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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Seth D. Pollak is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology, social psychology, education, developmental and educational psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The research topics covered by Seth D. Pollak include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Seth D. Pollak are:

  • Early life stress and development: potential mechanisms for adverse outcomes, 2020, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Rethinking Concepts and Categories for Understanding the Neurodevelopmental Effects of Childhood Adversity, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Emotion regulation as mediator between childhood adversity and psychopathology: A meta-analysis, 2022, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Children's emotion inferences from masked faces: Implications for social interactions during COVID-19, 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Seth D. Pollak include:

  • Karen E. Smith
  • Jamie L. Hanson
  • Kristina Woodard
  • Ashley L. Ruba
  • Rista C. Plate

The venues where Seth D. Pollak has frequently published their work are:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Affective Science
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Child Development

Seth D. Pollak has received recognition through awards such as:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009

Best Publications

  • Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements:

    Lisa Feldman Barrett;Ralph Adolphs;Stacy Marsella;Stacy Marsella;Aleix M. Martinez

  • Abnormalities of the left temporal lobe and thought disorder in schizophrenia. A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Martha Elizabeth Shenton;Ron Kikinis;Ferenc A. Jolesz;Seth D. Pollak

  • Recognizing emotion in faces: developmental effects of child abuse and neglect.

    Seth D. Pollak;Dante Cicchetti;Katherine Hornung;Alex Reed

  • Association of Child Poverty, Brain Development, and Academic Achievement

    Nicole L. Hair;Jamie L. Hanson;Barbara L. Wolfe;Seth D. Pollak

  • Early experience in humans is associated with changes in neuropeptides critical for regulating social behavior

    Alison B. Wismer Fries;Toni E. Ziegler;Joseph R. Kurian;Steve Jacoris

  • Effects of early experience on children's recognition of facial displays of emotion.

    Seth D. Pollak;Pawan Sinha

  • Behavioral Problems After Early Life Stress: Contributions of the Hippocampus and Amygdala

    Jamie L. Hanson;Brendon M. Nacewicz;Matthew J. Sutterer;Amelia A. Cayo

  • Selective attention to facial emotion in physically abused children.

    Seth D. Pollak;Stephanie A. Tolley-Schell

  • Pubertal development: correspondence between hormonal and physical development.

    Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff;Ronald E. Dahl;Seth D. Pollak

  • Early experience is associated with the development of categorical representations for facial expressions of emotion

    Seth D. Pollak;Doris J. Kistler

  • Early stress is associated with alterations in the orbitofrontal cortex: a tensor-based morphometry investigation of brain structure and behavioral risk.

    Jamie L. Hanson;Moo K. Chung;Brian B. Avants;Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff

  • Neurodevelopmental Effects of Early Deprivation in Postinstitutionalized Children

    Seth D. Pollak;Charles A. Nelson;Mary F. Schlaak;Barbara J. Roeber

  • Family poverty affects the rate of human infant brain growth.

    Jamie L. Hanson;Nicole Hair;Dinggang G. Shen;Feng Shi

  • Physical abuse amplifies attention to threat and increases anxiety in children.

    Jessica E. Shackman;Alexander J. Shackman;Seth D. Pollak

  • Early life stress and development: potential mechanisms for adverse outcomes.

    Karen E Smith;Seth D Pollak

  • Social vocalizations can release oxytocin in humans

    Leslie J. Seltzer;Toni E. Ziegler;Seth D. Pollak

  • Association between income and the hippocampus.

    Jamie L. Hanson;Amitabh Chandra;Barbara Elizabeth Wolfe;Seth D. Pollak

  • Mechanisms Linking Early Experience and the Emergence of Emotions: Illustrations From the Study of Maltreated Children

    Seth D. Pollak

  • P3b reflects maltreated children's reactions to facial displays of emotion

    Seth D. Pollak;Rafael Klorman;Joan E. Thatcher;Dante Cicchetti

  • Development of perceptual expertise in emotion recognition

    Seth D. Pollak;Michael Messner;Doris J. Kistler;Jeffrey F. Cohn

  • Associations Between Early Life Stress and Gene Methylation in Children

    Sarah E. Romens;Jennifer McDonald;John Svaren;Seth D. Pollak

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff Iowa State University
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota
Dante Cicchetti
Dante Cicchetti University of Minnesota
Rafael Klorman
Rafael Klorman University of Rochester
Karen D. Rudolph
Karen D. Rudolph University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

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