Publications

2023 & In press

Ahn, J., Falk, E. & Kang, Y. (2023). Relationships between physical activity and loneliness: A systematic review of intervention studies. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 100141.

Kang, Y., Ahn, J., Cosme, D., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., McGowan, A., Zhou, D., Boyd, Z., Jovanova, M., Stanoi, O., Mucha, P., Ochsner, K., Bassett, D., Lydon-Staley, D., & Falk, E. (2023). Frontoparietal functional connectivity moderates the link between time spent on social media and subsequent negative affect in daily life. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 20501.

Jovanova, M., Cosme, D., Doré, B., Kang, Y., Stanoi, O., Cooper, N., Helion, C., Lomax, S., McGowan, A. L., Boyd, Z., Bassett, D. S., Mucha, P., Ochsner, K., Lydon-Staley, D. M., & Falk, E. (2023). Psychological distance intervention reminders reduce alcohol consumption frequency in daily life. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 12045.

McGowan, A.L., Sayed, F., Boyd, Z.M., Jovanova, M., Kang, Y., Speer, M.E., Cosme, D., Mucha, P.J., Ochsner, K.N., Bassett, D.S., Falk, E.B., Lydon-Staley, D.M. (2023). Dense sampling approaches for psychiatry research: Combining scanners and smartphones. Biological Psychiatry, 93(8), 681-689.

McGowan, A., Boyd, Z., Kang, Y., Bennett, L., Mucha, P., Ochsner, K., Bassett, D,. Falk, E., & Lydon-Staley, D. (2023). Within-person temporal associations among self-reported physical activity, sleep, and wellbeing in college students. Psychosomatic Medicine, 85(2), 141-153.

Zhou, D., Kang, Y., Cosme, D., Jovanova, M., He, X., Mahadevan, A., Stanoi, O., Brynildsen, J., Cooper, Ni., Cornblath, E., Parkes, L., Mucha, P., Ochsner, K., Lydon-Staley, D., Falk, E., & Bassett, D. (2023). Mindful attention promotes control of brain network dynamics for self-regulation and discontinues the past from the present. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(2), e2201074119.

2022

Kang, Y., Cosme, D., Lydon-Staley, D., Ahn, J., Jovanova, M., Corbani, F., Lomax, S., Stanoi, O., Strecher, V., Mucha, P., Ochsner, K., Bassett, D., & Falk, E. (2022). Purpose in life, neural alcohol cue reactivity and daily alcohol use in social drinkers. Addiction, 117(12), 3049-3057.

McGowan, A., Parkes, L., He, X., Stanoi, O., Kang, Y., Lomax, S., Jovanova, M., Mucha, P., Ochsner, P., Falk, E., Bassett, D., & Lydon-Staley, D. (2022). Controllability of structural brain networks and the waxing and waning of negative affect in daily life. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 2(4), 432-439.

Jovanova, M., Falk, E., Parelman, J., Pandey, P., O’Donnell, M., Kang, Y., Bassett, D., & Lydon-Staley, D. (2022). Brain system integration and message consistent health behavior change. Health Psychology 1(9), 611–620.

Kang, Y., Cakar, M., Shumaker, K., O’Donnell, M., & Falk, E. (2022). Experience similarity, dispositional mindfulness, and accurate interpersonal communication. Mindfulness, 1-11.

2021

Kang, Y., Cosme, D., Pei, R., Pandey, P., Carreras-Tartak, J., & Falk, E. B. (2021). Purpose in life, loneliness, and protective health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gerontologist, 61(6), 878–887.

Pandey, P., Kang, Y., Cooper, N., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. (2021). Social network influences on neural receptivity to health messages. Health Psychology, 40(4), 285.

2020

Kang, Y., & Falk, E. (2020). Neural mechanisms of attitude change toward stigmatized individuals: Temporoparietal junction activity during compassion training predicts bias reduction. Mindfulness, 1-12.

2019

Kang, Y., Strecher, V. Kim, E., Taylor, S & Falk, E. (2019). Purpose in life associated with reduced conflict-related neural responses during health decision-making. Health Psychology, 38(6), 545.

Kang, Y. (2019). Examining interpersonal self-transcendence as a potential mechanism linking meditation and social outcomes. Current opinion in Psychology, 28, 115-119.

2018

Kang, Y., Pandey, P., Cooper, N., Scholz, C., O’Donnell, M., Lieberman, M., Taylor, S, Strecher, V., Dal Cin, S., Konrath, S., Polk, T., Resnicow, K., An, L., & Falk, E. (2018). Effects of self-transcendence and affirmation priming on neural responses to persuasive messages and health behavior change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(40), 9974-9979.

Kang, Y., Eichel, K., Rahrig, H., Niles, H., Rocha, T., Lepp, N., Gold, J., & Britton, W. (2018). Gender differences in response to a school-based mindfulness training intervention for early adolescents. Journal of School Psychology, 68, 163-176.

2017

Kang, Y., O’Donnell, M., Strecher, V., Taylor, S, Lieberman, M., & Falk, E. (2017). Self-transcendent values and neural responses to threatening health messages. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79(4), 379-387.

Kang, Y., O’Donnell, M., Strecher, V. & Falk, E. (2017). Dispositional mindfulness predicts adaptive affective responses to health messages and increased exercise motivation. Mindfulness, 8, 387.

2016 & Earlier

Fox, K. C., Kang, Y., Lifshitz, M., & Christoff, K. (2016). Increasing cognitive-emotional flexibility with meditation and hypnosis: The cognitive neuroscience of de-automatization. In A. Raz & M. Lifshitz (Eds.), Hypnosis and meditation: Towards an integrative science of conscious planes (pp. 191–219). Oxford University Press.

Falk, E., Cascio, C., O’Donnell, M., Shumaker, K., Tinney, F., Kang, Y., Lieberman, M., Taylor, S, An, L., Resnicow, K., Polk, T., & Strecher, V., (2015). Self-affirmation alters the brain’s response to health messages and subsequent behavior change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(7), 1977-1982.

Kang, Y., Gray, J., & Dovidio, J. (2014). The head and the heart: Effects of understanding and experiencing lovingkindness on attitudes toward the self and others. Mindfulness, 1-8.

Kang, Y., Gruber, J., & Gray, J. (2014). Mindfulness: De-automatization of cognitive and emotional life. A. Ie, C. Ngnoumen, and E. Langer (Eds.) Handbook of Mindfulness. Wiley-Blackwell.

Kang, Y., Gray, J., & Dovidio, J. (2013). The nondiscriminating heart: Lovingkindness meditation training decreases implicit intergroup bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 1306-1313.

Kang, Y., Gruber, J., & Gray, J. (2013). Mindfulness and de-automatization. Emotion Review, 5(2), 192-201.

Kang, Y. & Gruber, J. (2012). Harnessing happiness? Positive emotion controllability in bipolar disorder and major depression. Emotion, 13(2), 290-301.

Shehzad, Z., DeYoung, C, Kang, Y., Grigorenko, E., & Gray, J. (2012). Interaction of COMT val158met and externalizing behavior: Relation to prefrontal brain activity and behavioral performance. Neuroimage, 4(60), 2158-2168.

Kang, Y., Williams, L. E., Bargh, J., Clark, M., & Gray, J. (2011). Effect of physical warmth on trust decision and the role of insula. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 507-515.

Falk, E., Rameson, L., Berkman, E., Liao B., Kang, Y., Inagaki, T., & Lieberman, M. (2010). The neural correlates of persuasion: A common network across cultures and media. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2247-2459.