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Appearance on CNBC’s, The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch, “How to make good money in bad times,” July 24, 2008, with blog posting on controlling fear in difficult financial times.

Interview with Pearson publishers about the origins of my interest in Psychology and the work in the SCN Lab. Recorded at APS 2007.  Scroll to right for interview.

Zweig, J. (2008). How to control your fears in a fearsome market.  Wall Street Journal.

Gencer, A. (2005). Mapping the brain to combat depression.

Miller, G. (2004). Learning to forget. Science, 304, 2 April, 34-36.

Gilbert, D. (2002). Are psychology’s tribes ready to form a nation? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(1), 3.

Azar, B. (2002). At the frontier of science. APA Monitor, 33(1).

Articles/Talks Offering an Overview

NYAS Imaging Emotions eBriefing (To access web version of talk given at NYAS in Feb 2005, click “audio/slides” to the right of ENTER icon).

Ochsner, K. N. (2008). The social-emotional processing stream: Five core constructs and their translational potential for schizophrenia and beyond. Biological Psychiatry, 64 48-61.

Olsson, A. & Ochsner, K. N. (2008). The role of social cognition in emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(2), 65-71.

Ochsner, K. N. & Gross, J. J. (2008). Cognitive emotion regulation: Insights from social cognitive and affective neuroscience. Currents Directions in Psychological Science, 17(1), 153-158.

Ochsner, K. (2007). How thinking controls feeling: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. In E. H. Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: Integrating biological and psychological explanations of behavior (pp. 106-136). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Ochsner, K. N. (2007). Social Cognitive Neuroscience: Historical Development, Core Principles, and Future Promise. To appear in: Kruglanksi, A., & Higgins, E. T. (Eds.). Social Psychology: A Handbook of Basic Principles (pp. 39-66). 2nd Ed. New York: Guilford Press.

Ochsner, K. N. & Gross, J. J. (2005). The cognitive control of emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(5), 242-249.

Commentary & Reply for this article:

Northoff, G. (2005). Is emotion regulation self regulation? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 408-409.

Ochsner, K. N. & Gross, J. J. (2005). Putting the ‘I’ and the ‘Me’ in emotion regulation: Reply to Northoff. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 409-410.

In Press

Ochsner, K. N., Hughes, B. L., Robertson, E., Cooper, J. C., & Gabrieli, J. (in press). Neural systems supporting the control of cognitive and affective conflict. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Wager, T. D., Davidson, M., Hughes, B. L., Lindquist, M. A., & Ochsner, K. N. (in press). Prefrontal-subcortical pathways mediating successful emotion regulation. Neuron.

Zaki, J. & Ochsner, K. N. (In press).  You, me, and my brain: Self and other representation in social cognitive neuroscience. To appear in: Social neuroscience: Toward understanding the underpinnings of the social mind. A. Todorov, S. T. Fiske, & D. Prentice (Eds). Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

2000-present

Ochsner, K. N., Zaki, J., Hanelin, J., Ludlow, D., H., Knierim, K., Ramachandran, T. & Mackey, S. (2008). Your Pain or Mine? Common and Distinct Neural Systems Supporting the Perception of Pain in Self and Other. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3, 144-160.

McRae, K., Ochsner, K. N., Mauss, I. B., Gabrieli, J. D. E. & Gross, J. J. (2008).  Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation: An fMRI study of Cognitive Reappraisal. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 11, 145-162.

Ochsner, K. N. (2008). The social-emotional processing stream: Five core constructs and their translational potential for schizophrenia and beyond. Biological Psychiatry, 64 48-61.

Zaki, J. Bolger,, N. & Ochsner, K. N. (2008).  It takes two: The interpersonal basis of empathic accuracy. Psychological Science,19(4), 399-404.

Ochsner, K. N. & Gross, J. J. (2008). Cognitive emotion regulation: Insights from social cognitive and affective neuroscience. Currents Directions in Psychological Science, 17(1), 153-158.

Olsson, A. & Ochsner, K. N. (2008). The role of social cognition in emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(2), 65-71.

Ochsner, K. N. (2007). Social Cognitive Neuroscience: Historical Development, Core Principles, and Future Promise. To appear in: Kruglanksi, A., & Higgins, E. T. (Eds.). Social Psychology: A Handbook of Basic Principles (pp. 39-66). 2nd Ed. New York: Guilford Press.

Zaki, J., Ochsner, K. N., Hanelin, H., Wager, T. D., & Mackey, S. (2007). Different circuits for different pain: Patterns of functional connectivity reveal distinct networks for processing pain in self and others. Social Neuroscience, 2, 276-291.

Kross, E., Egner, T., Ochsner, K. N., Hirsch, J. & Downey, G. (2007). Neural dynamics of rejection sensitivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(6), 945-956.

Barret, L. F., Mesquita, B., Ochsner, K. N. & Gross, J. J. (2007). The experience of emotion. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 387-403.

Ochsner, K. N. & Gross, J. J. (2007). The neural architecture of emotion regulation. In: Gross, J. J., & Buck, R. (Eds). The Handbook of Emotion Regulation (pp. 87-109). New York: Guilford Press.

Feldman Barrett, L., Ochsner, K. N., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Automaticity and Emotion. In J. Bargh (Ed.), Sicial Psychology and the Unconscious (pp.173-218). New York: Psychology Press.

Ochsner, K. (2007). How thinking controls feeling: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. In E. H. Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: Integrating biological and psychological explanations of behavior (pp. 106-136). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Beer, J. S., Mitchell, J. P., & Ochsner, K. N. (2006). Special issue: Multiple perspectives on the psychological and neural bases of social cognition. Brain Research, 1079(1), 1-3.

Beer, J. S., & Ochsner, K. N. (2006). Social cognition: a multi level analysis. Brain Research, 1079(1), 98-105.

Ochsner, K. N., Ludlow, D., Knierim, K., Hanelin, J., Ramachandran, T..& Mackey, S. (2006). Neural correlates of individual differences in pain related fear and anxiety. Pain, 129(1-2), 69-77.

Ochsner, K. N., Beer, J. S., Robertson, E. R., Cooper, J. C., Kihlstrom, J. F., D’Esposito, M & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2005). The neural correlates of direct and reflected self-knowledge. Neuroimage, 28, 797-814.

Ochsner, K. N. & Gross, J. J. (2005). The cognitive control of emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(5), 242-249.

Ochsner, K. N. & Gross, J. J. (2005). Putting the “I” and the ‘Me’ in emotion regulation: Reply to Northoff. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 409-410.

Ochsner, K. N. (2005). Characterizing the functional architecture of affect regulation: Emerging answers and outstanding questions. Cacioppo, J. T., Visser ,P. S., & Pickett, C. L. (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: People thinking about people (pp. 245-268). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ray, R., Ochsner, K. N., Robertson, E., Cooper, J., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Gross, J. J. (2005). Individual differences in rumination predict brain correlates of effective cognitive control of emotion. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5(2), 156-168.

Goldin, P. R., Hutcherson, C. A. C., Ochsner, K. N., Gabrieli, J.D. E., & Gross, J. J. (2005). The Neural Bases of Amusement and Sadness: A Comparison of Block Contrast and Subject-Specific Emotion Intensity Idiographic Regression Approaches. Neuroimage, 27(1), 26-36.

Hutcherson, C. A. C., Goldin, P. R., Ochsner, K. N., Gabrieli, J.D. E., Feldmann Barret, L., & Gross, J. J. (2005). Attention and Emotion: Does Rating Emotion Alter Neural Responses to Amusing and Sad Films? Neuroimage, 27(3), 656-668.

Wager, T. D. & Ochsner, K. N. (2005). Sex differences in the emotional brain. Neuroreport, 16(2), 85-87.

Ochsner, K. N., Knierim, K., Ludlow, D., Hanelin, J., Ramachandran, T. & Mackey, S. (2004). Reflecting upon feelings: An fMRI study of neural systems supporting the attribution of emotion to self and other. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(10), 1748-1772.

Ochsner, K. N., Ray, R. D., Robertson, E. R., Cooper, J. C., Chopra, S., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Gross, J. J. (2004). For better or for worse: Neural Systems Supporting the Cognitive Down- and Up-regulation of Negative Emotion. Neuroimage, 23(2), 483-499.

Ochsner, K. N. (2004). Current Directions in Social Cognitive Neuroscience. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14, 254-258.

Ochsner, K. N. & Gross, J. J. (2004). Thinking makes it so: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to emotion regulation (pp. 221-255). In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds). The Handbook of self-regulation. NY, Guilford Press.

Anderson, M. C., Ochsner, K. N., Kuhl, B., Cooper , J., Robertson, E., Gabrieli, S. W., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2004). Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories. Science, 303, 9 Jan, 232-5.

Mather, M., Canli, T., English, T., Whitfield, S., Wais, P., Ochsner, K., Gabrieli, J., & Cartensen, L. (2004). Amygdala responses to Emotionally Valenced Stimuli in Older and Younger adults. Psychological Science, 15, 259-263.

Preston, A. R., Thomason, M. E., Ochsner, K. N., Cooper, J. C., & Glover, G. H. (2004). Comparison of spiral-in/out and spiral-out BOLD fMRI at 1.5T and 3T. NeuroImage, 21, 291-301.

Lieberman, M. D., Schreiber, D. & Ochsner, K. N. (2003). Is political sophistication like riding a bicycle? How cognitive neuroscience can inform research on political attitudes and decision-making. Political Psychology, 24, 681-704.

Ochsner, K. N. & Schacter, D. L. (2003). Remembering emotional events: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. In R.J. Davidson, H. Goldsmith, and K.R. Scherer (Eds.), Handbook of the Affective Sciences. Oxford University Press: New York.

Ochsner, K. N., Bunge, S. A., Gross, J. J., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2002). Rethinking feelings: An fMRI study of the cognitive regulation of emotion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 1215-1299.

Ochsner, K. N. & Lieberman, M. D. (2001). The emergence of social cognitive neuroscience. American Psychologist, 56, 717-734.

Bunge, S. A., Ochsner, K. N., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. Prefrontal regions involved in keeping information in and out of mind. (2001). Brain, 124, 2074-2086.

Lieberman, M. D., Ochsner, K. N., Gilbert, D. T., & Schacter, D. L. (2001). Do amnesics exhibit cognitive dissonance reduction? The role of explicit memory and attention in attitude change. Psychological Science,  12, 135-140.

Ochsner, K. N., Kosslyn, S. M., Cosgrove, G. R., Price, B., Cassem, N., Nierenberg, A, & Rauch, S. (2001). Deficits in visual cognition and attention following bilateral anterior cingulotomy. Neuropsychologia, 39, 219-230.

Ochsner, K. N. & Feldman Barrett, L. (2001). A multiprocess perspective on the neuroscience of emotion. In T. J. Mayne and G. Bonnano (Eds.), Emotion: Current Issues and Future Directions (pp. 38-81). Guilford Press: New York .

Ochsner, K. N. (2000). Are affective events richly recollected or simply familiar? The experience and process of recognizing feelings past. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 242-261.

Ochsner, K. N. & Schacter, D. L. (2000). A social cognitive neuroscience approach to emotion and memory. In J. C. Borod (Ed.), The Neuropsychology of Emotion (pp. 163-193). Oxford University Press: New York .

pre-2000

Ochsner, K. N. & Kosslyn, S. M. (1999). The cognitive neuroscience approach. In D. E. Rumelhart & B. O. Martin, (Eds.), Handbook of Cognition and Perception, vol. X., Cognitive Science (pp. 319-365). Academic Press: San Diego .

Ochsner, K. N., Schacter, D. L., & Edwards, K. E. (1997). Illusory recall of vocal affect. Memory, 5, 433-455.

Kosslyn, S. M. & Ochsner, K. N. (1994). In search of occipital activation during mental imagery. Trends in Neurosciences, 17 , 290-292.

Ochsner, K. N., Chiu, C-Y. P., & Schacter, D. L. (1994). Varieties of Priming. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4 , 189-194.

Ochsner, K. N. & Kosslyn, S. M. (1994). Mental Imagery. In V.S. Ramachandran, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior . Academic Press: San Diego .

Schacter, D. L., Chiu, C.-Y. P. & Ochsner, K. N. (1993). Implicit memory: a selective review. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 16, 159-182.

 

 


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