{"id":666,"date":"2026-07-03T14:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/?page_id=666"},"modified":"2026-07-11T19:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:44:44","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selected Publications <\/strong>(*<em>student authors )<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a style=\"white-space: normal\" href=\"#self-esteem\">Self-Esteem<\/a> | <a href=\"#resilience\" data-type=\"internal\" data-id=\"#resilience\">Resilience and\u00a0Adversity<\/a> | <a href=\"#relationships\">Resilience Through Relationships<\/a> | <a href=\"#measure\">Using Bodily Responses to Measure Psychological States (Challenge\/Threat)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"self-esteem\"><strong>Self-Esteem<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Murray, S. L.,&nbsp;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.&nbsp;<em>Self and Identity, 25<\/em>, 143-166.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Lamarche, V. M., &amp; Seery, M. D. (2019). Come on, give it to me baby: Self-esteem, narcissism, and endorsing sexual coercion following social rejection.&nbsp;<em>Personality and Individual Differences, 149<\/em>, 315-325.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Smallets, S. A. M., Streamer, L., Kondrak, C. L., &amp; Seery, M. D. (2016). Bringing you down versus bringing me up: Discrepant versus congruent high explicit self-esteem differentially predict malicious and benign envy<em>. Personality and Individual Differences,&nbsp;94,&nbsp;<\/em>173-179.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D., &amp; Quinton, W. J. (2015).&nbsp;Targeting prejudice: Personal self-esteem as a resource for Asians\u2019 attributions to racial discrimination.&nbsp;<em>Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6<\/em>, 677-684.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Streamer, L., &amp; Seery, M. D. (2015). Who am I? The interactive effect of early family experiences and self-esteem in predicting self-clarity.&nbsp;<em>Personality and Individual Differences, 77<\/em>, 18-21.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Lupien, S. P., Seery, M. D., &amp; *Almonte, J. L. (2012). Unstable high self-esteem and the eliciting conditions of self-doubt. <em>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48<\/em>, 762-765.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Lupien, S. P., Seery, M. D., &amp; *Almonte, J. L. (2010). Discrepant and congruent high self-esteem: Behavioral self-handicapping as a preemptive defensive strategy.<em>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46<\/em>, 1105-1108.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"resilience\"><strong>Resilience and\u00a0Adversity<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quinton, W. J., &amp;&nbsp;Seery, M. D.&nbsp;(2022). Language matters: Understanding international students\u2019 introductory psychology&nbsp;performance.&nbsp;<em>Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in&nbsp;Psychology<\/em>, <em>8<\/em>, 353-367.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D., &amp; Quinton, W. J. (2016). Understanding resilience: From negative life events to everyday stressors. In J. M. Olson &amp; M. P. Zanna (Eds.),&nbsp;<em>Advances in experimental social psychology<\/em>&nbsp;(Vol. 54, pp. 181-245). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D. &amp; *Kondrak, C. L. (2014). Does trauma lead to \u201cspecial\u201d growth? <em>European Journal of Personality, 28,<\/em> 348-350.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D., Leo, R. J., *Lupien, S. P., *Kondrak, C. L., &amp; *Almonte, J. L. (2013). An upside to adversity? Moderate cumulative lifetime adversity is associated with resilient responses in the face of controlled stressors. <em>Psychological Science, 24<\/em>, 1181-1189.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D. (2011). Resilience: A silver lining to experiencing adverse life events? <em>Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20<\/em>, 390-394.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D., Holman, E. A., &amp; Silver, R. C. (2010). Whatever does not kill us: Cumulative lifetime adversity, vulnerability, and resilience. <em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99<\/em>, 1025-1041.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D., Leo, R. J., Holman, E. A., &amp; Silver, R. C. (2010). Lifetime exposure to adversity predicts functional impairment and healthcare utilization among individuals with chronic back pain. <em>Pain, 150<\/em>, 507-515.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"relationships\"><strong><strong>Resilience Through Relationship<\/strong>s<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Murray, S. L., Gabriel, S., Lamarche, V. M.,&nbsp;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.&nbsp;<em>Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., McNulty, J. K., *Xia, J., Lamarche, V. M.,&nbsp;Seery, M. D., *Ward, D. E., Griffin, D. W., *Hicks, L. L., &amp; *Jung, H. Y. (2023). Pursuing safety in social connection regulates the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems.&nbsp;<em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<\/em>, <em>125<\/em>, 519-547.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., *Xia, J., Lamarche, V. M.,&nbsp;Seery, M. D., McNulty, J. K., Griffin, D. W., *Ward, D. E., *Jung, H. Y., *Hicks, L. L., &amp; Dubois, D. (2023). A moth to a flame? Fulfilling connectedness needs through romantic relationships protects conspiracy theorists against COVID-19 misinformation.&nbsp;<em>Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4,<\/em>&nbsp;100111.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., *Xia, J., Lamarche, V. M.,&nbsp;Seery, M. D., McNulty, J. K., *Ward, D. E., Griffin, D. W., &amp; *Hicks, L. L. (2023). Sensitizing the behavioral-immune system: The power of social pain.&nbsp;<em>Social Psychological and Personality Science<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;14<\/em>, 371-380.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lamarche, V. M.,&nbsp;Seery, M. D., Murray, S. L., *Kondrak, C. L., *Saltsman, T. L., &amp; *Streamer, L. (2022). Lovers in a dangerous time: Ecologically motivated relationship safety regulation.&nbsp;<em>Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3<\/em>, 100061.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., *Xia, J., Lamarche, V. M.,&nbsp;Seery, M. D., McNulty, J. K., Griffin, D. W., *Ward, D. E., &amp; *Hicks, L. L. (2022). Trust as a daily defense against collective disease threats.&nbsp;<em>Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3<\/em>, 100071.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., *Lamarche, V. M.,&nbsp;Seery, M. D., *Jung, H. Y., Griffin, D. W., &amp; *Brinkman, C. (2021). The social-safety system: Fortifying relationships in the face of the unforeseeable.&nbsp;<em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120<\/em>, 99-130.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L.,&nbsp;Seery, M. D., *Lamarche, V. M., *Jung, H. Y., *Saltsman, T. L., Griffin,&nbsp;D. W., Dubois, D., *Xia, Ji, *Ward, D. E., &amp; McNulty, J. (2021).&nbsp;Looking for safety in all&nbsp;the right places: When&nbsp;threatening political reality strengthens family relationship bonds.&nbsp;<em>Social&nbsp;Psychological and Personality Science, 12<\/em>, 1193-1202<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., *Kondrak, C. L.,&nbsp;*Saltsman, T. L., &amp; *Streamer, L. (2020). Clever girl: Benevolent&nbsp;sexism and cardiovascular&nbsp;threat.&nbsp;<em class=\"\">Biological Psychology, 149, 107781<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Le, P. Q., *Saltsman, T. L., Seery, M. D., *Ward, D. E., *Kondrak, C. L., &amp; *Lamarche, V. M. (2019). When a small self means manageable obstacles: Spontaneous self-distancing predicts divergent effects of awe during a subsequent performance stressor. <em>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 80<\/em>, 59-66.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., Seery, M. D., *Lamarche, V. M., *Kondrak, C., &amp; *Gomillion, S. (2019). Implicitly imprinting the past on the present: Automatic partner attitudes and the transition to parenthood. <em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116<\/em>, 69-100.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., Lamarche, V., &amp; Seery, M. D. (2018). Romantic relationships as shared reality defense. <em>Current Opinion in Psychology, 23<\/em>, 34-37.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., *Lamarche, V. M., *Gomillion, S., Seery, M. D., &amp; *Kondrak, C. (2017). In defense of commitment: The curative power of violated expectations. <em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113<\/em>, 697-729.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Kondrak, C. L., Seery, M. D., Gabriel, S., &amp; Lupien, S. P. (2017). What\u2019s good for me depends on what I see in you: Intimacy avoidance and resources derived from close others.&nbsp;<em>Self and Identity, 16<\/em>, 557-579.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D., Gabriel, S., *Lupien, S. P., &amp; *Shimizu, M. (2016). Alone against the group: A unanimously disagreeing group leads to conformity, but cardiovascular threat depends on one&#8217;s goals. <em>Psychophysiology, 53,<\/em> 1263-1271.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Murray, S. L., *Lupien, S. P., &amp; Seery, M. D. (2012). Resilience in the face of romantic rejection: The automatic impulse to trust. <em>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48<\/em>, 845-854.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Shimizu, M., Seery, M. D., Weisbuch, M., &amp; *Lupien, S. P. (2011). Trait social anxiety and physiological activation: Cardiovascular threat during social interaction. <em>Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37<\/em>, 94-106.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"measure\"><strong>Using Bodily Responses to Measure Psychological States (Challenge\/Threat)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>*Ward, D. E.,&nbsp;Seery, M. D., *Saltsman, T. L., &amp; *Kondrak, C. L. (2026). When rightness is wrong: Chronic prevention orientation predicts cardiovascular threat responses under regulatory fit.&nbsp;<em>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>125<\/em>, 104920.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Saltsman, T. L., *Pruitt, T. A., Pfordresher, P. Q., &amp;&nbsp;Seery, M. D.&nbsp;(2025). Singing your heart out: Singing pitch accuracy is associated with cardiovascular responses of task engagement and challenge\/threat during vocal performance.&nbsp;<em>Music Perception,&nbsp;43<\/em>,&nbsp;61-75.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Saltsman, T. L.,&nbsp;Seery, M. D., *Ward, D. E., *Lamarche, V. M., &amp; *Kondrak, C. L.&nbsp;(2021).&nbsp;Is&nbsp;satisficing really satisfying? Satisficers exhibit greater threat than&nbsp;maximizers during&nbsp;choice overload.&nbsp;<em>Psychophysiology, 58<\/em>, e13705.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Saltsman, T. L.,&nbsp;Seery, M. D., *Ward, D. E., *Radsvick, T. M., *Panlilio (Reyes), Z.&nbsp;A., *Lamarche, V. M., &amp; *Kondrak, C. L. (2021). Facing the facets: No&nbsp;association between&nbsp;dispositional mindfulness facets and positive momentary&nbsp;stress responses during active stressors.&nbsp;<em>Personality and Social Psychology&nbsp;Bulletin, 47<\/em>, 1057-1070.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Saltsman, T. L., Seery, M. D., *Kondrak, C. L., *Lamarche, V. M., &amp; *Streamer, L. (2019). Too many fish in the sea: A motivational examination of the choice overload experience.&nbsp;<em>Biological Psychology, 145<\/em>, 17-30.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>*Streamer, L., Seery, M. D., *Kondrak, C. L., *Lamarche, V. M., &amp; *Saltsman, T. (2017). Not I, but she: The beneficial effects of self-distancing on challenge\/threat cardiovascular responses.<em>&nbsp;Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70<\/em>, 235-241.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D., *Kondrak, C. L., *Streamer, L., *Saltsman, T., &amp; *Lamarche, V. M. (2016). Preejection period can be calculated using R peak instead of Q. <em>Psychophysiology, 53,<\/em> 1232-1240.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D. (2013). The biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat: Using the heart to measure the mind. <em>Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7<\/em>, 637-653.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D. (2011). Challenge or threat? Cardiovascular indexes of resilience and vulnerability to potential stress in humans.<em> Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 35<\/em>, 1603-1610.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D., Weisbuch, M., *Hetenyi, M. A., &amp; Blascovich, J. (2010). Cardiovascular measures independently predict performance in a university course. <em>Psychophysiology, 47<\/em>, 535-539.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seery, M. D., Weisbuch, M., &amp; Blascovich, J. (2009). Something to gain, something to lose: The cardiovascular consequences of outcome framing. <em>International Journal of Psychophysiology, 73<\/em>, 308-312.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected Publications (*student authors ) Self-Esteem | Resilience and\u00a0Adversity | Resilience Through Relationships | Using Bodily Responses to Measure Psychological States (Challenge\/Threat) Self-Esteem Resilience and\u00a0Adversity Resilience Through Relationships Using Bodily &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/publications\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Publications&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-666","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/666\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/spplab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}