Projects

2020

• Furman C., Kross, E., & Gearhardt, A. (2020). Distanced self-talk enhances goal pursuit to eat healthier. Clinical Psychological Science.

2019

• Orvell, A. & Kross, E. (2019). How self-talk promotes self-regulation: Implications for coping with emotional pain. In S. C. Rudert, R. Greifender, & K. D. Williams (Eds.), Current Directions in Ostracism, Social Exclusion and Rejection Research. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Grenell, A., White, R. E., Prager, E. O., Schaeffer, C., Kross, E., Duckworth, A., & Carlson, S. M. (2019). Experimental paradigm for measuring the effects of self-distancing in young children. JoVE.
• Grenell, A., Prager, E. O., Schaefer, C., Kross, E., Duckworth, A. L., & Carlson, S. M. (2019). Individual differences in the effectiveness of self-distancing for young children’s emotion regulation. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

2018

• Kross, E., Verduyn, P., Boyer, M., Drake, B., Gainsburg, I., Vickers, B., . . . Jonides, J. (2018). Does counting emotion words on online social networks provide a window into people’s subjective experience of emotion? A case study on Facebook. Emotion.
• Orvell, A., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. (2018). Lessons learned: Young children's use of generic-you to make meaning from negative experiences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 
• White, R., Kuehn, M. M., Kross, E., & Ayduk, O. (2018). Focusing on the future from afar: Self-distancing from future stressors facilitates adaptive coping. Emotion.
• Orvell, A., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. A. (2018). That’s how “you” do it: Generic you expresses norms during early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

2017

• Orvell, A., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. A. (2017). How "you" makes meaning. Science.
• Moser, J. S., Dougherty, A., Mattson, W. I., Katz, B., Moran, T. P., Guevarra, D., . . . Kross, E. (2017). Third-person self-talk facilitates emotion regulation without engaging cognitive control: Converging evidence from ERP and fMRI. Scientific Reports.
• Kross, E., & Ayduk, O. (2017). Self-distancing: Theory, research and current directions. In J. Olson & M. Zanna (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.
• Verduyn, P., Ybarra, O., Resibois, M., Jonides, J., & Kross, E. (2017). Do social networks sites enhance or undermine subjective well-being? A critical review. Social Issues and Policy Review.
• Kross, E., Vickers, B. D., Orvell, A., Gainsburg, I., Moran, T. P., Boyer, M., . . . Ayduk, O. (2017). Third person-self talk reduces Ebola worry and risk perception by enhancing rational thinking. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being.
• Koban, L., Kross, E., Woo, C. W., Ruzic, L., & Wager, T. D. (2017). Frontal-brainstem pathways mediating placebo effects on emotional pain. Journal of Neuroscience.
• White, R. E., Prager, E. O., Schaefer, C., Kross, E., Duckworth, A. L., & Carlson, S. M. (2017). The “Batman Effect”: Improving perseverance in young children. Child Development.
• Verduyn, P., Ybarra, O., Jonides, J., & Kross, E. (2017). Social media and happiness: The case of Facebook. La Revue québécoise de psychologie.

2016

• Leitner, J. B., Ayduk, O., Mendoza-Denton, R., Magerman, A., Amey, R., Kross, E., & Forbes, C. E. (2016). Self-distancing improves interpersonal perceptions and behavior by decreasing medial prefrontal cortex activity during the provision of criticism. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
• Penner, L. A., Guevarra, D. A., Harper, F. W., Taub, J., Phipps, S., Albrecht, T. L., & Kross, E. (2016). Self-distancing buffers high trait anxious pediatric cancer caregivers against short-and longer-term distress. Clinical Psychological Science.
• Park, J., Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2016). Stepping back to move forward: Expressive writing promotes self-distancing. Emotion.
• Park, J., Lee, D. S., Shablack, H., Verduyn, P., Deldin, P., Ybarra, O., . . . Kross, E. (2016). When perceptions defy reality: The relationships between depression and actual and perceived Facebook social support. Journal of Affective Disorders.

2015

• Verduyn, P., Lee, D. S., Park, J., Shablack, H., Orvell, A., Bayer, J., . . . Kross, E. (2015). Passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being: Experimental and longitudinal evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2015). Pronouns matter when psyching yourself up. Harvard Business Review.
• White, R. E., Kross, E., & Duckworth, A. L. (2015). Spontaneous self-distancing and adaptive self-reflection across adolescence. Child Development.
• Kross, E., & Guevarra, D. (2015). Self-Control. Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology.

2014

• Kross, E., Bruehlman-Senecal, E., Park, J., Burson, A., Dougherty, A., Shablack, H., . . . Ayduk, O. (2014). Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism: How you do it matters. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
• Grossmann, I., & Kross, E. (2014). Exploring Solomon’s Paradox: Self-distancing eliminates the self-other asymmetry in wise reasoning about close relationships in younger and older adults. Psychological Science.
• Park, J., Ayduk, O., O’Donnell, L., Chun, J., Gruber, J., Kamali, M., . . . Kross, E. (2014). Regulating the high: Cognitive and neural processes underlying positive emotion regulation in bipolar I disorder. Clinical Psychological Science.
• Woo, C. W., Koban, L., Kross, E., Lindquist, M. A., Banich, M. T., Ruzic, L., . . . Wager, T. D. (2014). Separate neural representations for physical pain and social rejection. Nature Communications.
• Ybarra, O., Kross, E., & Sanchez-Burks, J. (2014). The “big idea” that is yet to be: Towards a more motivated, contextual, and dynamic model of emotional intelligence. The Academy of Management Perspectives.

2013

• Wager, T. D., Atlas, L. Y., Lindquist, M. A., Roy, M., Woo, C. W., & Kross, E. (2013). An fMRI-based neurologic signature of physical pain. The New England Journal of Medicine.

  Commentary: The New England Journal of Medicine.

  Commentary: Shen, H. (2013). Brain signature reveals our level of pain. Science.

• Kross, E., Verduyn, P., Demiralp, E., Park, J., Lee, D. S., Lin, N., . . . Ybarra, O. (2013). Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being in young adults. PLoS One.

  Commentary: Shen, H. (2013). Facebook is making you sad. Science.

  Commentary: Facebook is bad for you: Get a life! The Economist.

• Ybarra, O., Kross, E., Lee, D. S., Zhao, Y., Dougherty, A., & Sanchez-Burks, J. (2013). Toward a more contextual, psychological, and dynamic model of emotional intelligence. In A. B. Baker (Eds.), Advances in Positive Organization Psychology (pp. 167-187). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

2012

• Kross, E., Gard, D., Deldin, P., Clifton, J., & Ayduk, O. (2012). "Asking why" from a distance: Its cognitive and emotional consequences for people with major depressive disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
• Kross, E., & Grossmann, I. (2012). Boosting wisdom: Distance from the self enhances wise reasoning, attitudes, and behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Verduyn, P., Van Mechelen, I., Kross, E., Chezzi, C, & Van Bever F. (2012). The relationship between self-distancing and the duration of negative and positive emotional experiences in daily life. Emotion.
• Mischkowski, D., Kross, E., & Bushman, B. (2012). Flies on the wall are less aggressive: Self-distancing "in the heat of the moment" reduces aggressive thoughts, angry feelings and aggressive behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

2011

• Kross, E., Berman, M. G., Mischel, W., Smith, E. E., & Wager, T. D. (2011). Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

  Commentary: Journal Watch Psychiatry.

• Kross, E., Berman, M., Mischel, W., Smith, E. E., & Wager, T. (2011). Reply to Iannetti and Mouraux: What fMRI responses to physical pain tell us about why social rejection hurts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
• Kross, E., Duckworth, A., Ayduk, O., & Tsukayama, E., & Mischel, W. (2011). The effect of self-distancing on adaptive versus maladaptive self-reflection in children. Emotion.
• Ybarra, O., Rees, L., Kross, E., & Sanchez-Burks, J. (2011). Social context and the psychology of emotional intelligence: A key to creating positive organizations. In K. Cameron & G. Spreitzer (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship (pp. 201-214). New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.

2010

• Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2010). From a distance: Implications of spontaneous self-distancing for adaptive self-reflection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
• Grossmann, I. & Kross, E. (2010). The impact of culture on adaptive versus maladaptive self-reflection. Psychological Science.

  Editor's Choice Article (2010). Science.

• Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2010). Analyzing negative experiences without ruminating: The role of self-distancing in enabling adaptive self-reflection. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
• Berman, M. G., Peltier, S., Nee, D. E., Kross, E., Deldin, P. J., & Jonides, J. (2010). Depression, rumination and the default network. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

2009

• Kross, E., Davidson, M., Weber, J., & Ochsner, K. (2009). Coping with emotions past: The neural bases of regulating affect associated with negative autobiographical memories. Biological Psychiatry.

  Commentary: Carter, C. S. (2009). The ups and downs of emotion regulation. Biological Psychiatry.

  Society of Biological Psychiatry's Ziskind-Somerfeld Award Finalist

• Kross, E. (2009). When the self becomes other: Toward an integrative understanding of the processes distinguishing adaptive self-reflection from rumination. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
• Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2009). Asking ‘why’ from a distance facilitates emotional processing: A reanalysis of Wimalaweera and Moulds (2008). Behaviour Research and Therapy.

2008 and Earlier

• Kross, E., & Ayduk, O. (2008). Facilitating adaptive emotional analysis: Distinguishing distanced-analysis of depressive experiences from immersed-analysis and distraction. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin.
• Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2008). Enhancing the pace of recovery: Self-distanced analysis of negative experiences reduces blood pressure reactivity. Psychological Science.
• Kross, E., & Clasen, P., (2008). Neural Processes in Rejection Sensitivity: Differences in Emotional Appraisal or Control? In F. Erkman (Ed.), Acceptance: The Essence of Peace. Selected Papers from the First International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection, (pp. 51-66). Istanbul: Turkish Psychology Association.

• Kross, E., Egner, T., Downey, G., Ochsner, K., & Hirsch, J. (2007). Neural dynamics of rejection sensitivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

• Kross, E., Ayduk, O., & Mischel, W. (2005). When asking "why" does not hurt: Distinguishing rumination from reflective processing of negative emotions. Psychological Science.

  Editor's Choice Article (2005). Science.