Selected Publications
*indicates authors contributed equally
Affective and Emotional Experience in Daily Life
MacVittie, A., Petagna, K., & Wormwood, J. B. (2025). I can feel it in my bones: Experienced intensity of emotion predicts in-the-moment awareness of body sensations. Emotion. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/emo0001502 article
MacVittie, A., Kochanowska, E., Kam, J. W. Y., Allen, L., Mills, C., & Wormwood, J. B. (2025). Momentary awareness of body sensations is associated with concurrent affective experience. Emotion, 25(3), 571-587. doi: 10.1037/emo0001428 article
MacVittie, A., Kochanowska, E., Kam, J. W. Y., Mills, C., Allen, L., & Wormwood, J. B. (2024). First-person thought is associated with body awareness in daily life. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 25264. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-75885-1 article
Petagna, K., & Wormwood, J. B. (2023). Who can predict their future feelings? Individual differences in affective forecasting accuracy. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Advance online publication. doi: 19485506231208749. article
*Hoemann, K., *Khan, Z, Feldman, M., Nielson C., Devlin, M., Dy, J., Barrett, L. F., *Wormwood, J. B., & *Quigley, K.S. (2020). Context-aware experience sampling reveals the scale of variation in affective experience. Scientific Reports, 10, 12459. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69180-y article
Affect and Social Perception
McMullen, K. M., MacVittie, A., Betz, N., Leffers, J. & Wormwood, J. B. (2025). Categorization processes in emotion expression recognition: The roles of language and essentialism. Emotion. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/emo0001483 article
Robles, M., Ramos-Grille, I., Hervas, A., Duran-Tauleria, E., Galiano-Landeira, J., Wormwood, J. B., Falter-Wagner, C. M., & Chanes, L. (2024). Reduced stereotypicality and spared use of facial emotion predictions for social evaluation in autism. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 24(2), 100440. doi: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100440 article
Feldman, M., Siegel, E., Barrett, L. F., Quigley, K. S., & Wormwood, J. B. (2022). Affect and social judgment: The roles of physiological reactivity and interoceptive sensitivity. Affective Science, 3, 464-479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00114-9 article
*Wormwood, J. B., *Siegel, E., Kopec, J., Quigley, K., & Barrett, L. F. (2019). You are what I feel: A test of the affective realism hypothesis. Emotion, 19(5), 788-98. doi: 10.1037/emo0000484 article
*Siegel, E., *Wormwood, J. B., Quigley, K., & Barrett, L. F. (2018). Seeing what you feel: Affect drives visual perception of structurally neutral faces. Psychological Science, 29(4), 496-503. doi: 0956797617741718 article
Chanes, L., Wormwood, J. B., Betz, N., & Barrett, L. F. (2018). Facial expression predictions as drivers of social perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(3), 380-396. article
Kleckner, I. R., Anderson, E. C., Betz, N. J., Wormwood, J. B., Eskew, R. T., & Barrett, L. F. (2018). Conscious awareness is necessary for affective faces to influence social judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 181-187. article
Threat Perception
Graham, K., LaChance, A., & Wormwood, J. B. (2023). Bystander intervention in intimate partner violence: An audio vignette study of heterosexual, gay, and lesbian dating partners. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(3-4), NP3979-NP4006. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221111412 article
Wormwood, J. B., Quigley, K. S., & Barrett, L. F. (2022). Emotion and threat detection: The roles of affect and conceptual knowledge. Emotion, 22(8) 1929-1941. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000884 article
Wormwood, J. B., Lin, Y., Lynn, S. K., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. (2019). Psychological impact of mass violence depends on affective tone of media content. PloS one, 14(4), e0213891. article
Wormwood, J. B., Neumann, A. E., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S. (2017). Understanding emotion in context: How the Boston Marathon bombings altered the impact of anger on threat perception. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47(1), 13-22. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12412 article
Wormwood, J. B., Lynn, S. K., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S. (2016). Threat perception after the Boston Marathon bombings: The effects of personal relevance and conceptual framing. Cognition and Emotion, 30(3), 539-549. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1010487 article
Baumann, J., & DeSteno, D. (2010). Emotion guided threat detection: Expecting guns where there are none. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(4), 595-610. article
Risk and Decision Making
Kochanowska, E., Reutskaja, E., & Wormwood, J.B. (2024). Incidental affect influences choice preference among competing alternatives in a modified Affect Misattribution Procedure. Scientific Reports, 14, 32129. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-83935-x article
Kochanowska, E., Coleman, M., Reutskaja E., Mills, C., & Wormwood, J. B. (2023). Discount rates vary within individuals throughout daily life in conjunction with momentary changes in affect. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/19485506231212526. article
Wake, S., Wormwood, J. B., & Satpute, A. B. (2020). The influence of fear on risk-taking: A meta-analysis. Cognition and Emotion. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2020.1731428 article
Fridman, J., Barrett, L. F., Wormwood, J. B., & Quigley, K. S. (2019). Applying the theory of constructed emotion to police decision making in stressful situations. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1946. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01946 article
Wormwood, J. B., & Barrett, L. F. (2018). Question 13: How are emotions integrated into choice? 13.5 Emotion, value, and choice (pp. 352-354). In Fox, A. S., Lapate, R. C., Shackman, A. J. & Davidson, R. J. (Eds.), The Nature of Emotion: Fundamental Questions (2nd edition). Oxford University Press.
*Lynn, S. K., *Wormwood, J. B., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S., (2015). Decision making from economic and signal detection perspectives: Development of an integrated framework. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:952. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00952 article
Baumann, J., & DeSteno, D. (2012). Context explains divergent effects of anger on risk taking. Emotion, 12(6), 1196-1199. article
DeSteno, D., Breazeal, C., Frank, R. H., Pizarro, D., Baumann, J., Dickens, L., & Lee, J. J. (2012). Detecting the Trustworthiness of Novel Partners in Economic Exchange. Psychological Science, 23(12), 1549-1556. article
Individual Differences in Stress Reactivity
Khalaf, A., Nabian, M., Fan, M., Yin, Y., Wormwood, J. B., Siegel, E., Quigley, K., Barrett, L. F., Akcakaya, M., Chou, C., Ostadabbas, S. (2020). Analysis of multimodal physiological signals within and between individuals to predict psychological challenge vs. threat. Expert Systems with Applications, 140, 112890. article
*Wormwood, J. B., *Khan, Z., Siegel, E., Lynn, S. K., Dy, J., & Quigley, K. S. (2019). Physiological indices of threat and challenge: A data-driven investigation of Autonomic Nervous System activity during an active coping stressor task. Psychophysiology, e13454. article
Kelley, D. C., Siegel, E. H., & Wormwood, J. B. (2019). Understanding police performance under stress: Insights from the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1800. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01800 article
Methods in Peripheral Psychophysiology and Affective Science
Reid, T., Nielson, C., Quigley, K. S., & Wormwood, J. B. (2024). Measuring arousal: Promises and pitfalls. Affective Science. doi: 10.1007/s42761-024-00288-4 article
Hoemann, K., Warfel, E., Mills, C., Allen, L., Kuppens, P., & Wormwood, J. B. (2024). Using freely generated labels instead of rating scales to assess emotion in everyday life. Assessment. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/10731911241283623 article
Hoemann, K., Wormwood, J. B., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S. (2023). Context-aware ambulatory sensing that is multimodal and deeply idiographic will transform understanding of affective processes. Affective Science, 1-7. doi: 10.1007/s42761-023-00206-0 article
Kleckner, I., Wormwood, J. B., Jones, R., Culakova, E., Barrett, L. F., Lord, C., Quigley, K. S., & Goodwin, M. S. (2023). Adaptive thresholding increases sensitivity to detect changes in the conductance responses to psychologically arousing stimuli in both laboratory and ambulatory settings. International Journal of Psychophysiology. Advance online publication. 112280 article
*Azari, B., *Westlin, C., … *Brooks, D. H., & *Barrett, L.F. (2020). Comparing supervised and unsupervised approaches to emotion categorization in the human brain, body, and subjective experience. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77117-8 article
Nabian, M. Yin, Y., Wormwood, J. B., Quigley, K. S., Barrett, L. F., & Ostadabbas, S. (2018). An open-source feature extraction tool for the analysis of peripheral physiological data. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 6, 1-11. doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2018.2878000 article
Kleckner, I. R., Jones, R. M., Wilder-Smith, O., Wormwood, J. B., Akcakaya, M., Quigley, K. S., Lord, C., & Goodman, M. (2018). Simple, transparent, and flexible automated quality assessment procedures for ambulatory electrodermal activity data. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 65(7), 1460-1467. doi:10.1109/TBME.2017.2758643 article
Kleckner, I. R., Wormwood, J. B., Simmons, W. K., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S. (2015). Methodological and analytical recommendations for a heartbeat detection-based measure of interoceptive sensitivity. Psychophysiology, 52(11), 1432-1440. article
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