Publications

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Papers In Press

Fine, N., Ben-Aharon, N., Armon, D., Seligman, Z., Helpman, L., Bloch, M., . . . Sheppes, G. (in press). Reduced emotion regulatory selection flexibility in post-traumatic stress disorder: Converging performance-based evidence from two PTSD populations. Psychological Medicine.

Kritzman L., Eidelman-Rothman, M., Keil, A., Freche, D., Sheppes, G., Levit-Binnun, N. (in press). Steady-state visual evoked potentials differentiate between internally and externally directed attention. NeuroImage.

Matthews, M., Webb, T. L., & Sheppes, G. (in press). Do people choose the same strategies to regulate other people’s emotions as they choose to regulate their own?. Emotion.

Specker, P., Sheppes, G., & Nickerson, A. (in press). Does emotion regulation flexibility work? Investigating the effectiveness of regulatory selection flexibility in managing negative affect. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

2023

Fine, N. B., Helpman, L., Armon, D. B., Gurevitch, G., Sheppes, G., Seligman, Z., … & Bloch, M. (2023) Amygdala-related electroencephalogram neurofeedback as add-on therapy for treatment-resistant childhood sexual abuse posttraumatic stress disorder: feasibility study. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences.

2022

Fine, N. B., Schwartz, N., Hendler, T., Gonen, T., & Sheppes, G. (2022). Neural Indices of Emotion Regulatory Implementation Correlate with Behavioral Regulatory Selection: Proof of Concept Investigation. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

2021

Ardi, Z., Golland, Y., Shafir, R., Sheppes, G., & Levit-Binnun, N. (2021). The effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the association between autonomic interoceptive signals and emotion regulation selection. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83, 852-862.

Kross, E., Verduyn, P., Sheppes, G., Costello, C., Jonides, J., & Ybarra, O. (2021). Social Media and Well-Being: Progress, Pitfalls and Next Steps. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 55-65.

Matthews, M., Webb, T.L., Shafir, R., Snow, M., & Sheppes, G. (2021). Identifying the Determinants of Emotion Regulation Choice: A systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Cognition and Emotion, 35, 1056-1084.

Shabat, M., Shafir, R., & Sheppes, G. (2021). Flexible emotion regulatory selection when coping with COVID-19-related threats during quarantine. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-10.‏

Sternberg, N., Luria, R., & Sheppes, G. (2021). Mental Logout: Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Regulating Temptations to Use Social Media. Psychological Science, 32, 1527-1536.

2020

Moodie, C. A., Suri, G., Goerlitz, D. S., Mateen, M. A., Sheppes, G., McRae, K., … & Gross, J. J. (2020). The neural bases of cognitive emotion regulation: The roles of strategy and intensity. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 20(2), 387-407.

Shafir, R., & Sheppes, G. (2020). How Anticipatory Information Shapes Subsequent Emotion Regulation. Emotion, 20(1), 68-74.

Sheppes, G. (2020). Transcending the “Good & Bad” and “Here & Now” in Emotion Regulation: Costs and Benefits of Strategies across Regulatory Stages. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 60(4), 185-236.

Sternberg, N., Luria, R., Chandhok, S., Vickers, B., Kross, E., & Sheppes, G. (2020). When facebook and finals collide-procrastinatory social media usage predicts enhanced anxiety☆. Computers in Human Behavior, 109, 106358.

2019

Dorman Ilan, S., Shafir, R., Birk, J. J., Bonanno, G. A., & Sheppes, G. (2019). Monitoring in Emotion Regulation: Behavioral Decisions and Neural Consequences. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(12), 1273-1283.

Dorman Ilan, S., Tamuz, N., & Sheppes, G. (2019). The Fit Between Emotion Regulation Choice and Individual Resources is Associated with Adaptive Functioning Among Young Children. Cognition and Emotion, 33(3), 597-605.

Millgram, Y., Sheppes, G., Kalokerinos, E., Kuppens P., & Tamir, M. (2019). Do the Ends Dictate the Means in Emotion Regulation? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(1), 80 –96.

Orejuela- Davila, A., Levens, S., Sagui- Henson, S., Tedeschi, R., & Sheppes, G. (2019). The Relation Between Emotion Regulation Choice and Posttraumatic Growth. Cognition and Emotion. 33(8), 1709-1717.

2018

Martins, B., Sheppes, G., Gross, J. J., & Mather, M. (2018). Age differences in emotion regulation choice: Older adults use distraction less than younger adults in high-intensity positive contexts. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 73(4), 603-611.

Naor, N., Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., Sheppes, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2018). The impact of empathy and reappraisal on emotional intensity recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 32(5), 972-987.

Karmon-Presser, A., Sheppes, G., & Meiran, N. (2018). How does it “feel”? A signal detection approach to feeling generation. Emotion, 18(1), 94-115.

Pliskin, R., Halperin, E., Bar-Tal, D., & Sheppes, G. (2018). When Ideology meets conflict-related content: Influences on emotion generation and regulation. Emotion, 18(2), 159-170.

Shafir, R., & Sheppes, G. (2018). When knowledge is (not) power- the influence of anticipatory information on subsequent emotion regulation: Neural and behavioral evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(8), 1225-1240.

Shafir, R., Zucker, L., & Sheppes, G. (2018). Turning off Hot Feelings: Down-regulation of Sexual Desire Using Distraction and Situation-Focused Reappraisal. Biological psychology, 137, 116-124.

Sternberg, N., Luria, R., & Sheppes, G. (2018). For Whom Is Social-Network Usage Associated with Anxiety? The Moderating Role of Neural Working-Memory Filtering of Facebook Information. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 18(6), 1145-1158

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., Young, G., Abraham, D., McRae, K., & Gross, J.J. (2018). Emotion Regulation Choice: The Role of Environmental Affordances. Cognition and Emotion, 32(5), 963-971.

2017

Bigman, Y. E., Sheppes, G., & Tamir, M. (2017). When Less is More: Effects of the Availability of Strategic Options on Regulating Negative Emotions. Emotion, 17(6), 993-1006.

Shafir, R., Guarino, T., Lee, I. A., & Sheppes, G. (2017). Emotion regulation choice in an evaluative context: the moderating role of self-esteem. Cognition and Emotion, 31(8), 1725- 1732.

2016

Levy-Gigi, E., Bonanno, G.A., Shapiro, A.R., Richter-Levin, G., Kéri, S., & Sheppes, G. (2016). Emotion Regulatory Flexibility Sheds Light on the Elusive Relationship between Repeated Traumatic Exposure and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms. Clinical Psychological Science, 4(1), 28–39

Sauer, C., Sheppes, G., Lackner, H. K., Arens, E. A., Tarrasch, R., & Barnow, S. (2016). Emotion regulation choice in female patients with borderline personality disorder: findings from self-reports and experimental measures. Psychiatry Research, 242, 375-384‏

Shafir, R., Thiruchselvam, R., Suri, G., Gross, J.J., & Sheppes, G. (2016). Neural Processing of Emotional-Intensity Predicts Emotion Regulation Choice. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11(12), 1863-1871.

Shafir, R., Thiruchselvam, R., Suri, G., Gross, J.J., & Sheppes, G. (2016). Neural Processing of Emotional-Intensity Predicts Emotion Regulation Choice – Supplementary materials . Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11(12), 1863-1871.

2015

Aldao, A., Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. Emotion Regulation Flexibility (2015). Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39, 263-278

Hay, A.C., Sheppes, G., Gross, J.J., & Gruber, J. (2015). Choosing How to Feel: Emotion Regulation Choice in Bipolar Disorder. Emotion, 15, 139-145

Pliskin, R., Sheppes, G., & Halperin, E. (2015). Running For Your Life, in Context: Are Rightists Always Less Likely to Consider Fleeing Their Country When Fearing Future Events? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 59, 90–95

Scheibe, S., Sheppes, G. & Staudinger, U. (2015). Distract or Reappraise Age-Related Differences in Emotion-Regulation Choice. Emotion, 15(6), 677–681

Shafir, R., Schwartz, N., Blechert, J., & Sheppes, G. (2015). Emotional Intensity Influences Pre-implementation and Implementation of Distraction and Reappraisal. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 1329-1337

Sheppes, G., Suri, G., & Gross, J.J. (2015). Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 11, 379-405

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2015). The Role of Action Readiness in Motivated Behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(6), 1105–1113

2014

Naim, R., Wald, I., Lior, A., Pine, D.S., Fox, N.A., Sheppes, G., Halperin, P., & Bar-Haim, Y. (2014). Perturbed Threat-Monitoring Following a Traumatic Event Predicts Risk For Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Psychological Medicine, 44, 2077-2084

Pliskin, R., Halperin, E., Sheppes, G., & Bar-Tal, D. (2014). Are Leftists More Emotion-Driven Than Rightists? The Interactive Influence of Ideology and Emotions on Support for Policies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1681-1697.

Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2014). Emotion Generation and Emotion Regulation: Moving Beyond Traditional Dual-Process Accounts. In Sherman, J.W., Gawrsonski, B., & Trope, Y. (Eds.). Dual Process Theories of the Social Mind (pp. 483-493). New York: Guilford Press.

Sheppes, G. (2014). Emotion Regulation Choice: Theory and Findings. In Gross, J.J., (Ed.). Handbook of Emotion Regulation (2nd ed., pp. 126-139). New York: Guilford Press.

Sheppes, G., Brady, W., & Samson, A. (2014). In (visual) Search for a New Distraction: The Efficiency of a Novel Attentional Deployment Versus Semantic Meaning Regulation Strategies. Frontiers in Psychology: Emotion Science, 5, 346, 1-11

Sheppes, G., Scheibe, S., Suri G., Radu, P., Blechert, J., & Gross, J.J. (2014). Emotion Regulation Choice: A Conceptual Framework and Supporting Evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 163-181

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., Leslie, S., & Gross, J.J. (2014). Stairs or Escalator? A Heuristic Systematic Approach to Facilitating Healthy Decision Making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20, 295-302

2013

Kahn, M., Sheppes, G., & Sadeh, A. (2013). Sleep and Emotions: Bidirectional Links and Underlying Mechanisms. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 89, 218-228.

Sheppes G., Luria, R., Fukuda, K., & Gross, J.J. (2013). There’s More to Anxiety than Meets the Eye: Isolating Threat-Related Attentional Engagement and Disengagement Biases. Emotion,13, 520-528

Sheppes, G.,& Levin, Z. (2013). Emotion Regulation Choice: Selecting Between Cognitive Regulation Strategies to Control Emotion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:179

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2013). Emotion Regulation and Cognition. In M.D. Robinson, E.R. Watkins and E. Harmon Jones (Eds.), Handbook of Cognition and Emotion (pp.195-209), New York, NY: Guilford Publications

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., Schwartz, C., & Gross, J.J. (2013). Patient Inertia and The Status Quo Bias: When an Inferior Option is Preferred. Psychological Science, 24, 1763-1769

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., Gross, J.J. (2013). Predicting Affective Choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 627-632

2012

Blechert, J., Sheppes, G., Di Tella, C., Williams, H., & Gross, J.J. (2012). See What You Think: Reappraisal Modulates Behavioral and Neural Responses to Social Stimuli. Psychological Science, 23, 346-353

Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2012). Emotion Regulation Effectiveness: What Works When. In H.A. Tennen and J.M. Suls (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 391-406). Indianapolis, IN: Wiley-Blackwell Press.

2011

Gross, J.J., Sheppes, G., & Urry, H.L. (2011). Emotion Generation and Emotion Regulation: A Distinction we should make (carefully). Cognition and Emotion, 25, 765-781.

Gross J.J., Sheppes, G., & Urry, H.L. (2011). Taking One’s Lumps While Doing the Splits: A Big Tent Perspective on Emotion Generation and Emotion Regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 789-793

Koole, S.L., van Dillen, L.F., & Sheppes, G. (2011). The Self-Regulation of Emotion. In K.D. Vohs & R.F. Baumeister (Eds). Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications (2nd ed., pp. 22-40). New York: Guilford Press.

Sheppes, G., Scheibe, S., Suri, G., & Gross, J.J. (2011). Emotion-Regulation Choice. Psychological Science,22, 1391-1396

Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2011). Is Timing Everything? Temporal Considerations in Emotion Regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 319-331.

Thiruchselvam, R., Blechert, J., Sheppes, G., Rydstrom, A, & Gross, J.J. (2011). The Temporal Dynamics of Emotion Regulation: An EEG Study of Distraction and Reappraisal. Biological Psychology, 87, 84-92.

2010 And Earlier

Sheppes, G., & Meiran, N., Spivak, O., & Shahar, G. (2010). An Indirect Measure of Negative Self Reference Interacts with Academic Failure to Predict Continuing Depressive Symptomatology. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 602-609

Sheppes, G., Catran, E., & Meiran, N. (2009). Reappraisal (But Not Distraction) is Going to Make You Sweat: Physiological Evidence for Self Control Effort. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 71, 91-96

Sheppes, G., & Meiran N. (2008). Divergent Cognitive Costs for Online Forms of Reappraisal and Distraction. Emotion, 8, 870-874

Sheppes, G., Meiran, N., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Shahar G. (2008). Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Implicit Negative Self Concept in Dysphoria. Emotion, 8, 386-394

Sheppes, G., & Meiran, N. (2007). Better Late than Never? On the Dynamics of Online Regulation of Sadness Using Distraction and Cognitive Reappraisal. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1518-1532