Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory

Selected Publications

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In press

Cryder, C.E., Lerner, J.S., Gross, J.J., & Dahl, R.E. (in press). Misery is not miserly: Sad and self-focused individuals spend more. Psychological Science.

Giuliani, N., & Gross, J.J. (in press). Reappraisal. In  D. Sander & K. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford companion to the affective sciences. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Gross, J.J. (in press). Emotion regulation:  Personality processes and individual differences. In O.P. John & R.W. Robins, and L.A. Pervin (Eds.), Handbook of personality:  Theory and research (3rd ed.).  New York, NY: Guilford.

Magen, E., Dweck, C.S., & Gross, J.J. (in press). The hidden zero effect: Representing a single choice as an extended sequence reduces impulsive choice. Psychological Science.

Magen, E. & Gross, J. J. (in press) The cybernetic process model of self-control: Situation- and person-specific considerations. In R. H. Hoyle (Ed.), Handbook of personality and self-regulation. New York, NY: Blackwell Publications.

Magen, E., & Gross, J.J. (in press). Getting our act together:  Toward a general model of self-control. In R. Hassin, K.N. Ochsner, & Y. Trope (Eds.). Self control in society, mind, and brain.  New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

McRae, K., & Gross, J.J. (in press). Emotion regulation. In  D. Sander & K. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford companion to the affective sciences. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

McRae, K., Ochsner, K.N., Mauss, I.B., Gabrieli, J.J.D., & Gross, J.J (in press). Gender differences in emotion regulation:  An fMRI study of cognitive reappraisal. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

Mohiyeddini, C., John, O.P., & Gross, J.J. (in press). Der „Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire“: deutsche Adaption und erste Validierungsbefunde. Diagnostica.

Rottenberg, J., & Gross, J.J. (in press). Emotion and emotion regulation:  A map for  psychotherapy researchers. Clinical Psychology:  Science and Practice.

2008

Goldin, P.R., McRae, K., Ramel, W., & Gross, J.J. (2008). The neural bases of emotion regulation: Reappraisal and suppression of negative emotion. Biological Psychiatry, 63, 577-586. pdf

Gross, J.J. (2008). Emotion regulation. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones, and L.F. Barrett (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (3rd ed) (pp. 497-512). New York, NY:  Guilford. pdf

Hutcherson, C.A., Goldin, P.R., Ramel, W., McRae, K., & Gross, J.J. (2008). Attention and emotion influence the relationship between extraversion and neural response. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3, 71-79. pdf

Mauss, I. B., Bunge, S. A., & Gross, J. J. (2008). Automatic emotion regulation: Cultural and neuroscientific considerations. In S. Ismer, S. Jung, S. Kronast, C. van Scheve, & M. Vanderkerckhove (Eds.), Regulating emotions: Social necessity and biological inheritance. pdf

Ochsner, K.N, & Gross, J.J. (2008). Cognitive emotion regulation: Insights from social cognitive and affective neuroscience. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 153-158. pdf

Ray, R.D., Wilhelm, F.H., & Gross, J.J. (2008). All in the mind’s eye? Anger rumination and reappraisal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 133-145. pdf

Tamir, M., Mitchell, C., & Gross, J.J. (2008). Hedonic and instrumental motives in anger regulation. Psychological Science, 19, 324-328. pdf

2007

Barrett, L.F., Mesquita, B., Ochsner, K.N., & Gross, J.J. (2007). The experience of emotion. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 373-403. pdf

Barrett, L.F., Ochsner, K.N., & Gross, J.J. (2007). On the automaticity of emotion. In J. Bargh  (Ed.). Social psychology and the unconscious:  The automaticity of higher mental processes (pp. 173-217) . New York:  Psychology Press. pdf

Butler, E.A., Lee, T.L., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Emotion regulation and culture:  Are the social consequences of emotion suppression culture-specific? Emotion, 7, 30-48. pdf

Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Chu, J.P., Tsai, J.L., Rottenberg, J., Gross, J.J., & Gotlib, I.H. (2007). Depression and emotional reactivity:  Variations among Asian American and European Americans. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 776-785. pdf

Coifman, K.G., Bonanno, G.A., Ray, R.D., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Does repressive coping promote resilience? Affective-autonomic response discrepancy during bereavement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 745-758. pdf

Gleitman, H., Reisberg, D., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Psychology (7e). New York:  Norton.

Gross, J.J. (Ed.) (2007). Handbook of emotion regulation. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Gross, J.J., & Thompson, R.A. (2007). Emotion regulation:  Conceptual foundations. In J.J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 3-24). New York:  Guilford Press. pdf

John, O.P., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Individual differences in emotion regulation strategies: Links to global trait, dynamic, and social cognitive constructs. In J.J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 351-372). New York: Guilford Press. pdf

Kreibig, S.D., Wilhelm, F.H., Roth, W.T., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Cardiovascular, electrodermal, and respiratory response patterns to fear and sadness-inducing films. Psychophysiology, 44, 787-806. pdf

Magen, E., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Harnessing the need for immediate gratification:  Cognitive reconstrual modulates the reward value of temptations. Emotion, 7, 415-428. pdf

Mauss, I. B., Bunge, S. A., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Automatic emotion regulation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 146-167. pdf

Mauss, I.B., Cook, C.L., Cheng, J.Y.J., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Individual differences in cognitive reappraisal:  Experiential and physiological responses to an anger provocation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 66, 116-124. pdf

Mauss, I.B., Cook, C.L., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Automatic emotion regulation during anger provocation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 698-711. pdf

Murphy, M.C., Steele, C.M., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Signaling threat: How situational cues affect women in math, science, and engineering settings. Psychological Science, 18, 879-885. pdf

Ochsner, K.N., & Gross, J.J. (2007). The neural architecture of emotion regulation. In J.J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 87-109). New York: Guilford Press. pdf

Rottenberg, J., Johnson, S.L., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Bridges yet to come: Future directions for integrating affective and clinical science. In J. Rottenberg & S.L. Johnson (Eds.), Emotion and psychopathology: Bridging affective and clinical science. (pp. 305-308). Washington, DC: APA Books. pdf

Rottenberg, J., Ray, R.R., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Emotion elicitation using films. In J.A. Coan & J.J.B Allen (Eds.), The handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment (pp. 9-28). New York: Oxford University Press. pdf

Siemer, M., Mauss, I., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Same situation – different emotions:  How appraisals shape our emotions. Emotion, 7, 592-600. pdf

Tamir, M., Chiu, C., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Business or pleasure? Utilitarian versus hedonic considerations in emotion regulation. Emotion, 7, 546-554. pdf

Tamir, M., John, O.P., Srivastava, S., & Gross, J.J. (2007). Implicit theories of emotion: Affective and social outcomes across a major life transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 731-744. pdf

2006

Butler, E.A., Wilhelm, F.H., & Gross, J.J. (2006). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia, emotion, and emotion regulation during social interaction. Psychophysiology, 43, 612-622. pdf

Gross, J.J., Richards, J.M., & John, O.P. (2006). Emotion regulation in everyday life. In D.K. Snyder, J.A. Simpson, & J.N. Hughes (Eds.) (pp. 13-35). Emotion regulation in families: Pathways to dysfunction and health. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. pdf

Hagemann, T., Levenson, R.W., & Gross, J.J. (2006). Expressive suppression during an acoustic startle. Psychophysiology, 43, 104-112. pdf

Mauss, I. B., Evers, C., Wilhelm, F. H., & Gross, J. J. (2006). How to bite your tongue without blowing your top: Implicit evaluation of emotion regulation predicts affective responding to anger provocation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 589-602. pdf

Richards, J.M., & Gross, J.J. (2006). Personality and emotional memory: How regulating emotion impairs memory for emotional events. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 631-651. pdf

Srivastava, S., McGonigal, K.M., Richards, J.M., Butler, E.A., & Gross, J.J. (2006). Optimism in close relationships:  How seeing things in a positive light makes them so. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 143-153. pdf

2005

Goldin, P.R., Hutcherson, C.A., Ochsner, K.N., Glover, G.H., Gabrieli, J.D.E. & Gross, J.J. (2005). The neural bases of amusement and sadness: a comparison of block contrast and subject-specific emotion intensity regression approaches. NeuroImage. pdf

Hutcherson, C.A.C., Goldin, P.R., Ochsner, K.N., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Gross, J.J. (2005). Attention and emotion: Does rating emotion alter neural responses to amusing and sad films? Neuroimage, 27, 656-668. pdf

Mauss, I.B., Levenson, R.W., McCarter, L., Wilhelm, F.H., & Gross, J.J. (2005). The tie that binds? Coherence among emotion experience, behavior, and physiology. Emotion. pdf

Ochsner, K., Gross, J.J. (2005). The Cognitive Control of Emotion. Trends In Cognitive Sciences, 9, 242-249. pdf

Ochsner, K.N., & Gross, J.J. (2005). Putting the "I" and the "Me" in emotion regulation: Reply to Northoff. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 409-410. pdf

Ray, R. D., Oschsner, K. N., Cooper, J. C., Robertson, E. R., Gabrieli, J. D., & Gross, J. J. (2005). Individual differences in trait rumination and the neural systems supporting cognitive reappraisal. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 5, 156-168. pdf

Rottenberg, J., Gross, J. J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2005). Emotion context insensitivity in major depressive disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 627-639. pdf

Rottenberg, J., Salomon, K., Gross, J.J, Gotlib, I.H.(2005). Vagal Withdrawal to sad film predicts subsequent recovery from depression. Psychophysiology, 42, 277-281. pdf

Wilhelm, F. H., Pfaltz, M. C., Gross, J. J., Mauss, I. B., Kim, S. I., & Wiederhold, B. K. (2005). Mechanisms of virtual reality exposure therapy: The role of the behavioral activation and behavioral inhibition systems. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 30, 271-284. pdf

2004

Butler, E.A., & Gross, J.J. (2004). Hiding feelings in social contexts: Out of sight is not out of mind. In P. Philippot & R.S. Feldman, (Eds.), The regulation of emotion (pp. 101-126). Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum. pdf

John, O.P., & Gross, J.J. (2004). Healthy and unhealthy emotion regulation: Personality processes, individual differences, and lifespan development. Journal of Personality, 72, 1301-1334. pdf

Mauss, I.B., & Gross, J.J. (2004). Emotion suppression and cardiovascular disease: Is hiding feelings bad for your heart? In L.R. Temoshok, I. Nyklicek, & A. Vingerhoets (Eds.), Emotional expression and health: Advances in theory, assessment, and clinical applications (pp. 62-81). New York: Brunner-Routledge. pdf

Mauss, I.B., Wilhelm, F.W., & Gross, J.J. (2004). Is there less to social anxiety than meets the eye? Emotion experience, expression, and bodily responding. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 631-662. pdf

Ochsner, K.N. & Gross, J.J. (2004). Thinking makes it so: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to emotion regulation. In R.F. Baumeister & K.D. Vohs (Eds). Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications (pp. 229-255). New York: Guilford Press. pdf

Ochsner, K.N., Ray, R.R., Cooper, J.C., Robertson, E.R., Chopra, S., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Gross, J.J. (2004). For better or for worse: Neural systems supporting the cognitive down- and up-regulation of negative emotion. Neuroimage, 23, 483-499. pdf

2003

Bensafi, M, Brown, W.M., Tsutsui, T., Mainland, J.D., Johnson, B.N., Bremner, E.A., Young, N., Mauss, I., Ray, B., Gross, J., Richards, J., Stappen, I., Levenson, R.W., Sobel, N. (2003). Sex-Steriod Derived Compounds Induce Sex-Specific Effects on Autonomic Nervous System Function in Humans. Behavioral Neuroscience, 117, 1125-1134. pdf

Butler, E.A., Egloff, B., Wilhelm, F.W., Smith, N.C., Erickson, E.A., & Gross, J.J. (2003). The social consequences of expressive suppression. Emotion, 3, 48-67. pdf

Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (2003). Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 348-362. pdf

Gottman, J.M., Levenson, R.W., Gross, J.J., Fredrickson, B.L., McCoy, K., Rosenthal, L., Ruef, A., & Yoshimoto, D. (2003). Correlates of gay and lesbian couples' relationship satisfaction and relationship dissolution. Jornal of Homosexuality, 45, 23-43. pdf

Mauss, I.B., Wilhelm, F.W., & Gross, J.J. (2003). Autonomic recovery and habituation in social anxiety. Psychophysiology, 40, 648-653. pdf

Richards, J.M., Butler, E., & Gross, J.J. (2003). Emotion regulation in romantic relationships: The cognitive consequences of concealing feelings. Journal of Personal and Social Relationships. pdf

Rottenberg, J., & Gross, J.J. (2003). When emotion goes wrong: Realizing the promise of affective science. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. pdf

Rottenberg, J., Wilhelm, F. H., Gross, J. J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2003). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia during resolution of tearful crying in depression. Psychophysiology, 40, 1-6. pdf

2002

Ochsner, K.N., Bunge, S.A., Gross, J.J., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2002). Rethinking feelings: An fMRI study of the cognitive regulation of emotion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. pdf

Egloff, B., Wilhelm, F.H., Neubauer, D.H., Mauss, I.B., & Gross, J.J. (2002). Implicit anxiety measure predicts cardiovascular reactivity to an evaluated speaking task. Emotion, 2, 3-11. pdf

Gross, J.J. (2002). Emotion regulation: Affective, cognitive, and social consequences. Psychophysiology, 39, 281-291. pdf

Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (2002). Wise emotion regulation. In L. Feldman Barrett & P. Salovey (Eds.), The wisdom of feelings: Psychological processes in emotional intelligence (pp. 297-318) . New York: Guilford. pdf

Rottenberg, J., Gross, J. J., Wilhelm, F. H., Najmi, S., & Gotlib, I. H. (2002). Crying threshold and intensity in Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 111, 302-312. pdf

Rottenberg, J., Kasch, K.L., Gross, J. J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2002). Sadness and amusement reactivity differentially predict concurrent and prospective functioning in major depressive disorder. Emotion, 2, 135-146.pdf

Rottenberg, J., Wilhelm, F. H., Gross, J. J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2002). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a predictor of outcome in Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders,71, 265-272. pdf

2001

Canli, T., Zhao, Z., Desmond, J.E., Kang, E., Gross, J., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2001). An fMRI study of personality influences on brain reactivity to emotional stimuli. Behavioral Neuroscience, 115, 33-42.pdf

Feldman Barrett, L., & Gross, J.J. (2001). Emotion intelligence: A process model of emotional representation and regulation. In T.J. Mayne & G.A. Bonnano (Eds.), Emotions: Current issues and future directions (pp. 286-310) New York: Guilford. pdf

Feldman Barrett, L., Gross, J.J., Conner, T., & Benvenuto, M. (2001). Knowing what you're feeling and knowing what to do about it: Mapping the relation between emotion differentiation and emotion regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 15, 713-724. pdf

Gross, J.J. (2001). Award for distinguished early career contributions to psychology. American Psychologist, 56, 911-913. pdf

Gross, J.J. (2001). Emotion regulation in adulthood: Timing is everything. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10, 214-219.pdf

Wilhelm, F.H., Kochar, A.S., Roth, W.T., & Gross, J.J. (2001). Social anxiety and response to touch: Incongruence between self-evaluative and physiological reactions. Biological Psychology, 58, 181-202. pdf

2000

Gross, J.J. (2000). The Berkeley Expressivity Questionnaire. In J. Maltby, C.A. Lewis, & A. Hill (Eds.). Commissioned reviews on 300 psychological tests (pp. 465-467). Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press. pdf

Gross, J.J., John, O.P., & Richards, J.M. (2000). The dissociation of emotion expression from emotion experience: A personality perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 712-726. pdf

Richards, J.M., & Gross, J.J. (2000). Emotion regulation and memory: The cognitive costs of keeping one's cool. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 410-424. pdf

1999

Gross, J.J. (1999). Emotion and emotion regulation. In L.A. Pervin & O.P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (2nd ed.) (pp. 525-552). New York: Guilford.pdf

Gross, J.J. (1999). Emotion regulation: Past, present, future. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 551-573.pdf

Keltner, D., & Gross, J.J. (1999). Functionalist accounts of emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 467-480.pdf

Miles, H.J., & Gross, J.J. (1999). Emotion suppression. In D. Levinson, J. Ponzetti, & P. F. Jorgensen (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human emotions (pp. 237-241). New York: Macmillan. pdf

Richards, J.M., & Gross, J.J. (1999). Composure at any cost? The cognitive consequences of emotion suppression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 1033-1044.pdf

1998

Carstensen, L.L., Gross, J.J., & Fung, H. (1998). The social context of emotional experience. In K.W. Schaie & M.P. Lawton (Eds.), Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics (Vol. 17, pp. 325-352). New York: Springer. pdf

Gross, J.J. (1998). Antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation: Divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 224-237.pdf

Gross, J.J. (1998). The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review. Review of General Psychology, 2, 271-299.pdf

Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (1998). Mapping the domain of expressivity: Multi-method evidence for a hierarchical model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 170-191. pdf

Gross, J.J., Sutton, S.K., & Ketelaar, T.V. (1998). Relations between affect and personality: Support for the affect-level and affective-reactivity views. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 279-288. pdf

Miranda, J., Gross, J.J., Persons, J.B., & Hahn, J. (1998). Mood matters: Negative mood induction activates dysfunctional attitudes in women vulnerable to depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 22, 363-376.pdf

Gross, J.J. (1998). Sharpening the focus: Emotion regulation, arousal, and social competence. Psychological Inquiry, 9, 287-290. pdf

Pre-1998

Gross, J.J., Carstensen, L.C., Pasupathi, M., Tsai, J., Gottestam, K., & Hsu, A.Y.C. (1997). Emotion and aging: Experience, expression, and control. Psychology and Aging, 12, 590-599.pdf

Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (1997). Revealing feelings: Facets of emotional expressivity in self-reports, peer ratings, and behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 435-448. pdf

Gross, J.J., & Levenson, R.W. (1997). Hiding feelings: The acute effects of inhibiting negative and positive emotion. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 95-103.pdf

Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (1995). Facets of emotional expressivity: Three self-report factors and their correlates. Personality and Individual Differences, 19, 555-568. pdf

Gross, J.J., & Levenson, R.W. (1995). Emotion elicitation using films. Cognition and Emotion, 9, 87-108. pdf

Gross, J.J., & Munoz, R.F. (1995). Emotion regulation and mental health. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 2, 151-164. pdf

Gross, J.J., Fredrickson, B.F., & Levenson, R.W. (1994). The psychophysiology of crying. Psychophysiology, 31, 460-468. pdf

Gross, J.J., & Levenson, R.W. (1993). Emotional suppression: Physiology, self-report, and expressive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 970-986. pdf

Gross, J. (1989). Emotional expression in cancer onset and progression. Social Science and Medicine, 28, 1239-1248. pdf

Miranda, J., & Gross, J.J. (1997). Cognitive vulnerability, depression, and the mood-state dependent hypothesis: Is out of sight out of mind? Cognition and Emotion, 11, 585-605. pdf

Persons, J.B., Gross, J.J., Etkin, M.S., & Madan, S.K. (1996). Psychodynamic therapists’ reservations about cognitive-behavioral therapy: Implications for training and practice. Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 5, 202-212. pdf