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1849

Overview

Niall Bolger is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and specializes in the field of psychology. Their research encompasses several subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their scholarly work covers a range of main topics such as attachment and relationship dynamics, mental health research topics, behavioral health and interventions, digital mental health interventions, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and social and intergroup psychology.

Bolger has published extensively in frequent venues, including:

  • Emotion
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Merged minds: Generalized shared reality in dyadic relationships." (2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • "Longitudinal changes in amygdala, hippocampus and cortisol development following early caregiving adversity" (2021, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • "Regulatory effectiveness of social support." (2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • "Age-related change in task-evoked amygdala-prefrontal circuitry: A multiverse approach with an accelerated longitudinal cohort aged 4-22 years" (2022, Human Brain Mapping)
  • "Social emotion regulation strategies are differentially helpful for anxiety and sadness." (2020, Emotion)

Frequent collaborators of Bolger include Ana M. DiGiovanni, Katherine S. Zee, Talea Cornelius, Michelle VanTieghem, and Jessica Flannery.

Their body of work is primarily concentrated in psychology, with 51 publications in the field. Research contributions focus on experimental and cognitive psychology with 15 publications, applied psychology and clinical psychology each with 11 publications, social psychology with 10, and sociology and political science with 6 publications.

Best Publications

  • Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: New procedures and recommendations.

    Patrick E. Shrout;Niall Bolger

  • Diary Methods: Capturing Life as it is Lived

    Niall Bolger;Angelina Davis;Eshkol Rafaeli

  • Data analysis in social psychology.

    David A. Kenny;Deborah A. Kashy;Niall Bolger

  • Intensive Longitudinal Methods: An Introduction to Diary and Experience Sampling Research

    Niall Bolger;Jean-Philippe Laurenceau

  • A framework for studying personality in the stress process

    Niall Bolger;Adam Zuckerman

  • Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter.

    Jennifer A. Bartz;Jamil Zaki;Niall Bolger;Kevin N. Ochsner

  • Effects of daily stress on negative mood.

    Niall Bolger;Anita DeLongis;Ronald C. Kessler;Elizabeth A. Schilling

  • The contagion of stress across multiple roles.

    Niall Bolger;Anita DeLongis;Ronald C. Kessler;Elaine Wethington

  • Personality and the problems of everyday life: the role of neuroticism in exposure and reactivity to daily stressors.

    Niall Bolger;Elizabeth A. Schilling

  • Invisible support and adjustment to stress.

    Niall Bolger;Adam Zuckerman;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Coping as a personality process: a prospective study.

    Niall Bolger

  • Lower level mediation in multilevel models.

    David A. Kenny;Josephine D. Korchmaros;Niall Bolger

  • A Procedure for Evaluating Sensitivity to Within-Person Change: Can Mood Measures in Diary Studies Detect Change Reliably?

    James A. Cranford;Patrick E. Shrout;Masumi Iida;Eshkol Rafaeli

  • Effects of social support visibility on adjustment to stress: experimental evidence

    Niall Bolger;David Amarel

  • Using diary methods to study marital and family processes.

    Jean-Philippe Laurenceau;Niall Bolger

  • It Takes Two The Interpersonal Nature of Empathic Accuracy

    Jamil Zaki;Niall Bolger;Kevin Ochsner

  • Oxytocin Selectively Improves Empathic Accuracy

    Jennifer A. Bartz;Jamil Zaki;Niall Bolger;Eric Hollander

  • The neural bases of empathic accuracy.

    Jamil Zaki;Jochen Weber;Niall Bolger;Kevin Ochsner

  • Close relationships and adjustment to a life crisis: the case of breast cancer.

    Niall Bolger;Mark Foster;Amiram D. Vinokur;Rosanna Ng

  • Social Relationships, Personality, and Anxiety During a Major Stressful Event

    Niall Bolger;John Eckenrode

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick E. Shrout
Patrick E. Shrout New York University
Kevin N. Ochsner
Kevin N. Ochsner Columbia University
Jamil Zaki
Jamil Zaki Stanford University
Urte Scholz
Urte Scholz University of Zurich
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau University of Delaware
Eshkol Rafaeli
Eshkol Rafaeli Bar-Ilan University
Anita DeLongis
Anita DeLongis University of British Columbia
E. Tory Higgins
E. Tory Higgins Columbia University
John Eckenrode
John Eckenrode Cornell University
Geraldine Downey
Geraldine Downey Columbia University

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