Tidwell, C. A.*, Danvers, A.*, Pfeifer, V.*, Abel, D. B., Alisic, E., Beer, A., Bierstetel, S. J., Bollich-Ziegler, K. L., Bruni, M., Calabrese, W. R., Chiarello, C., Demiray, B., Dimidjian, S., Fingerman, K. L., Haas, M., Kaplan, D. M., Kim, Y. K., Knezevic, G., Lazarevic, L., Luo, M., Manson, J. H., Mascaro, J., Metcalf, C., Minor, K. S., Moseley, S., Polsinelli, A. J., Raison, C. L., Rilling, J., Robbins, M. L., Sbarra, D., Slatcher, R., Sun, J., Vasileva, M., Vazire, S., & Mehl, M. R. (in press). Are women really (not) more talkative than men? A registered replication of binary gender similarities/differences in daily word use. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. *indicates co-first authorship
McVeigh, K.S., Mehl, M.R., Polsinelli, A.J., Moseley, S.A., Sbarra, D.A., Glisky, E.L., and Grilli, M.D. (2023). Loneliness and social isolation are not associated with executive functioning in a cross-sectional study of cognitively healthy older adults. Aging, Cognition, and Neuropsychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2023.2270208
Danvers, A.F., Efinger, L.D., Mehl, M.R., Helm, P.J., Raison, C.L., Polsinelli, A.J., Moseley, S.A., Sbarra, D.A. (2023). Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation. Journal of Research in Personality, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104426
Manvelian, A., Boyd, S., O’Hara, K. L., Watters, C., Liu, Y., & Sbarra, D. A. (2023). Promoting attachment security during the transition to college: A pilot study of emotionally focused mentoring. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 42, 4075-4101
Jacquart, J., Wardle-Pinkston, S., Ziegler, J., Sbarra, D.A., & O’Connor, MF. (2023). Improving culturally responsive clinical training: Exploring the acceptability and feasibility of an exposure-based strategy. Training and Education in Professional Psychology,18, 87–97. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000462
Froidevaux, N. M., Sanchez-Hernandez, H., *Pourmand, V., *Yunusova, A., Sbarra, D. A., Borelli, J. L. (2023). Psychological-distress with relationship-satisfaction is buffered by relational savoring among non-deployed military partners. Personal Relationships.1-24. doi: 10.1111/pere.12469
Atari, M., Mehl, M. R., Graham, J., Doris, J. M., Schwarz, N., Davani, A. M., Omrani, A., Kennedy, B., Gonzalez, E., Jafarzadeh, N., Hussain, A., Mirinjian, A., Madden, A., Bhatia, R., Burch, A., Harlan, A., Sbarra, D. A., Raison, C. L., Moseley, S. A., Polsinelli, A. J., & Dehghani, M. (2023). The paucity of morality in everyday talk. Scientific Reports, 13, 5967.
Coppola, A.M., Mehl, M.R., Tackman, A.M., Dawson, S.C., O’Hara, K.L., & Sbarra, D.A. (2023). Sleep efficiency and naturalistically-observed social behavior following marital separation: The critical role of contact with an ex-partner. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 40, 1920-1942.
O’Hara, K. L., Mehl, M. R., & Sbarra, D. A. (2022). Spinning your wheels: Psychological overinvolvement and actigraphy-assessed sleep efficiency following marital separation. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1-13.
Bourassa, K. J. & Sbarra, D. A. (2022). Cardiovascular reactivity, stress and personal emotional salience: Choose your tasks carefully. Psychophysiology, 59, e14037.
Chau, R. F., Sawyer, W. N., Greenberg, J., Mehl, M. R., & Sbarra, D. A. (2022). Emotional recovery following divorce: Will the real self-compassion please stand up? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39, 996-1022.
Whisman, M.A., Salinger, Salinger, J.M., & Sbarra, D.A. (2022). Relationship dissolution and psychopathology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 199-204.
Sbarra, D.A., & Whisman, M.A. (2022). Divorce, health, and socioeconomic status: An agenda for psychological science. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 75-78.
Beckes, L., & Sbarra, D.A. (2022). Social baseline Theory: State of the science and new directions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 36-41.
Berenbaum, H., Washburn, J. J., Sbarra, D., Reardon, K. W., Schuler, T., Teachman, B. A., ... & Lee, S. S. (2021). Accelerating the rate of progress in reducing mental health burdens: Recommendations for training the next generation of clinical psychologists. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 28, 107-123.
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Farrell, A.K., Stanton, S.C.E., Sbarra, D.A. (2021). Good theories in need of better data: Combining clinical and social psychological approaches to study the mechanisms linking relationships and health. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Online ahead: December 8, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211027563
Whisman, M. A., du Pont, A., Rhee, S. H., Sbarra, D. A., Spotts, E. L., Lichtenstein, P., Ganiban, J. M., Reiss, D., & Neiderhiser, J. M. (2021). Genetically informative analysis of the association between intimate relationship adjustment and health. Health Psychology, 40, 546-555.
Gordon, J.S., Sbarra, D.A., Armin, J., Pace, T.W.W., Gniady, C., & Barraza, Y. (2021). Use of a guided imagery mobile app (See Me Serene) to reduce COVID-19-related stress: Pilot feasibility study. JMIR Formative Research, 5(10):e32353
Knowles, L.M., Jovel, K.S., Mayer, C.M., Bottrill, K.C., Kaszniak, A.W., Sbarra, D.A., Lawrence, E.E. & O’Connor, M.-F. (2021). A controlled trial of two mind-body interventions for grief in widows and widowers. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 89, 640-654.
Flores, M., Ruiz, J. M., Butler, E. A., & Sbarra, D. A. (2021). Hispanic ethnic density may be protective for older Black/African American and non-Hispanic White populations for some health conditions: An exploration of support and neighborhood mechanisms. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 56, 21-34.
Flores, M., Ruiz, J. M., Butler, E. A., Sbarra, D. A., Garcia, D. O., ..., & Thomson C. A. (2021). Does the Hispanic mortality advantage vary by marital status among post-menopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative? Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 7, 612-620.
Whisman, M. A., Sbarra, D. A., & Beach, S. R. (2021). Intimate relationships and depression: Searching for causation in the sea of association. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 17, 223-258. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-081219-103323.
Hebbar, R., Papadopoulos, P., Reyes, R., Danvers, A. F., Polsinelli, A. J., Moseley, S. A., ... & Narayanan, S. (2021). Deep multiple instance learning for foreground speech localization in ambient audio from wearable devices. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2021, 1-8.
Danvers, A. F., Milek, A., Tackman, A. M., Kaplan, D. M., Robbins, M. L., Poslinelli, A., Moseley, S., Raison, C.L, Sbarra, D.A, & Mehl, M. R. (2021). Is frequent sighing an indicator of dispositional negative emotionality? A multi-sample, multi-measure naturalistic-observation study. Journal of Research in Personality, 90, 104046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104046
Tackman, A. M., Baranski, E. N., Danvers, A. F., Sbarra, D. A., Raison, C. L., Moseley, S. A., Polsinelli, A. J., & Mehl, M. R. (2020). “Personality in its natural habitat” revisited: A pooled, multi-sample examination of the relationships between the Big Five personality traits and daily behavior and language use. European Journal of Personality, 34, 753-776.
Danvers, A., Mehl, M.R., & Sbarra, D.A. (2020). Understanding personality through patterns of daily socializing: Applying Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA) to naturalistically observed intensive longitudinal social interaction data. European Journal of Personality, 34, 777-793.
Bourassa, K. J., Sbarra, D. A., Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T. E. (2020). Social distancing as a health behavior: County-level movement in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic is associated with conventional health behaviors. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 54, 548-556.
Lawrence, A.V., Alkozei, A., Irgens, M.S., Acevedo-Molina, M.C., Brener, S.A., Chandler, A.B., Chau, R.F., Doyle, C.Y., McKinney, A.L., Price, S.N., Shanholtz, C.E., Van Etten, E.J., Ver Hoeve, E.S., Sbarra, D.A., O’Connor, M-F. (2020). Think again: Adaptive repetitive thought as a transdiagnostic treatment for individuals predisposed to repetitive thinking styles. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 31, 208-222.
Manvelian, A., & Sbarra, D. A. (2020). Marital status, close relationships, and all-cause mortality: Results from a 10-year study of nationally representative older adults. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82, 384-392.
O’Hara, K.L., Grinberg, A.M, Tackman, A.M., Mehl, M.R., & Sbarra, D.A. (2020). Contact with an ex-partner is associated with psychological distress after marital separation. Clinical Psychological Science, 8, 450-463.
Sur, B., Cleary, A., Rohrbaugh, M.J., Ferrer, E., & Sbarra, D.A. (2020). Beyond the “self” in self-regulation: Family interaction modulations situational self-control by adolescent drug users. Journal of Family Psychology. 34(3), 322–332. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000598
Sbarra, D. A., Cook, C. C., Hasselmo, K., Noon, M. S., & Mehl, M. R. (2019). DNA Methylation Across the Serotonin Transporter Gene Following Marital Separation: A Pilot Study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 53(12), 1081-1087.
Bourassa, K. J., Ruiz, J. M., & Sbarra, D. A. (2019). Smoking and physical activity explain the increased mortality risk associated with marital dissolution. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 53, 255-266.
Sbarra, D.A., Briskin, J.L., Slatcher, R.B. (2019). Smartphones and close relationships: The case for an evolutional mismatch. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14, 596–618
Borelli, J.L., Peng, X., Hong, K., Froidevaux, N.M., & Sbarra, D.A. (2019). Accuracy and confidence in perceptions of targets’ attachment to former partners: Do judges vary as a function of individual differences in attachment style? Journal of Research in Personality, 79, 1-12.
Bourassa, K. J., Tackman, A. M., Mehl, M. R., & Sbarra, D. A. (2019). Psychological overinvolvement, emotional distress, and daily affect following marital dissolution. Collabra: Psychology, 5, 8. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.184
Bourassa, K. J., Ruiz, J. M., & Sbarra, D. A. (2019). The impact of physical proximity and attachment working models on cardiovascular reactivity: Comparing mental activation and romantic partner presence. Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13324
Bourassa, K. J., Ruiz, J. M., Sbarra, D. A., Kaciroti, N., & Harburg, E. (2019). Mismatch in spouses’ anger-coping response styles and risk of early mortality: A 32-year follow-up study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 81, 26-33.
Sbarra, D.A. & Borelli, J.L. (2019). Attachment reorganization following divorce: Normative processes and individual differences. Current Opinion in Psychology, 25, 71-75.
Borelli, J.L., Sbarra, D.A., Mehl., M.R. (2019). Convergence of naïve observer and participant-reported ratings of attachment to a former partner: When we should be me. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36, 977-999.
Borelli, J.L., Froidevaux, N.M., Yunusova, A., & Sbarra, D.A. (2019). Attachment anxiety and trauma history uniquely and interactively predict adjustment during and following deployment among military partners. Journal of Family Psychology, 33, 226-233.
Mason, A.E, Hect, F.M., Daubermier, J.J., Sbarra, D.A., Lin, J., Moran, P.J., Schleicher, S.G., Acree, M., Prather, A.A., Epel., E. E. (2018). Weight loss, weight-loss maintenance, and cellular aging in the Supporting Health through Nutrition and Exercise (SHINE) Study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 80, 609-619.
Bourassa, K.J., Hasselmo, K., & Sbarra, D.A. (2018) After the end: Linguistic predictors of psychological distress four years after marital separation. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Published online ahead, May 10, 2018
Ruiz, J.M., Sbarra, D.A., & Steffen, P.R. (2018). Hispanic ethnicity, stress psychophysiology and paradoxical health outcomes: A review with conceptual considerations and a call for research. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 31, 24-29
Milek, A., Butler, E. A., Tackman, A. M., Kaplan, D. M., Raison, C. L., Sbarra, D. A., Vazire, S., & Mehl, M. R. (2018) “Eavesdropping on happiness” revisited: A pooled, multi-sample replication of the association between life satisfaction and observed daily conversation quantity and quality. Psychological Science, 29, 1451-1462.
Tackman, A.M., Sbarra, D.A., Care, A.L., Donnellan, M.B., Horn, A.B., Holtzman, N.S., Edwards, T.S, Pennebaker, J.W., & Mehl, M.R. (2018). Depression, negative emotionality, and self-referential language: A multi-lab, multi-measure, multi-language-task research synthesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences, 116, 817-834. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000187
Manvelian, A., Bourassa, K. J., Lawrence, E., Mehl, M. R., & Sbarra, D. A. (2018). With or without you? Loss of self following marital separation. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 37, 297-324, 37, 297-324.
Sbarra, D. A., & Coan, J. A. (2018). Relationships and health: The critical role of affective science. Emotion Review, 10, 40-54.
Sbarra, D. A., & Coan, J. A. (2018). New ways to explore the relationship–emotion–health connection. Emotion Review, 10, 76-78.
Kaplan, D. M., Palitsky, R., Carey, A.L., Crane, T.E., Havens, C.M., Medrano, M.R., Reznik, S.J., Sbarra, D.A., & O’Connor, M-F. (2018). Maladaptive repetitive thought as a transdiagnostic phenomenon and treatment target: An integrative review. Journal of Clinical Psychology. Online ahead: //doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22585
Hasselmo, K., Mehl, M.R., Tackman, A.M., Carey, A.L., Wertheimer, A.M., Stowe, R.P, & Sbarra, D.A. (2018). Objectively-measured social integration is associated with viral-Immune Risk Profile following marital separation. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2, 130-145.
Grinberg, A.M., O’Hara, K.L., Sbarra, D.A. (2017). Preliminary evidence of attenuated blood pressure reactivity to acute stress in adults following a recent marital separation. Online ahead, Psychology & Health, DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2017.1373111
Holt-Lunstad, J., Robles, T.F., & Sbarra, D.A. (2017). Advancing social connection as a public health priority in the United States. American Psychologist, 72, 517-530.
Bourassa, K.J., Allen, J.J.B, Mehl, M.R., & Sbarra, D.A. (2017). The impact of narrative expressive writing on heart rate, heart rate variability, and blood pressure following marital separation. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79, 697-705.
Bourassa, K.J., Manvelian, A., Boals, A., Mehl, M.R., & Sbarra, D.A. (2017). Tell me a story: The creation of narrative as a mechanism of psychological recovery following marital separation. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 36, 359-379.
Heshmati, S., Sbarra, D.A., Mason, A.E. (2017). The contemptuous separation: Facial expressions of emotion and breakups in young adulthood. Personal Relationships, 24, 453-469.
Kutoba, R.M., Yuan, N.P., Wertheim, B.C., Sbarra, D.A., Louck, E.B., Nassir, R., Bareh, G., Kim, M.M, Snetselaar, L.G., Thomson, C.A. (2017). Relationship between marital transitions, health behaviors, and health indicators of postmenopausal women: Results from the Women’s Health Initiative. Journal of Women’s Health, 26, 313-320.
Borelli, J.L., Burkhart, M., Rasmussen, H.F., Brody, R., & Sbarra, D.A. (2017). Secure base scripts explain the association between attachment avoidance and emotion-related constructs in parents of young children. Infant Mental Health Journal, 38, 210-225.
Sbarra, D.A., & Coan, J.A. (2017). Divorce and health: Good data in need of better theory. Current Opinion in Psychology, 13, 91-95.
Bourassa, K.J., & Sbarra, D.A. (2017). Body mass and cognitive decline are indirectly associated with inflammation among aging adults. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 60, 63-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2016.09.023
Burkhart, M. L., Borelli, J. L., Rasmussen, H. F., Brody, R. & Sbarra, D. (2017). Parental mentalizing as an indirect link between attachment anxiety and parenting satisfaction. Journal of Family Psychology, 31, 203-213.
Bourassa, K.J., Hasselmo, K., & Sbarra, D.A. (2016). Heart rate variability moderates the association between separation-related psychological distress and blood pressure reactivity over time. Psychological Science, 27, 1123-1135.
O’Connor, M-F., Fallon, M., & Sbarra, D.A. (2016). The utility of a virtual trier social stress test: Initial findings and benchmarking comparisons. Psychosomatic Medicine, 78¸835-840. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000338
Reed, R.G., Weihs, K.L., Sbarra, D.A., Breen, E.C., Irwin, M.R, & Butler, E.A. (2016). Emotional acceptance, inflammation, and sickness symptoms across the first two years follow breast cancer diagnosis. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 56, 165-174.
Whisman, M.A., Robustelli, B.L., & Sbarra, D.A. (2016). Marital disruption is associated with shorter salivary telomere length in a probability sample of older adults. Social Science & Medicine, 157, 60-67.
Sbarra, D.A. (2016). Social integration and sleep disturbance: A gene-environment interaction study. Collabra, 2(1), p.3. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.29
Bourassa, K.J., Knowles, L.M., Sbarra, D.A., & O’Connor, M-F. (2016). Absent, but not gone: Interdependence in couples’ quality of life persists after a partner’s death. Psychological Science, 27, 270-281. doi: 10.1177/0956797615618968
Memel, M., Bourassa, K. J., Woolverton, C., & Sbarra, D. A. (2016). Body mass and physical activity uniquely predict change in cognition for aging adults. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1007/s12160-015-9768-2
Min, A.A., Sbarra, D.A., & Keim, S.M (2015). Sleep disturbances predict prospective declines in resident physicians’ psychological well-being. Medical Education Online, open-access, published online July 21, 2016: http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v20.28530
Bourassa, K.J., Memel, M. Woolverton, C., & Sbarra, D.A. (2015). Social participation predicts cognitive functioning in aging adults over time: Comparisons with physical health, depression, and physical activity. Aging and Mental Health, Health, DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2015.1081152
Burkhart, M. L., Borelli, J. L., Rasmussen, H. F., & Sbarra, D. (2015). Cherish the good times: Relational savoring in parents of infants and toddlers. Personal Relationships, 7, 692-711.
Bourassa, K.J., Memel, M., Woolverton. C., & Sbarra, D.A. (2015). A dyadic approach to health, cognition, and quality of life in aging adults. Psychology and Aging. Online First Publication, May 4, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pag0000025
Bourassa, K.J., Sbarra, D.A., & Whisman, M.A. (2015). Women in very low quality marriages gain life satisfaction following divorce. Journal of Family Psychology, 29, 490-499.
Coan, J. A., & Sbarra, D. A. (2015). Social baseline theory: The social regulation of risk and effort. Current Opinion in Psychology, 1, 87-91.
Hasselmo, K., Sbarra, D.A., O’Connor, M-F., & Moreno, F.A. (2015). Psychological distress following marital separation interacts with a polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene to predict cardiac vagal control in the laboratory. Psychophysiology, 52, 736-744.
Sbarra, D.A. (2015). Divorce and health: Current trends and future directions. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77, 227-236.
Sbarra, D.A., Hasselmo, K., Bourassa, K.J. (2015). Divorce and health: Beyond individual differences. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 109-113.
Larson, G.M., & Sbarra, D.A. (2015). Participating in research on romantic breakups promotes emotional recovery. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 399-406.
Borelli, J.L., Rasmussen, H.F., Burkhart, M., & Sbarra, D.A. (2015). Relational savoring in long-distance romantic relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32, 1083-1108.
Borelli, J.L., Sbarra, D.A., Snavely, J.E., McMakin, D.L., Coffey, J.K., Ruiz, S.K, Wang, B.A., & Chung, S.Y. (2014). With or without you: Preliminary evidence that attachment avoidance predicts nondeployed spouses’ reactions to relationship challenges during deployment. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 45, 478-487. (Special section: Research on psychological issues and interventions for military personnel, veterans, and their families.)
Oskis, A., Clow, A., Loveday, C., Hucklebridge, F., & Sbarra, D.A. (2014). Biological stress regulation in female adolescents: A key role for confiding. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1-12. doi: 10.1007/s10964-014-0182-z.
Krietsch, K.N., Mason., A.E., & Sbarra, D.A. (2014) Sleep complaints predict increases in resting blood pressure following marital separation. Health Psychology, 33, 1204-1213.
Whisman, M.A., Li, A., Sbarra, D.A., Raison, C.L. (2014). Marital quality and diabetes: Results from the Health and Retirement Study. Health Psychology, 33, 832-840.
Helm, J.L, Sbarra, D.A., & Ferrer, E. (2014). Coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in adult romantic partners. Emotion, 14, 522-531.
Sbarra, D. A., Emery, R. E., Beam, C. R., & Ocker, B. L. (2013). Marital dissolution and major depression in midlife: A propensity score analysis. Clinical Psychological Science, 2, 249-257.
Borelli, J.L., Sbarra, D., A., Randall, A.K., Snavely, J.E., St. John, H.K., & Ruiz, S.K. (2013). Linguistic indicators of wives' attachment security and communal orientation during military deployment. Family Process, 52, 535-554.
Sbarra, D.A., Borelli, J.L. (2013). Heart rate variability moderates the association between attachment avoidance and self-concept reorganization following marital separation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 88, 253-260. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.04.004
Sbarra, D.A., Boals, A., Mason, A.E., Larson, G.M., Mehl, M.R. (2013). Expressive writing can impede emotional recovery following marital separation. Clinical Psychological Science, 1, 20-134. doi:10.1177/2167702612470647
McAssey, M.P., Helm, J., Hsieh, F., Sbarra, D.A., & Ferrer, E. (2013). Methodological advances for detecting physiological synchrony during dyadic interactions. Methodology,9,41-53. doi: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000053
Sbarra, D.A., Hasselmo, K., & Nojopranoto, W. (2012). Divorce and death: A case study for health psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 905-919.
Mason, A. E., Sbarra, D. A., Bryan, A. E. B., & Lee, L. A. (2012). Staying connected when coming apart: The psychological correlates of contact and sex with an ex-partner. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 31, 488-507. doi: 10.1521/jscp.2012.31.5.488
Whisman, M.A., & Sbarra, David A. (2012). Marital adjustment and Interleukin-6 (IL-6). Journal of Family Psychology, 26, 290-295. doi: 10.1037/a0026902.
Borelli, J.L, David, D.H., Rifkin-Graboi, A., Sbarra, D.A, Mehl, M.R., Mayes, L.C. (2012). Language use in the Adult Attachment Interview: Evidence for attachment-specific emotion regulation. Personal Relationships, Online Early View, doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2012.01394.x
Sbarra, D.A., Smith, H.L., & Mehl, M.R. (2012). When leaving your ex, love yourself: Observational ratings of self-compassion predict the course of emotional recovery following marital separation. Psychological Science, 23, 261-269.
Helm, J.L, Sbarra, D.A., & Ferrer, E. (2012). Assessing cross-partner associations in physiological responses via coupled oscillator models. Emotion. 12, 748-762.
Mason, A.E., Law, R.W., Bryan, A.E.B, Portley, R.M., & Sbarra, D.A. (2012). Facing a breakup: Electromyographic responses moderate self-concept recovery following a romantic separation. Personal Relationships, 19, 551-568. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2011.01378.x
Sbarra, David A., Law, R.W., & Portley, R.M. (2011). Divorce and death: A meta-analysis and research agenda for clinical, social, and health psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 454-474.
Lee, L.A., Sbarra, D.A., Mason, A. E., & Law, R.W. (2011). Attachment anxiety, verbal immediacy, and blood pressure: Results from a laboratory analogue study following marital separation. Personal Relationships, 18, 285–301. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2011.01360.x
Borelli, J.L., & Sbarra, D.A. (2011). Trauma history and linguistic self-focus moderate the course of psychological adjustment to divorce. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 7, 667-698.
Borelli, J.L., Sbarra, D.A., Crowley, M. J., & Mayes, L.C. (2011). Mood symptoms and emotional responsiveness to threat in school-aged children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 40, 220-232.
Borelli, J.L., Sbarra, D.A., Mehl., M., David, D.H. (2011). Experiential connectedness in children’s attachment interviews: An examination of natural word use. Personal Relationships, 18, 341-351, doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2010.01294
Mason, A.E., Sbarra, D.A., Mehl, M. R. (2010). Thin-slicing divorce: Thirty seconds of information predict changes in psychological adjustment over ninety days. Psychological Science, 21, 1420-1422. doi: 10.1177/0956797610381507
Borelli, J.L., Crowley, M.J., David, D.H., Sbarra, D.A., Anderson, G.M., & Mayes, L.M. (2010). Attachment and emotion in school-aged children. Emotion, 10, 475-485.
Shahar, B., Britton. W. B., Sbarra, D. A., Figueredo, A. J., & Bootzin, R. R. (2010). Mechanisms of change in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression: Preliminary evidence from a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 3, 402-418.
Hasler, B.P., Allen, J.J.B., Sbarra, D.A. Bootzin, R.R., & Bernert, R.A. (2010). Morningness-eveningness and depression: Preliminary evidence for a BAS-Not-BIS model. Psychiatry Research, 176, 166-173.
Law, R.W., & Sbarra, D.A. (2009). The effects of church attendance and marital status on the longitudinal trajectories of depressed mood among older adults. Journal of Aging and Health, 21, 803-823.
Sbarra, D.A. (2009). Marriage protects men from clinically meaningful elevations in C-reactive protein: Results from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 828-835.
Sbarra, D.A., Law, R.W., Lee, L.A., & Mason, A.E. (2009). Marital dissolution and blood pressure reactivity: Evidence for the specificity of emotional intrusion-hyperarousal and task-rated emotional difficulty. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 532-540.
Sbarra, D.A., & Allen, J.J.B. (2009) Decomposing depression: On the prospective and reciprocal dynamics of sleep and mood disturbances. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 171-182.
Sbarra, D.A., & Nietert, P.J. (2009). Divorce and death: Forty years of the Charleston Heart Study. Psychological Science, 20, 107-113.
Beck, C.J.A., Putterman, M.D., Sbarra, D.A., & Mehl, M.R. (2008). Parenting coordinator roles, program goals and services provided: Insights from the Pima County, Arizona Program. Journal of Child Custody, 5, 122-139.
Sbarra, D.A., & Hazan, C. (2008). Co-regulation, dysregulation, self-regulation: An integrative analysis and empirical agenda for understanding adult attachment, separation, loss, and recovery. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 12, 141-167.
Sbarra, D.A., & Emery, R.E. (2008). Deeper into divorce: Using actor-partner analyses to explore systemic differences in coparenting following mediation and litigation of custody disputes. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 144-152.
Sbarra, D. A., & Ferrer, E. (2006). The structure and process of emotional experience following nonmarital relationship dissolution: Dynamic factor analyses of love, anger, and sadness, Emotion, 6, 224-238.
Sbarra, D.A. (2006). Predicting the onset of emotional recovery following nonmarital relationship dissolution: Survival analyses of sadness and anger. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 298-312.
Sbarra, D.A., & Emery, R.E. (2005). The emotional sequelae of non-marital relationship dissolution: Analysis of change and intraindividual variation over time. Personal Relationships, 12, 213-232.
Sbarra, D.A., & Emery, R.E. (2005). Co-parenting conflict, nonacceptance, and depression among divorced adults: Results from a 12-year follow-up study of child custody mediation using multiple imputation. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 75, 22-37.
Emery, R.E., Sbarra, D.A., & Grover, T. (2005). Divorce mediation: Research and reflections. Family and Conciliation Courts Review, 43, 22-37.
-- Reprinted in International Journal of Family Law (2005).
-- Reprinted in Mediation in Practice (2005).
Sbarra, D.A., Rimm-Kaufman, S.E., & Pianta, R.P. (2002). The behavioral and emotional correlates of epilepsy in adolescence: A seven year follow-up study. Epilepsy & Behavior, 3, 358-367.
Sbarra, D.A. & Pianta, R. P. (2001). Teacher ratings of behavior among African-American and Caucasian children across the first two years of school. Psychology in the Schools, 38, 229-238.
Emery, R.E., Laumann-Billings, L. Waldron, M., Sbarra, D.A. & Dillon, P. (2001). Child custody mediation and litigation: Custody, contact, and co-parenting 12 years after initial dispute resolution. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69, 323-332.
Wilson, M.N., Sbarra, D.A., Carter, T.M., & Tencer, H.T. (2000). Reconciliation, justice, and
domestic violence: Commentary on L.W. Sherman (2000). The Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, 8, 291-300.
Journal Editorials
Sbarra, D.A. (2015). Taking stock of loneliness: Introduction to the Special Section. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 200-201.
Sbarra, D.A. (2014). Forward Thinking: An Introduction. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 443-444.
Sbarra, D. A. (2014). New Ideas on intellectual ability, interests, sex differences, and achievement: Three “Integrative” commentaries on four target articles. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 209-210.
Sbarra, D.A., & Coan, J.A (2013). Theory, method, and prediction in the psychophysiology of relationships. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 88, 219-223.
Butler, E.A., & Sbarra, D.A. (2013). Health, emotions, and relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 30, 151-154. doi: 10.1177/0265407512453425
Chapters
Estrada, E., Sbarra, D.A., & Ferrer, E. (2020). Models for dyadic data. In A.G.C. Wright & M.N. Hallquist (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology. (pp. 350-368). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8dy9k
Sbarra, D.A., & Manvelian, A. (2021). The psychological and biological correlates of separation and loss. In R.A. Thompson, J.A. Simpson, & L. Berlin (Eds.), Attachment: The Fundamental Questions (p. 275–282). New York: The Guilford Press.
Shanholtz, C.E., & Sbarra, D.A. (in press). Relationship dissolution following infidelity. In T. DeLecce & T. Shackelford (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Infidelity.
Sbarra, D. A., Bourassa, K. J., & Manvelian, A. (2019). Marital separation and divorce: Correlates and consequences. In B. H. Fiese, M. Celano, K. Deater-Deckard, E. N. Jouriles, & M. A. Whisman (Eds.), APA handbook of contemporary family psychology: Foundations, methods, and contemporary issues across the lifespan (p. 687–705). American Psychological Association.
Hasselmo, K., Bourassa, K. J., & Sbarra, D.A. (in press) Relationship Dissolution and Health. In K. Sweeny & M. L. Robbins (Eds.), The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology Volume II: Social Bases of Health Behavior. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Loving, T.W., & Sbarra, D.A. (2015). Relationships and health. In J. Simpson and J. Dovidio (Eds.) APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, Volume 3: Interpersonal Relationships Processes (pp. 151-176). Washington, DC: APA Press.
Sbarra, D.A., Nojopranoto, W., & Hasselmo, K. (2014). Divorce and health outcomes: From Social epidemiology to social psychophysiology. In C.R Agnew and S.C. South (Eds.), Interpersonal Relationships and Health (pp. 89-108). New York: Oxford University Press
Sbarra, D. A., & Whisman, M.A. (2013). Marital and relational discord.. In L.G. Castonguay & T.C. Oltmanns (Eds.), Psychopathology: Bridging the gap between basic empirical findings and clinical practice (pp. 393-418). New York: Guilford Press.
Sbarra, D.A., & Beck, C.J.A. (2013). Divorce: Causes and consequences. In J.A. Simpson & L. Campell (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships (pp. 795-824). New York: Oxford University Press
Lee, L. A., & Sbarra, D.A. (2013). Divorce and relationships dissolution: Causes, context and consequences. In C. Hazan & M.I. Campa (Eds.), Human Bonding (pp. 308-343). New York: Guilford Press.
Sbarra, D.A., & Mason, A.E. (2013). The dark side of divorce. In N.A. DeWall (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Exclusion (pp. 77-91). New York: Oxford University Press.
Mason, A.E., & Sbarra, D.A. (2012). Romantic separation, loss, and health: A review of moderators. In M. Newman & N. Roberts (Eds.), The Handbook of Health and Social Relationships (pp. 95-120). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Sbarra, D.A. (2012). Marital dissolution and physical health outcomes: A review of mechanisms. In L. Campbell, J. La Guardia, J. Olson, & M. Zanna (Eds.), The science of the couple: The Ontario Symposium (Vol. 12, pp. 205-227). Florence, KY: Psychology Press.
Emery, R.E., & Sbarra, D.A (2011). Methodological issues in divorce mediation research. In B. Rosenfeld and S. Penrod (Eds.), Research Methods in Forensic Psychology (pp. 452-468). New York: Wiley Publications.
Lee, L. A., and Sbarra, D. A. (2010) Multilevel Modeling. In N. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design (1st ed.) (Vol. 2, pp. 837-844). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Sbarra, D.A., Law, R.W. (2009). Dissolution of Relationships, Coping and Aftermath. Entry in H. Reis and S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, Volume 1 (pp. 440-445). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Sbarra, D.A., & Emery, R.E. (2006). In the presence of grief: The role of emotion in contemporary divorce mediation. M.A. Fine & J.H. Harvey, Handbook of divorce and dissolution of romantic relationships (pp. 553-573). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Emery, R.E., & Sbarra, D.A. (2002). What couples therapists need to know about divorce. A. Gurman & N. Jacobson (Eds.), Handbook of Couple Therapy: 3rd Edition. (pp. 502-532). New York: Guilford Press.