Some Representative Publications:

The following list of publications are a representative sample of research produced by RASCL's members and collaborators. You may download a copy of these papers for personal use by clicking on the citation of interest. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these papers. If there is no link to the paper, please write to us (rascl@ocf.berkeley.edu) to request a copy. Please see the disclaimer below for copyright issues regarding these works.

Research Focus: Interpersonal rejection sensitivity and emotion regulation

• Ayduk, O, & Gyurak, A (in press). Conceptualizing Rejection Sensitivity as a Cognitive-Affective Processing Disposition, Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
• Gyurak, A., & Ayduk, O (in press). Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia buffers against rejection sensitivity via emotion control, Emotion
• Ayduk, O, Gyurak, A, & Luerssen A. (in press). Individual differences in the rejection–aggression link in the hot sauce paradigm: The case of rejection sensitivity, Journal of experimental social psychology
• Gyurak, A., & Ayduk, O. (2007). Defensive physiological reactions to rejection: The effect of self-esteem and attentional control, Psychological Science, 10, 886-892.
• Ayduk, O., Downey, G., Testa, A., Yen, Y., & Shoda, Y. (1999). Does rejection elicit hostility in rejection-sensitive women? Social Cognition, 17, 245-271.
• Ayduk, O., Mendoza-Denton, R., Mischel, W., Downey, G., Peake, P., & Rodriguez, M. (2000). Regulating the interpersonal self: Strategic self-regulation for coping with rejection sensitivity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 776-792.
• Downey, G., Mougios, V., Ayduk, O., London, B.E., & Shoda, Y. (2004). Rejection sensitivity and the defensive motivational system: Insights from the startle response to rejection cues. Psychological Science, 15, 668-673.
• Kross, E., Ayduk, O., & Mischel, W. (2005). When Asking "Why" Does Not Hurt: Distinguishing Rumination From Reflective Processing of Negative Emotions. Psychological Science, 16, 709-715.

Research Focus: Status-based rejection sensitivity and situation-specific personality theory

• Mendoza-Denton, R., Pietrzak, J., & Downey, G. (in press). Distinguishing institutional identification from academic goal pursuit: Interactive effects of ethnic identification and race-based rejection sensitivity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
• Mendoza-Denton, R., & Page-Gould, E. (in press). Can cross-group friendships influence minority students' well being at historically White universities? Psychological Science, 19 (9).
• Chan, W., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (in press). Status-based rejection sensitivity among Asian Americans: Implications for psychological distress. Journal of Personality. (Click here to request a copy)
• Page-Gould, E., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Tropp, L. R. (in press). With a little help from my cross-group friend: Reducing anxiety in intergroup contexts through cross-group friendship. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.(Click here to request a copy)
• Kammrath, L.K., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Mischel, W. (2005). Incorporating If ... Then ... Personality Signatures in Person Perception: Beyond the Person - Situation Dichotomy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 605-618.
• Mendoza-Denton, R., Downey, G., Purdie, V.J., Davis, A., & Pietrzak, J. (2002). Sensitivity to status-based rejection: Implications for African American students' college experience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 896-918.
• Mendoza-Denton, R., Ayduk, O., Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Testa, A. (2001). Person x Situation Interactionism in Self-Encoding (I Am ... When ...): Implications for Affect Regulation and Social Information Processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 533-544.

Reports of RASCL Research in the Popular Media:

• Ethan Kross' and Ozlem Ayduk's Distancing and Emotion Regulation Research:
  • Carey, B. (2007). This is your life (and how you tell it) [Electronic Version]. The New York Times (May 22, 2007). (has received 745 diggs!!)

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