Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
Professor of Psychology
Culang, H., Davis, E., Egan, L., Simmons, A., Vago, D., Finley, S., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. (2021). Changing Minds: A Pilot Feasibility Study of Mindfulness Training for At-Risk Adolescents. National Youth at Risk Journal, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.20429/nyarj.2021.050102
Charvet, L., George, A., Cho, H., Krupp, L. B., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. A. (2021). Mobile Attention Bias Modification Training Is a Digital Health Solution for Managing Distress in Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study in Pediatric Onset. Frontiers in Neurology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.719090
Myruski, S., Cho, H., Bikson, M., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. A. (2021). Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Augments the Effects of Gamified, Mobile Attention Bias Modification. Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnrgo.2021.652162
Myruski, S., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. (2021). Biological signatures of emotion regulation flexibility in children: Parenting context and links with child adjustment. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00888-8.
Yap, D., Denefrio, S., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. A. (2021). Low working memory load facilitates attention bias modification training. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 139, 103828. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2021.103828
Barendse, M., Flannery, J., Cavanagh, C., et al. (2021). Longitudinal Change in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Symptoms from Before to During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Collaborative of 12 Samples. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hn7us
Cho, H., Likhtik, E. & Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2021) Absence Makes the Mind Grow Fonder: Reconceptualizing Studies of Safety Learning in Translational Research on Anxiety. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00855-9
Nahmoud, I., Vasquez, J. G., Cho, H., Dennis-Tiwary, T., & Likhtik, E. (2021). Salient Safety Conditioning Improves Novel Discrimination Learning. Behavioural Brain Research, 397, 112907. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112907
Liu, J., Likhtik, E., Shereen, D., Dennis-Tiwary, T., Casaccia, P. (2020). White Matter Plasticity in Anxiety: Disruption of Neural Network Synchronization during Threat-Safety Discrimination. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2020.587053
Myruski, S., Cho, H., Bikson, M., & Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2020). Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Augments the Effects of Gamified, Mobile Attention Bias Modification. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.20.20057141
Myruski, S., Bonanno, G., Cho, H., Fan, B., & Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2019). The late positive potential as a neurocognitive index of emotion regulation flexibility. Biological Psychology, 148, 107768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.107768
Brooker, R., Canen, J.A., Bates, J.A., Buss, K.A., Dennis-Tiwary, T. et al., (2019). Conducting event-related potential (ERP) research with young children: A review of components, special considerations and recommendations for research on cognition and emotion. Journal of Psychophysiology.
Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2019). The future of emotion regulation research is in how we measure the dynamics of change. Developmental Psychology.
Myruski, S., Quintero, J. M., Denefrio, S., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. A. (2019). Through a Screen Darkly: Use of Computer-Mediated Communication Predicts Emotional Functioning. Psychological Reports, 123(6), 2305–2332. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294119859779
Myruski, S., Birk, S., & Karasawa, M., Kamikubo, A., Kazama, M., Hirabayashi, H, & Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2019). Neural signatures of child cognitive emotion regulation are bolstered by parental social regulation in two cultures. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 14(9), 947 – 956. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz070
Birk, S.†, and Denefrio, S.†, & Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2019). Innovations in the psychological study of happiness: From mirror neurons to mobile technology. In J. Tice, B.S. Turner & Y. Contreras-Vejar (Eds), Regimes of happiness: Comparative and historical studies. Anthem Press. London: UK.
Dennis-Tiwary, T.A., Denefrio, S. †, Myruski, S. & Roy, A. (2019). Heterogeneity of the anxiety-related attention bias: A review and working model for future research. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(5), 879-899. doi: 10.1177/2167702619838474
Verdaguer, S., Mateo, K., Wyka, K.F., Dennis-Tiwary, T.A., & Leung, M.M. (2018). A web-based interactive tool to reduce childhood obesity risk in urban minority youth: Usability testing study. JMIR Formative Research 2018, 2(2), e21. doi: 10.2196/formative.9747
Denefrio, S., Myruski, S., Mennin, D., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. A. (2018). When neutral is not neutral: Neurophysiological evidence for reduced discrimination between aversive and non-aversive information in generalized anxiety disorder. Motivation and Emotion, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-018-9732-0
Myruski, S., Denefrio, S., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. (2018). Stress and emotion regulation: The dynamic fit model. In K. Harkness & E. P. Hayden (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Stress and Mental Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190681777.013.19
Egan, L., Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2018). Dynamic measures of anxiety-related threat bias: Links to stress reactivity. Motivation and Emotion. doi.org/10.1007/s11031-018-9674-6
Denefrio, S., Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2017). Threat sensitivity. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T.D. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. New York: Springer.
Myruski, S. †, Gulyayeva, O. Birk, S., Perez-Edgar, K., Buss, K.A., & Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2017). Digital disruption?: Maternal mobile device use is related to infant social-emotional functioning. Developmental Science. doi
Myruski, S., Bonanno, G. A., Gulyayeva, O., Egan, L. J., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. A. (2017). Neurocognitive assessment of emotional context sensitivity. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. doi:10.3758/s13415-017-0533-9
Denefrio, S., Simmons, A., Jha, A., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. A. (2017). Emotional cue validity effects: The role of neurocognitive responses to emotion. PLoS ONE, 12(7), doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179714
Dennis-Tiwary, T. A., Denefrio, S., & Gelber, S. (2017). Salutary effects of an attention bias modification mobile application on biobehavioral measures of stress and anxiety during pregnancy. Biological Psychology, 127, 148-156. doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.05.003
Luehring-Jones, P. †, Louis, C., Erblich, J., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. (2017). A single session of attentional bias modification reduces alcohol craving and implicit measures of alcohol bias in young adult drinkers. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41(12), 2207-2216.
Luehring-Jones, P., Dennis-Tiwary, T., Murphy, J.G., Dennhardt, A. Lindgren, K.P., Yarmush, D.E., Erblich, J. (2016). Favorable associations with alcohol and impaired self-regulation: A behavioral economic analysis. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 163, 172-178. doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.04.017
Dennis-Tiwary, T., Egan, L.J., Babkirk, S., and Denefrio, S. (2016). For whom the bell tolls: Neurocognitive individual differences in the acute stress-reduction effects of an attention bias modification game for anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 77, 105-117. doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2015.12.008
Roy, A.K. Dennis, T.A., & Masia Warner, C. (2015). A critical review of attentional threat bias and its role in the treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 29(3), 171-184.
Babkirk, S., Saunders, L. V., Solomon, B., Kessel, E. M., Crossman, A., Gokhan, N., & Dennis, T. A. (2015). Executive function and temperamental fear concurrently predict deception in school-aged children. Journal of moral education, 44(4), 425-439. doi: 10.1080/03057240.2015.1087393
Babkirk, S., Luehring-Jones, P., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. A. (2015). Computer-mediated communication preferences predict biobehavioral measures of social-emotional functioning. Social neuroscience, 1-15. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2015.1123181
Solomon, B., O’Toole, L., Hong, M., & Dennis, T.A. (2014). Negative affectivity and EEG asymmetry interact to predict emotional interference on attention in early school-aged children. Brain and Cognition, 87, 173-180.
Dennis, T.A., & O’Toole, L. (2014). Mental health on the go: Effects of a gamified attention bias modification mobile application in trait anxious adults. Clinical Psychological Science, 2(2), 1-15.
Dennis, T.A., Amodio, D., & O’Toole, L. (2014). Associations between parental ideology and neural sensitivity to cognitive conflict in children. Social Neuroscience, 10(2), 206-217.
Babkirk, S., Rios, V., & Dennis, T.A. (2014). The late positive potential predicts emotion regulation behavior concurrently and two years later in children. Developmental Science, 1-10.
DeCicco, J., O’Toole, L., & Dennis, T.A. (2014). Cognitive reappraisal in children: Neurophysiological correlates and links with anxiety. Developmental Neuropsychology, 39(7), 497-515.
O’Toole, L., Berthod, S., DeCicco, J., & Dennis, T.A. (2013). The N170 to angry faces predicts anxiety in typically developing children over a two-year period. Developmental Neuropsychology, 38(5), 352-363.
Kessel, E., Huselid, R., DeCicco, J., Dennis, T.A. (2013). Neurophysiological processing of emotion and parenting interact to predict inhibited behavior: An affective-motivational framework. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7.
Solomon, B., DeCicco, J., & Dennis, T.A. (2012). Emotional picture processing in children: An ERP study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(1), 110-119.
O’Toole, L.J., & Dennis, T.A. (2012). Attention training and the threat bias: An ERP study. Brain and Cognition, 78, 63-73.
Dennis, T.A., Buss, K.A., & Hastings, P.D. (Eds.; 2012). Introduction to the monograph: Physiological measures of emotion from a developmental perspective: State of the science. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 77(2).
Gokhan, N., Dennis, T.A., & Crossman, A. (2012). The role of intraverbal exchanges in assesing parent-child relationships. Psychological Record, 62, 207–224.
DeCicco, J., Solomon, B., & Dennis, T.A. (2012). Neural correlates of cognitive reappraisal in children: An ERP study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(1), 70-80.
Dennis, T.A., O’Toole, L., & DeCicco, J. (2012). Emotion regulation from the perspective of developmental neuroscience: What, where, when, and why. In K. Barrett (Ed.), The Handbook of Self-Regulatory Processes (pp. 135-172). New York: Taylor and Francis.
Birk, J.L., Dennis, T.A., Shin, L.M., & Urry, H.L. (2011). Threat facilitates subsequent executive control over anxious mood. Emotion, 11(6), 1291-1304.
O’Toole, L.J., DeCicco, J., Hong, M., & Dennis, T.A. (2011). The impact of task-irrelevant emotional stimuli on attention in three domains. Emotion, 11(6), 1322-1330.
Buss, K.A., Dennis, T.A., Brooker, R., & Sippel, L.M. (2011). An ERP study of conflict monitoring in 4-8 year old children: Associations with temperament. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 131-140.
Brooker, R., Buss, K.A., & Dennis, T.A. (2011). Error-monitoring brain activity is associated with affective behaviors in young children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 141-152.
Dennis, T.A. (2010). Introduction to the special issue on neurophysiological markers for emotion and emotion regulation. Developmental Neuropsychology, 35, 125-128.
Dennis, T.A. (2010). Neurophysiological markers for emotion regulation from the perspective of emotion-cognition integration: Current directions and future challenges. Developmental Neuropsychology, 35, 212-230.
Dennis, T.A., Hong, M., & Solomon, B. (2010). Do the associations between exuberance and emotion regulation depend on effortful control? International Journal of Behavioral Development, 34(5), 462 – 472.
Dennis, T.A., & Solomon, B. (2010). Frontal EEG and emotion regulation: Electrocortical activity in response to emotional film clips is associated with reduced mood induction and attention interference effects. Biological Psychology, 85(3), 456-464.
Blair, C., & Dennis, T.A. (2010). An optimal balance: The integration of emotion and cognition in context. In S. Calkins & M. Bell (Eds.), Child Development at the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition (pp. 17-35). Washington, DC: APA Books.
Dennis, T.A., & Chen, C. (2009). Trait anxiety and conflict monitoring following threat: An ERP study. Psychophysiology, 46, 122-131.
Hajcak, G., & Dennis, T.A. (2009). Brain potential during affective picture processing in children. Biological Psychology, 80(3), 333-338.
Dennis, T.A., Malone, M., & Chen, C. (2009). Emotional face processing and emotion regulation in children: An ERP study. Developmental Neuropsychology, 34(1), 1-18.
Dennis, T.A., Cole, P.M., Wiggins, C., Cohen, L.H., & Zalewski, M.T. (2009). Emotion, 9(4), 520-520.
Dennis, T.A., & Hajcak, G. (2009). The late positive potential: A neurophysiological marker for emotion regulation in children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50(11), 1373-1383.
Dennis, T.A., & Kelemen, D.A. (2009). Preschool children’s views on emotion regulation: Functional associations and implications for social-emotional adjustment. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33(3), 243-252.
Cole, P.M., Dennis, T.A., Smith-Simon, K.E., & Cohen, L.H. (2008). Preschoolers’ emotion regulation strategy understanding: Relations with emotion socialization and child self-regulation. Social Development, 18, 324-352.
Cole, P.M., Dennis, T.A., Martin, S.E., & Hall, S.E. (2008). Emotion regulation and the early development of psychopathology. In M. Vandekerckhove, C. von Scheve, S. Ismer, S. Jung, & S. Kronast (Eds.), Regulating emotions: Social necessity and biological inheritance (pp. 171-188). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Dennis, T.A., Chen, C., & McCandliss, B.M. (2008). Threat-related attentional biases: An analysis of three attention systems. Depression and Anxiety, 25(E), 1-10.
Dennis, T.A., Brotman, L.M., Huang, K., & Gouley, K.K. (2007). Effortful control, social competence, and adjustment problems in children at risk for psychopathology. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 36(3), 442-454.
Dennis, T.A., & Chen, C. (2007). Emotional face processing and attention performance in three domains: Neurophysiological mechanisms and moderation effects of trait anxiety. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 65(1), 10-19.
Dennis, T.A., & Chen, C. (2007). Neurophysiological mechanisms in the emotional modulation of attention: The interplay between threat sensitivity and attentional control. Biological Psychology, 76(1-2), 1-10.
Dennis, T.A., Talih, M., Cole, P.M., Zahn-Waxler, C, & Mizuta, I. (2007). The socialization of autonomy and relatedness: Sequential verbal exchanges in Japanese and U.S. mother-preschooler dyads. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38(6), 729-749.
Dennis, T.A. (2007). Interactions between emotion regulation strategies and affective style: Implications for trait anxiety versus depressed mood. Motivation and Emotion, 31, 200-207.
Dennis, T., Bendersky, M., Ramsay, D., & Lewis, M. (2006). Reactivity and regulation in preschoolers prenatally exposed to cocaine. Developmental Psychology, 42(4), 688-697.
Dennis, T. (2006). Emotional self regulation in preschoolers: The interplay of child approach reactivity, parenting, and control capacities. Developmental Psychology, 42(1), 84-97.
Brotman, L.M., Gouley, K.K., Chesir-Teran, D., Dennis, T.A., Klein, R.G., & Shrout, P. (2005). Prevention for preschoolers at high risk for conduct problems: Immediate outcomes on parenting practices and child social competence. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34(4), 724-732.
Cole, P.M., Martin, S.E., & Dennis, T.A. (2004). Emotion regulation as a scientific construct: Methodological challenges and directions for child development research. Child Development, 75(2), 317-333.
Dennis, T.A., & Brotman, L.M. (2003). Effortful control, attention, and aggressive behavior in preschoolers at risk for conduct problems. In J.A. King, C.F. Ferris, and I.I. Lederhendler (Eds.), Annals of the New York Academy of Science: Roots of Mental Illness in Children, 1008, 252-255.
Dennis, T.A., Cole, P.M., Zahn-Waxler, C, & Mizuta, I. (2002). Self in context: Autonomy and relatedness in Japanese and U.S. mother-preschooler dyads. Child Development, 73(6), 1803-1817.
Cole, P.M., & Dennis, T.A. (1998). Variations on a theme: Culture and the meaning of socialization practices and child competence. Psychological Inquiry, 9, 276-278.