University of New Hampshire
Affect and Social Psychophysiology Lab

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

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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

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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

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*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

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Affect and Social Perception

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​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

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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

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*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

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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​

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Threat Perception

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Risk and Decision Making 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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​​

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Individual Differences in Stress Reactivity

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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

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*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​​

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Methods in Peripheral Psychophysiology and Affective Science

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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

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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

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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

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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

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*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

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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