Publications

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BOOKS & MANUALS

Coan, J. A. & Allen, J. J. B. (in press). The Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (Edited Volume) [LINK]

Gottman, J., McCoy, K., Coan, J., & Collier, H. (1995). The Specific Affect Coding System (SPAFF) for Observing Emotional Communication in Marital and Family Interaction. Mahway, NJ: Erlbaum.

EMOTION, PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 

Salomons, T. V., Coan, J. A., Hunt, S. M., Backonja, M. M., & Davidson, R. J. (submitted). Assessing the impact of the "pain face":  Modulation of the pain experience by a voluntary facial display.

Shackman, A. J., Maxwell, J. S., Springborn, K. D., Greischar, L. L., Pizzagalli, D. A., Coan, J. A., & Davidson, R. J. (submitted). Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Regulates Anxiety.

Coan, J. A., & Allen, J. J. B. (in press). Organizing the tools and methods of affective science: The handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment. Chapter to appear in J. A. Coan and J. J. B. Allen (Eds.) The Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Norris, C. J., Coan, J. A., & Johnstone, I. T. (in press). Functional magnetic resonance imaging and the study of emotion. Chapter to appear in J. A. Coan and J. J. B. Allen (Eds.) The Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Coan, J. A., Allen, J. J. B. & McKnight, P. E. (2006). A capability model of individual differences in frontal EEG asymmetry. Biological Psychology, 72, 198-207. [PDF]

Allen, J. J. B., Coan, J. A. & Nazarian, M. (2004). Issues and assumptions on the road from raw signals to metrics of frontal EEG asymmetry in emotion. Biological Psychology, 67, 183-218. [PDF]

Coan, J. A. & Allen, J. J. B. (2004). Frontal EEG asymmetry as a moderator and mediator of emotion. Biological Psychology, 67, 7-49. [PDF]

Allen, J.J.B., Urry, H.L., Hitt, S.K., & Coan, J.A. (2004). Stability of Resting Frontal EEG Asymmetry Across Different Clinical States of Depression. Psychophysiology, 41, 269-280. [PDF]

Coan, J. A. & Allen, J. J. B. (2003). Varieties of emotional experience during voluntary emotional facial expressions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1000, 375-379.[PDF]

Coan, J.A., Allen, J.J.B (2003). Frontal EEG asymmetry and the behavioral activation and inhibition systems. Psychophysiology, 40, 106-114.[PDF]

Coan, J.A., & Allen, J.J.B. (2003). The state and trait nature of frontal EEG asymmetry in emotion. Chapter to appear in K. Hugdahl and R. J. Davidson (Eds.) The Asymmetrical Brain, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.[PDF]

Coan, J.A., Allen, J.J.B., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2001). Voluntary facial expression and hemispheric asymmetry over the frontal cortex. Psychophysiology, 38, 912-925. [PDF]

Boeschen, L.E., Koss, M.E., Figuredo, A.J., & Coan, J.A. (2001). Experiential avoidance and posttraumatic stress disorder: A cognitive mediational model of rape recovery. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 4, 211-245.

EMOTION AND INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS  

Coan, J. A., Schaefer, H. S., Sbarra, D.A. & Davidson, R. J. (in preparation). Attachhment and the social regulation of the neural response to threat.

Coan, J. A., Schaefer, H. S. & Davidson, R. J. (in press). Lending a hand: Social regulation of the neural response to threat. Psychological Science [PDF]

Coan, J. A. & Gottman, J. M. (in press).  Sampling, experimental control and generalizability in the study of marital process models.  Journal of Marriage and Family.

Coan, J. A., & Gottman, J. M. (in press). The specific affect (SPAFF) coding system. Chapter to appear in J. A. Coan and J. J. B. Allen (Eds.) The Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Roberts, N. A., Tsai, J. L. & Coan, J. A. (in press). Emotion elicitation using dyadic interaction tasks. Chapter to appear in J. A. Coan and J. J. B. Allen (Eds.) The Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Carrere, S, Buehlman, K.T., Gottman, J.M., Coan, J.A., & Ruckstuhl, L. (2000). Predicting marital stability and divorce in newlywed couples. Journal Of Marriage and Family, 14, 42-58. [PDF]

Gottman, J.M., Carrere, S., Swanson, C, & Coan, J.A. (2000). Reply to "from basic research to interventions." Journal of Marriage and Family, 62, 265-273. [PDF]

Gottman, J.M., Coan, J.A., Carrere, S., & Swanson, C. (1998). Predicting marital happiness and stability from newlywed interactions. Journal of Marriage and Family, 60, 5-22. [PDF]

Coan, J., Gottman, J.M., Babcock, J., & Jacobson, N. (1997). Battering and the male rejection of influence from women. Aggressive Behavior, 23, 375-388. [PDF]

MEMORY, ETHICS AND POLICY  

Coan, J. A. & Sechrest, L. (in preparation). The heuristic value of imperfect research

Sechrest, L. & Coan, J.A. (2002). Preparing psychologists to prescribe. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58, 649-658. [PDF]

Coan, J.A. (1997). Lost in a shopping mall: An experience with controversial research. Ethics and Behavior, 7, 271-284. [PDF]

Loftus, E.F., Coan, J.A, & Pickrell, J.E. (1996). Manufacturing false memories using bits of reality. In L. Reder (Ed.), Implicit Memory and Metacognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. [PDF]

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

Coan, J. A. (2003). The heritability of trait frontal EEG asymmetry and negative emotionality: Sex differences and genetic nonadditivity. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona. [PDF available on request]
   
   


 
   
   
   
   
   
   

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