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Overview

Greg Hajcak is a researcher affiliated with Santa Clara University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, and mental health. Across these areas, Hajcak has contributed significantly to the scientific understanding of neural and behavioral psychology, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, functional brain connectivity, mental health, heart rate variability, autonomic control, stress responses, and cortisol.

Hajcak's publication record includes research in notable venues such as Psychophysiology, Biological Psychology, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, and Psychological Medicine. These journals reflect a consistent engagement with psychophysiological and psychological methods and focus.

Their frequent coauthors include Christopher J. Brush, Nicholas J. Santopetro, Brady D. Nelson, Kreshnik Burani, and Julia Klawohn, indicating collaboration across multiple studies and projects within related domains.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Greg Hajcak include:

  • "Increases in depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • "Significance?... Significance! Empirical, methodological, and theoretical connections between the late positive potential and P300 as neural responses to stimulus significance: An integrative review," 2020, Psychophysiology
  • "Reduced neural response to reward and pleasant pictures independently relate to depression," 2020, Psychological Medicine
  • "Reduced P300 in depression: Evidence from a flanker task and impact on ERN, CRN, and Pe," 2020, Psychophysiology
  • "Data quality and reliability metrics for event-related potentials (ERPs): The utility of subject-level reliability," 2021, International Journal of Psychophysiology

Best Publications

  • The Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory: development and validation of a short version.

    Edna B. Foa;Jonathan D. Huppert;Susanne Leiberg;Robert Langner

  • Event-Related Potentials, Emotion, and Emotion Regulation: An Integrative Review

    Greg Hajcak;Annmarie MacNamara;Doreen M Olvet

  • The feedback-related negativity reflects the binary evaluation of good versus bad outcomes

    Greg Hajcak;Jason S. Moser;Clay B. Holroyd;Robert F. Simons

  • Reappraisal modulates the electrocortical response to unpleasant pictures

    Greg Hajcak;Sander Nieuwenhuis

  • To err is autonomic: error-related brain potentials, ANS activity, and post-error compensatory behavior.

    Greg Hajcak;Nicole McDonald;Robert F. Simons

  • Increases in depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Mariah T. Hawes;Aline K. Szenczy;Daniel N. Klein;Greg Hajcak

  • On the ERN and the significance of errors.

    Greg Hajcak;Jason S. Moser;Nick Yeung;Robert F. Simons

  • Differentiating neural responses to emotional pictures: evidence from temporal-spatial PCA.

    Dan Foti;Greg Hajcak;Joseph Dien

  • The error-related negativity (ERN) and psychopathology: Toward an endophenotype

    Doreen M. Olvet;Greg Hajcak

  • Motivated and Controlled Attention to Emotion: Time-Course of the Late Positive Potential

    Greg Hajcak;Jonathan P. Dunning;Dan Foti

  • Brain potentials associated with expected and unexpected good and bad outcomes.

    Greg Hajcak;Clay B. Holroyd;Jason S. Moser;Robert F. Simons

  • It's worse than you thought: The feedback negativity and violations of reward prediction in gambling tasks

    Greg Hajcak;Jason S. Moser;Clay B. Holroyd;Robert F. Simons

  • Deconstructing reappraisal: Descriptions preceding arousing pictures modulate the subsequent neural response

    Dan Foti;Greg Hajcak

  • Anxiety and error-related brain activity

    Greg Hajcak;Nicole McDonald;Robert F. Simons

  • The Persistence of Attention to Emotion: Brain Potentials During and After Picture Presentation

    Greg Hajcak;Doreen M. Olvet

  • Error-related psychophysiology and negative affect ☆

    Greg Hajcak;Nicole McDonald;Robert F. Simons

  • Beyond good and evil: the time-course of neural activity elicited by specific picture content.

    Anna Weinberg;Greg Hajcak

  • The stability of error-related brain activity with increasing trials.

    Doreen M. Olvet;Greg Hajcak

  • Intentional modulation of emotional responding to unpleasant pictures: An ERP study

    Jason S. Moser;Greg Hajcak;Emily Bukay;Robert F. Simons

  • Ventral striatal and medial prefrontal BOLD activation is correlated with reward-related electrocortical activity: a combined ERP and fMRI study.

    Joshua M. Carlson;Dan Foti;Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • The Obsessive-Complusive Inventory: Development and validation of a short version

    Edna B. Foa;Jonathan D. Huppert;Susanne Leiberg;Robert Langner

Frequent Co-Authors

Brady D. Nelson
Brady D. Nelson Stony Brook University
Dan Foti
Dan Foti Purdue University West Lafayette
Anna Weinberg
Anna Weinberg McGill University
Roman Kotov
Roman Kotov Stony Brook University
Daniel N. Klein
Daniel N. Klein Stony Brook University
Autumn Kujawa
Autumn Kujawa Vanderbilt University
Robert F. Simons
Robert F. Simons University of Delaware
Annmarie MacNamara
Annmarie MacNamara Texas A&M University
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Jason S. Moser
Jason S. Moser Michigan State University

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