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2026 & in press<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Stanoi, O., Cosme, D., Jovanova, M., Kang, Y., Corbani,F., McGowan, A., Carreras-Tartak, J., Resnick, A., Boyd, Z., Bassett, D., Lydon-Staley, D., Mucha, P., Falk, E. & Ochsner, K. (in press). Staying Connected: How Close Friendships Supported Emotional Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Emotion. <\/em><\/p>\n

Fuchs, M., Boyd, Z. M., Schwarze, A., Cosme, D., Stanoi, O., Kang, Y., Kowatsch, T., von Wangenheim, F., Bassett, D. S., Ochsner, K., Lydon Staley, D. M., Falk, E. B., Mucha, P. J., & Jovanova, M. (in press). Predicting Individual Differences in Digital Alcohol Intervention Effectiveness Through Multimodal Data. npj Digital Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kang, Y., Mesquiti, S., Baik, E.S., & Falk, E. (2025) Empathy and helping: the role of affect in response to others\u2019 suffering. Scientific Reports 15<\/em>, 3256.<\/p>\n

Ahn, J., Cooper, N., Kang, Y., O\u2019Donnell, M., Green, M., Nottoff, N., Carstensen, L., Samanez-Larkin, G., & Falk, E. (2025). Baseline physical activity moderates brain\u2013behavior relationships in response to framed health messages. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience<\/i>.\u00a020(1), nsaf046.<\/p>\n

Jovanova, M., Stanoi, O., Scholz, C., Dore\u0301, B., Cosme, D., Kang, Y., Cooper, N., Boyd, Z., Bassett, D., Mucha, P., Lydon- Staley, D., Ochsner, K., & Falk, E. (2025). Neural responses to peers moderate conversation-drinking associations in daily life. Scientific Reports, 15<\/i>(1), 26914.<\/p>\n

Lee, E., Stanoi, O., He, X., Kang, Y., Jovanova, M., McGowan, A., Lydon-Staley, D., Bassett, D., Ochsner, K., Boyd, Z., Falk, E. B., & Mucha, P. (in press). Functional and Structural Clustering of Social Relationship Layers among College Students for Link Prediction with Applications to Perceived Drinking Networks. Scientific Reports<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mohammed, N., Layland, E.., Cosme, D. Kang, Y., Boyd, Z., Mucha, P., Ochsner, K., Falk, E., Bassett, D., & Lydon-Staley, D. (in press). Profiles of daily positive emotion dynamics and associations with flourishing. Journal of Happiness Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Scholz, C., Chan, H.Y., Ahn, J., Boksem, M., Cooper, N., Coronel, J., Dor\u00e9, B., Genevsky, A., Huskey, R., Kang, Y., Knutson, B., Lieberman, M., O\u2019Donnell, M., Resnick, A., Smidts, A., Venkatraman, V., Weber, R., Vo, K., Yoon, C., & Falk, E. (in press). Brain activity explains message effectiveness: A mega-analysis of 16 neuroimaging studies. PNAS Nexus.<\/p>\n

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2024\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ganesan, S., Barrios, F. A., Batta, I., Bauer, C. C., Braver, T. S., Brewer, J. A., …, Kang, Y., … & King, A. P.\u00a0 (2024). ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ahn, J., Falk, E. & Kang, Y. (2024). Relationships between physical activity and loneliness: A systematic review of intervention studies. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences<\/i>, 100141.<\/p>\n

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2023\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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<\/i>(1), 20501.<\/p>\n

Jovanova, M., Cosme, D., Dor\u00e9, 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.<\/i><\/p>\n

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<\/i>(8), 681-689.<\/p>\n

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<\/i>(2), 141-153.<\/p>\n

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<\/i>(2), e2201074119.<\/p>\n

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2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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. <\/span>Addiction, 117<\/span><\/i>(12), 3049-3057.<\/span><\/p>\n

McGowan, A., Parkes, L., He, X., Stanoi, O., <\/span>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. <\/span>Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 2<\/span><\/i>(4), 432-439.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jovanova, M., Falk, E., Parelman, J., Pandey, P., O\u2019Donnell, M., <\/span>Kang, Y., Bassett, D., & Lydon-Staley, D. (2022). Brain system integration and message consistent health behavior change. <\/span>Health Psychology<\/span><\/i> 1<\/span><\/i>(9), 611\u2013620.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kang, Y., Cakar, M., Shumaker, K., O\u2019Donnell, M., & Falk, E. (2022). <\/span>Experience similarity, dispositional mindfulness, and accurate interpersonal communication.<\/span> Mindfulness, <\/span><\/i>1-11.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2021<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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. <\/span>The Gerontologist<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> 61(6), 878\u2013887.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pandey, P., <\/span>Kang, Y., Cooper, N., O\u2019Donnell, M. B., <\/span>& Falk, E. (2021). Social network influences on neural receptivity to health messages. <\/span>Health Psychology,<\/span><\/i> 40(4), 285<\/span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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

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2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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

Kang, Y. (2019). <\/span>Examining interpersonal self-transcendence as a potential mechanism linking meditation and social outcomes.\u00a0<\/span>Current opinion in Psychology<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>28<\/span><\/i>, 115-119.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2018<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kang, Y., <\/span>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). <\/span>Effects of self-transcendence and affirmation priming on neural responses to persuasive messages and health behavior change. <\/span>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/span><\/i> 115<\/span><\/i>(40), 9974-9979.<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>Journal of School Psychology, 68<\/span><\/i>, 163-176.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2017<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Kang, Y., O’Donnell, M., Strecher, V., Taylor, S, Lieberman, M., & Falk, E. (2017). Self-transcendent values and neural responses to threatening health messages.\u00a0<\/span>Psychosomatic Medicine<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>79<\/span><\/i>(4), 379-387.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kang, Y., <\/span>O\u2019Donnell, M., Strecher, V. & Falk, E. (2017). Dispositional mindfulness predicts adaptive affective responses to health messages and increased exercise motivation. <\/span>Mindfulness, 8, <\/span><\/i>387<\/span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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2016 & Earlier<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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<\/i> (pp. 191\u2013219). Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

Falk, E., Cascio, C., O\u2019Donnell, 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<\/i>(7), 1977-1982.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0Mindfulness<\/i>, 1-8.<\/p>\n

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<\/i>. Wiley-Blackwell.<\/p>\n

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

Kang, Y., Gruber, J., & Gray, J. (2013). Mindfulness and de-automatization. Emotion Review, 5<\/i>(2), 192-201.<\/p>\n

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

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<\/i>(60), 2158-2168.<\/p>\n

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<\/i>, 507-515.<\/p>\n

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<\/i>, 2247-2459.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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