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In Press
Metts, A., Zinbarg, R. E., Nusslock, R., Tabak, B. A. & Craske, M. G. (in press). Longitudinal associations among adult attachment orientations, emotion regulation tendencies, and transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms in young adults. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
2023
Tabak, B. A., Leng, G. Szeto, A., Parker, K. J., Verbalis, J. G., Ziegler, T. E., Lee, M. R., Neumann, I. D., & Mendez, A. J. (2023). Advances in human oxytocin measurement: challenges and proposed solutions. Molecular Psychiatry, 28, 127-140.
*Alvi, T., Rosenfield, D., *Sunahara, C. S., Wallmark, Z., Lee, J., & Tabak, B. A. (2023). Examining unique associations of social anxiety and depression on behaviorally assessed affective empathy. Clinical Psychological Science, 11, 979-993.
Tabak, B. A.+, Wallmark, Z.+, Nghiem, L., *Alvi, T., *Sunahara, C. S., Lee, J, & Cao, J. (2023). Initial evidence for a relation between behaviorally assessed empathic accuracy and affect sharing for people and music. Emotion, 23, 437-449.
Straccia, M. A., *Teed, A. R., Katzman, P. L., Tan, K. M., Parrish, M. H., Irwin, M. R., Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Tabak, B. A. (2023). Null results of oxytocin and vasopressin administration on mentalizing in a large fMRI sample: evidence from a randomized controlled trial. Psychological Medicine, 53, 2285-2295.
2022
*Sunahara, C. S., Wilson, S. J., Rosenfield, D., *Alvi, T., Szeto, A., Mendez, A. J., & Tabak, B. A. (2022). Oxytocin reactivity to a lab-based stressor predicts support seeking after stress in daily life: implications for the Tend-and-Befriend theory. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 145, 105897.
*Sunahara, C. S., Rosenfield, D., *Alvi, T., Wallmark, Z., Lee, J., Fulford, D., & Tabak, B. A. (2022). Revisiting the association between self-reported empathy and behavioral assessments of social cognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 3304-3322.
Tabak, B. A., Rosenfield, D., *Sunahara, C. S., *Alvi, T., Szeto, A., & Mendez, A. J. (2022). Social anxiety is associated with greater peripheral oxytocin reactivity to psychosocial stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 140, 105712.
*Alvi, T., Kumar, D., & Tabak, B. A. (2022). Social anxiety and behavioral assessments of social cognition: A systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 311, 17-30.
Tabak, B. A., *Gupta, D., *Sunahara, C. S., *Alvi, T., Wallmark, Z., Fulford, D., Hudson, N. W., & Chmielewski, M. (2022). Environmental sensitivity predicts interpersonal sensitivity above and beyond Big Five personality traits. Journal of Research in Personality, 98, 104210.
Abplanalp, S. J., Mote, J., Uhlman, A. C., Weizenbaum, E., *Alvi, T., Tabak, B. A., & Fulford, D. (2022). Parsing social motivation: Development and validation of a self-report measure of social effort. Journal of Mental Health, 31, 366-373. PREPRINT.
Tabak, B. A. (2022). The pandemic should catalyze research on social pain: Examining oxytocin administration studies. Biological Psychology, 170, 108315.
Nghiem, L. H., Tabak, B. A., Wallmark, Z., *Alvi, T. & Cao, J. (2022). A Bayesian latent variable model for analysis of empathic accuracy. In H.K.T.Ng and D.F. Heitjan (Eds.), Recent Advances on Sampling Methods and Educational Statistics and Biostatistics (pp. 201-214). Springer, Cham.
2021
*Dinulescu, S., *Alvi, T., Rosenfield, D., *Sunahara, C. S., Lee, J., & Tabak, B. A. (2021). Self-referential processing predicts social cognitive ability. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 99-107.
2020
Tabak, B. A., Young, K. S., Torre, J. B., Way, B. M., Burklund, L. J., Eisenberger, N. I., Lieberman, M. D., & Craske, M. G. (2020). Preliminary evidence that CD38 moderates the association of neuroticism on amygdala-subgenual cingulate connectivity. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 11.
*Alvi, T., Kouros, C. D., Lee, J., Fulford, D., & Tabak, B. A. (2020). Social anxiety is negatively associated with theory of mind and empathic accuracy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 129, 108-113.
2019
Tabak, B. A., *Teed, A. R., Castle, E., Dutcher, J. M., Meyer, M. L., Bryan, R., Irwin, M. R., Lieberman, M.D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2019). Null results of oxytocin and vasopressin administration across a range of social cognitive and behavioral paradigms: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107, 124-132.
2017
Young, K. S., Parsons, C., LeBeau, R. T., Tabak, B. A., Sewart, A., Stein, A. S., Kringelbach, M. L., & Craske, M. G. (2017). Sensing emotion in voices: negativity bias and gender differences in a validation study of the Oxford Vocal ('OxVoc') Sounds Database. Psychological Assessment, 29, 967-977.
2016
Tabak, B. A., Meyer, M. L., Dutcher, J. M., Castle, E., Irwin, M. R., Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2016). Oxytocin, but not vasopressin, impairs social cognitive ability among individuals with higher levels of social anxiety: A randomized controlled trial. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 1272-1279.
Tabak, B. A., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Zinbarg, R. E., Prenoveau, J. M., Mineka, S., Redei, E. E., Adam, E. K., & Craske, M. G. (2016). Interaction of CD38 variant and chronic interpersonal stress prospectively predicts social anxiety and depression symptoms over six years. Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 17-27.
2015
Tabak, B. A., Meyer, M. L., Castle, E., Dutcher, J. M., Irwin, M. R., Han, J. H., Lieberman, M. D., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2015). Vasopressin, but not oxytocin, increases empathic concern among individuals who received higher levels of paternal warmth: A randomized controlled trial. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 51, 253-261.
Vrshek-Schallhorn, S. & Tabak, B. A. (2015). Gene-environment interaction designs. In Cautin, R. & Lilienfeld, S. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.
2014
Tabak, B. A., McCullough, M. E., Carver, C. S., Pedersen, E. J., & Cuccaro, M. L. (2014). Variation in oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphisms is associated with emotional and behavioral reactions to betrayal. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 810-816.
McCullough, M. E., Pedersen, E. J., Tabak, B. A., & Carter, E. (2014). Conciliatory gestures promote forgiveness and reduce anger in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 11211-11216.
2013
Tabak, B. A. (2013). Oxytocin and social salience: a call for gene-environment interaction research. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7, 199.
McCullough, M. E., Kurzban, R., & Tabak, B. A. (2013). Cognitive systems for revenge and forgiveness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 1-58.
McCullough, M. E., Kurzban, R., & Tabak, B. A. (2013). Putting revenge and forgiveness in an evolutionary context: Response to commentaries. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 41-58.
McCullough, M. E., Pedersen, E. J., Schroder, J., Tabak, B. A., & Carver, C. S. (2013). Harsh childhood environmental characteristics predict exploitation and retaliation in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B—Biological Sciences, 280, 20122104.
Fulford, D., Feldman, G., Tabak, B. A., McGillicuddy, M., & Johnson, S. L. (2013). Positive affect enhances the association of hypomanic personality and cognitive flexibility. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 6, 1-15.
2012
Tabak, B. A., & McCullough, M. E., Luna, L. R., Bono, G., & Berry, J. (2012). Conciliatory gestures facilitate forgiveness and feelings of friendship by making transgressors appear more agreeable. Journal of Personality, 80, 503-536.
2011
Tabak, B. A. & McCullough, M. E. (2011). Perceived agreeableness decreases cortisol response and increases forgiveness following recent interpersonal transgressions. Biological Psychology, 87, 386-392.
Tabak, B. A., McCullough, M. E., Szeto, A., Mendez, A. J., & McCabe, P. M. (2011). Oxytocin indexes relational distress following interpersonal harms in women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36, 115-122.
Szeto, A., McCabe, P. M., Nation, D. A., Tabak, B. A., Rossetti, M. A., McCullough, M. E., Schneiderman, N., & Mendez, A. J. (2011). Evaluation of enzyme immunoassay and radioimmunoassay methods for the measurement of plasma oxytocin. Psychosomatic Medicine, 73, 393-400.
2010
McCullough, M. E., Root, L. M., Berry, J., Tabak, B. A., & Bono, G. (2010). On the form and function of forgiving: Modeling the time-forgiveness relationship and testing the valuable relationships hypothesis. Emotion, 10, 358-376.
McCullough, M. E. & Tabak, B. A. (2010). Prosocial behavior. In R. F. Baumeister & E. J. Finkel (Eds.), Advanced social psychology: The state of the science (pp. 263-302). New York: Oxford.
McCullough, M. E., Kurzban, R., & Tabak, B. A. (2010). Evolved mechanisms for revenge and forgiveness. In P. R. Shaver and M. Mikulincer (eds.), Understanding and reducing aggression, violence, and their consequences (pp. 221-239). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
2009
McCullough, M. E., Root, L. M., Tabak, B. A., & Witvliet, C. V. O. (2009). Forgiveness. In S. Lopez (Ed.), Handbook of positive psychology (2nd ed., pp. 427-435). New York: Oxford University Press.