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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Roxane Cohen Silver is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, sociology and political science, social psychology, general health professions, and applied psychology.

The main topics explored in their work include COVID-19 and mental health, posttraumatic stress disorder research, migration, health and trauma, resilience and mental health, risk perception and management, disaster response and management, and misinformation and its impacts.

Silver's recent publications include:

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science (2020) in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • The novel coronavirus (COVID-2019) outbreak: Amplification of public health consequences by media exposure. (2020) in Health Psychology
  • The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic: A probability-based, nationally representative study of mental health in the United States (2020) in Science Advances
  • Coping with cascading collective traumas in the United States (2020) in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations (2021) in Perspectives on Psychological Science

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Silver comprise E. Alison Holman, Dana Rose Garfin, Rebecca R. Thompson, Nickolas M. Jones, and Baruch Fischhoff.

Publication activity is noted in journals such as Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Health Psychology, The Lancet Psychiatry, and International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Among professional recognitions, Silver was named Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science.

    Emily A. Holmes;Emily A. Holmes;Rory C O'Connor;V. Hugh Perry;Irene Tracey

  • The myths of coping with loss.

    Camille B. Wortman;Roxane Cohen Silver

  • Nationwide longitudinal study of psychological responses to September 11

    Roxane Cohen Silver;E. Alison Holman;Daniel N. McIntosh;Michael Poulin

  • The novel coronavirus (COVID-2019) outbreak: Amplification of public health consequences by media exposure.

    Dana Rose Garfin;Roxane Cohen Silver;E. Alison Holman

  • Whatever Does Not Kill Us: Cumulative Lifetime Adversity, Vulnerability, and Resilience

    Mark D Seery;E Alison Holman;Roxane Cohen Silver

  • Religion's role in adjustment to a negative life event: coping with the loss of a child.

    Daniel N. McIntosh;Roxane Cohen Silver;Camille B. Wortman

  • Social constraints, intrusive thoughts, and depressive symptoms among bereaved mothers.

    Stephen J. Lepore;Roxane Cohen Silver;Camille B. Wortman;Heidi A. Wayment

  • SEARCHING FOR MEANING IN LOSS: ARE CLINICAL ASSUMPTIONS CORRECT?

    Christopher G. Davis;Camille B. Wortman;Darrin R. Lehman;Roxane Cohen Silver

  • Getting "stuck" in the past: Temporal orientation and coping with trauma.

    E A Holman;R C Silver

  • Media’s role in broadcasting acute stress following the Boston Marathon bombings

    E. Alison Holman;Dana Rose Garfin;Roxane Cohen Silver

  • The myths of coping with loss revisited.

    Camille B. Wortman;Roxane Cohen Silver

  • When nurses double as interpreters: a study of Spanish-speaking patients in a US primary care setting.

    Virginia Elderkin-Thompson;Roxane Cohen Silver;Howard Waitzkin

  • The Undoing of Traumatic Life Events

    Christopher G. Davis;Darrin R. Lehman;Camille B. Wortman;Roxane Cohen Silver

  • Coming to terms with major negative life events.

    Rosemary Tait;Roxane Cohen Silver

  • The role of coping in support provision: The self-presentational dilemma of victims of life crises.

    Roxane Cohen Silver;Camille B. Wortman;Christine Crofton

  • Coping with an Abusive Relationship: I. How and Why Do Women Stay?.

    Tracy Bennett Herbert;Roxane Cohen Silver;John H. Ellard

  • Searching for and finding meaning in collective trauma: results from a national longitudinal study of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

    John A. Updegraff;Roxane Cohen Silver;E. Alison Holman

  • Coping with irrevocable loss.

    Camille B. Wortman;Roxane Cohen Silver

  • Patient centeredness in medical encounters requiring an interpreter.

    Rocio Rivadeneyra;Virginia Elderkin-Thompson;Roxane Cohen Silver;Howard Waitzkin

  • Abridged somatization: a study in primary care.

    Javier I. Escobar;Howard Waitzkin;Roxane Cohen Silver;Michael Gara

  • Personal relationships and social support

    Steve Duck;Roxane Cohen Silver

Frequent Co-Authors

E. Alison Holman
E. Alison Holman University of California, Irvine
Camille B. Wortman
Camille B. Wortman Stony Brook University
Daniel N. McIntosh
Daniel N. McIntosh University of Denver
Emily A. Holmes
Emily A. Holmes Uppsala University
Matthew Hotopf
Matthew Hotopf King's College London
Tamsin Ford
Tamsin Ford University of Cambridge
Helen Christensen
Helen Christensen University of New South Wales
Rory C. O'Connor
Rory C. O'Connor University of Glasgow
Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey University of Oxford
Louise Arseneault
Louise Arseneault King's College London

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