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Overview

Kristen A. Lindquist is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with specific focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Lindquist's recent papers reflect a range of interests within psychological science and affective research. These include:

  • "From Text to Thought: How Analyzing Language Can Advance Psychological Science," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "The Future of Women in Psychological Science," 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "The Cultural Evolution of Emotion," 2022, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "Adolescent Digital Stress: Frequencies, Correlates, and Longitudinal Association With Depressive Symptoms," 2021, Journal of Adolescent Health
  • "Language and Emotion: Introduction to the Special Issue," 2021, Affective Science

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Affective Science
  • Emotion

Collaborative work is a notable aspect of their research activity. Frequent co-authors with multiple joint publications include:

  • Mitchell J. Prinstein
  • Eva H. Telzer
  • Seh-Joo Kwon
  • Nathan A. Jorgensen
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett

Best Publications

  • The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Tor D. Wager;Hedy Kober;Eliza Bliss-Moreau

  • Functional grouping and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

    Hedy Kober;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Joshua W. Joseph;Eliza Bliss-Moreau

  • Language as context for the perception of emotion

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Kristen A. Lindquist;Maria Gendron

  • The Brain Basis of Positive and Negative Affect: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis of the Human Neuroimaging Literature.

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Ajay B. Satpute;Tor D. Wager;Jochen Weber

  • A functional architecture of the human brain: emerging insights from the science of emotion

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Language and the perception of emotion.

    Kristen Ann Lindquist;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Eliza Bliss-Moreau;James A. Russell

  • Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

    Joshua Conrad Jackson;Joseph Watts;Teague R. Henry;Johann-Mattis List

  • The role of language in emotion: predictions from psychological constructionism.

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Jennifer K. MacCormack;Holly Shablack

  • Emotion words shape emotion percepts

    Maria Gendron;Kristen A. Lindquist;Lawrence Barsalou;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Emotions emerge from more basic psychological ingredients: A modern psychological constructionist model

    Kristen A. Lindquist

  • Of Mice and Men: Natural Kinds of Emotions in the Mammalian Brain? A Response to Panksepp and Izard.

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Kristen A. Lindquist;Eliza Bliss-Moreau;Seth Duncan

  • Constructing Emotion The Experience of Fear as a Conceptual Act

    Kristen Ann Lindquist;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • What's in a Word? Language Constructs Emotion Perception

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Maria Gendron

  • The neuroimaging of emotion.

    Tor D. Wager;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Eliza Bliss-Moreau;Kristen A. Lindquist

  • The hundred-year emotion war: are emotions natural kinds or psychological constructions? Comment on Lench, Flores, and Bench (2011).

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Erika H. Siegel;Karen S. Quigley;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • The Default Mode Network's Role in Discrete Emotion.

    Ajay B. Satpute;Kristen A. Lindquist

  • A Constructionist Review of Morality and Emotions No Evidence for Specific Links Between Moral Content and Discrete Emotions

    C. Daryl Cameron;Kristen Ann Lindquist;Kurt James Gray

  • States of mind: emotions, body feelings, and thoughts share distributed neural networks

    Suzanne Oosterwijk;Suzanne Oosterwijk;Kristen A. Lindquist;Eric Anderson;Rebecca Dautoff

  • Emotion perception, but not affect perception, is impaired with semantic memory loss.

    Kristen Ann Lindquist;Maria Gendron;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Bradford C. Dickerson

  • Does language do more than communicate emotion

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Ajay B. Satpute;Maria Gendron

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Eva H. Telzer
Eva H. Telzer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mitchell J. Prinstein
Mitchell J. Prinstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hedy Kober
Hedy Kober Yale University
B. Keith Payne
B. Keith Payne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paschal Sheeran
Paschal Sheeran University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Karen S. Quigley
Karen S. Quigley Northeastern University
June Gruber
June Gruber University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas L. Webb
Thomas L. Webb University of Sheffield
Jessica L. Schleider
Jessica L. Schleider Northwestern University

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