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Jennifer H. Pfeifer

Jennifer H. Pfeifer

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Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
13231
World Ranking
7109
National Ranking
3842

Overview

Jennifer H. Pfeifer is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the field of psychology, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and aspects of public health related to environmental and occupational health.

Their work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • COVID-19 and mental health
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones

Jennifer H. Pfeifer's publication record includes papers in multiple notable venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (8 publications)
  • Biological Psychiatry (4 publications)
  • Journal of Research on Adolescence (4 publications)
  • UNC Libraries (3 publications)
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (2 publications)

Their research has been disseminated through peer-reviewed articles including:

  • "Puberty Initiates Cascading Relationships Between Neurodevelopmental, Social, and Internalizing Processes Across Adolescence," published in 2020 in Biological Psychiatry
  • "Longitudinal Change in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Symptoms from before to during the COVID-19 Pandemic," published in 2022 in Journal of Research on Adolescence
  • "The Future of Women in Psychological Science," published in 2020 in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "A Researcher's Guide to the Measurement and Modeling of Puberty in the ABCD Study® at Baseline," published in 2021 in Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • "Smartphone App to Address Loneliness Among College Students: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial," published in 2020 in JMIR Mental Health

Jennifer H. Pfeifer has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, most notably:

  • Nicholas B. Allen (15 joint publications)
  • Theresa W Cheng (15 joint publications)
  • John C. Flournoy (15 joint publications)
  • Marjolein E.A. Barendse (14 joint publications)
  • Jessica Flannery (11 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron dysfunction in children with autism spectrum disorders

    Mirella Dapretto;Mari S Davies;Jennifer H Pfeifer;Ashley A Scott

  • Putting Feelings Into Words Affect Labeling Disrupts Amygdala Activity in Response to Affective Stimuli

    Matthew D. Lieberman;Naomi I. Eisenberger;Molly J. Crockett;Sabrina M. Tom

  • Neural correlates of social exclusion during adolescence: understanding the distress of peer rejection

    Carrie L. Masten;Naomi I. Eisenberger;Larissa A. Borofsky;Jennifer H. Pfeifer

  • Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children.

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Marco Iacoboni;Marco Iacoboni;John C. Mazziotta;John C. Mazziotta;Mirella Dapretto;Mirella Dapretto

  • Puberty and the human brain: Insights into adolescent development.

    Nandita Vijayakumar;Zdena Op de Macks;Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff;Jennifer H. Pfeifer

  • Entering Adolescence: Resistance to Peer Influence, Risky Behavior, and Neural Changes in Emotion Reactivity

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Carrie L. Masten;William E. Moore;Tasha M. Oswald

  • Arrested development? Reconsidering dual-systems models of brain function in adolescence and disorders

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Nicholas B. Allen

  • Development of the Default Mode and Central Executive Networks Across Early Adolescence: a Longitudinal Study

    Lauren E. Sherman;Jeffrey D. Rudie;Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Carrie L. Masten

  • “I Know You Are But What Am I?!”: Neural Bases of Self-and Social Knowledge Retrieval in Children and Adults

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Matthew D. Lieberman;Mirella Dapretto

  • Puberty Initiates Cascading Relationships Between Neurodevelopmental, Social, and Internalizing Processes Across Adolescence

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Nicholas B. Allen

  • Neural correlates of direct and reflected self-appraisals in adolescents and adults: when social perspective-taking informs self-perception.

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Carrie L. Masten;Larissa A. Borofsky;Mirella Dapretto

  • The Development of Self and Identity in Adolescence: Neural Evidence and Implications for a Value‐Based Choice Perspective on Motivated Behavior

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Elliot T. Berkman

  • Social status modulates neural activity in the mentalizing network.

    Keely A. Muscatell;Sylvia A. Morelli;Emily B. Falk;Baldwin M. Way

  • How and where: theory-of-mind in the brain.

    Caitlin E.V. Mahy;Caitlin E.V. Mahy;Louis J. Moses;Jennifer H. Pfeifer

  • Longitudinal Change in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Symptoms from before to during the COVID‐19 Pandemic

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  • Self-development: Integrating cognitive, socioemotional, and neuroimaging perspectives

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Shannon J. Peake

  • Subgenual anterior cingulate responses to peer rejection: a marker of adolescents' risk for depression.

    Carrie L. Masten;Naomi I. Eisenberger;Larissa A. Borofsky;Kristin Mcnealy

  • Risk-taking and social exclusion in adolescence: Neural mechanisms underlying peer influences on decision-making

    Shannon J. Peake;Thomas J. Dishion;Elizabeth A. Stormshak;William E. Moore

  • Adolescent social cognitive and affective neuroscience: past, present, and future

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  • Neural correlates of social exclusion across ages: A coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional MRI studies.

    Nandita Vijayakumar;Theresa W. Cheng;Jennifer H. Pfeifer

  • Longitudinal Change in the Neural Bases of Adolescent Social Self-Evaluations: Effects of Age and Pubertal Development

    Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Lauren E. Kahn;Junaid S. Merchant;Shannon J. Peake

  • Witnessing peer rejection during early adolescence: Neural correlates of empathy for experiences of social exclusion

    Carrie L. Masten;Naomi I. Eisenberger;Jennifer H. Pfeifer;Mirella Dapretto

Frequent Co-Authors

Mirella Dapretto
Mirella Dapretto University of California, Los Angeles
Nicholas B. Allen
Nicholas B. Allen University of Oregon
Philip A. Fisher
Philip A. Fisher Stanford University
Matthew D. Lieberman
Matthew D. Lieberman University of California, Los Angeles
Naomi I. Eisenberger
Naomi I. Eisenberger University of California, Los Angeles
Elliot T. Berkman
Elliot T. Berkman University of Oregon
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff Iowa State University
Andrew J. Fuligni
Andrew J. Fuligni University of California, Los Angeles
Christia Spears Brown
Christia Spears Brown University of Kentucky
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

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