Papers

All publications from the Computational Developmental Neuroscience Lab.

Preprints and In Press

Guassi Moreira, J.F., Sahi, R.S., & Silvers, J.A. (under review). From traits to moments: How emotion regulation repertoires shape daily affective experiences. PsyArXiv

Guassi Moreira, J.F. (forthcoming). Functional magnetic resonance methods for mapping for the neural underpinnings of emotion. In LoBue, V., Pérez-Edgar, K., & Buss, K.A., (Eds.), Handbook of Emotional Development: Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice. New York: Springer. PsyArXiv

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., Block, J., Cruz, A., Enders, C.K., & Montoya, A.K. (under stage two review). Registered replication report and extension of Maas & Hox (2005), sufficient sample sizes for multilevel models. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. PsyArXiv

Publications by year

2026

Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Clelland, H.T., Kovacs, M., Schulz-Kümpel, H., Holzmeister, F., Nilsonne, G., Hoffmann, S., Kosa, L., Torma, Z.A., … Guassi Moreira, J.F., … Errington, T., Nosek, B.A. (2026). Investigating the analytic robustness of the social and behavioral sciences. Nature, 625, 135-142. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09844-9

Guassi Moreira, J.F., Allgaier, N.A., Potter, A., Johnson, M.E., Garavan, H.P., & Fair, D.A. (2026). Connectome-based predictive modeling of concurrent and longitudinal substance use vulnerability in adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 79, 101689. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101689

Meredith, W.J., Guassi Moreira, J.F., Méndez Leal, A.S., Saragosa-Harris, N., Ninova, E., Waizman, Y., Gaines, E., Karlsgodt, K.H., Silvers, J.A. (2026). Neural focalization of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the inferior parietal lobule is associated with inhibitory control performance in adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 80, 101750. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101750

2025

Guassi Moreira, J. F., Esparza, L. C., Silvers, J. A., & Parkinson, C. (2025). Social Decision Preferences for Close Others are Embedded in Neural and Linguistic Representations. Journal of Neuroscience , 45(45), e1696242025. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1696-24.2025

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

Rosenberg, B.M., Guassi Moreira, J.F., Méndez Leal., A.S., Saragosa-Harris, N.M., Gaines, E., Meredith, W.J., McCann, C.F., Coury, S.M., Waizman, Y., Ninova, E., & Silvers, J.A. (2025). Previous Institutionalization is Associated with Elevated Functional Connectivity between the Nucleus Accumbens and Amygdala during Aversive Learning. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 76, 101617. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101617

Sahi, R.S., Nussbaum, S.G., Guassi Moreira, J.F., Gaines, E.M., Ninova, E., Lee, D., Eisenberger, N.I., & Silvers, J.A. (2025). Vocal pitch as an acoustic marker of social support efficacy in women friendships. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(12), 3284-3293. doi: 10.1037/xge0001841

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

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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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

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., 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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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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2020

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

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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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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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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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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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