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Julianne Holt-Lunstad

Julianne Holt-Lunstad

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
50
Citations
26356
World Ranking
2663
National Ranking
1291

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Julianne Holt-Lunstad is affiliated with Brigham Young University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas that intersect social sciences, psychology, and health professions with a notable emphasis on health disparities, psychological well-being, and community health.

The major fields of study for Holt-Lunstad include Social Sciences, Psychology, and Health Professions. Within these broad areas, their subfields of work concentrate on Health, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The topics frequently addressed in their research encompass:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Community Health and Development
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Employment and Welfare Studies

Holt-Lunstad has coauthored multiple papers with several collaborators, including:

  • Carla Perissinotto
  • Michelle H. Lim
  • Pamela Qualter
  • Ashwin Kotwal
  • Valerio Capraro

The frequent venues for publication reflect interdisciplinary interests that span aging, psychiatric epidemiology, and behavioral sciences, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • World Psychiatry
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • American Journal of Epidemiology

Recent scholarly papers by Holt-Lunstad include:

  • Social Connection as a Public Health Issue: The Evidence and a Systemic Framework for Prioritizing the "Social" in Social Determinants of Health (2022) in Annual Review of Public Health
  • The Major Health Implications of Social Connection (2021) in Current Directions in Psychological Science

Other influential research connected to their network, though by coauthors or related fields, includes studies on social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic and socioeconomic impacts of artificial intelligence, suggesting an engagement with current public health challenges and technological impact assessments.

Julianne Holt-Lunstad was recognized in 2020 as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), noting peer acknowledgment within the field of psychology. No book publications were reported.

Best Publications

  • Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Timothy B. Smith;J. Bradley Layton

  • Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Timothy B. Smith;Mark Baker;Tyler Harris

  • Advancing Social Connection as a Public Health Priority in the United States

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Theodore F. Robles;David A. Sbarra

  • Is there something unique about marriage? The relative impact of marital status, relationship quality, and network social support on ambulatory blood pressure and mental health.

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Wendy Birmingham;Brandon Q. Jones

  • Why Social Relationships Are Important for Physical Health: A Systems Approach to Understanding and Modifying Risk and Protection

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad

  • The Potential Public Health Relevance of Social Isolation and Loneliness: Prevalence, Epidemiology, and Risk Factors

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad

  • Influence of a "warm touch" support enhancement intervention among married couples on ambulatory blood pressure, oxytocin, alpha amylase, and cortisol.

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Wendy A. Birmingham;Kathleen C. Light

  • Social Connection as a Public Health Issue: The Evidence and a Systemic Framework for Prioritizing the "Social" in Social Determinants of Health.

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  • Social Support, Physiological Processes, and Health

    Bert N. Uchino;Darcy Uno;Julianne Holt-Lunstad

  • Social Isolation and Loneliness Among San Francisco Bay Area Older Adults During the COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Orders.

    Ashwin A. Kotwal;Ashwin A. Kotwal;Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Rebecca L. Newmark;Irena Cenzer

  • Romantic relationships and mental health.

    Scott Braithwaite;Julianne Holt-Lunstad

  • Heterogeneity in the Social Networks of Young and Older Adults: Prediction of Mental Health and Cardiovascular Reactivity during Acute Stress

    Bert N. Uchino;Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Darcy Uno;Jeffrey B. Flinders

  • Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for CVD: implications for evidence-based patient care and scientific inquiry

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Timothy B Smith

  • On the importance of relationship quality: the impact of ambivalence in friendships on cardiovascular functioning.

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Bert N. Uchino;Timothy W. Smith;Angela Hicks

  • Social Relationships and Mortality

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Timothy B. Smith

  • The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making

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  • Social relationships and ambulatory blood pressure: Structural and qualitative predictors of cardiovascular function during everyday social interactions.

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Bert N. Uchino;Timothy W. Smith;Chrisana Olson-Cerny

  • The Major Health Implications of Social Connection

    Julianne Holt-Lunstad

  • Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Loneliness and Social Isolation: A Multi-Country Study.

    Roger O’Sullivan;Annette Burns;Gerard Leavey;Iracema Leroi

  • A Practical Approach to Assessing and Mitigating Loneliness and Isolation in Older Adults

    Carla Perissinotto;Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil;Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil;Ken Covinsky

  • HETEROGENEITY IN SOCIAL NETWORKS: A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT MODELS LINKING RELATIONSHIPS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES

    Bert N. Uchino;Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Timothy W. Smith;Lindsey Bloor

  • Aging and cardiovascular reactivity to stress: longitudinal evidence for changes in stress reactivity.

    Bert N. Uchino;Julianne Holt-Lunstad;Lindsey E. Bloor;Rebecca A. Campo

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert N. Uchino
Bert N. Uchino University of Utah
Timothy W. Smith
Timothy W. Smith University of Utah
Ramona O. Hopkins
Ramona O. Hopkins Brigham Young University
Cathrine Mihalopoulos
Cathrine Mihalopoulos Deakin University
Pamela Qualter
Pamela Qualter University of Manchester
Theodore F. Robles
Theodore F. Robles University of California, Los Angeles
Michael J. Larson
Michael J. Larson Brigham Young University
Gregory J. Norman
Gregory J. Norman Dexcom (United States)
Sarah M. Coyne
Sarah M. Coyne Brigham Young University
Jessi L. Smith
Jessi L. Smith University of Colorado Colorado Springs

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