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Overview

James A. Coan is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of psychology, with a focus on social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology. The most frequent topics in their work include neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, attachment and relationship dynamics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, death anxiety and social exclusion, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, as well as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Their recent papers cover a range of themes relating to interpersonal closeness, group dynamics, emotion emergence, developmental neural sensitivity, and social presence, published between 2020 and 2023. The notable publications include:

  • Partner intimate touch is associated with increased interpersonal closeness, especially in non-romantic partners (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Groups as organisms: Implications for therapy and training (2021, Clinical Psychology Review)
  • Beyond Nature Versus Nurture: the Emergence of Emotion (2023, Affective Science)
  • OXTR DNA methylation moderates the developmental calibration of neural reward sensitivity (2020, Developmental Psychobiology)
  • Yielding to social presence as a bioenergetic strategy: Preliminary evidence using fMRI (2021, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology)

Coan frequently collaborates with several co-authors including Joseph P. Allen, Jingrun Lin, Sara Medina-DeVilliers, Marlen Z. Gonzalez, and Steven M. Boker.

Their publications are often found in the following venues:

  • Social Neuroscience
  • PLoS ONE
  • Clinical Psychology Review
  • Affective Science
  • Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions

    John M. Gottman;James Coan;Sybil Carrere;Catherine Swanson

  • Frontal EEG asymmetry as a moderator and mediator of emotion.

    James A Coan;John J.B Allen

  • Lending a Hand Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat

    James A. Coan;Hillary S. Schaefer;Richard J. Davidson

  • The handbook of emotion elicitation and assessment

    James A. Coan;John J. B. Allen

  • Frontal EEG asymmetry and the behavioral activation and inhibition systems.

    James A. Coan;John J. B. Allen

  • Issues and assumptions on the road from raw signals to metrics of frontal EEG asymmetry in emotion

    John J.B. Allen;James A. Coan;Maria Nazarian

  • Social Baseline Theory: The Role of Social Proximity in Emotion and Economy of Action

    Lane Beckes;James A. Coan

  • The stability of resting frontal electroencephalographic asymmetry in depression.

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

  • A capability model of individual differences in frontal EEG asymmetry

    James A. Coan;John J.B. Allen;Patrick E. McKnight

  • Toward a neuroscience of attachment.

    James A. Coan

  • Predicting marital stability and divorce in newlywed couples.

    Sybil Carrère;Kim T. Buehlman;John M. Gottman;James A. Coan

  • Voluntary facial expression and hemispheric asymmetry over the frontal cortex.

    James A. Coan;John J.B. Allen;Eddie Harmon-Jones

  • Social Baseline Theory: the social regulation of risk and effort

    James A Coan;David A Sbarra

  • Resting frontal EEG asymmetry as an endophenotype for depression risk: sex-specific patterns of frontal brain asymmetry.

    Jennifer L. Stewart;Andrew W. Bismark;David N. Towers;James A. Coan

  • Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness.

    Gary D. Sherman;Jonathan Haidt;James A. Coan

  • A Theory of Social Thermoregulation in Human Primates

    Hans IJzerman;James A. Coan;Fieke M. A. Wagemans;Marjolein A. Missler

  • The state and trait nature of frontal EEG asymmetry in emotion.

    James A. Coan;John J. B. Allen

  • The Specific Affect Coding System (SPAFF).

    James A. Coan;John M. Gottman

  • Adult attachment and the brain

    James A. Coan

  • Empathy Is Associated With Dynamic Change in Prefrontal Brain Electrical Activity During Positive Emotion in Children

    Sharee N. Light;James A. Coan;Carolyn Zahn-Waxler;Corrina Frye

Frequent Co-Authors

John J.B. Allen
John J.B. Allen University of Arizona
Joseph P. Allen
Joseph P. Allen University of Virginia
Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
John M. Gottman
John M. Gottman University of Washington
David A. Sbarra
David A. Sbarra University of Arizona
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Eddie Harmon-Jones University of New South Wales
Siegwart Lindenberg
Siegwart Lindenberg University of Groningen
Robin Nusslock
Robin Nusslock Northwestern University
Lyn Y. Abramson
Lyn Y. Abramson University of Wisconsin–Madison

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