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Overview

George M. Slavich is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. Over the course of their career, Slavich has produced numerous publications, with significant contributions in the areas of clinical psychology, behavioral neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and biological psychiatry.

Slavich's scholarly output is characterized by a concentration on key topics including stress responses and cortisol, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, tryptophan and brain disorders, mental health research topics, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, child abuse and trauma, and psychological well-being and life satisfaction.

Frequently publishing in prominent venues, Slavich has contributed extensively to journals such as Brain Behavior and Immunity, Biological Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, Stress, and the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's recent notable papers include the following:

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action. (2020, American Psychologist)
  • Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research. (2021, Australian Journal of Psychology)
  • Social Safety Theory: A Biologically Based Evolutionary Perspective on Life Stress, Health, and Behavior. (2020, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology)
  • Psychosocial Interventions and Immune System Function. (2020, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Social Safety Theory: Conceptual foundation, underlying mechanisms, and future directions. (2023, Health Psychology Review)

Slavich has worked closely with several frequent co-authors, including Grant S. Shields, Mitchell J. Prinstein, Matthew K. Nock, Summer Mengelkoch, and Daniel P. Moriarity.

The overall scope of Slavich's research underscores an integrative approach to understanding psychological and biological mechanisms underlying health and behavior, with a specific focus on stress and social safety-related processes.

Best Publications

  • Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span

    David Furman;Judith Campisi;Judith Campisi;Eric Verdin;Pedro Carrera-Bastos

  • From Stress to Inflammation and Major Depressive Disorder: A Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression

    George M. Slavich;Michael R. Irwin

  • More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science.

    Elissa S. Epel;Alexandra D. Crosswell;Stefanie E. Mayer;Aric A. Prather

  • Transformational Teaching: Theoretical Underpinnings, Basic Principles, and Core Methods

    George M. Slavich;Philip G. Zimbardo

  • Mindfulness meditation and the immune system: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

    David S. Black;George M. Slavich

  • Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action.

    June Gruber;Mitchell J. Prinstein;Lee Anna Clark;Jonathan Rottenberg

  • Belonging: A Review of Conceptual Issues, an Integrative Framework, and Directions for Future Research.

    Kelly-Ann Allen;Margaret L. Kern;Christopher S. Rozek;Dennis Michael Mcinerney

  • The Emerging Field of Human Social Genomics

    George M. Slavich;Steven W. Cole

  • Neural sensitivity to social rejection is associated with inflammatory responses to social stress

    George M. Slavich;Baldwin M. Way;Naomi I. Eisenberger;Shelley E. Taylor

  • A longitudinal big data approach for precision health

    Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose;Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose;Kévin Contrepois;Kegan J. Moneghetti;Kegan J. Moneghetti;Kegan J. Moneghetti;Wenyu Zhou

  • Black sheep get the blues: A psychobiological model of social rejection and depression

    George M. Slavich;Aoife O’Donovan;Elissa S. Epel;Margaret E. Kemeny

  • Social Safety Theory: A Biologically Based Evolutionary Perspective on Life Stress, Health, and Behavior

    George M Slavich

  • Stress, sex hormones, inflammation, and major depressive disorder: Extending Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression to account for sex differences in mood disorders

    George M. Slavich;Julia Sacher

  • Life Stress and Health: A Review of Conceptual Issues and Recent Findings.

    George M. Slavich

  • Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health

    Loren Toussaint;Grant S Shields;Gabriel Dorn;George M Slavich

  • Clinical anxiety, cortisol and interleukin-6: evidence for specificity in emotion-biology relationships.

    Aoife O’Donovan;Brian M. Hughes;George M. Slavich;Lydia Lynch

  • Assessing Lifetime Stress Exposure Using the Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN): An Overview and Initial Validation

    George M. Slavich;Grant S. Shields

  • Greater amygdala activity and dorsomedial prefrontal-amygdala coupling are associated with enhanced inflammatory responses to stress

    Keely A. Muscatell;Katarina Dedovic;George M. Slavich;Michael R. Jarcho

  • Psychosocial interventions and immune system function: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

    Grant S. Shields;Chandler M. Spahr;George M. Slavich

  • Cumulative Burden of Lifetime Adversities: Trauma and Mental Health in Low-SES African Americans and Latino/as

    Hector F. Myers;Gail E. Wyatt;Jodie B. Ullman;Tamra B. Loeb

Frequent Co-Authors

Grant S. Shields
Grant S. Shields University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Scott M. Monroe
Scott M. Monroe University of Notre Dame
Frank J. Penedo
Frank J. Penedo University of Miami
Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
Elissa S. Epel
Elissa S. Epel University of California, San Francisco
Loren L. Toussaint
Loren L. Toussaint Luther College
Matthew K. Nock
Matthew K. Nock Harvard University
Julienne E. Bower
Julienne E. Bower University of California, Los Angeles
Aoife O'Donovan
Aoife O'Donovan University of California, San Francisco
Mitchell J. Prinstein
Mitchell J. Prinstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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