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Overview

Grant S. Shields is affiliated with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in the United States. Their research spans primarily within the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Social Psychology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

Grant S. Shields has published extensively in a range of academic journals. Frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Stress and Health
  • Journal of Health Psychology
  • Nature Communications
  • Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Psychosocial Interventions and Immune System Function," published in 2020 in JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Child executive function and future externalizing and internalizing problems: A meta-analysis of prospective longitudinal studies," published in 2022 in Clinical Psychology Review
  • "The Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN) in Brazilian Portuguese: Initial Validation and Links With Executive Function, Sleep, and Mental and Physical Health," published in 2020 in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Lifetime and perceived stress, social support, loneliness, and health in autistic adults," published in 2021 in Health Psychology
  • "The error-related negativity (ERN) moderates the association between interpersonal stress and anxiety symptoms six months later," published in 2020 in International Journal of Psychophysiology

Collaboration is a component of their career, with frequent coauthors including:

  • George M. Slavich (37 collaborations)
  • Colton L. Hunter (11 collaborations)
  • Zach J. Gray (9 collaborations)
  • Camelia E. Hostinar (5 collaborations)
  • Chandler M. Spahr (4 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • The effects of acute stress on core executive functions: A meta-analysis and comparison with cortisol.

    Grant S. Shields;Matthew A. Sazma;Andrew P. Yonelinas

  • Executive function performance in obesity and overweight individuals: A meta-analysis and review.

    Yingkai Yang;Grant S. Shields;Cheng Guo;Yanling Liu

  • The effects of acute stress on episodic memory: A meta-analysis and integrative review.

    Grant S. Shields;Matthew A. Sazma;Andrew M. McCullough;Andrew P. Yonelinas

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Lifetime Stress Exposure and Health: A Review of Contemporary Assessment Methods and Biological Mechanisms.

    Grant S. Shields;George M. Slavich

  • Does cortisol influence core executive functions? A meta-analysis of acute cortisol administration effects on working memory, inhibition, and set-shifting.

    Grant S. Shields;Joseph C. Bonner;Wesley G. Moons

  • The relationships between rumination and core executive functions: A meta-analysis

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  • Child executive function and future externalizing and internalizing problems: A meta-analysis of prospective longitudinal studies

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  • Life Stress and Suicide in Adolescents

    Jeremy G. Stewart;Grant S. Shields;Erika C. Esposito;Elizabeth A. Cosby

  • The effect of negative affect on cognition: Anxiety, not anger, impairs executive function.

    Grant S Shields;Wesley G Moons;Carl A Tewell;Andrew P Yonelinas

  • Inflammation, Self-Regulation, and Health: An Immunologic Model of Self-Regulatory Failure.

    Grant S Shields;Wesley G Moons;George M Slavich

  • Better cognitive control of emotional information is associated with reduced pro-inflammatory cytokine reactivity to emotional stress

    Grant S Shields;Shari Young Kuchenbecker;Sarah D Pressman;Ken D Sumida

  • Acute stress impairs cognitive flexibility in men, not women.

    Grant S Shields;Brian C Trainor;Jovian C W Lam;Andrew P Yonelinas

  • Forgiveness, Stress, and Health: a 5-Week Dynamic Parallel Process Study

    Loren L. Toussaint;Grant S. Shields;George M. Slavich

  • Greater lifetime stress exposure predicts blunted cortisol but heightened DHEA responses to acute stress.

    Jovian C.W. Lam;Grant S. Shields;Brian C. Trainor;George M. Slavich

  • Anxiety, not anger, induces inflammatory activity: An avoidance/approach model of immune system activation.

    Wesley G. Moons;Grant S. Shields

  • Cognitive training on eating behaviour and weight loss: A meta-analysis and systematic review.

    Yingkai Yang;Grant S. Shields;Qian Wu;Yanling Liu

  • The Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN) in Brazilian Portuguese: Initial Validation and Links With Executive Function, Sleep, and Mental and Physical Health

    Milton J. Cazassa;Margareth da S. Oliveira;Chandler M. Spahr;Grant S. Shields

  • Cumulative lifetime stress exposure and leukocyte telomere length attrition: The unique role of stressor duration and exposure timing

    Stefanie E. Mayer;Aric A. Prather;Eli Puterman;Jue Lin

  • The Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adolescents (Adolescent STRAIN): associations with mental and physical health, risky behaviors, and psychiatric diagnoses in youth seeking treatment.

    George M. Slavich;Jeremy G. Stewart;Erika C. Esposito;Grant S. Shields

Frequent Co-Authors

George M. Slavich
George M. Slavich University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew P. Yonelinas
Andrew P. Yonelinas University of California, Davis
Brian C. Trainor
Brian C. Trainor University of California, Davis
Loren L. Toussaint
Loren L. Toussaint Luther College
Nicolas Rohleder
Nicolas Rohleder University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Camelia E. Hostinar
Camelia E. Hostinar University of California, Davis
Anna Weinberg
Anna Weinberg McGill University
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
Eva H. Telzer
Eva H. Telzer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Randy P. Auerbach
Randy P. Auerbach Columbia University

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