† mentored undergraduate student publication
Publications
2021
Mitchell, A.D., Martin, L.E., Baldwin, A.S. and Levens, S. M. (2021) Mindfulness-Informed Guided Imagery to Target Physical Activity: A Mixed Method Feasibility and Acceptability Pilot Study. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:742989. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.742989
Gadaire, C., Armstrong, L.M., & Levens, S.M. (2021) Development and validation of the Child Weight Risk Questionnaire. Eating and Weight Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-021-01181-w
Mahajan, K., Roy Choudhury, S., Levens, S., Gallicano, T., Shaikh, S. (2021) Community Connect: A Mock Social Media Platform to Study Online Behavior. In Proceedings of 14th ACM International Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM 2021).
Conference Presentations
Aboufoul, L., Mahajan, K., Gallicano, T., Levens, S. and Shaikh, S. (2021) A Case Study of Analysis of Construals in Language on Social Media Surrounding a Crisis Event. In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021).
2020
Sagui-Henson, S., †Mitchell, A., Armstrong, L.M., Basquin, C., & Levens, S.M. (2020). Parental Emotion Regulation Ability, Parenting Self-Efficacy, and Child Diet. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 29, 2290–2302 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-020-01745-x
2019
*†Orejuela-Davila, A.I., *Levens, S.M., (shared first authorship) †Sara J. Sagui-Henson, Tedeschi R.G. & Sheppes G. (2019) The relation between emotion regulation choice and posttraumatic growth. Cognition and Emotion, 33(8):1709-1717. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2019.1592117. Epub 2019 Apr 18.
Levens, S.M., †Sagui-Henson, S.J., †Padro M. Martin, L.E., Trucco, E.M., Cooperman, N.A., Baldwin, A.S., Kassianos, A.P., Mdege, N.D. (2019). The effects of positive affect and episodic future thinking on temporal discounting, and healthy food demand and choice among overweight and obese individuals: Protocol for a pilot 2×2 factorial randomized controlled study. Journal of Medical Internet Research: Research Protocols, 8(3): e12265. doi: 10.2196/12265.
Conference Presentations
Levens, S.M., †ElTayeby, O., Gallicano, T., †Brunswick, M., & Shaikh, S. (July, 2019) Using Information Processing Strategies to Predict Message Level Contagion in Social Media. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2019) and the Affiliated Conferences, Washington D.C.
Shaikh, S., †Ravi, K., Gallicano, T., †Aleshire, B., †Brunswick, M., †ElTayeby, O., & Levens, S.M., (2019) EmoVis – An Interactive Visualization to Track Emotional Trends during Crisis Events. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2019) and the Affiliated Conferences, Washington D.C.
2018
†Wesslen, R., †Nandu, S., †Eltayeby, O., Gallicano, T., Levens, S., Jiang, M., & Shaikh, S. (2018, June). Bumper stickers on the Twitter highway: Analyzing the speed and substance of profile changes. Proceedings of the Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Paper available at https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/bx9rm doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/BX9RM
†Roos, L. G., Levens, S. M., & Bennett, J. M. (2018). Recent stressful life events, relationship stressors, and cortisol reactivity: The moderating role of suppression. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 89, 69-77. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen. 2017.12.026
†Sagui‐Henson, S.J., Levens, S.M., & *Blevins, C.L. (2018). Examining the psychological and emotional mechanisms of mindfulness that reduce stress to enhance healthy behaviours. Stress and Health. 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2797
†Seyed, A.S., Levens, S.M., Maestas C., Shaikh S., Walsh, J.I., Zadrozny W., †Danis, C. & Thompson, O.P. (2018). Cross corpus emotion classification using survey data. In Proceedings of Symposium on Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Applications.
Conference Presentation
Levens, S. M., †Eltayeby, O., †Aleshire, B., †Nandu, S., †Wesslen, R., Gallicano, T., & Shaikh, S. (2018, July). Using information processing strategies to predict contagion of social media behavior: A theoretical model Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2018) and the Affiliated Conferences, Orlando, Florida
Levens, S. M. & Maestas C. & Atkeson, L. (2018, January). Emotion, Emotion Regulation, and Political Activism. Talk presented at the Role of Emotions in the Political Process panel, 2018 Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA
2017
Seyed, A.S., Levens, S.M., Maestas C., Shaikh S., Walsh, J.I., Zadrozny W., *Danis, C. & Thompson, O.P. (2017). Cross corpus emotion classification using survey data. In Proceedings of Symposium on Computational Modelling of Emotion: Theory and Applications.
Conference Presentations
Levens, S. M. & Maestas C. (2017, April). Meaning-based reappraisal moderates the relation between anger and protest participation and distrust in response to the Keith Scott shooting. Flash Talk presented at the Emotion Regulation session, 2017 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
Maestas C. & Levens, S. M. (2017, April). Group identity and the polarization of blame and anger during high-salience group conflict. Flash Talk presented at the Invited Flash Talk session, 2017 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
*Basquin, C.A., Armstrong, L.M., †McKinney, S., †Drummond, D., *Sagui-Henson, S.J., & Levens, S.M. (2017, April) Parents’ negative emotions and unhealthy child eating habits predict parents’ appraisals of child weight-related film. Poster presented at the National Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, MA.
†Blanchard, R.C., Armstrong, L.M., Basquin, C., †Deem, L.M., Sagui-Henson, S.J., Levens, S.M. (2017, April) Do as I say, not as I do: Family and child factors predict parents’ sadness and guilt in response to child weight-related film clips. Poster presented at the National Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, MA.
Alverio, T., †Kazemeini, R., & Levens, S.M. (2017, April). Gender and recent trauma impact emotion regulation choice. Poster presented at the National Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, MA.
†Bernero, K., Sagui-Henson, S., & Levens, S.M. (2017, April). Adaptiveness of negative reappraisal varies along the socioeconomic status gradient to predict body mass index. Poster presented at the National Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, MA.
†Padro, M., †Abdul-Rahman, A., & Levens, S.M. (2017, April). Increased distraction effectiveness in response to negative emotional content is associated with reduced emotional eating. Poster presented at the National Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, MA.
Park, S., †Tracy, S., & Levens, S.M. (2017, April). Contrasting the effects of positive and neutral distraction on reappraisal choice in the emotion regulation choice task. Poster presented at the National Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, MA.
†Paschall, S., †Butler, P., Sagui-Henson, S.J., & Levens, S.M. (2017, April). The association between health locus of control and trait reappraisal and suppression. Poster presented at the National Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, MA.
†Mitchell, A., †Prince, J., & Levens, S.M. (2017, April). Finding your happy place: High mindfulness is associated with increased reappraisal of intense negative stimuli. Poster presented at the National Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, MA.
Sagui-Henson, S.J., Hilaire, N., Levens, S.M. (2017, April). The role of positive reappraisal ability in weight-related health behavior change. Poster presented at the National Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, MA.
Sagui-Henson, S.J. & Levens, S.M. (2017, April). Positive possibilities or negative consequences: Health-focused emotion regulation ability in adults and parents. Poster presented at the National Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, MA.
2016
Levens, S.M., Armstrong, L.M., Orejuela-Davila, A.I., & †Alverio T.N. (2016) The two sides of adversity: the effect of distant versus recent trauma on updating emotional content in WM. Cognition and Emotion. Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1197099.
Sagui, S. J., & Levens, S. M. (2016). Brief Report: Cognitive reappraisal ability buffers against the indirect effects of stress reactivity on type 2 diabetes. Health Psychology. Epub ahead of print
Levens, S. M., †Elrahal, F., & Sagui, S. J. (2016). The role of family support and perceived stress reactivity in predicting depression in college freshman. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. 35 (4), 342-355
†Alverio, T.N. & Levens S.M. (in press) Oh the lemons in life: Individual differences in emotion processing predict post-trauma depression. Undergraduate Journal of Psychology
Conference Presentations
Levens, S. M., & Sagui-Henson, S. J. (2016, November). Emotion regulation ability interacts with stress reactivity to predict health outcomes. Symposium talk presented to the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Asheville, NC.
Sagui, S. J., *Blevins, C. L., & Levens, S. M. (2016, March). Don’t worry, be happy: Longitudinal changes in positive affect predict behavioral health outcomes. Flash Talk presented at the Emotion and Health session, 2016 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Alverio, T., †Bernero, K.J, Levens, S.M. (2016, March) Emotion processing biases in working memory may contribute to inhibitory dysfunction. Poster presented at 2016 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Orejuela-Dávila, A.I., Levens, S.M. (2016, March) Choosing reappraisal in response to high intensity stimuli predicts post traumatic growth. Poster presented at 2016 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
†Wolf, K.L. & Levens, S.M. (2016, March) Gender differences in reward responsiveness and inhibition affect risk-taking behavior. Poster presented at 2016 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
†Tracy, S.M. & Levens, S.M. (2016, March) As you “like” it: Effects of attachment and reward drive in predicting social media usage. Poster presented at 2016 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Park, S.E. & Levens, S.M. (2016, March) Individual differences in working memory manipulation predict choice to reappraise. Poster presented at 2016 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Cook, M.C., †Galobardi, O.D. & Levens, S.M. (2016, March) Temporal Stability of Updating Emotional Content in Working Memory. Poster presented at 2016 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Sagui, S. J., & Levens, S.M. (2016, January). Mechanisms of mindfulness in predicting health-enhancing behaviors. Poster accepted for presentation at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
2015
Levens, S.M. & Gotlib, I.H. (2015) Updating emotional content in working memory in remitted depressed individuals. J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. (8) 156-63
†Lavender R.M. (2015) Electronic Media Use and Sleep Quality. Undergraduate Journal of Psychology, 28 (1.5)
Conference Presentations
†Tracy, S.M. & Levens, S.M. (2015, November) Emotion Regulation and Cognitive Mechanisms in Social Media Behaviors. Poster presented at the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium
†Cox, T. & Levens, S.M. (2015, November) You can’t always get what you want, but do you get what you need? Self-pleasure and social support needs predict choice behavior on the dictator and ultimatum tasks. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
Levens, S.M. (2015, October) The relation between anger attention biases and self-efficacy, a moderated mediation model of gender and insecure attachment. Symposium talk presented to the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Winston Salem, NC.
Sagui, S. J. & Levens, S. M. (2015, April). Cognitive reappraisal ability buffers against the indirect effects of stress reactivity on type 2 diabetes: A moderated mediation model. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Charlotte, NC.
Levens, S. M. (2015, April). Hold on to the positive: the role of updating emotional content in individual differences. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA
*Orejuela-Davila, A.I. & Levens S.M. (2015, April) Reappraisal of high-intensity negative stimuli predicts post trauma deliberate rumination. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
†Alverio, T.N. & Levens, S.M. (2015, April) Breaking bad: Rapidly disengaging from happy content in working memory predicts future depression symptoms. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Sagui, S. J., †Dawson, S. A., & Levens, S. M. (2015, April) Adaptive elaboration: Individual differences in the processing of negative emotional information predict resilience. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
†Wolf, K., †Tracy, S., Sagui, S. J., & Levens, S. M. (2015, April) Read my expression: Attentional capture of angry stimuli interacts with gender to predict insecure attachment style. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Cook, M.C., †Galobardi, O.D., & Levens, S.M. (2015, April) Updating emotional content in working memory in individuals diagnosed with ADHD. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Sagui, S. J. & Levens, S. M. (2015, February). Reframing the negative: The stress-buffering role of cognitive reappraisal ability on BMI. Poster presented at the Emotion Preconference of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
2014
Levens, S.M., Larsen, J.T., Bruss, J., Tranel, D., Bechara, A. &Mellers, B. (2014) What might have been? The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and lateral orbitofrontal cortex in counterfactual emotions and choice, Neuropsychologia 54, 77–86
†Cummins, T.B. (2014) Effects of Social Support and Romantic Relationships on Body Dissatisfaction, Undergraduate Journal of Psychology, 27 (1.2)
†DeWolf T (2014) Effects of Attractiveness on Perceived Trustworthiness, Undergraduate Journal of Psychology, 27 (1.3)
Conference Presentations
S.M. Levens (2014, November) Updating emotion: the role of emotion and executive functions in individual differences, Symposium talk presented to the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Athens, Georgia
S.M. Levens, Shaw, D (2014, March) HTR1B and TPH2 gene expression predicts the continuity of behavioral dysregulation from early childhood to late adolescence, Boston, MA: Cognitive Neuroscience Society
2012
Samanez-Larkin G.R., Levens S.M., Perry L.M., Dougherty R.F., Knutson B. (2012) Frontostriatal white matter integrity mediates adult age differences in probabilistic reward learning. J Neurosci. 32(15):5333-7
Levens S.M. & Gotlib I.H. (2012) Optimism and updating negative and positive stimuli in working memory. Cognition and Emotion. 26(2): 341-50
2011
Levens, S.M., Devinsky, O., & Phelps, E.A. (2011) Amygdala and prefrontal cortex contributions to emotional interference resolution in working memory. Neuropsychologia. 49, 3201-3212
Joormann, J., Levens, S.M., & Gotlib. I.H. (2011). Sticky Thoughts: Depression and Rumination are Associated with Difficulties Manipulating Emotional Material in Working Memory. Psychological Science. 22(8)979-83
2010
Levens S.M. & Gotlib I.H. (2010) Updating positive and negative stimuli in working memory in depression. Journal Experimental Psychology: General. 139(4):654-64
Levens, S.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2010) Insula and orbital frontal cortex activity underlying emotion interference resolution in working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 22(12):2790-803
Conference Presentations
M. Levens, G. R. Samanez-Larkin, M. Perry, R.F. Dougherty, B. Knutson (2010, November) Age-related decline in mesolimbic white matter tract integrity and individual differences in reward learning. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, California.
†Muhtadie, L., Levens, S.M., & Gotlib, I.H. (2010, September) Disengagement from positive and negative emotional faces in euthymic bipolar disorder. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Psychopathology, Seattle, Washington
2009
Levens, S.M., †Muhtadie, L., & Gotlib, I.H. (2009) Rumination and impaired resource allocation in depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 118(4):757-66
Levens, S.M., & Gotlib, I. H. (2009) Impaired selection of relevant positive information in depression. Depression and Anxiety. 26(5), 403-410
Conference Presentations
Levens, S.M., Devinsky, O., Phelps E.A., & Gotlib I.H. (2009, May) Deficient amygdala responsivity to positive content may underlie positive insensitivity in depression: A lesion study. Poster Presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Vancouver, Canada
2008 – 2004
Levens, S.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2008) Emotion processing effects on interference resolution in working memory. Emotion, 8 (2) 267-280
Roberts, N. A., Beer, J. S., Werner, K. H., Scabini, D., Levens S. M., Knight, R. T. & Levenson R. W. (2004) The impact of orbital prefrontal cortex damage on emotional activation to unanticipated and anticipated acoustic startle stimuli. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 307-316
Conference Presentations
Levens, S.M., †Sherdell L., & Gotlib I.H. (2008, September) Depressed people have difficulty controlling emotional content in working memory. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
†Muhtadie, L. Levens, S.M. & Gotlib I.H. (2008, September) Impaired interference resolution in depression: difficulties in concentration and goal pursuit. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Levens, S.M., †Anas, L.A., †Aguilar, P., Gotlib, I.H. (2007, March) Interference resolution of emotional information in depression. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Francisco, California
Levens, S.M. & Gotlib I.H. (2007, September) Rumination affects working memory capacity in depression. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Iowa City, Iowa
Levens, S. M., †Saintilus, M & Phelps, E. A. (2006, March) Prefrontal cortex mechanisms underlying the interaction between emotion and inhibitory processes in working memory. Poster Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Francisco, California
Levens, S. M. Phelps, E. A. (2005, November) Emotion influences the PFC circuitry underlying inhibition in working Memory. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference, Washington, D.C.
Levens, S. M. & Phelps, E. A. (2003, November) Intact inhibitory processing facilitation for emotional stimuli in patients with amygdala resection. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference, San Diego, CA
Levens, S. M., †Sanders, E. L., †Arenas, M., & Phelps, E. A. (2003, March) Emotion processing effects on inhibitory function in working memory. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, New York, NY
Roberts, N. A., Levens, S. M., McCoy, K., Werner, K. H., Beer, J. S., Scabini, D., Knight, R. T., & Levenson, R. W. (2001, November) Orbitofrontal cortex and activation of defense responses. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
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