Publications

Selected Publications (*student authors )

Self-Esteem | Resilience and Adversity | Resilience Through Relationships | Using Bodily Responses to Measure Psychological States (Challenge/Threat)

Self-Esteem

  • Murray, S. L., Seery, M. D., *White, H. I., Quinton, W. J., *Lyman, C. (2026). The cascading effects of parent (low vs. high) self-esteem: Implications for academic self-trust in stereotype-vulnerable students. Self and Identity, 25, 143-166.
  • *Lamarche, V. M., & Seery, M. D. (2019). Come on, give it to me baby: Self-esteem, narcissism, and endorsing sexual coercion following social rejection. Personality and Individual Differences, 149, 315-325.
  • *Smallets, S. A. M., Streamer, L., Kondrak, C. L., & Seery, M. D. (2016). Bringing you down versus bringing me up: Discrepant versus congruent high explicit self-esteem differentially predict malicious and benign envy. Personality and Individual Differences, 94, 173-179.
  • Seery, M. D., & Quinton, W. J. (2015). Targeting prejudice: Personal self-esteem as a resource for Asians’ attributions to racial discrimination. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 677-684.
  • *Streamer, L., & Seery, M. D. (2015). Who am I? The interactive effect of early family experiences and self-esteem in predicting self-clarity. Personality and Individual Differences, 77, 18-21.
  • *Lupien, S. P., Seery, M. D., & *Almonte, J. L. (2012). Unstable high self-esteem and the eliciting conditions of self-doubt. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 762-765.
  • *Lupien, S. P., Seery, M. D., & *Almonte, J. L. (2010). Discrepant and congruent high self-esteem: Behavioral self-handicapping as a preemptive defensive strategy.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 1105-1108.

Resilience and Adversity

  • Quinton, W. J., & Seery, M. D. (2022). Language matters: Understanding international students’ introductory psychology performance. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 8, 353-367.
  • Seery, M. D., & Quinton, W. J. (2016). Understanding resilience: From negative life events to everyday stressors. In J. M. Olson & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 54, pp. 181-245). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.
  • Seery, M. D. & *Kondrak, C. L. (2014). Does trauma lead to “special” growth? European Journal of Personality, 28, 348-350.
  • Seery, M. D., Leo, R. J., *Lupien, S. P., *Kondrak, C. L., & *Almonte, J. L. (2013). An upside to adversity? Moderate cumulative lifetime adversity is associated with resilient responses in the face of controlled stressors. Psychological Science, 24, 1181-1189.
  • Seery, M. D. (2011). Resilience: A silver lining to experiencing adverse life events? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 390-394.
  • Seery, M. D., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2010). Whatever does not kill us: Cumulative lifetime adversity, vulnerability, and resilience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 1025-1041.
  • Seery, M. D., Leo, R. J., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2010). Lifetime exposure to adversity predicts functional impairment and healthcare utilization among individuals with chronic back pain. Pain, 150, 507-515.

Resilience Through Relationships

  • Murray, S. L., Gabriel, S., Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., McNulty, J. K., *Ward, D. E. *Naidu, E. S. (in press). When do real-world rejections motivate people to seek out symbolic social bonds? Insights from the risk-regulation model. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
  • Murray, S. L., McNulty, J. K., *Xia, J., Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., *Ward, D. E., Griffin, D. W., *Hicks, L. L., & *Jung, H. Y. (2023). Pursuing safety in social connection regulates the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125, 519-547.
  • Murray, S. L., *Xia, J., Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., McNulty, J. K., Griffin, D. W., *Ward, D. E., *Jung, H. Y., *Hicks, L. L., & Dubois, D. (2023). A moth to a flame? Fulfilling connectedness needs through romantic relationships protects conspiracy theorists against COVID-19 misinformation. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4, 100111.
  • Murray, S. L., *Xia, J., Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., McNulty, J. K., *Ward, D. E., Griffin, D. W., & *Hicks, L. L. (2023). Sensitizing the behavioral-immune system: The power of social pain. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, 371-380.
  • Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., Murray, S. L., *Kondrak, C. L., *Saltsman, T. L., & *Streamer, L. (2022). Lovers in a dangerous time: Ecologically motivated relationship safety regulation. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3, 100061.
  • Murray, S. L., *Xia, J., Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., McNulty, J. K., Griffin, D. W., *Ward, D. E., & *Hicks, L. L. (2022). Trust as a daily defense against collective disease threats. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3, 100071.
  • Murray, S. L., *Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., *Jung, H. Y., Griffin, D. W., & *Brinkman, C. (2021). The social-safety system: Fortifying relationships in the face of the unforeseeable. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 99-130.
  • Murray, S. L., Seery, M. D., *Lamarche, V. M., *Jung, H. Y., *Saltsman, T. L., Griffin, D. W., Dubois, D., *Xia, Ji, *Ward, D. E., & McNulty, J. (2021). Looking for safety in all the right places: When threatening political reality strengthens family relationship bonds. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 1193-1202.
  • *Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., *Kondrak, C. L., *Saltsman, T. L., & *Streamer, L. (2020). Clever girl: Benevolent sexism and cardiovascular threat. Biological Psychology, 149, 107781.
  • *Le, P. Q., *Saltsman, T. L., Seery, M. D., *Ward, D. E., *Kondrak, C. L., & *Lamarche, V. M. (2019). When a small self means manageable obstacles: Spontaneous self-distancing predicts divergent effects of awe during a subsequent performance stressor. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 80, 59-66.
  • Murray, S. L., Seery, M. D., *Lamarche, V. M., *Kondrak, C., & *Gomillion, S. (2019). Implicitly imprinting the past on the present: Automatic partner attitudes and the transition to parenthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 69-100.
  • Murray, S. L., Lamarche, V., & Seery, M. D. (2018). Romantic relationships as shared reality defense. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 34-37.
  • Murray, S. L., *Lamarche, V. M., *Gomillion, S., Seery, M. D., & *Kondrak, C. (2017). In defense of commitment: The curative power of violated expectations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, 697-729.
  • *Kondrak, C. L., Seery, M. D., Gabriel, S., & Lupien, S. P. (2017). What’s good for me depends on what I see in you: Intimacy avoidance and resources derived from close others. Self and Identity, 16, 557-579.
  • Seery, M. D., Gabriel, S., *Lupien, S. P., & *Shimizu, M. (2016). Alone against the group: A unanimously disagreeing group leads to conformity, but cardiovascular threat depends on one’s goals. Psychophysiology, 53, 1263-1271. 
  • Murray, S. L., *Lupien, S. P., & Seery, M. D. (2012). Resilience in the face of romantic rejection: The automatic impulse to trust. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 845-854.
  • *Shimizu, M., Seery, M. D., Weisbuch, M., & *Lupien, S. P. (2011). Trait social anxiety and physiological activation: Cardiovascular threat during social interaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 94-106.

Using Bodily Responses to Measure Psychological States (Challenge/Threat) 

  • *Ward, D. E., Seery, M. D., *Saltsman, T. L., & *Kondrak, C. L. (2026). When rightness is wrong: Chronic prevention orientation predicts cardiovascular threat responses under regulatory fit. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 125, 104920.
  • *Saltsman, T. L., *Pruitt, T. A., Pfordresher, P. Q., & Seery, M. D. (2025). Singing your heart out: Singing pitch accuracy is associated with cardiovascular responses of task engagement and challenge/threat during vocal performance. Music Perception, 43, 61-75.
  • *Saltsman, T. L., Seery, M. D., *Ward, D. E., *Lamarche, V. M., & *Kondrak, C. L. (2021). Is satisficing really satisfying? Satisficers exhibit greater threat than maximizers during choice overload. Psychophysiology, 58, e13705.
  • *Saltsman, T. L., Seery, M. D., *Ward, D. E., *Radsvick, T. M., *Panlilio (Reyes), Z. A., *Lamarche, V. M., & *Kondrak, C. L. (2021). Facing the facets: No association between dispositional mindfulness facets and positive momentary stress responses during active stressors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 1057-1070.
  • *Saltsman, T. L., Seery, M. D., *Kondrak, C. L., *Lamarche, V. M., & *Streamer, L. (2019). Too many fish in the sea: A motivational examination of the choice overload experience. Biological Psychology, 145, 17-30.
  • *Streamer, L., Seery, M. D., *Kondrak, C. L., *Lamarche, V. M., & *Saltsman, T. (2017). Not I, but she: The beneficial effects of self-distancing on challenge/threat cardiovascular responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70, 235-241.
  • Seery, M. D., *Kondrak, C. L., *Streamer, L., *Saltsman, T., & *Lamarche, V. M. (2016). Preejection period can be calculated using R peak instead of Q. Psychophysiology, 53, 1232-1240. 
  • Seery, M. D. (2013). The biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat: Using the heart to measure the mind. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 637-653.
  • Seery, M. D. (2011). Challenge or threat? Cardiovascular indexes of resilience and vulnerability to potential stress in humans. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 1603-1610.
  • Seery, M. D., Weisbuch, M., *Hetenyi, M. A., & Blascovich, J. (2010). Cardiovascular measures independently predict performance in a university course. Psychophysiology, 47, 535-539.
  • Seery, M. D., Weisbuch, M., & Blascovich, J. (2009). Something to gain, something to lose: The cardiovascular consequences of outcome framing. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 73, 308-312.