Faculty Publications

• Braden-Kuhle, P. N., Lacy, V. A., Brice, K. N., Bertrand, M. E., Uras, H. B., Shoffner, C., Fischer, B. E., Rana, A., Willis, J. L., Boehm, G. W., & Chumley, M. J. (2024). A Mediterranean-like diet protects against cognitive and behavioral deficits, adiposity, and Alzheimer’s disease-related markers, compared to a macronutrient matched typical American diet in C57BL/6J mice. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. doi: 10.1177/13872877251319467
• Mancilla, V. J., Braden-Kuhle, P. N., Brice, K. N., Mann, A. E., Williams, M. T., Zhang, Y., Chumley, M. J., Barber, R. C., White, S. N., Boehm, G. W., Allen, M. S. (2023). A synthetic formula amino acid diet leads to microbiome dysbiosis, reduced colon length, inflammation, and altered locomotor activity in C57BL/6J mice. Microorganisms, 11(11), 2694. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11112694
• Nejtek, V. A., James, R. N., Salvatore, M. F., Alphonso, H. M., Boehm, G. W. (2021). Premature cognitive decline in specific domains found in young veterans with mTBI coincide with elder normative scores and advanced-age subjects with early-stage Parkinson’s disease. PLoS One, 16 (11): e0258851.doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258851.
• Gassen, J., Prokosch, M. L., Eimerbrink, M. J., Proffitt Leyva, R. P., White, J. D., Peterman, J. L., Burgess, A., Cheek, D. J., Kreutzer, A., Nicolas, S. C., Boehm, G. W., and Hill, S. E. (2019). Inflammation predicts decision-making characterized by impulsivity, present focus, and an inability to delay gratification. Scientific Reports, 9: 4928. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41437-1.
• Eimerbrink, M. J., Pendry, R. J., Hodges, S. M., Wiles, J. D., Peterman, J. L., White, J. D., Hayes H. B., Chumley, M. J., and Boehm, G. W. (2019). The α5-GABAAR inverse agonist MRK-016 upregulates hippocampal BDNF expression and prevents cognitive deficits in LPS-treated mice, despite elevations in hippocampal Aβ.  Behavioural Brain Research, 359: 871-877.

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• Chen, M. A., Freedman, A. A., Jiang, T., Huang, X., Khan, S. S., & Miller, G. E. (In Press). Association of neighborhood violent crime with hypertension-related emergency department visits in Chicago. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
• Chen, M. A., Chen, E., Gallivan, S. U., Brody, E. J., Passarelli, V., & Miller, G. E. (2024). Socioeconomic disadvantage, neighborhood belonging, and inflammation among adolescents. Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine, 86(8), 660-669.https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000001332
• Chen, M. A., Suchting, R., Thayer, J. F., & Fagundes, C. P. (2023). Resilience to stress across the lifespan: Childhood maltreatment, heart rate variability, and bereavement. Psychology and Aging, 38(3), 247–262. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000738
• Chen, M. A., Brown, R. L, Chen, J. Y., de Dios, M. A., Green, C. E., Heijnen, C. J., & Fagundes, C. P. (2022). Childhood maltreatment, subjective social status, and health disparities in bereavement. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 135, 105595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105595

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• Goller, F., Cooper, B. G., Mindlin, G. B. (2025). Water-like timbral quality in birdsong arises from complex motor control of two sound sources. Current Biology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.045
• Méndez, J. M., Cooper, B. G., Goller, F. (2024).  Note similarities affect syntactic stability in zebra finches.  Journal of Comparative Physiology A,  211(1):35-52.
• Méndez, J. M., Dukes, J. & Cooper, B. G. (2022). Preparing to sing: Respiratory patterns underlying motor readiness for song.  Journal of Neurophysiology, 128(6), 1646-1662.
• White, J. D., Urbano, C. M., Taylor, J. O., Peterman, J. L., Cooksey, M., Eimerbrink, M., Eriksson, M. D., Cooper, B. G., Chumley, M. J., Boehm, G. W. (2020).  Intraventricular murine Aβ infusion elicits hippocampal inflammation and disrupts the consolidation, but not retrieval, of conditioned fear in C57BL6/J mice.  Behavioural Brain Research, 378, 112303.
• Daliparthi, V.K., Tachibana, R.O., Cooper, B.G., Hahnloser, R.H.R., Kojima, S., Sober, S.J., & Roberts, T.F. (2019). Transitioning between preparatory and precisely sequenced neuronal activity in production of a skilled behavior. eLife 2019;8:e43732. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43732.00

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• Cox, C. R., & Kersten, M. (2016). Mortality salience increases language style matching and well-being. Self and Identity, 15, 452-467.
• Kersten, M., Cox, C. R., & Van Enkevort, E. A. (2016). An exercise in nostalgia: Nostalgia promotes health optimism and physical activity. Psychology & Health, 31, 1166-1181.
• Cox, C.R., Eaton, S., Ekas, N.V., & Van Enkevort, E.A. (2015). Death concerns and psychological well-being in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 45-46, 229-238.
• Cox, C. R., Kersten, M., Routledge, C., Brown, E. M., & VanEnkevort, E. A. (2015). When past meets present: The relationship between website-induced nostalgia and well-being. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 45, 282-299.
• Cox, C. R., & Arndt, J. (2012). How sweet it is to be loved by you: Toward an understanding of why close relationships buffer existential fear. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 616-632.

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• Pruitt, M., Willis, K., Timmons, L., & Ekas, N. (2016). The impact of maternal, child, and family characteristics on the daily well-being and parenting experiences of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism.
• Ekas, N.V., Pruitt, M.M., & McKay, E. (2016). Hope, social relations, and depression symptoms in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 29-30, 8-18.
• Timmons, L., Willis, K., Pruitt, M.M., & Ekas, N.V. (2016). Predictors of daily affect and relationship quality in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46, 2573-2586.
• Willis, K., Timmons, L., Pruitt, M., Schneider, H.L., Alessandri, M., Ekas, N. (2016). The relationship between optimism, coping, and depressive symptoms in Hispanic mothers and fathers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46, 2427-2440.
• Kim, I., Ekas, N., & Hock, R. (2016). Associations between child behavior problems, family management ability, and depressive symptoms for mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 26, 80-90.

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• Granados Samayoa, J.A. & Albarracín, D. (2025). Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence:  Introducing A Belief-to-Behavior Process Model. Psychological Inquiry, 36(1), 1-22.  https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2025.2482343
• Granados Samayoa, J. A., & Albarracín, D. (2025). Bypassing versus correcting misinformation: Efficacy and fundamental processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(1), 18–38.  https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001687
• Albarracín, D., Fayaz Farkhad, B. & Granados Samayoa, J.A. (2024). Determinants of behaviour and their efficacy as targets of behavioural change interventions. Nature Reviews Psychology.    https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00305-0
• Granados Samayoa, J.A., Moore, C.A., Ruisch, B.C., C.A., Boggs, S.T., Ladanyi, J.T., & Fazio, R.H. (2022). A gateway conspiracy? Belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories prospectively predicts greater conspiracist ideation. PLOS ONE.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275502

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• Hill, S. E., Prokosch, M. L., DelPriore, D. J., Griskevicius, V. G., & Kramer, A. (2016). Growing Up Poor Leads to Eating in the Absence of Energy Need, Psychological Science, 27, 354-364.
• Hill, S. E., Prokosch, M. L., & DelPriore, D. J. (2015). The Impact of Disease Threat on Women’s Desire for Novel Partners: Is Variety the Best Medicine? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109, 244-261.
• Hill S. E., DelPriore, D. J., Rodeheffer, C., & Butterfield, M. (2014). The effect of ecological harshness on perceptions of the ideal female body size: An experimental life history approach. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35, 148-154.
• DelPriore, D. J. & Hill, S. E. (2013). The Effects of Paternal Disengagement on Women’s Sexual Decision-Making: An Experimental Approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 234-246.
• Rodeheffer, C. D., Hill, S. E., & Lord, C. G. (2012). Does this recession make me look Black? The effect of resource scarcity on categorization of biracial faces. Psychological Science, 23,1476-1478.

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• Valdes, R., Boggs, J., Redfield, P., Kijanczuk, K., Fretz, R., Schofield, D., & Knight, K., An evaluation of an in-prison therapeutic community: Treatment needs and recidivism., Federal Probation Journal, 2019.

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• Solorzano-Restrepo, J., Jones, S., Zenny, R., Gillespie, C. & Leising, K. J. (in press). The Effect of Interleaving Identity and Spatial-Change Trials on Cueing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.
• Nerz, J., Bond, S. R., Pittman, T., Jones, S., & Leising, K. J. (in press). The Effects of Temporal Arrangement and Landmark Stability in a Spatial Occasion Setting Task with Pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.
• Papini, M. R. & Leising, K. J. (2026). Comparative Learning and Cognition. Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition Textbook.
• Leising, K. J. (2025). The Role of Associative Learning in Sensitization. Learning and Behavior, 53(4), 313-314. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-024-00659-8
• Leising, K. J., Nerz, J. Solorzano-Restrepo, J., and Bond, S. R. (2025). Are You Studying Occasion Setting? A Review for Inquiring Minds. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 20, 1-40. https://doi.org/10.3819/CCBR.2025.200002

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• Thompson, J. B., Daniel, A. M., Rushing, B. G., & Papini, M. R. (2021). Recovery profiles from reward downshift are correlated with operant licking maintained by alcohol, but not with genetic variation in the mu opioid receptor. Physiology & Behavior, 228, 113192.
• Ruiz-Salas, J.C., de la Casa, L.G., & Papini, M.R., Dimensions of sucrose solutions in the successive negative contrast effect., Learning & Motivation, 2020.
• Guarino, S., Conrad, S.E., & Papini, M.R., Frustrative nonreward: Chemogenetic inactivation of the central amygdala abolishes the effect of reward downshift without affecting alcohol intake., Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, 2020.
• Papini, M. R. (2021). Comparative Psychology: Evolution and Development of Brain and Behavior. Third Edition. Taylor & Francis.
• Conrad, S. E., Guarino, S., & Papini, M. R. (2020). Surprising nonreward and response effort: Extinction after progressive-ratio training in rats and pigeons. Learning & Motivation, 72, 101676.

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• Shi, Q., Thornton, L. M., Kilshaw, R; Flatt, R.E., Butner, J.E., Adamo, C., Deboeck, P., Baucom, B. R.W., Tregarthen, J., Argue, S., Bulik, C.M. (2025). Relationship Between Intensive Passive Data Signals and Patterns of Binge-Eating Behaviors: From a Dynamical System Approach. Clinical Psychological Science.13(3), 558–81. doi: 10.1177/21677026241280728
• Shi, Q., Yu, D., Butner, J. E., Berg, C. A., Campbell, M. S., Wiebe, D. J. (2023). Visualizing Holistic Person-specific Dynamic Systems: A Case Example with Self-Efficacy and Self-care Behavior in Emerging Adults with type 1 Diabetes. Applied Developmental Science. 1-19. doi: 10.1080/10888691.2023.2254696
• Shi, Q., Butner, J. E., Kilshaw, R., Munion, A., Deboeck, P., Oh, Y., & Berg, C. A. (2023). A comparison of models for inferring longitudinal reciprocal relationships between constructs: A case example with internalizing and externalizing problems. Social Development, 32(1), 47-72. doi: 10.1111/sode.12628
• Shi, Q., Ettekal, I., Deutz, M., & Woltering, S. (2020). Trajectories of pure and co-occurring internalizing and externalizing problems from early childhood to adolescence: associations with early childhood individual and contextual antecedents. Developmental Psychology, 56(10). 1906-1918. doi: 10.1037/dev0001095

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• Carpenter, S. K., Witherby, A. E., & Tauber, S. K. (2020). On students' (mis)judgments of learning and teaching effectiveness. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9, 137-151.
• Tauber, S.K., & Witherby, A.E., Do judgments of learning modify older adults' actual learning?, Psychology and Aging, 2020.
• Sitzman, D. M., Tauber, S. K., & Witherby, A. E. (2020). How do older adults maintain corrections in knowledge across a lengthy delay? Psychology and Aging,35, 112-123.
• Carpenter, S. K., Northern, P. E., Tauber, S. K., & Toftness, A. R. (2020). Effects of lecture fluency and instructor expertise on students' judgments of learning, test scores, and evaluations of instructors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26, 26-39.
• Witherby, A. E., & Tauber, S. K. (2019). The current status of students' note-taking: Why and how do students take notes? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 139-153.

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• Zhao, X., Chae, Y.†, Smith, D.†, Chen, V.†, Sadangi, A.†, DeFelipe, D.†, Sokol, J. W.†, & Tschida, K. A. (2024) Short-term social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in a sex- and context-dependent manner. 13:RP94924
• Zhao, X., Erickson, M.†, Mohammed, R.†, & Kentner, A. C. (2022). Maternal immune activation accelerates puberty initiation and alters mechanical allodynia in male and female C57BL6/J mice. Developmental Psychobiology. 64 (5), e22278
• Zhao, X.*, Ziobro, P.*, Pranic, N. M.*, Chu, S., Rabinovich, S.†, Chan, W., Zhao, J., Kornbrek, C., He, Z., & Tschida, K. A. (2021). Sex- and context-dependent effects of acute isolation on vocal and non-vocal social behaviors in mice. PLoS ONE. 16(9): e0255640 (* co-first authorship)
• Zhao, X., Mohammed, R.†, Tran, H.†, Erickson, M.†, & Kentner, A. C. (2021). Poly (I: C)-induced maternal immune activation modifies ventral hippocampal regulation of stress reactivity: prevention by environmental enrichment. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 95, 203-215

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