PUBLICATIONS

Mullins, J.L., Cheung, C. S., & Michalska, K.J. (2024). Caregiver Experienced Racism, Acculturative Stress, and Political Hostility Predict Anxiety in Latinx Families Residing in the United States. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, In Press.

Mullins, J.L., Diaz, D.E., Firat, R.B., & Michalska, K.J. (2024). Ethnic-Racial Discrimination Exposure and Anxiety in Latina Girls: Amygdala Volume as an Indirect Neurobiological Pathway. Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology, In Press.

Diaz, D.E., Tseng, W-L., & Michalska, K.J. (2024). Pre-scan state anxiety is associated with greater right amygdala-hippocampal response to fearful versus happy faces among trait-anxious Latina girls. BMC Psychiatry, In Press [PDF]   

Bernstein, R. A., Smith, A. R., Kitt, E. R., Cardinale, E. M., Harrewijn, A., Abend, R., Michalska, K.J., Pine, D.S., & Kircanski, K. (2023). Threat appraisal and pediatric anxiety: Proof of concept of a latent variable approach. Clinical Psychological Science, 21677026231190349 [PDF].

Mullins, J.L., & Michalska, K. J. (2023). Caregiver role in children’s threat and safety learning. In S.Chrząstowski & A. Vetere (Eds.), Safety, danger, and protection in the family and community (pp. 135-152). Routledge [PDF].

La Scala, S., Mullins, J. L., Firat, R. B., & Michalska, K. J. (2023). Equity, diversity, and inclusion in developmental neuroscience: Practical lessons from community-based participatory research. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 16, 141 [PDF].

Mullins, J.L., Zhou, E., & Michalska, K.J. (2023). Parental empathic accuracy and posttraumatic growth support Latina girls’ affective empathy and altruistic sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Psychology, 54 (1-2), 95-109.

Michalska, K. J., Benson, B., Ivie, E. J., Sachs, J. F., Haller, S. P., Abend, R., ... & Pine, D. S. (2023). Neural responding during uncertain threat anticipation in pediatric anxiety. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 183, 159-170 [PDF].

Barendse, M., Flannery, J., Cavanagh, C., Aristizabal, M., Becker, S. P., Berger, E., Breaux, R., Campione-Barr, N., Church, J.A., Crone, E.A., Dahl, R.E., Dennis-Tiwary, T., Dvorsky, M.R., Dziura, S., van de Groep, S., Ho, T.C., Killoren, S.E., Langberg, J.M., Larguinho, T.L., Magis-Weinberg, L., Michalska, K.J., Mullins, J.L. ... & Pfeifer, J. (2023). Longitudinal change in adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international collaborative of 12 samples. Journal of Research in Adolescence, 33(1), 74-91 [PDF].

Glenn, D.E., Merenstein, J.L., Bennett, I.J., & Michalska, K.J. (2022). Anxiety symptoms and puberty interactively predict lower cingulum microstructure in preadolescent Latina girls. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 20755 [PDF].

Michalska, K.J., Zhou, E., & Borelli, J.L. (2022). School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence of subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 221, 105451 [PDF].

Saragosa-Harris, N., Chaku, N., MacSweeney, N., Williamson, V. G., Scheuplein, M., Feola, B., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Demir-Lira, E., McNeilly, E.A., Goodgame-Huffman, L., Whitmore, L., Michalska, K.J., Damme, K.S.F., Rakesh, D., & Mills, K. L. (2022). A practical guide for researchers and reviewers using the ABCD Study and other large longitudinal datasets. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101115 [PDF].

Abend, R., Burk, D., Ruiz, S.G., Gold, A.L., Napoli, J.L., Britton, J.C., Michalska, K.J., Shechner, T., Winkler, A.M., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D.S., & Averbeck, B.B. (2022). Computational Modeling of Threat Learning Reveals Links with Anxiety and Neuroanatomy in Humans. Elife, 11, e66169 [PDF].

Glenn, D.E., Feldman, J.S., Ivie, E.J., Shechner, T., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D.S., Peters, M.A.K., & Michalska, K.J. (2021). Social relevance modulates multivariate neural representations of threat generalization in children and adults. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(7), e22185 [PDF].

Mullins, J. L., Zhou, E., Glenn, D. E., Moroney, E., Lee, S. S., & Michalska, K. J. (2021). Paternal expressed emotion influences psychobiological indicators of threat and safety learning in daughters: A preliminary study. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(7), e22205 [PDF].

Glenn, D.E., Michalska, K.J., & Lee, S.S. (2021). Social skills moderate the time-varying association between aggression and peer rejection among children with and without ADHD. Aggressive Behavior, In Press. [PDF].

Zhou, E., Kyeong, Y., Cheung, C.S., & Michalska, K.J. (2021). Cultural values influence attitudes to mental health and help-seeking among Asian and Latinx college students. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, In Press. [PDF].

Barendse, M., Flannery, J.C.C., Aristizabal, M., Becker, S., Berger, E., Breaux, R., Camione-Barr, N., Church, J., Crone, E., Dahl, R., Dennis-Tiwary, T.A., Dvorsky, M., Dziura, S., Ho, T., Killoren, S.E., Langberg, J., Larguinho, T., Magis-Weinberg, L., Michalska, K.J., Mullins, J., Nadel, H., Porter, B.M., Protzstein, M., Redcay, E., Rose, A.J., Rote, W.M., Roy, A., Sweijen, S., Telzer, E., Teresi, G., Thomas, A.G., & Pfeifer, J. (2021). Longitudinal change in adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international collaborative of 12 samples. [PsyArXiv: 10.31234/osf.io/hn7us].

Abend, R., Bajaj, M.A., Harrewijn, A., Matsumoto, C. Michalska, K.J., Necka, E., Palacios-Barrios, E.E., Leibenluft, E., Atlas, L.Y., & Pine, D.S. (2021). Threat-anticipatory psychophysiological response is enhanced in youth with anxiety disorders and correlates with prefrontal cortex structure. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 46(2).

Glenn, D. E., Fox, N. A., Pine, D. S., Peters, M. A. K., & Michalska, K. J., (2020). Divergence in cortical representations of threat generalization in affective versus perceptual circuitry in childhood: Relations with anxiety. Neuropsychologia, 142, 107416 [PDF].

Abend, R., Gold, A., Britton, J.C., Michalska, K.J., Shechner, T., Sachs, J.F., Winkler, A.M., Leibenluft, E., Averbeck, B.B., & Pine, D.S. (2020). Anticipatory Threat Responding: Associations with Anxiety, Development, and Brain Structure. Biological Psychiatry, 87, 916-925. [PDF].

Michalska, K.J., Gardiner, G., & Hughes, B.L. (2020). What neuroscience can tell us about social situations: Challenges and opportunities. In J. F. Rauthmann, R. Sherman, & D.C. Funder (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Situations, Oxford University Press (pp. 437-471). [PDF]

Michalska, K.J., Feldman, J., Ivie, E., Shechner, T., Sequeira, S., Averbeck, B., Degnan, K.A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Leibenluft, E., Fox, N.A., & Pine, D.S. (2019). Early-childhood social reticence predicts neural responses to fear extinction recall in preadolescent youth. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 100605. [PDF].

Speer, A.C., & Michalska, K.J. (2019). Promoting Reciprocity through Theatre: Interdisciplinary Reflections from the S-Word Laboratory. Stanislavski Studies, 1-8. [PDF]

Michalska, K.J., & Davis, E.L. (2019). The psychobiology of emotional development: The case for examining sociocultural processes. Developmental Psychobiology, 61, 416-429. [PDF]

Devineni, P., Papalexakis, E.E., Michalska, K.J., & Faloutsos, M. (2018). MIMiS: Minimally Intrusive Mining of Smartphone User Behaviors. [arXiv:1805.05476].

Michalska, K.J., Feldman, J.S., Abend, R., Gold, A.L., Didldine, T., Palacios-Barrios, E., Leibenluft, E., Towbin, K., Pine. D.S., & Atlas, L. (2018). Anticipatory effects on perceived pain: Associations with development and anxiety. Psychosomatic Medicine, 80, 853-860. [PDF]  

Michalska, K.J., Machlin, L., Moroney, B., Lowet, D., Hettema, J., Robeson-Nay, R., Averbeck, B., Brotman, M., Nelson, E., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D.S. (2017). Anxiety symptoms and children’s eye gaze during fear learning. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, 1276-1286. [PDF]

Michalska, K.J., Shechner, T., Hong, M., Britton, J.C., Leibenluft, E., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N. (2016). A developmental analysis of threat/safety learning and extinction recall in middle childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 146, 95-105. [PDF]

Michalska, K.J., Zeffiro, T.A., & Decety, J. (2016). Brain response to viewing others being harmed in children with conduct disorder symptoms. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57, 510-519. [PDF]

Michalska, K.J. (2015). Emotion understanding in developmental disorders: What can neuroscience teach us? Existenz, International Journal of Philosophy, 10, 8-16 [PDF].

Michalska, K.J., Decety, J., Zeffiro, T.A., & Lahey, B.B. (2015). Association of regional gray matter volumes in brain with disruptive behavior disorders in male and female children. Neuroimage: Clinical, 7, 252-257. [PDF]

Shechner, T., Britton, J., Ronkin, E., Jarcho, J. Mash, J., Michalska, K.J., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D. (2014). Fear conditioning and extinction in anxious and non-anxious youth and adults: Examining a developmentally-appropriate fear conditioning task. Depression and Anxiety, 32, 277-288. [PDF]

Michalska, K.J., Decety, J., Liu, Chunyu, L., Overmyer, M., Jacob, S., Hipwell, A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., & Lahey, B.B. (2014). Genetic imaging of the association of oxytocin receptor gene polymorphisms with human maternal parenting. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 21, 1-10. [PDF]

Michalska, K.J., Kinzler, K. D., & Decety. (2013). Age-related gender differences in dispositional empathy do not predict brain responses. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 22-32. [PDF]

Decety, J., & Michalska, K.J. (2013). A neuroscience perspective on empathy and its development. In J. Rubenstein and P. Rakic (Eds.), Neural Circuit Development and Function in the Healthy and Diseased Brain: Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience (pp. 379-393). San Diego, CA.

Lahey, B., Michalska, K. J., Liu, C., Chen, Q., Hipwell, A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Waldman, I. D., & Decety, J. (2012). Imaging the robust association of polymorphisms in the estrogen receptor-α gene with harsh human maternal parenting. Neuroscience Letters, 525, 17-22. [PDF]

Decety, J., Michalska, K.J., & Kinzler, K. D. (2012). The contribution of emotion and cognition to moral sensitivity: A neurodevelopmental study. Cerebral Cortex, 22, 209-220. [PDF]

Decety, J., Michalska, K.J., & Kinzler, K. D. (2011). The developmental neuroscience of moral sensitivity. Emotion Review, 3, 305-307 [PDF].

Decety, J., & Michalska, K.J. (2010). Neurodevelopmental changes in the circuits underlying empathy and sympathy from childhood to adulthood. Developmental Science, 13, 886-899.

Decety, J., Michalska, K.J., Akitsuki, Y., & Lahey, B.B. (2009). Atypical empathic responses in adolescents with aggressive conduct disorder: a functional MRI investigation. Biological Psychology, 80, 203-211.

Decety, J., Michalska, K.J., & Akitsuki, Y. (2008). Who caused the pain? An fmri investigation of empathy and theory of mind in children. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2607-2614.

Budson, A.E., Michalska, K.J., Sullivan, A.L., Rentz, D.M., Daffner, K.R., & Schacter, D.L. (2003). False recognition in Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidence from categorized pictures. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 16, 16-27.

Budson, A.E., Michalska, K.J., Rentz, D.M., Daffner, K.R. & Schacter, D.L. (2002). Use of a false recognition paradigm
in an Alzheimer’s Disease clinical trial. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, 17, 93-100.

Rentz, D.M., Faust, R.R., Michalska, K.J., Budson, A.E, Sperling, R. & Daffner, K.R. (2001). Highly intelligent elderly patients: Should the mild cognitive impairment criteria be revised for this group? Advanced Studies in Medicine, 1, 317-319.

Under Review & In Preparation

Gardiner, G., Sauerberger, K., Michalska, K.J., & Funder, D. (under review). Who Happy People Are and What They Do: Sex Differences in Personality and Behavioral Correlates of Happiness.

Glenn, D. E. & Michalska, K.J. (in prep). A novel multi-component model of coherence in emotion reactivity: Implications for the development of psychopathology.

Michalska, K.J., Walker, O.L., Troller-Renfree, S., Pine, D.S., & Fox, N.A. (in prep). Responding to Social Exclusion: Influences of Behavioral Inhibition.