Bieke D. Puncochar
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Dr. Puncochar earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University. Originally from Belgium, she first completed her Master’s degree in clinical psychology at the University of Leuven and then moved to Nashville to pursue a doctoral degree. Her dissertation research focused on how emotions, in particular disgust, influence moral judgments about others' misconduct. Dr. Puncochar completed her clinical internship at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, where she received the Child Clinical and Pediatric Psychology Internship Award for Excellence. In addition to teaching at Vanderbilt, she practices as a child and family psychologist.
Representative Publications
Olatunji, B. O., David, B., & Ciesielski, B. G. (2012). Who am I to judge: Self-disgust predicts less punishment of severe transgressions. Emotion, 12, 169-173.
Olatunji, B. O., Adams, T. G., Ciesielski, B. G., David, B., Sarawgi, S., Broman-Fulks, J. J. (2012). The Three Domains of Disgust Scale: Factor structure, psychometric properties, and conceptual limitations. Assessment
David, B., Olatunji, B. O. (2011). The effect of disgust conditioning and disgust sensitivity on appraisals of moral transgressions. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 1142-1146.
Olatunji, B. O., Sawchuk, C., Moretz, M., David, B., Armstrong, T., & Ciesielski, B (2010). Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Injection Phobia Scale-Anxiety. Psychological Assessment, 22, 167-179.
David, B., Armstrong, T., Ciesielski, B. G., Bondy, C. L., Broman-Fulks, J., & Olatunji, B. O. (2009). Incremental specificity of disgust sensitivity in the prediction of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms: Cross-sectional and prospective approaches. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40, 533-543.
Olatunji, B. O., Wolitzky-Taylor, K. B., Ciesielski, B., Armstrong, T., Etzel, E. & David, B. (2009). Fear and disgust processing during repeated exposure to threat-relevant stimuli in spider phobia. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 671-679.
Olatunji, B. O., Woods, C., de Jong, P. J., Teachman, B., Sawchuk, C. N., & David, B. (2009). Development and initial validation of an abbreviated Spider Phobia Questionnaire using item response theory. Behavior Therapy, 40, 114-130.
Olatunji, B. O., Unoka, Z., Beran, E., David, B., & Armstrong, T. (2009). Disgust sensitivity and psychopathological symptoms: Distinctions from harm avoidance. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 31, 137-142.
Armstrong, T., Divack, M., David, B., Simmons, C., Benning, S. D. & Olatunji, B. O. (2009). Impact of experienced disgust on information processing biases in contamination-based OCD: An analogue study. International Journal for Cognitive Therapy, 2, 37-52.
Olatunji, B. O., Connolly, K. M., & David, B. (2008). Behavioral avoidance and self-reported fainting symptoms in blood-injury phobia: An experimental test of disgust domain specificity. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22, 837-848.
Olatunji, B. O., Haidt, J., McKay, D., & David, B. (2008). Core, animal-reminder, and contamination disgust: Three kinds of disgust with distinct personality, behavioral, physiological, and clinical correlates. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1243-1259.
Smith, C. A, David, B., & Kirby, L. (2006). Emotion-eliciting appraisals of social situations. In J. P. Forgas (Ed.), Affect in social thinking and behavior (pp. 85-101). New York, NY, US: Psychology