Publications

* Articles with an asterisk have current or former graduate students as the first authors. This is a representative selection of the lab’s work.

* Koefler, N., Naidu, E., Gabriel, S., Schneider, V., Pascuzzi, G., Paravati, E.  (in press). Let the music play: Live music fosters collective effervescence and leads to lasting positive outcomes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 

* Paravati, E., Naidu, D,  & Gabriel, S (in press). Thank You for the Music: Music as a Social Surrogate That Protects Against Social Threats. Psychology of Music. 

Gabriel, S., Koefler, N. & Schneider, V. Creating a Space for The Sacred in a Secular World: Shabbat Dinners as A Vehicle for Collective Effervescence, Social Connection, and Meaning (PDF). Studies in Religion. 

Gabriel, S. & Schneider, V. (2024). The Need for Social Embeddedness: Human Belonging Goes Beyond Dyadic Bonds (PDF). Current Directions in Psychological Science. 

* Naidu, E., Gabriel, S., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2024). Reliving the Good Old Days: Nostalgia Increases Psychological Wellbeing Through Collective Effervescence (PDF).  Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15(1), 22-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221149813 

Gabriel, S, Young A. F., Naidu, E., Schenider, V. (2023). How Parasocial Relationships Affect our Self-Concepts (PDF)Handbook of Parasocial Experiences.  Rebecca Forster Ed. 

* Paravati, E. , Gabriel, S. Valenti, J., Valent, K., & Buffone, A. (2022). Social Comparison, Parasocial Relationships, and Attachment Style: How and When do Celebrities Improve Self-Liking? (PDF) (Journal of Social Psychology, Nov 24:1-12. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2022.2149385 

Leary, M. R. & Gabriel, S. (2022).  The Relentless Pursuit of Acceptance and Belonging (PDF). Advances in Motivational Science.  

* Naidu, E., Paravati, E., & Gabriel, S. (2022). Staying happy even when staying six feet apart (PDF): The relationship between extroversion and social adaptability. Personality and Individual Differences, 190. 111549. 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111549. 

Gabriel, S. & Paravati, E. (2021). If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On: Four ways that music may lead to social connection (PDF). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E71. doi:10.1017/S0140525X20001430. 

Gabriel, S. (2021) Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Baumeister & Leary’s Seminal Paper on the Need to Belong (PDF)Self & Identity, 20, 1/5.  

* Ministero, L. M., Green, M. C., Gabriel, S., & Valenti, J. (2021). Back where I belong: Rereading as a risk-free pathway to social connection (PDF). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000375. 

* Paravati, E., Naidu, E., & Gabriel, S. (2021). From “love actually” to love, actually: The sociometer takes every kind of fuel (PDF).  Self and Identity 20, 6-24.   https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2020.1743750 

* Paravati, E., Gabriel, S. Naidu, E & Wiedemann, C. (2020). More Than Just a Tweet: The Unconscious Impact of Forming Parasocial Relationships through Social Media (PDF)Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 7(4), 388–403. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000214 

* Brinkman, C, Paravati, E. & Gabriel, S. (2020).  Social Achievement Goals and Social Media (PDF)Computers in Human Behavior, 111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106427 

Gabriel, S., Naidu, E., Paravati, E., Morrison, C. D., & Gainey, K. (2020). Creating the sacred from the profane: Collective effervescence and everyday activities (PDF). The Journal of Positive Psychology, 15(1), 129–154. 

Gabriel, S., Paravati, E., Green, M. C. & Flomsbee, J. (2018). From Apprentice to President: The Role of Parasocial Connection in the Election of Donald Trump (PDF). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(3), 299–307. 

Gabriel, S. Valenti, J., Naragon-Gainey, K. & Young, A. F. (2017) The Psychological Importance of going to Concerts, Churches, and Football Games (PDF): Development and Validation of the Tendency for Effervescent Assembly Measure (TEAM). Psychological Assessment. 29(11), 1349 -1362. 

* Gomillion, S. Gabriel, S., Kawakami, K. & Young, A. F. (2017).  Let’s stay home and watch TV The benefits of shared media use for close relationships (PDF). Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 34 (6), 855-874. 

Gabriel, S., Read, J. P., Young, A. F., Bachrach, R. L., & Troisi, J. (2017). Social Surrogate Use in Those Exposed to Trauma: I Get By With a Little Help From My (Fictional) Friends (PDF)Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 36, 41-63 

* Valenti, J., Gabriel, S., & Blanton, A. (2016). A Tangible Connection to the Divine: An Exploration of the Power and Efficaciousness of Prayer Objects (PDF). Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, 27. 111-120. 

* Buffone, A., Gabriel, S., & Poulin, M. (2016). There But for the Grace of God: Counterfactuals Influence Religious Belief and Images of the Divine (PDF). Social and Personality Psychological Science, 7, 256-263. 

Gabriel, S., Valenti, J., & Young, A. F. (2016). Social Surrogates, Social Motivations, and Everyday Activities: The Case for a Strong, Subtle, and Sneaky Social Self (PDF)Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 53, 189-243. 

* Troisi, J.D., Gabriel, S., Derrick, J. L., Geisler, A. (2015). Threatened belonging and preference for comfort food among the securely attached (PDF). Appetite, 90, 58-64. 

 * Gomillion, S., Gabriel, S., & Murray, S. L. (2014). A Friend of Yours is No Friend of Mine: Jealousy toward a Romantic Partner’s Friends (PDF). Social and Personality Psychological Science.  

* Young, A. F., Gabriel, S., & Schrager, O. (2014). Does This Friend Make Me Look Fat? Appearance-Related Comparisons within Women’s Close Friendships (PDF). Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology, 36, 145-154. 

* Young, A. F. & Gabriel, S. (2013). Batman to the rescue! The protective effects of parasocial relationships with muscular superheroes on men’s body image (PDF).  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 173-177.   

* Young, A. F., Gabriel, S. & Sechrist, G. (2012).  The skinny on celebrities:  Parasocial Relationships Moderate the Effects of Thin Media Figures on Women’s Body Image (PDF), Social and Personality Psychological Science 3, 659-666. 

Gabriel, S. & Young, A. F. (2011).  Becoming a vampire without being bitten: The Narrative Collective Assimilation Hypothesis (PDF).  Psychological Science, 22, 990-994. 

* Troisi, J & Gabriel, S (2011).  Chicken soup really is good for the soul: Comfort food fulfills the need to belong (PDF). Psychological Science, 22, 747-753. 

* Jaremka, L. M., Gabriel, S., & Carvallo, M. (2011). What makes us feel the best also makes us feel the worst: The emotional impact of independent and social experiences (PDF). Self and Identity 10(1), 44-63 

Gabriel, S., Kawakami, K., Bartak, C., Kang, S., & Mann, N. (2010). Negative self-synchronization: Will I change to be like you when it is bad for me? (PDF) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(6), 857-871. 

* Derrick, J. L., Gabriel, S., & Hugenberg, K. J. (2009). Social surrogacy: How favored television programs provide the experience of belonging (PDF). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 352-362. 

Gabriel, S., Carvallo, M., Jaremka, L., & Tippin, B. (2008). A friend is a present you give to your ‘self’: Avoidance of intimacy moderates the effects of friends on self-liking (PDF). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(2), 330-343.  

* Derrick, J., Gabriel, S., & Tippin, B. (2008). Parasocial relationships and self-discrepancies: Faux relationships have benefits for low self-esteem individuals (PDF). Personal Relationships, 15(2), 261-280.  

Gabriel, S., Renaud, J., & Tippin, B. (2007). When I think of you, I feel more confident about me: The relational self and self-confidence (PDF). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43(5), 772-779.  

* El-Alayli, A., & Gabriel, S. (2007). To prove or to improve? Which motive distorts perceptions of personality controllability? (PDF)  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(11), 1572-1586.  

* Cavallo, M. & Gabriel, S. (2006). No Man is an Island: Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style and the Need to Belong. (PDF)  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32,  697-709. 

Gabriel, S., Carvallo, M., Dean, K., Tippin, B. D., & Renaud, J. (2005).  How I See “Me” Depends on How I See “We”: The Role of Attachment Style in Social Comparison (PDF).  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1561-157. 

Gardner, W.L & Gabriel, S. (2004).  Gender differences in relational and collective interdependence: Implications for self-views, social behavior, and subjective well-being. (PDF) In A. Eagly, A. Beall & R. Sternberg, (Eds.)  The Psychology of Gender, 2nd Edition.  (pp. 169-191.) New York, NY:  Guilford.    

Gardner, W.L., Gabriel, S., & Hochschild, L. A. (2002). When you and I are we, you are not threatening: The role of self-expansion in social comparison processes (PDF) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 239-251. 

Bodenhausen, G. V., Mussweiler, T., Gabriel, S., Moreno, K. N. (2001). Affective influences on stereotyping and intergroup behavior (PDF).  In J. Forgas (Ed.), Handbook of affect and social cognition.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 

Mussweiler, T., Gabriel, S., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2000). Shifting social identities as a strategy for deflecting threatening social comparisons (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79,  398-409. 

Bodenhausen, G. V., Gabriel, S., & Lineberger, M. (2000). Sadness and susceptibility to judgmental bias: The case of anchoring (PDF). Psychological Science, 11,  320-323. 

Gabriel, S. & Gardner, W. L. (1999). Are there “his” and “hers” types of interdependence? (PDF) Implications of gender differences in collective and relational interdependence for affect, behavior, and cognition. Journal of Personality and Social  Psychology, 77, 642-655.  

Gardner, W. L., Gabriel, S., & Lee, A. (1999).  “I” value freedom, but “we” value belonging: Self-construal priming resembles cultural differences in judgment (PDF). Psychological Science, 10, 321-326.