Papers

All publications from the Computational Developmental Neuroscience Lab.

Preprints and In Press

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., Guassi Moreira, J. F., Gaines, E. M., Ninova, E., Lee, D., Eisenberger, N. I., Silvers, J. A. (2024). Vocal pitch as an acoustic marker of social support efficacy. PsyArXiv

Guassi Moreira, J. F., Esparza, L. C., Silvers, J. A., & Parkinson, C. (2024). Social Decision Preferences for Close Others are Embedded in Neural and Linguistic Representations. bioRXiv

Highlighted

A data-driven typology of emotion regulation profiles.
João F. Guassi Moreira, Razia S. Sahi, Maria D. Calderon Leon, Natalie M. Saragosa-Harris, Yael H. Waizman, Anna E. Sedykin, Emilia Ninova, Tara S. Peris, James J. Gross, Jennifer A. Silvers
Emotion  ·  01 Aug 2024  ·  doi:10.1037/emo0001306

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2024

A behavioral signature for quantifying the social value of interpersonal relationships with specific others
João F. Guassi Moreira, Carolyn Parkinson
Communications Psychology  ·  06 Sep 2024  ·  doi:10.1038/s44271-024-00132-2
A data-driven typology of emotion regulation profiles.
João F. Guassi Moreira, Razia S. Sahi, Maria D. Calderon Leon, Natalie M. Saragosa-Harris, Yael H. Waizman, Anna E. Sedykin, Emilia Ninova, Tara S. Peris, James J. Gross, Jennifer A. Silvers
Emotion  ·  01 Aug 2024  ·  doi:10.1037/emo0001306
Early life adversity is associated with greater similarity in neural representations of ambiguous and threatening stimuli
Natalie M. Saragosa-Harris, João F. Guassi Moreira, Yael Waizman, Anna Sedykin, Tara S. Peris, Jennifer A. Silvers
Development and Psychopathology  ·  11 Apr 2024  ·  doi:10.1017/S0954579424000683

2023

Neural representations of ambiguous affective stimuli and resilience to anxiety in emerging adults
Natalie M. Saragosa-Harris, João F. Guassi Moreira, Yael H. Waizman, Anna Sedykin, Jennifer A. Silvers, Tara S. Peris
Biological Psychology  ·  01 Sep 2023  ·  doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108624
Value-based neural representations predict social decision preferences
João F Guassi Moreira, Adriana S Méndez Leal, Yael H Waizman, Sarah M Tashjian, Adriana Galván, Jennifer A Silvers
Cerebral Cortex  ·  13 May 2023  ·  doi:10.1093/cercor/bhad144
Emotion Regulation Strategies and Beliefs About Emotions Predict Psychosocial Outcomes in Response to Multiple Stressors
Yael H. Waizman, Anna E. Sedykin, João F. Guassi Moreira, Natalie M. Saragosa-Harris, Jennifer A. Silvers, Tara S. Peris
Affective Science  ·  08 May 2023  ·  doi:10.1007/s42761-023-00187-0

2022

Sensory processing challenges as a novel link between early caregiving experiences and mental health
Adriana S. Méndez Leal, Laura A. Alba, Kaitlin K. Cummings, Jiwon Jung, Yael H. Waizman, …, Jill M. Waterman, Audra K. Langley, Nim Tottenham, Jennifer A. Silvers, Shulamite A. Green
Development and Psychopathology  ·  16 Dec 2022  ·  doi:10.1017/S0954579422000633
Early caregiving adversity differentially shapes behavioral sensitivity to reward and risk during decision-making.
João F. Guassi Moreira, Adriana S. Méndez Leal, Yael H. Waizman, Natalie Saragosa-Harris, Emilia Ninova, Jennifer A. Silvers
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General  ·  01 Dec 2022  ·  doi:10.1037/xge0001229
Parent and Friend Relationship Quality and Links to Trajectories of Loneliness During the First Year of College
Maria D. Calderon Leon, João F. Guassi Moreira, Natalie M. Saragosa-Harris, Yael H. Waizman, Anna Sedykin, Tara S. Peris, Jennifer A. Silvers
Child Psychiatry & Human Development  ·  24 Sep 2022  ·  doi:10.1007/s10578-022-01416-6
Performance and belief-based emotion regulation capacity and tendency: Mapping links with cognitive flexibility and perceived stress.
João F. Guassi Moreira, Razia Sahi, Emilia Ninova, Carolyn Parkinson, Jennifer A. Silvers
Emotion  ·  01 Jun 2022  ·  doi:10.1037/emo0000768

2021

Examining a new prosocial risk‐taking scale in a longitudinal sample of ethnically diverse adolescents
Emma Armstrong‐Carter, Kathy T. Do, João F. Guassi Moreira, Mitchell J. Prinstein, Eva H. Telzer
Journal of Adolescence  ·  01 Dec 2021  ·  doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.11.002
Brain parcellation selection: An overlooked decision point with meaningful effects on individual differences in resting-state functional connectivity
Nessa V. Bryce, John C. Flournoy, João F. Guassi Moreira, Maya L. Rosen, Kelly A. Sambook, Patrick Mair, Katie A. McLaughlin
NeuroImage  ·  01 Nov 2021  ·  doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118487
Revisiting the Neural Architecture of Adolescent Decision-Making: Univariate and Multivariate Evidence for System-Based Models
João F. Guassi Moreira, Adriana S. Méndez Leal, Yael H. Waizman, Natalie Saragosa-Harris, Emilia Ninova, Jennifer A. Silvers
The Journal of Neuroscience  ·  26 May 2021  ·  doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3182-20.2021
Characterizing the Network Architecture of Emotion Regulation Neurodevelopment
João F Guassi Moreira, Katie A McLaughlin, Jennifer A Silvers
Cerebral Cortex  ·  05 May 2021  ·  doi:10.1093/cercor/bhab074
Computational and motivational mechanisms of human social decision making involving close others
João F. Guassi Moreira, Sarah M. Tashjian, Adriana Galván, Jennifer A. Silvers
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology  ·  01 Mar 2021  ·  doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104086

2020

Emotion regulation strategy usage explains links between institutional caregiving and elevated internalizing symptoms
Yael H. Waizman, Adriana S. Méndez Leal, João F. Guassi Moreira, Natalie M. Saragosa‐Harris, Emilia Ninova, Jennifer A. Silvers
Developmental Psychobiology  ·  28 Dec 2020  ·  doi:10.1002/dev.22078
Daily Links Between Helping Behaviors and Emotional Well‐Being During Late Adolescence
Emma Armstrong‐Carter, João F. Guassi Moreira, Susannah L. Ivory, Eva H. Telzer
Journal of Research on Adolescence  ·  10 Aug 2020  ·  doi:10.1111/jora.12572
Is social decision making for close others consistent across domains and within individuals?
João F. Guassi Moreira, Sarah M. Tashjian, Adriana Galván, Jennifer A. Silvers
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General  ·  01 Aug 2020  ·  doi:10.1037/xge0000719
Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams
Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Felix Holzmeister, Colin F. Camerer, Anna Dreber, Juergen Huber, …, Xu Zhang, Joshua E. Zosky, Thomas E. Nichols, Russell A. Poldrack, Tom Schonberg
Nature  ·  20 May 2020  ·  doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2314-9

2019

Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Reveals a Neural Phenotype for Trust Bias in Adolescents
Sarah M. Tashjian, João F. Guassi Moreira, Adriana Galván
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience  ·  01 Nov 2019  ·  doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01448
Spatial and temporal cortical variability track with age and affective experience during emotion regulation in youth.
João F. Guassi Moreira, Katie A. McLaughlin, Jennifer A. Silvers
Developmental Psychology  ·  01 Sep 2019  ·  doi:10.1037/dev0000687
Apples to apples? Neural correlates of emotion regulation differences between high- and low-risk adolescents
Michael T Perino, João F Guassi Moreira, Ethan M McCormick, Eva H Telzer
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience  ·  01 Aug 2019  ·  doi:10.1093/scan/nsz063
Links between adolescent bullying and neural activation to viewing social exclusion
Michael T. Perino, João F. Guassi Moreira, Eva H. Telzer
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience  ·  10 Jul 2019  ·  doi:10.3758/s13415-019-00739-7
Capacity and tendency: A neuroscientific framework for the study of emotion regulation
Jennifer A. Silvers, João F. Guassi Moreira
Neuroscience Letters  ·  01 Feb 2019  ·  doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2017.09.017

2018

Parents Versus Peers: Assessing the Impact of Social Agents on Decision Making in Young Adults
João F. Guassi Moreira, Sarah M. Tashjian, Adriana Galván, Jennifer A. Silvers
Psychological Science  ·  08 Aug 2018  ·  doi:10.1177/0956797618778497

2017

Family conflict is associated with longitudinal changes in insular‐striatal functional connectivity during adolescent risk taking under maternal influence
João F. Guassi Moreira, Eva H. Telzer
Developmental Science  ·  11 Dec 2017  ·  doi:10.1111/desc.12632
Family conflict shapes how adolescents take risks when their family is affected
João F. Guassi Moreira, Eva H. Telzer
Developmental Science  ·  04 Oct 2017  ·  doi:10.1111/desc.12611
But is helping you worth the risk? Defining Prosocial Risk Taking in adolescence
Kathy T. Do, João F. Guassi Moreira, Eva H. Telzer
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience  ·  01 Jun 2017  ·  doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2016.11.008
Longitudinal Increases in Parent–Child Relationship Quality and Sensation Seeking Interact to Increase Risk-Taking During the College Transition
João F. Guassi Moreira, Eva H. Telzer
Emerging Adulthood  ·  23 Apr 2017  ·  doi:10.1177/2167696817705954

2016

Mother still knows best: Maternal influence uniquely modulates adolescent reward sensitivity during risk taking
João F. Guassi Moreira, Eva H. Telzer
Developmental Science  ·  04 Nov 2016  ·  doi:10.1111/desc.12484
The Neural Development of ‘Us and Them’
João F. Guassi Moreira, Jay J. Van Bavel, Eva H. Telzer
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience  ·  14 Sep 2016  ·  doi:10.1093/scan/nsw134

2015

Relationship Quality Buffers Association Between Co-rumination and Depressive Symptoms Among First Year College Students
João F. Guassi Moreira, Michelle E. Miernicki, Eva H. Telzer
Journal of Youth and Adolescence  ·  09 Dec 2015  ·  doi:10.1007/s10964-015-0396-8
Changes in family cohesion and links to depression during the college transition
João F. Guassi Moreira, Eva H. Telzer
Journal of Adolescence  ·  06 Jun 2015  ·  doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.05.012