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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Bert N. Uchino is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a total of 49 publications in this field. Within psychology, Uchino's subfields of study include social psychology, applied psychology, clinical psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and health.

The main topics covered in Uchino's work involve attachment and relationship dynamics, heart rate variability and autonomic control, health disparities and outcomes, behavioral health and interventions, stress responses and cortisol, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, as well as optimism, hope, and well-being.

Uchino has contributed to various academic journals and is frequently published in the following venues:

  • Health Psychology
  • Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Developmental Psychobiology

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Uchino include:

  • "Toward a social psychophysiology of vagally mediated heart rate variability: Concepts and methods in self-regulation, emotion, and interpersonal processes," 2020, Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • "The autonomic nervous system in its natural environment: Immersion in nature is associated with changes in heart rate and heart rate variability," 2020, Psychophysiology
  • "Emotions, relationships, health and illness into old age," 2020, Maturitas
  • "Online social support among breast cancer patients: longitudinal changes to Facebook use following breast cancer diagnosis and transition off therapy," 2020, Journal of Cancer Survivorship
  • "Toward a unified model of stress recovery and cognitive restoration in nature," 2021, Parks Stewardship Forum

Uchino often collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Timothy W. Smith
  • Joshua Landvatter
  • Joseph P. Allen
  • Tracey Tacana
  • Carlene Deits-Lebehn

In 2003, Uchino was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • The relationship between social support and physiological processes: a review with emphasis on underlying mechanisms and implications for health.

    Bert N. Uchino;John T. Cacioppo;Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser

  • Social Support and Health: A Review of Physiological Processes Potentially Underlying Links to Disease Outcomes

    Bert N. Uchino

  • Social support and physical health

    Bert N. Uchino

  • Understanding the Links Between Social Support and Physical Health: A Life-Span Perspective With Emphasis on the Separability of Perceived and Received Support.

    Bert N. Uchino

  • Social Support and Physical Health: Understanding the Health Consequences of Relationships

    Bert N. Uchino

  • Social and emotional support and its implication for health.

    Maija Reblin;Bert N Uchino

  • The problem of equivalent models in applications of covariance structure analysis.

    Robert C. MacCallum;Duane T. Wegener;Bert N. Uchino;Leandre R. Fabrigar

  • Loneliness and Health in Older Adults: A Mini-Review and Synthesis.

    Anthony D. Ong;Bert N. Uchino;Elaine Wethington

  • Autonomic cardiac control. III. Psychological stress and cardiac response in autonomic space as revealed by pharmacological blockades.

    Gary G. Berntson;John T. Cacioppo;Philip F. Binkley;Bert N. Uchino

  • Psychological pathways linking social support to health outcomes: a visit with the "ghosts" of research past, present, and future.

    Bert N. Uchino;Kimberly Bowen;McKenzie Carlisle;Wendy Birmingham

  • Autonomic cardiac control. II: Noninvasive indices and basal response as revealed by autonomic blockades

    John T. Cacioppo;Gary G. Berntson;Philip F. Binkley;Karen S. Quigley

  • Close Relationship Processes and Health: Implications of Attachment Theory for Health and Disease

    Paula R. Pietromonaco;Bert Uchino;Christine Dunkel Schetter

  • Heterogeneity in neuroendocrine and immune responses to brief psychological stressors as a function of autonomic cardiac activation

    John T. Cacioppo;William B. Malarkey;Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser;Bert N. Uchino

  • Social Support, Physiological Processes, and Health

    Bert N. Uchino;Darcy Uno;Julianne Holt-Lunstad

  • Individual differences in the autonomic origins of heart rate reactivity: the psychometrics of respiratory sinus arrhythmia and preejection period.

    John T. Cacioppo;Bert N. Uchino;Gary G. Berntson

  • Social support, social integration, and inflammatory cytokines: A meta-analysis.

    Bert N Uchino;Ryan Trettevik;Robert G Kent de Grey;Sierra Cronan

  • Subjective Social Status: Construct Validity and Associations with Psychosocial Vulnerability and Self-Rated Health

    Jenny M. Cundiff;Timothy W. Smith;Bert N. Uchino;Cynthia A. Berg

  • Heterogeneity in the Social Networks of Young and Older Adults: Prediction of Mental Health and Cardiovascular Reactivity during Acute Stress

    Bert N. Uchino;Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Darcy Uno;Jeffrey B. Flinders

  • Social Support and Physical Health: Models, Mechanisms, and Opportunities

    Bert N. Uchino;Kimberly Bowen;Robert Kent de Grey;Jude Mikel

  • Matters of the variable heart: respiratory sinus arrhythmia response to marital interaction and associations with marital quality.

    Timothy W. Smith;Matthew R. Cribbet;Jill B. Nealey-Moore;Bert N. Uchino

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy W. Smith
Timothy W. Smith University of Utah
Cynthia A. Berg
Cynthia A. Berg University of Utah
John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo University of Chicago
Daniel J. Taylor
Daniel J. Taylor University of Arizona
David M. Sanbonmatsu
David M. Sanbonmatsu University of Utah
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser The Ohio State University
Gary G. Berntson
Gary G. Berntson The Ohio State University
Joshua M. Smyth
Joshua M. Smyth Pennsylvania State University
Jonathan Butner
Jonathan Butner University of Utah
Joseph P. Allen
Joseph P. Allen University of Virginia

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