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Overview

Heather L. Urry is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their academic work primarily falls within the field of Psychology, with a specific focus on Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Sociology and Political Science, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover:

  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Meta-analysis and Systematic Reviews
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Critical Race Theory in Education
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Heather L. Urry has contributed to research published in several academic venues, including:

  • Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Appetite
  • Psychological Science

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Heather L. Urry include:

  • White (but Not Black) Americans Continue to See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game; White Conservatives (but Not Moderates or Liberals) See Themselves as Losing, 2022, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Reexamining the Effect of Gustatory Disgust on Moral Judgment: A Multilab Direct Replication of Eskine, Kacinik, and Prinz (2011), 2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Null effects of therapy dog interaction on adolescent anxiety during a laboratory-based social evaluative stressor, 2021, Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • Do emotions predict eating? The role of previous experiences in emotional eating in the lab and in daily life, 2020, Appetite
  • Don't Ditch the Laptop Just Yet: A Direct Replication of Mueller and Oppenheimer's (2014) Study 1 Plus Mini Meta-Analyses Across Similar Studies, 2021, Psychological Science

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Grace E. Giles, Prsni Patel, Chelsea Crittle, Tad T. Brunyé, and Kell Grandjean da Costa.

Best Publications

  • Amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex are inversely coupled during regulation of negative affect and predict the diurnal pattern of cortisol secretion among older adults

    Heather L. Urry;Carina Marije Van Reekum;Tom Johnstone;Ned H. Kalin

  • Failure to regulate : Counterproductive recruitment of top-down prefrontal-subcortical circuitry in major depression

    Tom Johnstone;Carina Marije Van Reekum;Heather L. Urry;Ned H. Kalin

  • Emotion Regulation in Older Age

    Heather L. Urry;James J. Gross

  • Psychological Well-Being and Ill-Being: Do They Have Distinct or Mirrored Biological Correlates?

    Carol D. Ryff;Gayle Dienberg Love;Heather L. Urry;Daniel Muller

  • Making a Life Worth Living Neural Correlates of Well-Being

    Heather L. Urry;Jack B. Nitschke;Isa Dolski;Daren C. Jackson

  • Now You Feel It, Now You Don't Frontal Brain Electrical Asymmetry and Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation

    Daren C. Jackson;Corrina J. Mueller;Isa Dolski;Kim M. Dalton

  • The stability of resting frontal electroencephalographic asymmetry in depression.

    John J. B. Allen;Heather L. Urry;Sabrina K. Hitt;James A. Coan

  • The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network

    Hannah Moshontz;Lorne Campbell;Charles R. Ebersole;Hans Ijzerman

  • Cognition and Emotion Lecture at the 2010 SPSP Emotion Preconference

    James J. Gross;Gal Sheppes;Heather L. Urry

  • Gaze fixations predict brain activation during the voluntary regulation of picture-induced negative affect

    Carina Marije Van Reekum;Tom Johnstone;Heather L. Urry;Marchell E. Thurow

  • Social relationships, sleep quality, and interleukin-6 in aging women

    Elliot M. Friedman;Mary S. Hayney;Gayle D. Love;Heather L. Urry

  • Individual Differences in Amygdala and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Activity are Associated with Evaluation Speed and Psychological Well-being

    Carien M. van Reekum;Heather L. Urry;Tom Johnstone;Marchell E. Thurow

  • Prefrontal mediation of age differences in cognitive reappraisal.

    Philipp C. Opitz;Lindsay C. Rauch;Douglas P. Terry;Heather L. Urry

  • Individual differences in some (but not all) medial prefrontal regions reflect cognitive demand while regulating unpleasant emotion.

    Heather L. Urry;Carina Marije Van Reekum;Tom Johnstone;Richard J. Davidson

  • To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;Jessica K. Flake;Marco Tullio Liuzza

  • Seeing, thinking, and feeling: Emotion-regulating effects of gaze-directed cognitive reappraisal.

    Heather L. Urry

  • Selection, Optimization, and Compensation in the Domain of Emotion Regulation: Applications to Adolescence, Older Age, and Major Depressive Disorder

    Philipp C. Opitz;James J. Gross;Heather L. Urry

  • Affective Disturbance and Psychopathology: An Emotion Regulation Perspective:

    Hooria Jazaieri;Heather L. Urry;James J. Gross

  • Socioeconomic Status Predicts Objective and Subjective Sleep Quality in Aging Women

    Elliot M. Friedman;Gayle D. Love;Melissa A. Rosenkranz;Heather L. Urry

  • Using reappraisal to regulate unpleasant emotional episodes: goals and timing matter.

    Heather L. Urry

Frequent Co-Authors

Caroline R. Mahoney
Caroline R. Mahoney Tufts University
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tad T. Brunyé
Tad T. Brunyé Tufts University
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
William J. Chopik
William J. Chopik Michigan State University
Holly A. Taylor
Holly A. Taylor Tufts University
Carol D. Ryff
Carol D. Ryff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Carien M. van Reekum
Carien M. van Reekum University of Reading
Lisa M. DeBruine
Lisa M. DeBruine University of Glasgow
Martin Voracek
Martin Voracek University of Vienna

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