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Robert L. Woolfolk is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including neuroscience, psychology, and the arts and humanities. Woolfolk's work engages with both foundational and applied questions across these disciplines.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Arts and Humanities

Within these areas, Woolfolk focuses on a range of specialized subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • General Health Professions
  • Political Science and International Relations

The researcher's work addresses topics that intersect moral, emotional, and ethical dimensions of human behavior. Main topics of their publications include:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • War, Ethics, and Justification
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Free Will and Agency
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics

Woolfolk has contributed scholarly articles to journals such as Military Psychology, a venue that has featured their research at least once. Their recent paper, "Attributions of Responsibility for Military Misconduct: Constraint, Identification, and Severity," was published in 2021 in Military Psychology and explores aspects of ethical judgment within military contexts.

Frequent collaborators in Woolfolk's research include:

  • John M. Doris
  • Sean T. Hannah
  • Rachel H. Wasserman
  • Joshua Knobe

Their collaborations reflect interdisciplinary approaches linking philosophy, social science, and cognitive neuroscience. This network of coauthors supports research spanning moral philosophy and empirical investigations of human agency and responsibility.

Best Publications

  • Principles and practice of stress management

    Paul M. Lehrer;Robert L. Woolfolk;Wesley E. Sime;David H. Barlow

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for somatization disorder: a randomized controlled trial.

    Lesley A. Allen;Robert L. Woolfolk;Robert L. Woolfolk;Javier I. Escobar;Michael A. Gara

  • Identification, situational constraint, and social cognition : studies in the attribution of moral responsibility

    Robert L. Woolfolk;John M. Doris;John M. Darley

  • Leader self-structure: A framework for positive leadership

    Sean T. Hannah;Robert L. Woolfolk;Robert L. Woolfolk;Robert G. Lord

  • Self-complexity, self-evaluation, and depression: An examination of form and content within the self-schema.

    Robert L. Woolfolk;James Novalany;Michael A. Gara;Lesley A. Allen

  • Psychosocial treatments for multiple unexplained physical symptoms: a review of the literature.

    Lesley A Allen;Javier I Escobar;Paul M Lehrer;Michael A Gara

  • Perception of self and other in major depression.

    Michael A. Gara;Robert L. Woolfolk;Bertram D. Cohen;Ruth B. Goldston

  • The effects of positive and negative imagery on motor skill performance

    Robert L. Woolfolk;Mark W. Parrish;Shane M. Murphy

  • Effectiveness of a time-limited cognitive behavior therapy type intervention among primary care patients with medically unexplained symptoms.

    Javier I. Escobar;Michael A. Gara;Angelica M. Diaz-Martinez;Alejandro Interian

  • The use of meditation--relaxation techniques for the management of stress in a working population.

    Patricia Carrington;Gilbeart H. Collings;Herbert Benson;Harry Robinson

  • Principles and practice of stress management, 3rd ed.

    Paul M. Lehrer;Robert L. Woolfolk;Wesley E. Sime

  • Self-report assessment of anxiety: Somatic, cognitive, and behavioral modalities.

    Paul M. Lehrer;Robert L. Woolfolk

  • Hermeneutics and psychological theory: Interpretive perspectives on personality, psychotherapy, and psychopathology.

    Stanley B. Messer;Louis Arnorsson Sass;Robert L. Woolfolk

  • A rose by any other name . . . : Labelling bias and attitudes toward behavior modification.

    Anita E. Woolfolk;Robert L. Woolfolk;G. Terence Wilson

  • Relaxation treatment for insomnia: A component analysis.

    Robert L. Woolfolk;Terrence F. McNulty

  • Psychophysiological Correlates of Meditation

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  • Progressive relaxation and meditation. A study of psychophysiological and therapeutic differences between two techniques

    Paul M. Lehrer;Robert L. Woolfolk;Anthony J. Rooney;Barbara McCann

  • Meditation training as a treatment for insomnia

    Robert L. Woolfolk;Lucille Carr-Kaffashan;Terrence F. McNulty;Paul M. Lehrer

  • Stress management techniques: Are they all equivalent, or do they have specific effects?

    Paul M. Lehrer;Richard Carr;Deepa Sargunaraj;Robert L. Woolfolk

  • Psychophysiological and cognitive responses to stressful stimuli in subjects practicing progressive relaxation and clinically standardized meditation

    Paul M. Lehrer;Saundra Schoicket;Patricia Carrington;Robert L. Woolfolk;Robert L. Woolfolk

  • Somatic Symptom Disorder

    Lesley A. Allen;Robert L. Woolfolk

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Gara
Michael A. Gara Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Louis A. Sass
Louis A. Sass Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John M. Darley
John M. Darley Princeton University
Sean T. Hannah
Sean T. Hannah Wake Forest University
Ivan W. Miller
Ivan W. Miller Brown University
G. Terence Wilson
G. Terence Wilson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robert G. Lord
Robert G. Lord Durham University
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
Arnold A. Lazarus
Arnold A. Lazarus Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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