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Richard J. Davidson, Center Director

Recent Publications

Kesebir, P., Gąsiorowska, A., Goldman, R., & Hirshberg, M. J., & Davidson, R. J. (in press). Emotional Style Questionnaire: A multidimensional measure of healthy emotionality. Psychological Assessment.

Flook, L., Zahn-Waxler, C., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). Developmental differences in prosocial behavior between preschool and late elementary school. Frontiers in Psychology. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00876

Light, S. N., Moran, Z., Zahn-Waxler, C., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). The measurement of positive valence forms of empathy and their relation to anhedonia and other depressive symptomatology. Frontiers in Psychology. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00815 PMCID: PMC6473075

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Larissa G. Duncan

Recent Publications

Lippold, M. A., Jensen, T. M., Duncan, L. G., Nix, R. L., Coatsworth, J. D., & Greenberg, M. T. (2019). Mindful parenting, parenting cognitions, and parent-youth communication: Bidirectional linkages and mediational processes. Mindfulness. doi:10.1007/s12671-019-01119-5

Brophy-Herb, H. E., Williamson, A. C., Cook, G. A., Torquati, J., Decker, K. B., Vu, J., Vallotton, C. D., Duncan, L. G., & The Collaborative for Understanding the Pedagogy of Infant/Toddler Development. (2018). Preservice students’ dispositional mindfulness and developmentally supportive practices with infants and toddlers. Mindfulness.

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John D. Dunne

Recent Publications

Wilson-Mendenhall, C., J. Dunne, & P. Condon. Achieving deep integration across disciplines: A process lens on investigating human flourishing. In N. Snow & D. Narvaez (Eds.), Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory. London: Routledge.

Dunne, J. Reflexivity in Buddhist epistemology: Implications for cooperative cognition. In W. Smith et al. (Eds.), Perspectives on Process Organization Studies: Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life (82-105). New York: Oxford University Press.

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Simon Goldberg

Recent Publications

Hawkins, E., Goldberg, S. B., Malte, C., & Saxon, A. (2019). New opioid and benzodiazepine co-prescribing and mortality among Veteran Affairs patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Goldberg, S. B., Simpson, T. L., Lehavot, K., Katon, J. G., Chen, J. A., Glass, J. E., Schnurr, P. P., Sayer, N. A., & Fortney, J. C. (2019). Mental health treatment delay: A comparison among civilians and veterans of different service eras. Psychiatric Services. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.201800444

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Julie Poehlmann-Tynan

Recent Publications

Wildeman, C., Haskins, A.R., & Poehlmann-Tynan, J. (Eds.). (2018). When parents are incarcerated: Interdisciplinary research and interventions to support children. Urie Bronfenbrenner Series on the Ecology of Human Development. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. (Book).

Dilworth-Bart, J. E., Poehlmann-Tynan, J. A., Taub, A., Liesen, C. A., & Bolt, D. (2018). Longitudinal associations between self-regulation and the academic and behavioral adjustment of young children born preterm. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 42, 193-204. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2017.09.007

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Charles L. Raison

Recent Publications

Quinn, A. M., Williams, A. R., Sivilli, T. I., Raison C. L., & Pace, T. W. W. (2018). The plasma interleukin-6 response to acute psychosocial stress in humans is detected by a magnetic multiplex assay: comparison to high-sensitivity ELISA. Stress, 21(4), 376-81. doi:10.1080/10253890.2018.1446518

Raison, C. L., Knight, J. M., & Pariante, C. (2018). Interleukin (IL)-6: A good kid hanging out with bad friends (and why sauna is good for health). Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 73. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2018.06.008

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Sarah J. Short

Recent Publications

Green, C. S., Bavelier, D., Kramer, A. F., Vinogradov, S.,… Short, S. J.,… Witt, C. M. (2019). Improving methodological standards in behavioral interventions for cognitive enhancement. Perspectives in Cognitive Science. doi:10.1007/s41465-018-0115-y

Dean III, D. C., Planalp, E. M., Wooten, W., Kecskemeti, S. R., Adluru, N., Schmidt, C. K., Frye, C., Birn, R. M., Burghy, C. A., Schmidt, N. L., Styner, M.A., Short, S. J., Kalin, N. H., Goldsmith, H. H., Alexander, A. L., & Davidson, R. J. (2018). Association of prenatal maternal depression and anxiety symptoms with infant white matter microstructure. JAMA Pediatrics, 172(10), 973-81. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.2132 PMCID: PMC6190835

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Cortland Dahl

Recent Publications

Dahl, C. J. & Davidson, R. J. (2019). Mindfulness and the contemplative life: Pathways to connection, insight, and purpose. Current Opinion in Psychology, 28, 60-4. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.11.007 PMCID: Policy Exempt -- not funded by NIH grants

Davidson, R. J. & Dahl, C. J. (2017). Outstanding challenges in scientific research on mindfulness and meditation. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 13(1), 62-65. doi: 10.1177/1745691617718358 PMCID: Policy Exempt -- not funded by NIH grants

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Robin Goldman

Recent Publications

Muraskin, J., Brown, T. R., Walz, J. M., Tu, T., Conroy, B., Goldman, R. I., & Sajda, P. (2018). A multimodal encoding model applied to imaging decision-related neural cascades in the human brain. NeuroImage. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.059

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Dan Grupe

Recent Publications

Grupe, D. W., Imhoff-Smith, T., Wielgosz, J., Nitschke, J. B., & Davidson R. J. (2019). A common neural substrate for elevated PTSD symptoms and reduced pulse rate variability in combat-exposed veterans. Psychophysiology. doi:10.1101/364455

Schaefer, S. M., van Reekum, C. M., Lapate, R. C., Heller, A. S., Grupe, D. W., & Davidson, R. J. (2018). The temporal dynamics of emotional responding: Implications for well-being and health from the MIDUS Neuroscience Project. In C. D. Ryff & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Integrative Health Science. New York: Oxford University Press. PMCID: Policy Exempt -- Not a peer-reviewed research article. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676384.013.27

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Pelin Kesebir

Recent Publications

Goldberg, S. B., Flook, L., Hirshberg, M. J., Findley, D., Kesebir, P., Schaefer, S. M., & Davidson, R. J. (2017). Getting a grip on the handgrip task: Handgrip duration correlates with neuroticism but not conscientiousness. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01367 PMCID: PMC5554525

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Antoine Lutz

Recent Publications

Dentico, D., Bachhuber, D., Riedner, B. A., Ferrarelli, F., Tononi, G., Davidson, R. J., & Lutz, A. (2018). Acute effects of meditation training on the waking and sleeping brain: Is it all about homeostasis? European Journal of Neuroscience, 48(6), 2310-21. doi:10.1111/ejn.14131

Baird, B., Castelnovo, A., Riedner, B., Lutz, A., Ferrarelli, F., Boly, M., Davidson, R. J., & Tononi, G. (2018). Human rapid eye movement sleep shows local increases in low-frequency oscillations and global decreases in high-frequency oscillations compared to resting wakefulness. eNeuro, 5(4), 1-11. doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0293-18.2018 PMCID: PMC6140120

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Jeanette Mumford

Recent Publications

Kral, T. R. A., Stodola, D. E., Birn, R. M., Mumford, J. A., Solis, E., Flook, L., Patsenko, E. G., Anderson, C. G., Steinkuehler, C., & Davidson, R. J. (2018). Neural correlates of video game empathy training in adolescents: A randomized trial. npj Science of Learning, 3(13), 1-10. doi:10.1038/s41539-018-0029-6 PMCID: PMC6220300

Kral, T. R. A., Schuyler, B. S., Mumford, J. A., Rosenkranz, M. A., Lutz, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2018). Impact of short- and long-term mindfulness meditation training on amygdala reactivity to emotional stimuli. NeuroImage, 181, 301-13. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.07.013 NIHMSID: NIHMS1024927

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Elena Patsenko

Recent Publications

Kral, T. R. A., Solis, E., Mumford, J. A., Schuyler, B. S., Flook, L., Rifken, K., Patsenko, E. G., & Davidson, R. J. (2017). Neural correlates of empathic accuracy in adolescence. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(11), 1701-10. doi:10.1093/scan/nsx099 PMCID: PMC5714170

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Melissa Rosenkranz

Recent Publications

Rosenkranz, M. A., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2019). The next generation of mindfulness-based intervention research: What have we learned and where are we headed? Current Opinion in Psychology. doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.12.022

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Stacey Schaefer

Recent Publications

Sommerfeldt, S. L., Schaefer, S. M., Brauer, M., Ryff, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (in press). Individual differences in the association between subjective stress and heart rate are related to psychological and physical well-being. Psychological Science.

Hirshberg, M. J., Goldberg, S. B., Flook, L., Schaefer, S., Findley, D., & Davidson, R. J. (2018). Divergent effects of brief contemplative practices in response to an acute stressor: A randomized controlled trial of brief breath awareness, loving-kindness, gratitude or an attention control practice. PLoS ONE 13(12), 1-19. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0207765 PMCID: PMC6291192

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Christy Wilson-Mendenhall

Recent Publications

Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2017). Constructing emotion through simulation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 189-194. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.015

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