Publications

Empathic accuracy, the ability to accurately understand other people’s emotions, is typically viewed as beneficial for mental health. …

Objectives: Dementia caregivers (CGs) are at heightened risk for developing problems with anxiety and depression. Much attention has …

The Positivity Resonance Theory of coexperienced positive affect describes moments of interpersonal connection characterized by shared …

Aim: The current study examined whether visual attention to emotional facial expressions is lower in individuals with frontotemporal …

Motivated by collective emotions theories that propose emotions shared between individuals predict group level qualities, we …

Caregiving for a person with dementia or neurodegenerative disease is associated with increased rates of depression and anxiety. As the …

Although affective states are typically viewed as belonging to individuals, psychological theories have begun to emphasize collective …

Although research suggests distressed individuals benefit from others' empathy, it is unclear how an individual’s level of …

Physiological linkage refers to the degree to which peoples' physiological responses change in coordinated ways. Here, we examine …

Background and Objectives: Motivated by the high rates of health problems found among caregivers of persons with neurodegenerative …

Introduction:Caring for a spouse with dementia can be extremely challenging. Many caregivers experience profound declines in …

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a neurodegenerative disease broadly characterized by socioemotional impairments, includes three clinical …

Deficits in emotion perception (the ability to infer others' emotions accurately) can occur as a result of neurodegeneration. It …

Emotion theorists have characterized emotions as involving coherent responding across various emotion response systems (e.g., …

Positivity resonance—defined as a synthesis of shared positive affect, mutual care and concern, plus behavioral and biological …

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that a functional polymorphism of the serotonin transporter gene (serotonin-transporter-linked …

This chapter describes a case formulation-driven approach to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The chapter begins with an overview of …

In order to develop more targeted, efficient, and effective psychotherapeutic interventions, calls have been made in the literature for …

Objectives: To investigate whether deficits in empathic accuracy (i.e., ability to recognize emotion in others) in patients with …

Objective Social support is associated with better health. This association may be partly mediated through the social regulation of …

© The Author (2017). Strong social ties correspond with better health and well being, but the neural mechanisms linking social contact …

INTRODUCTION Emotion has historically played a central role in psychophysiological research, with rich traditions focusing on both …

Social support improves psychological and physiological health, and social isolation increases mortality at rates rivaling …

We thank Fox et al. (2014) for their interest in our research and welcome this opportunity to respond to their commentary. They argue …

In 11 studies, we found that participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do …

In this chapter, we review the ways in which social relationships help offset the cost of many of life’s effortful activities, …

Using multi-informant data drawn from a prospective study involving 184 youth, mother-perpetrated and father-perpetrated partner …

Estimation and inferences for the hemodynamic response functions (HRF) using multi-subject fMRI data are considered. Within the context …