Publications - Norris Social Neuroscience Lab

Catherine Norris'S Publications

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2020

Norris, C. J. (2020). The Negativity Bias, Revisited: Evidence from Neuroscience Measures and an Individual Differences Approach. Social Neuroscience.

Norris, C. J. & Wu, E. (2020). Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative: Reducing ambivalence through instructed emotion regulation. Emotion.

2019

Norris, C. J. & Larsen, J. T. (2019). Feeling Good and Bad About Nothing at All: Evidence That the Status Quo Can Elicit Mixed Feelings. Emotion.

Norris, C. J., Do, E., Close, E., & Deswert, S. (2019). Ambivalence Toward Healthy and Unhealthy Food and Moderation by Individual Differences in Restrained Eating. Appetite, 140, 309-317.

2018

Norris, C. J., Creem, D., Hendler, R., & Kober, H. (2018). Brief Mindfulness Meditation Improves Attention in Novices: Evidence from ERPs and Moderation by Neuroticism. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 315.

Norris, C. J., Leaf, P. T., & Fenn, K. M. (2018). Negativity bias in false memory: moderation by neuroticism after a delay. Cognition and Emotion, 1-17.

van Reekum, C. M., Schaefer, S. M., Lapate, R. C., Norris, C. J., Tun, P. A., Lachman, M. E., ... & Davidson, R. J. (2018). Aging is associated with a prefrontal lateral-medial shift during picture-induced negative affect. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13(2), 156-163.

2017

Norris, C. J. (2017). Social Neuroscience. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Getting Grounded in Social Psychology. Psychology Press.

Visser, P. S., Krosnick, J. A., & Norris, C. J. (2017). Attitude importance and attitude-relevant knowledge: Motivator & enabler. In J. A. Krosnick & I-C. A. Chiang (Eds.), Political Psychology: New Explorations (Frontiers of Social Psychology). Psychology Press.

2016

Dean, A. M., Oh, J., Thomson, C. J., Norris, C. J., & Durgin, F. H. (2016). Do Individual Differences and Aging Effects in the Estimation of Geographical Slant Reflect Cognitive or Perceptual Effects? i- Perception, 7, 1-18.

Gollan, J. K., Hoxha, D., Hunnicutt-Ferguson, K., Norris, C. J., Rosebrock, L., Sankin, L. S., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2016). Twice the Negativity Bias and Half the Positivity Offset: Evaluative Responses to Emotional Information in Depression. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 52, 166-170.

Gollan, J. K., Hoxha, D., Hunnicutt-Ferguson, K., Norris, C. J., Rosebrock, L., Sankin, L. S., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2016). The Negativity Bias Predicts Response Rate to Behavioral Activation for Depression. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 52, 171-178.

Rosebrock, L., Hoxha, D., Norris, C. J., Cacioppo, J. T., & Gollan, J. K. (2016). Skin Conductance and Subjective Arousal in Anxiety, Depression, and Comorbidity: Implications for Affective Reactivity. Journal of Psychophysiology.

2014

Gollan, J. K., Norris, C. J., Hoxha, D., Irick, J. S., Hawkley, L. C., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2014). Spatial affect learning restricted in major depression relative to anxiety disorders and healthy controls. Cognition & Emotion, 28, 36-45.

Lapate, R.C., van Reekum, C.M., Schaefer, S.M., Greischar, L.L., Norris, C.J., Bachhuber, D.R., Ryff, C.D., & Davidson, R.J. (2014). Prolonged marital stress is associated with short-lived responses to positive stimuli. Psychophysiology, 51, 499-509.

2013

Ashare, R.L., Norris, C.J., Wileyto, E.P., Cacioppo, J.T., & Strasser, A.A. (2013). Individual differences in positivity offset and negativity bias: Gender-specific associations with two serotonin receptor genes. Personality and Individual Differences, 55, 469-473.

Henderson, S. E. & Norris, C. J. (2013). Counterfactual thinking and reward processing: An fMRI study of responses to gamble outcomes. NeuroImage, 64, 582-589.

Powers, K. E., Wagner, D. D., Norris, C. J., & Heatherton, T. F. (2013). Socially excluded individuals fail to recruit medial prefrontal cortex for negative social scenes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 151-157.

Schaefer, S. M., Morozink Boylan, J., van Reekum, C. M., Lapate, R. C., Norris, C. J., Ryff, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Purpose in life predicts better emotional recovery from negative stimuli. PLoS One, 8, e80329.

2011

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Norris, C. J., & Gollan, J. K. (2011). The evaluative space model: Functional structure and operating characteristics of the affect system. In P. Van Lange, A. Kruglanski, & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Handbook of theories of social psychology, pp. 50-72. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press.

Norman, G. J., Norris, C. J., Gollan, J., Ito, T. A., Hawkley, L. C., Larsen, J. T., Cacioppo, J. T., & Berntson, G. G. (2011). Current emotion research in psychophysiology: The neurobiology of evaluative bivalence. Emotion Review, 3, 349-359.

Norris, C. J., Dumville, A. G., & Lacy, D. P. (2011). Affective forecasting errors in the 2008 election: Underpredicting happiness. Political Psychology, 32, 235-249.

Norris, C. J., Larsen, J. T., Crawford, L. E., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2011). Better (or worse) for some than others: Individual differences in the negativity bias and positivity offset. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 100-111.

van Reekum, C., Schaefer, S., Lapate, R., Norris, C. J., Greischar, L., & Davidson, R. J. (2011). Aging is associated with positive responding to neutral information but reduced recovery from negative information. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 177-185.

2010

Norris, C. J., Gollan, J., Berntson, G. G., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2010). The current status of research on the structure of affective space. Biological Psychology: Special Issue on Emotion, 84, 422-436.

2009

Cacioppo, J. T., Norris, C. J., Decety, J., Monteleone, G., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2009). In the eye of the beholder: Individual differences in perceived social isolation predict regional brain activation to social stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 83-92.

Larsen, J.T., Norris, C.J., McGraw, A.P., Hawkley, L.C., & Cacioppo, J.T. (2009). The evaluative space grid: A single-item measure of positivity and negativity. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 453-480.

Neta, M., Norris, C. J. & Whalen, P. J. (2009). Corrugator muscle responses are associated with individual differences in positivity-negativity bias. Emotion, 9, 640-648.

2007

Norris, C. J., Larsen, J. T., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). Neuroticism is associated with larger and more prolonged electrodermal responses to emotionally evocative pictures. Psychophysiology, 44, 823-826.

Norris, C. J., Coan, J. A., & Johnstone, I. T. (2007). Functional magnetic resonance imaging and the study of emotion. In J. B. B. Allen & J. A. Coan (Eds.), The handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment (pp. 440-460). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Norris, C. J., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). I know how you feel: Social and emotional information processing in the brain. In E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior (pp. 84-105). New York: Guilford.

2004

Norris, C. J., Chen, E. E., Zhu, D. C., Small, S. L., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2004). The interaction of social and emotional processes in the brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1818–1829.

2003

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Lorig, T. S., Norris, C. J., Rickett, E., & Nusbaum, H. (2003). Just because you’re imaging the brain doesn’t mean you can stop using your head: A primer and set of first principles. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 650-661.

Cacioppo, J. T., & Norris, C. J. (2003). Social Neuroscience. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemeroff (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience (pp. 917-918). New York: Wiley.

Larsen, J. T., Hemenover, S. H., Norris, C. J. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2003). Turning adversity to advantage: On the virtues of the coactivation of positive and negative emotions. In L.G. Aspinwall & U. M. Staudinger (Eds.), A Psychology of Human Strengths: Fundamental Questions and Future Directions for a Positive Psychology (pp. 211-225). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Larsen, J. T., Norris, C. J., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2003). Effects of positive and negative affect on electromyographic activity over zygomaticus major and corrugator supercilii. Psychophysiology, 40, 776 – 785.