Papers

All publications from the Computational Developmental Neuroscience Lab.

Preprints and In Press

Guassi Moreira, J.F., Sung, K., Shen, Y.L., Sul, S., Youm, Y., & Parkinson, C. (under review). Getting to know you: Neural representations of other people grow more perceiver-specific over time. BioRXiv

Guassi Moreira, J.F., Allgaier, N.A., Potter, A., Johnson, M.E., Garavan, H.P., & Fair, D.A. (under review). Connectome-based predictive modeling of concurrent and prospective substance use in adolescence. BioRXiv

Guassi Moreira, J.F., Block, J., Cruz, A., Enders, C.K., & Montoya, A.K. (In principle acceptance). Registered replication report and extension of Maas & Hox (2005), sufficient sample sizes for multilevel models. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. PsyArXiv

Sahi, R.S., Nussbaum, S.G., Guassi Moreira, J.F., Gaines, E.M., Ninova, E., Lee, D., Eisenberger, N.I., & Silvers, J.A. (in press). Vocal pitch as an acoustic marker of social support efficacy in women friendships. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. PsyArXiv

Guassi Moreira, J. F., Esparza, L. C., Silvers, J. A., & Parkinson, C. (in press). Social Decision Preferences for Close Others are Embedded in Neural and Linguistic Representations. Journal of Neuroscience bioRXiv

Publications by year

2025

Guassi Moreira, J. F., & Silvers, J. A. (2025). Multi-voxel pattern analysis for developmental cognitive neuroscientists. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 73, 101555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101555

Rosenberg, B.M., Guassi Moreira, J.F., Méndez Leal, A.S., Saragosa-Harris, N., Gaines, E., Meredith, W.J., Waizman, Y.H., Ninova, E., Silvers, J.A. (2025). Functional connectivity between the nucleus accumbens and amygdala underlies avoidance learning during adolescence: Implications for developmental psychopathology. Development & Psychopathology, 37(4), 1833-1845. doi: 10.1017/ S095457942400141X

Saragosa-Harris, N., Guassi Moreira, J.F., Waizman, Y., Sedykin, A., Peris, T.S., & Silvers, J.A. (2025). Early life adversity is associated with greater similarity in neural representations of ambiguous and threatening stimuli. Development & Psychopathology, 37(2), 802-814. doi: 10.1017/S0954579424000683 Data

2024

Guassi Moreira, J. F., & Parkinson, C. (2024). A behavioral signature for quantifying the social value of interpersonal relationships with specific others. Communications Psychology, 2(84), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00132-2
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Guassi Moreira, J. F., Sahi, R. S., Calderón Leon, M. D., Saragosa-Harris, N., Waizman, Y., Sedykin, A., Ninova, E., Peris, T. S., Gross, J. J., & Silvers, J. A. (2024). A data-driven typology of emotion regulation profiles. Emotion, 24(5), 1125–1136. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001306

Calderón Leon, M. D., Guassi Moreira, J. F., Saragosa-Harris, N. M., Waizman, Y. H., Sedykin, A., Peris, T. S., & Silvers, J. A. (2024). Parent and peer relationship quality and trajectories of loneliness during the college transition. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 55(3), 680–694. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01416-6
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2023

Guassi Moreira, J. F., Méndez Leal, A. S., Waizman, Y., Tashjian, S. M., Galván, A., & Silvers, J. A. (2023). Value-based neural representations predict social decision preferences. Cerebral Cortex, 33(13), 8605–8619. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad144
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Méndez Leal, A. S., Alba, L. A., Cummings, K., Waizman, Y. H., Guassi Moreira, J. F., Waterman, J. M., Langley, A. K., Tottenham, N., Silvers, J. A., & Green, S. (2023). Sensory processing challenges as a novel link between early caregiving experiences and mental health. Development and Psychopathology, 35(4), 1968–1981. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579422000633

Saragosa-Harris, N., Guassi Moreira, J. F., Waizman, Y., Sedykin, A., Silvers, J. A., & Peris, T. S. (2023). Neural representations of ambiguous affective stimuli and resilience to anxiety in emerging adults. Biological Psychology, 182, 108624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108624

Waizman, Y. H., Sedykin, A. E., Guassi Moreira, J. F., Saragosa-Harris, N., Silvers, J. A., & Peris, T. S. (2023). Emotion regulation strategies and beliefs about emotions predict psychosocial outcomes in response to multiple stressors. Affective Science, 4, 275–290. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00187-0

2022

Guassi Moreira, J. F., Méndez Leal, A. S., Waizman, Y. H., Saragosa-Harris, N. M., Ninova, E., & Silvers, J. A. (2022). Early caregiving adversity differentially shapes behavioral sensitivity to reward and risk during decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(12), 3249–3267. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001229
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Guassi Moreira, J. F., Sahi, R., Ninova, E., Parkinson, C., & Silvers, J. A. (2022). Performance and belief-based emotion regulation capacity and tendency: Mapping links with cognitive flexibility and perceived stress. Emotion, 22(4), 653–668. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000768
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2021

Armstrong-Carter, E., Do, K., Guassi Moreira, J. F., Prinstein, M. J., & Telzer, E. H. (2021). Examining a new prosocial risk-taking scale in a longitudinal sample of ethnically diverse adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 93, 222–233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.11.002

Bryce, N., Flournoy, J., Guassi Moreira, J. F., Rosen, M. L., Sambook, K. A., Mair, P., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2021). Brain parcellation selection: An overlooked decision point with meaningful effects on individual differences in resting-state functional connectivity. NeuroImage, 234, 118487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118487

Guassi Moreira, J. F., Méndez Leal, A. S., Waizman, Y. H., Saragosa-Harris, N. M., Ninova, E., & Silvers, J. A. (2021). Revisiting the neural architecture of adolescent decision-making: Univariate and multivariate evidence for system-based models. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(28), 6006–6017. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3182-20.2021 Data

Guassi Moreira, J. F., McLaughlin, K. A., & Silvers, J. A. (2021). Characterizing the network architecture of emotion regulation neurodevelopment. Cerebral Cortex, 31(9), 4140–4150. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab074
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Waizman, Y. H., Méndez Leal, A. S., Guassi Moreira, J. F., Saragosa-Harris, N. M., Ninova, E., & Silvers, J. A. (2021). Emotion regulation strategy usage explains links between institutional caregiving and elevated internalizing symptoms. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(5), 1202–1209. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22078
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Guassi Moreira, J. F., Tashjian, S. M., Galván, A. G., & Silvers, J. A. (2021). Computational and motivational mechanisms of human social decision making involving close others. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, Article 104086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104086
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2020

Guassi Moreira, J. F., Tashjian, S. M., Galván, A., & Silvers, J. A. (2020). Is social decision making for close others consistent across domains and within individuals? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(8), 1509–1526. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000719
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Armstrong-Carter, E., Guassi Moreira, J. F., Ivory, S. L., & Telzer, E. H. (2020). Supporting peers during adolescence is beneficial for most, but costly for some. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 30(4), 943–955. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12572

Botvinik-Nezer, R., Holzmeister, F., Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Nichols, T., Iwanir, R., Mumford, J. A., … Guassi Moreira, J. F., … Poldrack, R. A., & Schonberg, T. (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many groups. Nature, 582, 84–88. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2314-9

2019

Guassi Moreira, J. F., McLaughlin, K. A., & Silvers, J. A. (2019). Spatial and temporal cortical variability track with age and affective experience during emotion regulation in youth. Developmental Psychology, 55(9), 1921–1937. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000687
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Silvers, J. A., & Guassi Moreira, J. F. (2019). Capacity and tendency: A neuroscientific framework for the study of emotion regulation. Neuroscience Letters, 693, 35–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2017.09.017

Tashjian, S. T., Guassi Moreira, J. F., & Galván, A. (2019). Amygdala pattern response similarity to faces relates to trust bias in adolescents. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(11), 1726–1741. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01448
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Perino, M. T., Guassi Moreira, J. F., & Telzer, E. H. (2019). Links between adolescent bullying and neural activation to viewing social exclusion. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19(6), 1467–1478. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-019-00739-7
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Perino, M. T., Guassi Moreira, J. F., McCormick, E. M., & Telzer, E. H. (2019). Apples to apples? Neural correlates of emotion regulation differences between high and low risk adolescents. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(8), 827–836. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz063
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2018

Guassi Moreira, J. F., Tashjian, S. M., Galván, A., & Silvers, J. A. (2018). Parents versus peers: Assessing the impact of social agents on decision making in young adulthood. Psychological Science, 29(9), 1526–1539. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618778497
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Guassi Moreira, J. F., & Telzer, E. H. (2018). Family conflict is associated with longitudinal changes in insular-striatal functional connectivity during adolescent risk taking under maternal influence. Developmental Science, 21(5), e12632. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12632
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Guassi Moreira, J. F., & Telzer, E. H. (2018). Family conflict shapes how adolescents take risks when their family is affected. Developmental Science, 21(4), e12611. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12611
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Guassi Moreira, J. F., & Telzer, E. H. (2018). Longitudinal increases in parent-child relationship quality and sensation seeking interact to increase risk taking in emerging adults. Emerging Adulthood, 6(1), 66–71. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167696817705954
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Guassi Moreira, J. F., & Telzer, E. H. (2018). Mother still knows best: Maternal influence uniquely modulates adolescent reward sensitivity during risk taking. Developmental Science, 21(1), e12484. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12484
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2017

Do, K. T., Guassi Moreira, J. F., & Telzer, E. H. (2017). But is helping you worth the risk? Defining prosocial risk taking in adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 260–271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2016.11.008

Guassi Moreira, J. F., Van Bavel, J. J., & Telzer, E. H. (2017). The neural development of ‘us and them’. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(2), 184–196. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw134
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2016

Guassi Moreira, J. F., Miernicki, M. E., & Telzer, E. H. (2016). Relationship quality buffers association between co-rumination and depressive symptoms among first year college students. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(3), 484–493. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-015-0396-8
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2015

Guassi Moreira, J. F., & Telzer, E. H. (2015). Changes in family cohesion and links to depression during the college transition. Journal of Adolescence, 43, 72–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.05.012