Publications

Papers In Press

Millgram, Y., Coppersmith, D. D., Sheppes, G., Fortgang, R., Goldenberg, A., & Nock, M. K. (In Press).          Emotion Regulation in Daily Life among Adults with Suicidal Thoughts. Clinical Psychological Science.

Petter, J., Mehta, A., Petrova, K., Kindt, M., Sheppes, G., Haslbeck, J. M. B., & Gross, J. J. (In Press).             Emotion regulation, fast or slow: A computational model of strategy choice. Emotion.

2024

Sheppes, G. (2024). Emotion regulation choice: Where we are, and where do we go? In J.J. Gross            & B.Q. Ford (Eds.), Handbook of emotion regulation (3rd ed., pp. 94-103). The Guilford Press.

Specker, P., Sheppes, G., & Nickerson, A. (2024). Does emotion regulation flexibility work? Investigating the effectiveness of regulatory selection flexibility in managing negative affect. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15(5), 561-569.

2023

Fine, N., Ben-Aharon, N., Armon, D., Seligman, Z., Helpman, L., Bloch, M., . . . Sheppes, G. (2023).    Reduced emotion regulatory selection flexibility in post-traumatic stress disorder: Converging performance-based evidence from two PTSD populations. Psychological Medicine, 53(7), 2758-2767.

Fine, N. B., Helpman, L., Armon, D. B., Gurevitch, G., Sheppes, G., Seligman, Z., … & Bloch, M. (2023) Amygdala-related electroencephalogram neurofeedback as add-on therapy for treatment-resistant childhood sexual abuse posttraumatic stress disorder: feasibility study. Psychiatry and clinical                        neurosciences, 78(1), 19-28.‏

2022

Kritzman L., Eidelman-Rothman, M., Keil, A., Freche, D., Sheppes, G., Levit-Binnun, N. (2022). Steady-state visual evoked potentials differentiate between internally and externally directed attention. NeuroImage, 254, 119133.

Fine, N. B., Schwartz, N., Hendler, T., Gonen, T., & Sheppes, G. (2022). Neural Indices of Emotion Regulatory Implementation Correlate with Behavioral Regulatory Selection: Proof of Concept Investigation. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 835253.

2021

Matthews, M., Webb, T. L., & Sheppes, G. (2021). Do people choose the same strategies to regulate other people’s emotions as they choose to regulate their own?. Emotion , 22(8), 1723–1738.

Ardi, Z., Golland, Y., Shafir, R., Sheppes, G., & Levit-Binnun, N. (2021). The effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the association between autonomic interoceptive signals and emotion regulation selection. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83, 852-862.

Kross, E., Verduyn, P., Sheppes, G., Costello, C., Jonides, J., & Ybarra, O. (2021). Social Media and Well-Being: Progress, Pitfalls and Next Steps. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 55-65. 

Matthews, M., Webb, T.L., Shafir, R., Snow, M., & Sheppes, G. (2021). Identifying the Determinants of Emotion Regulation Choice: A systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Cognition and Emotion, 35, 1056-1084.

Shabat, M., Shafir, R., & Sheppes, G. (2021). Flexible emotion regulatory selection when coping with COVID-19-related threats during quarantine. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-10.‏

Sternberg, N., Luria, R., & Sheppes, G. (2021). Mental Logout: Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Regulating Temptations to Use Social Media. Psychological Science, 32, 1527-1536.

2020

Moodie, C. A., Suri, G., Goerlitz, D. S., Mateen, M. A., Sheppes, G., McRae, K., … & Gross, J. J. (2020). The neural bases of cognitive emotion regulation: The roles of strategy and intensity. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 20(2), 387-407.

Shafir, R., & Sheppes, G. (2020). How Anticipatory Information Shapes Subsequent Emotion Regulation. Emotion, 20(1), 68-74.

Sheppes, G. (2020). Transcending the “Good & Bad” and “Here & Now” in Emotion Regulation: Costs and Benefits of Strategies across Regulatory Stages. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 60(4), 185-236.

Sternberg, N., Luria, R., Chandhok, S., Vickers, B., Kross, E., & Sheppes, G. (2020). When facebook and finals collide-procrastinatory social media usage predicts enhanced anxiety☆. Computers in Human Behavior, 109, 106358.

Dorman Ilan, S., Tamuz, N., & Sheppes, G. (2019). The Fit Between Emotion Regulation Choice and Individual Resources is Associated with Adaptive Functioning Among Young Children. Cognition and Emotion, 33(3), 597-605. 

Millgram, Y., Sheppes, G., Kalokerinos, E., Kuppens P., & Tamir, M. (2019). Do the Ends Dictate the Means in Emotion Regulation? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(1), 80 –96. 

Orejuela- Davila, A., Levens, S., Sagui- Henson, S., Tedeschi, R., & Sheppes, G. (2019). The Relation Between Emotion Regulation Choice and Posttraumatic Growth. Cognition and Emotion. 33(8), 1709-1717.

2018

Martins, B., Sheppes, G., Gross, J. J., & Mather, M. (2018). Age differences in emotion regulation choice: Older adults use distraction less than younger adults in high-intensity positive contexts. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 73(4), 603-611.

Naor, N., Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., Sheppes, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2018). The impact of empathy and reappraisal on emotional intensity recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 32(5), 972-987.

Pliskin, R., Halperin, E., Bar-Tal, D., & Sheppes, G. (2018). When Ideology meets conflict-related content: Influences on emotion generation and regulation. Emotion, 18(2), 159-170.

Shafir, R., & Sheppes, G. (2018). When knowledge is (not) power- the influence of anticipatory information on subsequent emotion regulation: Neural and behavioral evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(8), 1225-1240.

Shafir, R., Zucker, L., & Sheppes, G. (2018). Turning off Hot Feelings: Down-regulation of Sexual Desire Using Distraction and Situation-Focused Reappraisal. Biological psychology, 137, 116-124.

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., Young, G., Abraham, D., McRae, K., & Gross, J.J. (2018). Emotion Regulation Choice: The Role of Environmental Affordances. Cognition and Emotion, 32(5), 963-971.

2017

Bigman, Y. E., Sheppes, G., & Tamir, M. (2017). When Less is More: Effects of the Availability of Strategic Options on Regulating Negative Emotions. Emotion, 17(6), 993-1006.   

Shafir, R., Guarino, T., Lee, I. A., & Sheppes, G. (2017). Emotion regulation choice in an evaluative context: the moderating role of self-esteem. Cognition and Emotion, 31(8), 1725- 1732.  

 2016

Levy-Gigi, E., Bonanno, G.A., Shapiro, A.R., Richter-Levin, G., Kéri, S., & Sheppes, G. (2016). Emotion Regulatory Flexibility Sheds Light on the Elusive Relationship between Repeated Traumatic Exposure and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms. Clinical Psychological Science,  4(1), 28–39

Sauer, C., Sheppes, G., Lackner, H. K., Arens, E. A., Tarrasch, R., & Barnow, S. (2016). Emotion regulation choice in female patients with borderline personality disorder: findings from self-reports and experimental measures. Psychiatry Research, 242, 375-384‏

Shafir, R., Thiruchselvam, R., Suri, G., Gross, J.J., & Sheppes, G. (2016). Neural Processing of Emotional-Intensity Predicts Emotion Regulation Choice. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11(12), 1863-1871.

Shafir, R., Thiruchselvam, R., Suri, G., Gross, J.J., & Sheppes, G. (2016). Neural Processing of Emotional-Intensity Predicts Emotion Regulation Choice – Supplementary materials . Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11(12), 1863-1871.

2015

Aldao, A., Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. Emotion Regulation Flexibility (2015). Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39, 263-278

Hay, A.C., Sheppes, G., Gross, J.J., & Gruber, J. (2015). Choosing How to Feel: Emotion Regulation Choice in Bipolar Disorder. Emotion, 15, 139-145

Pliskin, R., Sheppes, G., & Halperin, E. (2015). Running For Your Life, in Context: Are Rightists Always Less Likely to Consider Fleeing Their Country When Fearing Future Events? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 59, 90–95

Scheibe, S., Sheppes, G. & Staudinger, U. (2015). Distract or Reappraise Age-Related Differences in Emotion-Regulation Choice. Emotion, 15(6), 677–681

Shafir, R., Schwartz, N., Blechert, J., & Sheppes, G. (2015). Emotional Intensity Influences Pre-implementation and Implementation of Distraction and Reappraisal. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 1329-1337

Sheppes, G., Suri, G., & Gross, J.J. (2015). Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 11, 379-405

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2015). The Role of Action Readiness in Motivated Behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(6), 1105–1113

2014

Naim, R., Wald, I., Lior, A., Pine, D.S., Fox, N.A., Sheppes, G., Halperin, P., & Bar-Haim, Y. (2014). Perturbed Threat-Monitoring Following a Traumatic Event Predicts Risk For Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Psychological Medicine, 44, 2077-2084

Pliskin, R., Halperin, E., Sheppes, G., & Bar-Tal, D. (2014). Are Leftists More Emotion-Driven Than Rightists? The Interactive Influence of Ideology and Emotions on Support for Policies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1681-1697.

Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2014). Emotion Generation and Emotion Regulation: Moving Beyond Traditional Dual-Process Accounts. In Sherman, J.W., Gawrsonski, B., & Trope, Y. (Eds.). Dual Process Theories of the Social Mind (pp. 483-493). New York: Guilford Press.

Sheppes, G. (2014). Emotion Regulation Choice: Theory and Findings. In Gross, J.J., (Ed.). Handbook of Emotion Regulation (2nd ed., pp. 126-139). New York: Guilford Press.

Sheppes, G., Brady, W., & Samson, A. (2014). In (visual) Search for a New Distraction: The Efficiency of a Novel Attentional Deployment Versus Semantic Meaning Regulation Strategies. Frontiers in Psychology: Emotion Science, 5, 346, 1-11

Sheppes, G., Scheibe, S., Suri G., Radu, P., Blechert, J., & Gross, J.J. (2014). Emotion Regulation Choice: A Conceptual Framework and Supporting Evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 163-181

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., Leslie, S., & Gross, J.J. (2014). Stairs or Escalator? A Heuristic Systematic Approach to Facilitating Healthy Decision Making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20, 295-302

2013

Kahn, M., Sheppes, G., & Sadeh, A. (2013). Sleep and Emotions: Bidirectional Links and Underlying Mechanisms. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 89, 218-228.

Sheppes G., Luria, R., Fukuda, K., & Gross, J.J. (2013). There’s More to Anxiety than Meets the Eye: Isolating Threat-Related Attentional Engagement and Disengagement Biases. Emotion,13, 520-528

Sheppes, G.,& Levin, Z. (2013). Emotion Regulation Choice: Selecting Between Cognitive Regulation Strategies to Control Emotion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:179

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2013). Emotion Regulation and Cognition. In M.D. Robinson, E.R. Watkins and E. Harmon Jones (Eds.), Handbook of Cognition and Emotion (pp.195-209), New York, NY: Guilford Publications

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., Schwartz, C., & Gross, J.J. (2013). Patient Inertia and The Status Quo Bias: When an Inferior Option is Preferred. Psychological Science, 24, 1763-1769

Suri, G., Sheppes, G., Gross, J.J. (2013). Predicting Affective Choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 627-632

2012

Blechert, J., Sheppes, G., Di Tella, C., Williams, H., & Gross, J.J. (2012). See What You Think: Reappraisal Modulates Behavioral and Neural Responses to Social Stimuli. Psychological Science, 23, 346-353

Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2012). Emotion Regulation Effectiveness: What Works When. In H.A. Tennen and J.M. Suls (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 391-406). Indianapolis, IN: Wiley-Blackwell Press.

2011

Gross, J.J., Sheppes, G., & Urry, H.L. (2011). Emotion Generation and Emotion Regulation: A Distinction we should make (carefully). Cognition and Emotion, 25, 765-781.

Gross J.J., Sheppes, G., & Urry, H.L. (2011). Taking One’s Lumps While Doing the Splits: A Big Tent Perspective on Emotion Generation and Emotion Regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 789-793

Koole, S.L., van Dillen, L.F., & Sheppes, G. (2011). The Self-Regulation of Emotion. In K.D. Vohs & R.F. Baumeister (Eds). Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory, and applications (2nd ed., pp. 22-40). New York: Guilford Press.

Sheppes, G., Scheibe, S., Suri, G., & Gross, J.J. (2011). Emotion-Regulation Choice. Psychological Science,22, 1391-1396

Sheppes, G., & Gross, J.J. (2011). Is Timing Everything? Temporal Considerations in Emotion Regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 319-331.

Thiruchselvam, R., Blechert, J., Sheppes, G., Rydstrom, A, & Gross, J.J. (2011). The Temporal Dynamics of Emotion Regulation: An EEG Study of Distraction and Reappraisal. Biological Psychology, 87, 84-92.

2010 And Earlier

Sheppes, G., & Meiran, N., Spivak, O., & Shahar, G. (2010). An Indirect Measure of Negative Self Reference Interacts with Academic Failure to Predict Continuing Depressive Symptomatology. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 602-609

Sheppes, G., Catran, E., & Meiran, N. (2009). Reappraisal (But Not Distraction) is Going to Make You Sweat: Physiological Evidence for Self Control Effort. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 71, 91-96

Sheppes, G., & Meiran N. (2008). Divergent Cognitive Costs for Online Forms of Reappraisal and Distraction. Emotion, 8, 870-874

Sheppes, G., Meiran, N., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Shahar G. (2008). Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Implicit Negative Self Concept in Dysphoria. Emotion, 8, 386-394

Sheppes, G., & Meiran, N. (2007). Better Late than Never? On the Dynamics of Online Regulation of Sadness Using Distraction and Cognitive Reappraisal. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1518-1532