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Risky families: family social environments and the mental and physical health of offspringRena L Repetti
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Bull 128:330-66. 2002..We conclude that childhood family environments represent vital links for understanding mental and physical health across the life span...- Relation of oxytocin to psychological stress responses and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis activity in older womenShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Psychosom Med 68:238-45. 2006.... 
Early environment affects neuroendocrine regulation in adulthoodShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 6:244-51. 2011..Participants in the bottom tertile showed more signs of HPA axis dysregulation than those in the top tertile. We discuss processes that may underlie these effects, with reference to the theory of allostatic load...
Effects of a supportive or an unsupportive audience on biological and psychological responses to stressShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:47-56. 2010..It was concluded that when one must perform stressful tasks in front of an audience, evaluative concerns may outweigh the potential benefits of a supportive audience...- Are self-enhancing cognitions associated with healthy or unhealthy biological profiles?Shelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:605-15. 2003..Discussion centers on the potential stress-buffering effects of self-enhancing beliefs... - Neural bases of moderation of cortisol stress responses by psychosocial resourcesShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:197-211. 2008..Results suggest that psychosocial resources are associated with lower cortisol responses to stress by means of enhanced inhibition of threat responses during threat regulation, rather than by decreased sensitivity to threat... - Cultural differences in the impact of social support on psychological and biological stress responsesShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Sci 18:831-7. 2007..Our discussion focuses on cultural differences in the construal of relationships and their implications for social support and delivery of support services... - Culture and social support: who seeks it and why?Shelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:354-62. 2004..Discussion centers on the potential benefits and liabilities of seeking social support... - Early environment, emotions, responses to stress, and healthShelley E Taylor
University of California, Department of Psychology, 1282A Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
J Pers 72:1365-93. 2004..We discuss how the social context of early life (such as SES) may affect the family environment in ways that precipitate adverse health consequences. Perspectives on comorbidities in physical and mental health are discussed... - Coping resources, coping processes, and mental healthShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 3:377-401. 2007..We conclude by outlining possible intervention strategies for improving coping processes... - Early family environment, current adversity, the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism, and depressive symptomatologyShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:671-6. 2006..We address this debate by examining the relation of a stressful early family environment, recent adversity/stress, and the 5-HTTLPR to depressive symptomatology in a normal sample... - Relationship of early life stress and psychological functioning to adult C-reactive protein in the coronary artery risk development in young adults studyShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:819-24. 2006.... - Portrait of the self-enhancer: well adjusted and well liked or maladjusted and friendless?Shelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:165-76. 2003..Discussion centers on a reconciliation of discrepant portraits of the self-enhancer... - Are plasma oxytocin in women and plasma vasopressin in men biomarkers of distressed pair-bond relationships?Shelley E Taylor
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Sci 21:3-7. 2010..Controlling for estradiol and testosterone did not alter these findings. We conclude that plasma oxytocin in women and plasma vasopressin in men may be biomarkers of distressed pair-bond relationships... - Harnessing the imagination. Mental simulation, self-regulation, and copingS E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1563, USA
Am Psychol 53:429-39. 1998..Discussion centers on the characteristics of effective and ineffective mental simulations and their relation to self-regulatory processes... - Early adversity and adult health outcomesShelley E Taylor
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Dev Psychopathol 23:939-54. 2011..This integrative approach to investigating the impact of childhood experience on adult health outcomes illustrates the significance of multilevel integrative approaches to understanding developmental psychopathology more generally... - Psychosocial resources and the SES-health relationshipS E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1563, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 896:210-25. 1999..The erosion of these resources as one moves lower on the SES scale and specific factors that contribute to such erosion are discussed... - Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: tend-and-befriend, not fight-or-flightS E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Rev 107:411-29. 2000..This previously unexplored stress regulatory system has manifold implications for the study of stress... - Psychological resources, positive illusions, and healthS E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024 1563, USA
Am Psychol 55:99-109. 2000.... - Mechanisms linking early life stress to adult health outcomesShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:8507-12. 2010.... - Cognitive processing, discovery of meaning, CD4 decline, and AIDS-related mortality among bereaved HIV-seropositive menJ E Bower
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 66:979-86. 1998..These results suggest that positive responses to stressful events, specifically the discovery of meaning, may be linked to positive immunologic and health outcomes... - Social identity and physical health: accelerated HIV progression in rejection-sensitive gay menS W Cole
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 72:320-35. 1997..Data distinguishing rejection sensitivity from other health-relevant psychosocial characteristics are presented, and possible links to HIV pathophysiology are described... - Health psychology: what is an unhealthy environment and how does it get under the skin?S E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1563, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 48:411-47. 1997..A healthy environment, in contrast, provides safety, opportunities for social integration, and the ability to predict and/or control aspects of that environment... - Elevated physical health risk among gay men who conceal their homosexual identityS W Cole
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024 1563, USA
Health Psychol 15:243-51. 1996..g., HIV progression and psychosomatic symptomatology) and theories linking psychological inhibition to physical illness... - Optimism is associated with mood, coping, and immune change in response to stressS C Segerstrom
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 74:1646-55. 1998..Individual differences in expectancies, appraisal, and mood may be important in understanding psychological and immune responses to stress... - Health psychology. The science and the fieldS E Taylor
University of California, Los Angeles
Am Psychol 45:40-50. 1990.... - A polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene moderates cardiovascular reactivity to psychosocial stressBaldwin M Way
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychosom Med 73:310-7. 2011..To examine whether a polymorphism (5-HTTLPR: serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region) in the promoter of the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) moderates cardiovascular reactivity to social threat... - Social influences on health: is serotonin a critical mediator?Baldwin M Way
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychosom Med 72:107-12. 2010..The serotonin system, as indexed by the 5-HTTLPR, is an important link between the social environment and health... - Impact of health beliefs, quality of life, and the physician-patient relationship on the treatment intentions of inflammatory bowel disease patientsAmy B Goldring
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1563, USA
Health Psychol 21:219-28. 2002..8% of the variance in medication-taking intention. Findings suggest that an integrative consideration of relationship factors, health beliefs, and health status may help explain treatment intentions among the chronically ill... - Finding positive meaning and its association with natural killer cell cytotoxicity among participants in a bereavement-related disclosure interventionJulienne E Bower
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Ann Behav Med 25:146-55. 2003.... - Relation of childhood socioeconomic status and family environment to adult metabolic functioning in the CARDIA studyBarbara J Lehman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Psychosom Med 67:846-54. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that childhood SES and early family environment contribute to metabolic functioning through pathways of depression, hostility, and poor quality of social contacts... - Culture and social supportHeejung S Kim
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 9660, USA
Am Psychol 63:518-26. 2008..Discussion centers on the potential implications of these findings for intercultural interactions and for the use of mental health services by Asians and Asian Americans... - Neural responses to emotional stimuli are associated with childhood family stressShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:296-301. 2006..This study examined neural mechanisms underlying these consequences of "risky" families (RF) by exploring neural activity to tasks involving responses to emotional stimuli... - The effects of mindset on behavior: self-regulation in deliberative and implemental frames of mindDavid A Armor
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:86-95. 2003..Moreover, participants in the deliberation condition underperformed relative to the participants in the implemental condition, demonstrating that deliberative and implemental thinking can influence behavior as well as cognition... - Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responsesJennifer S Lerner
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 58:743-50. 2005..The present study hypothesized a new conception that disaggregates stress into emotion-specific, contrasting patterns of biological response... - Affirmation of personal values buffers neuroendocrine and psychological stress responsesJ David Creswell
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
Psychol Sci 16:846-51. 2005..These findings suggest that reflecting on personal values can keep neuroendocrine and psychological responses to stress at low levels. Implications for research on the self, stress processes, health, and interventions are discussed... - Pursuit of comfort and pursuit of harmony: culture, relationships, and social support seekingHeejung S Kim
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106 9660, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1595-607. 2006..These findings underscore the importance of culturally divergent relationship patterns in understanding social support transactions... - Understanding genetic risk for aggression: clues from the brain's response to social exclusionNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Los Angeles, California 90095 7076, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:1100-8. 2007.... - Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responsesJennifer S Lerner
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:253-60. 2007..Specifically, it hypothesized contrasting patterns for indignation (comprised of anger and disgust) versus fear. Moreover, it hypothesized that facial expressions of these emotions would signal corresponding biological stress responses... - Does self-affirmation, cognitive processing, or discovery of meaning explain cancer-related health benefits of expressive writing?J David Creswell
University of California, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:238-50. 2007.... - Neural pathways link social support to attenuated neuroendocrine stress responsesNaomi I Eisenberger
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7076, USA
Neuroimage 35:1601-12. 2007.... - Accounting for changes in social support among married older adults: insights from the MacArthur Studies of Successful AgingRegan A R Gurung
Department of Human Development and Psychology, University of Wisconsin Green Bay, 54311, USA
Psychol Aging 18:487-96. 2003..Discussion centers on the importance of social support provision to those with the greatest needs... - What makes experiences satisfying? The interaction of approach-avoidance motivations and emotions in well-beingJohn A Updegraff
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, US
J Pers Soc Psychol 86:496-504. 2004..Results indicate that approach motivations may influence well-being not only through emotion over time but also through the degree to which people weight particular emotional experiences in broader judgments of satisfaction... - Neurocognitive components of the behavioral inhibition and activation systems: implications for theories of self-regulationDavid M Amodio
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
Psychophysiology 45:11-9. 2008..Implications for theories of self-regulation involving conflict monitoring, cognitive control, and approach/avoidance motivation are discussed...
Research Grants
- SELF-REGULATORY ASPECTS OF POSITIVE ILLUSIONSShelley Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2005..The overall goal of the research is to provide an integrative understanding of how mental health, social relations, and biological responses to stress are interrelated and whether those interrelations extend across cultures. ..
- Social and Neural Bases of Vulnerability to Fraud in Older AdultsShelley Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2009..Consequently, the public health implications of older adults' vulnerability to financial fraud are manifold. ..
- Psychological and Biological Antecedents of Health Behavior DecisionsShelley Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2007..As such, the research brings a lifespan approach to an integration of genetics, psychoneuroimmunology, health psychology, and social neuroscience. ..
- SELF-REGULATORY ASPECTS OF POSITIVE ILLUSIONSShelley Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2001..In the last three studies (Studies 8-10), we employ manipulations of positive illusions to try to improve people's ability to cope with certain life problems, specifically procrastination, poor planning, and depression. ..
- Social and Neural Bases of Vulnerability to Fraud in Older AdultsShelley E Taylor; Fiscal Year: 2010..Consequently, the public health implications of older adults'vulnerability to financial fraud are manifold. ..