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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1983 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Gary W. Evans is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Health Professions, and Psychology, with significant contributions to specialized subfields such as Occupational Therapy, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology.

Their work addresses a variety of topics, predominantly concentrating on Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management and Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management. Additional research interests include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Noise Effects and Management, Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research, Health disparities and outcomes, and Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction.

Recent published papers include:

  • Chaos and Instability from Birth to Age Three (2020) in The Future of Children
  • Childhood socioeconomic status is prospectively associated with surface morphometry in adulthood (2021) in Developmental Psychobiology
  • Toward mitigating pressure injuries: Detecting patient orientation from vertical bed reaction forces (2020) in Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering
  • Maternal Stress Moderates the Relationship of Food Insufficiency with Body Mass Index Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adulthood among U.S. Rural Youth (2021) in Childhood Obesity
  • Pessimistic cognitive biases mediate socioeconomic status and children's mental health problems (2023) in Scientific Reports

Gary W. Evans frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including Sharon Gabison, Elham Dolatabadi, Tilak Dutta, Geoff Fernie, and Nikola Pupic.

Their publications have appeared in venues such as Sensors, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Future of Children, Developmental Psychobiology, and Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering.

Throughout their career, Gary W. Evans has received recognition as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2013 and as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1983.

Best Publications

  • The environment of childhood poverty.

    Gary W. Evans

  • Tracking restoration in natural and urban field settings.

    Terry Hartig;Gary W Evans;Larry D Jamner;Deborah S Davis

  • Restorative Effects of Natural Environment Experiences

    Terry Hartig;Marlis Mang;Gary W. Evans

  • Developmental Science in the 21st Century: Emerging Questions, Theoretical Models, Research Designs and Empirical Findings

    Urie Bronfenbrenner;Gary W. Evans

  • Cumulative risk and child development.

    Gary W. Evans;Dongping Li;Sara Sepanski Whipple

  • The built environment and mental health.

    Gary W. Evans

  • Nearby Nature: A Buffer of Life Stress among Rural Children

    Nancy M. Wells;Gary W. Evans

  • The Environment of Poverty: Multiple Stressor Exposure, Psychophysiological Stress, and Socioemotional Adjustment

    Gary W. Evans;Kimberly English

  • Socioeconomic Status and Health: The Potential Role of Environmental Risk Exposure

    Gary W. Evans;Elyse Kantrowitz

  • Child Development and the Physical Environment

    Gary W. Evans

  • Childhood Poverty, Chronic Stress, Self-Regulation, and Coping

    Gary W. Evans;Pilyoung Kim

  • Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memory

    Gary W. Evans;Michelle A. Schamberg

  • A measure of restorative quality in environments

    Terry Hartig;Kalevi Korpela;Gary W. Evans;Tommy Gärling

  • The Role of Chaos in Poverty and Children's Socioemotional Adjustment

    Gary W. Evans;Carrie Gonnella;Lyscha A. Marcynyszyn;Lauren Gentile

  • Housing and Mental Health: A Review of the Evidence and a Methodological and Conceptual Critique

    Gary W. Evans;Nancy M. Wells;Annie Moch

  • A multimethodological analysis of cumulative risk and allostatic load among rural children.

    Gary W. Evans

  • When buildings don't work: The role of architecture in human health.

    Gary W. Evans;Janetta Mitchell McCoy

  • Socioeconomic status and executive function: developmental trajectories and mediation.

    Daniel A. Hackman;Robert Gallop;Gary W. Evans;Martha J. Farah

  • Childhood Poverty and Health Cumulative Risk Exposure and Stress Dysregulation

    Gary W. Evans;Pilyoung Kim

  • Effects of childhood poverty and chronic stress on emotion regulatory brain function in adulthood

    Pilyoung Kim;Gary W. Evans;Michael Angstadt;S. Shaun Ho

  • Environment of childhood poverty

    Gary W. Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

James E. Swain
James E. Swain Stony Brook University
Pilyoung Kim
Pilyoung Kim University of Denver
Stephen J. Lepore
Stephen J. Lepore Temple University
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen Carnegie Mellon University
David S. Krantz
David S. Krantz Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Israel Liberzon
Israel Liberzon Texas A&M University
Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell
Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell Auburn University
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Tommy Gärling
Tommy Gärling University of Gothenburg
Anthony D. Ong
Anthony D. Ong Cornell University

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