2014-2016 Psychology research assistant, Shahid Beheshti University
Languages
Persian: native
English: IELTS band score 8 out of 9
Research expertise keywords
- Anxiety disorders
- Attentional bias
- Social anxiety
- Chronic Pain
- Experimental Psychopathology
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Research output
- 35 Citations
- 4 h-Index
- 11 Article
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Eating disorder-specific rumination moderates the association between attentional bias to high-calorie foods and eating disorder symptoms: Evidence from a reliable free-viewing eye-tracking task
Soleymani, A., Mazidi Sharafabadi, M., Neimeijer, R. & J. de Jong, P., Apr 2022, In: Appetite. 171, 105934.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Attentional control moderates the relationship between social anxiety and selective attentional responding to negative social information: evidence from objective measures of attentional processes
Mazidi, M., Grafton, B., Basanovic, J. & MacLeod, C., 11 Aug 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cognition and Emotion.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Suppression May Improve Adaptation to Worry When Facing Uncertainty: Studying COVID-19 Pandemic
Khatibi, A., Sharpe, L., Dehghani, M., Ghalibaf, E., Hosseinchi, P., Mazidi Sharafabadi, M., Ranjbar, S., Deldar, Z., Gevers-Montoro, C., Alizadeh, P., Alidoust, S., Babaei, A., Telkabadi, F. & Ghadiri, T., Nov 2021, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12, 8 p., 778375.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Time course of attentional bias to painful facial expressions and the moderating role of attentional control: an eye-tracking study
Mazidi, M., Dehghani, M., Sharpe, L., Dolatshahi, B., Ranjbar, S. & Khatibi, A., 1 Feb 2021, In: British Journal of Pain. 15, 1, p. 5-15Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
8 Citations (Web of Science) -
Attentional control moderates the relationship between pain catastrophizing and selective attention to pain faces on the antisaccade task
Ranjbar, S., Mazidi Sharafabadi, M., Sharpe, L., Dehghani, M. & Khatibi, A., 30 Jul 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 1, 11 p., 12855.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile4 Citations (Scopus)13 Downloads (Pure)