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Overview

Gary E. Schwartz is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a concentration on social psychology, health, clinical psychology, complementary and alternative medicine, and molecular biology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Biofield Effects and Biophysics

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • EXPLORE
  • Current Psychology
  • BMJ Neurology Open
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice

Their recent papers encompass a variety of topics across psychology and related fields. These include:

  • "Human interaction with the divine, the sacred, and the deceased: topics that warrant increased attention by psychologists," 2023, published in Current Psychology
  • "Prospective empirical test suite for energy practitioners," 2020, published in EXPLORE
  • "Clinical effectiveness of an integrative psychotherapy technique for the treatment of trauma: A phase I investigation of Heart Assisted Therapy," 2022, published in EXPLORE
  • "Long-standing overt ventriculomegaly in adults (LOVA) as a distinct entity on the neurologist's differential: a narrative review," 2025, published in BMJ Neurology Open
  • "Universal Love Scale," 2020, published in PsycTESTS Dataset

Gary E. Schwartz frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Thomas G. Plante
  • Philip L. De Jager
  • Julie J. Exline
  • Crystal L. Park
  • Raymond F. Paloutzian

Best Publications

  • Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on medical and premedical students.

    Shauna L. Shapiro;Gary E. Schwartz;Ginny Bonner

  • A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness meditation versus relaxation training: effects on distress, positive states of mind, rumination, and distraction.

    Shamini Jain;Shauna L. Shapiro;Summer Swanick;Scott C. Roesch

  • Low-anxious, high-anxious, and repressive coping styles: psychometric patterns and behavioral and physiological responses to stress.

    Daniel A. Weinberger;Gary E. Schwartz;Richard J. Davidson

  • Levels of emotional awareness: a cognitive-developmental theory and its application to psychopathology.

    Richard D. Lane;Gary E. Schwartz

  • The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale: A cognitive-developmental measure of emotion.

    Richard D. Lane;Donald M. Quinlan;Gary E. Schwartz;Pamela A. Walker

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of pleasant and unpleasant emotion

    Richard D. Lane;Eric M. Reiman;Margaret M. Bradley;Peter J. Lang

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of happiness, sadness, and disgust.

    Richard D. Lane;Eric M. Reiman;Geoffrey L. Ahern;Gary E. Schwartz

  • Neural Correlates of Levels of Emotional Awareness: Evidence of an Interaction between Emotion and Attention in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex

    Richard D. Lane;Eric M. Reiman;Beatrice Axelrod;Lang-Sheng Yun

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of externally and internally generated human emotion

    Eric M. Reiman;Richard D. Lane;Geoffrey L. Ahern;Gary E. Schwartz

  • Distress and restraint as superordinate dimensions of self-reported adjustment: a typological perspective.

    Daniel A. Weinberger;Gary E. Schwartz

  • IMPAIRED VERBAL AND NONVERBAL EMOTION RECOGNITION IN ALEXITHYMIA

    Richard D. Lane;Lee Sechrest;Robert Reidel;Victoria Weldon

  • Cardiovascular Differentiation of Happiness, Sadness, Anger, and Fear Following Imagery and Exercise

    Gary E. Schwartz;Daniel A. Weinberger;Jefferson A. Singer

  • Right hemisphere lateralization for emotion in the human brain: interactions with cognition

    Gary E. Schwartz;Richard J. Davidson;Foster Maer

  • Sex Differences in Emotional Awareness

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Richard D. Lane;Lee Sechrest;Gary E. Schwartz

  • Facial muscle patterning to affective imagery in depressed and nondepressed subjects.

    Gary E. Schwartz;Paul L. Fair;Patricia Salt;Michel R. Mandel

  • Patterning of cognitive and somatic processes in the self-regulation of anxiety: effects of meditation versus exercise.

    Gary E. Schwartz;Richard J. Davidson;Daniel J. Goleman

  • Differential lateralization for positive and negative emotion in the human brain: EEG spectral analysis

    Geoffrey L. Ahern;Gary E. Schwartz

  • Stress management in medical education: a review of the literature.

    Shauna L. Shapiro;Daniel E. Shapiro;Gary E. R. Schwartz

  • Is alexithymia the emotional equivalent of blindsight

    Richard D Lane;Geoffrey L Ahern;Gary E Schwartz;Alfred W Kaszniak

  • The efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction in the treatment of sleep disturbance in women with breast cancer: An exploratory study

    Shauna L Shapiro;Richard R Bootzin;Aurelio J Figueredo;Ana Maria Lopez

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Lane
Richard D. Lane University of Arizona
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shauna L. Shapiro
Shauna L. Shapiro Santa Clara University
Richard R. Bootzin
Richard R. Bootzin University of Arizona
Alfred W. Kaszniak
Alfred W. Kaszniak University of Arizona
Aurelio José Figueredo
Aurelio José Figueredo University of Arizona
George A. Bonanno
George A. Bonanno Columbia University
John J.B. Allen
John J.B. Allen University of Arizona
Jerome L. Singer
Jerome L. Singer Yale University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

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