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Jeff T. Larsen is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, neurology, social psychology, and sensory systems.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including face recognition and perception, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders, olfactory and sensory function studies, identity, memory, therapy, aging and gerontology research, and nostalgia and consumer behavior.

Jeff T. Larsen has published research articles in prominent venues such as Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Emotion, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, and Journal of Psychiatric Research.

  • A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration (2022, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Fact or artifact? Demand characteristics and participants' beliefs can moderate, but do not fully account for, the effects of facial feedback on emotional experience. (2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • Meaningful endings and mixed emotions: The double-edged sword of reminiscence on good times. (2021, Emotion)
  • Face Coverings Differentially Alter Valence Judgments of Emotional Expressions (2023, Basic and Applied Social Psychology)
  • Letter to the editor: Claims about the effects of botulinum toxin on depression should raise some eyebrows (2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research)

Frequent collaborators include Nicholas A. Coles, Dana Basnight-Brown, Lowell Gaertner, David S. March, and Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos.

Best Publications

  • Negative information weighs more heavily on the brain: The negativity bias in evaluative categorizations.

    Tiffany A. Ito;Jeff T. Larsen;N. Kyle Smith;John T. Cacioppo

  • The psychophysiology of emotion.

    Jeff T. Larsen;Gary G. Berntson;Kirsten M. Poehlmann;Tiffany A. Ito

  • Can people feel happy and sad at the same time

    Jeff T. Larsen;A. Peter McGraw;John T. Cacioppo

  • Perceiving an Object and Its Context in Different Cultures A Cultural Look at New Look

    Shinobu Kitayama;Sean Duffy;Tadashi Kawamura;Jeff T. Larsen

  • Effects of positive and negative affect on electromyographic activity over zygomaticus major and corrugator supercilii

    Jeff T. Larsen;Catherine J. Norris;John T. Cacioppo

  • May I have your attention, please: Electrocortical responses to positive and negative stimuli

    N.Kyle Smith;John T Cacioppo;Jeff T Larsen;Tanya L Chartrand

  • Further evidence for mixed emotions.

    Jeff T. Larsen;A. Peter McGraw

  • Context dependence of the event-related brain potential associated with reward and punishment.

    Clay B. Holroyd;Jeff T. Larsen;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • The good, the bad and the neutral: electrophysiological responses to feedback stimuli.

    Clay B. Holroyd;Greg Hajcak;Jeff T. Larsen

  • The Agony of Victory and Thrill of Defeat Mixed Emotional Reactions to Disappointing Wins and Relieving Losses

    Jeff T. Larsen;A. Peter McGraw;Barbara A. Mellers;John T. Cacioppo

  • Turning adversity to advantage: On the virtues of the coactivation of positive and negative emotions.

    Jeff T. Larsen;Scott H. Hemenover;Catherine J. Norris;John T. Cacioppo

  • Being Bad Isn't Always Good: Affective Context Moderates the Attention Bias Toward Negative Information

    N. Kyle Smith;Jeff T. Larsen;Tanya L. Chartrand;John T. Cacioppo

  • The evaluative space grid : A single-item measure of positivity and negativity

    Jeff T. Larsen;Catherine J. Norris;A. Peter McGraw;Louise C. Hawkley

  • Neuroticism is associated with larger and more prolonged electrodermal responses to emotionally evocative pictures.

    Catherine J. Norris;Jeff T. Larsen;John T. Cacioppo

  • Comparing Gains and Losses

    A. Peter McGraw;Jeff T. Larsen;Daniel Kahneman;David Schkade

  • A meta-analysis of the facial feedback literature: Effects of facial feedback on emotional experience are small and variable.

    Nicholas A. Coles;Jeff T. Larsen;Heather C. Lench

  • The Case for Mixed Emotions

    Jeff T. Larsen;A. Peter McGraw

  • Children's Understanding and Experience of Mixed Emotions

    Jeff T. Larsen;Yen M. To;Gary Fireman

  • Exploring the Valence‐Framing Effect: Negative Framing Enhances Attitude Strength

    George Y. Bizer;Jeff T. Larsen;Richard E. Petty

  • Feeling more together: group attention intensifies emotion.

    Garriy Shteynberg;Jacob B. Hirsh;Evan P. Apfelbaum;Jeff T. Larsen

  • Better (or worse) for some than others: Individual differences in the positivity offset and negativity bias

    Catherine J. Norris;Jeff T. Larsen;L. Elizabeth Crawford;John T. Cacioppo

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo University of Chicago
A. Peter McGraw
A. Peter McGraw University of Colorado Boulder
Gary G. Berntson
Gary G. Berntson The Ohio State University
Louise C. Hawkley
Louise C. Hawkley University of Chicago
Barbara A. Mellers
Barbara A. Mellers University of Pennsylvania
Tiffany A. Ito
Tiffany A. Ito University of Colorado Boulder
Lowell Gaertner
Lowell Gaertner University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Gregory P. Strauss
Gregory P. Strauss University of Georgia
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman Princeton University
Alex S. Cohen
Alex S. Cohen Louisiana State University

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