Faculty member Nicole Short, graduate student Mattea Pezza, and research coordinator Rachel Weese (all Psychology), along with an external collaborator, Michele Bedard-Gilligan (University of Washington Department of Psychiatry), recently published a systematical review in Behaviour Research and Therapy entitled, "Anxiety sensitivity and cannabis use: A systematic review and conceptualization of research findings." This systematic review qualitatively analyzed results of 50 studies on anxiety sensitivity, a psychological risk factor defined as fear of anxiety-related sensations, and its associations with cannabis use. The review clarified previous discrepant findings in the literature on anxiety sensitivity and cannabis use, and proposed a theoretical model of associations between anxiety sensitivity and cannabis use. Anxiety sensitivity may promote cannabis use to cope with anxiety-related sensations, increasing risk for problematic cannabis use, particularly among individuals with symptoms of psychopathology and expectations that cannabis will help them to relax and reduce tension.