The following are articles published in research journals by faculty members, postdoctoral scholars and researchers in 2026. Faculty authors are in bold type.
May
- “Relational Savoring as an Approach to Improve Marital Relationship Outcomes: A Pilot Study Among Iranian Wives.” International Association for Relationship Research. Jessica L. Borelli
- “Saliendo adelante: Understanding trauma and resilience in immigrant families from Central America.” Journal of Traumatic Stress. Jessica L. Borelli
- “Psychological agency attenuates the link between discrimination and COVID-19 burnout in Latine-serving community health workers.” American Psychological Association. Jessica L. Borelli
- “Pilot test of an adapted relational savoring intervention for Latine-serving community health workers.” American Psychological Association. Jessica L. Borelli
- “Political breakups: Interpersonal consequences of polarization.” PNAS Nexus. Peter H. Ditto
- “Transformative ideas and elaborate theoretical castles: Commentary on Baumann et al. (2026).” American Psychological Association. Jutta Heckhausen
“Groundwater sustainability, drinking water, and environmental justice in California’s Central Valley, USA.” Hydrogeology Journal. Rebecca Nelson, Debra Perrone, Nicola Ulibarri
“Climate resilience and collective action in Monrovia's coastal communities.” Progress in Disaster Science. Mohammed Bah, Nicola Ulibarri
April
“The Rewards and Stresses of Teaching for Infant and Toddler Educators.” Early Childhood Education Journal. Jessica Borelli
“A mixed-methods study of body esteem, disordered eating behaviors, acculturative stress, and sociocultural correlates among female Chinese international students.” Journal of Eating Disorders. Chuansheng Chen, Ilona S. Yim
“The Roles of Autonomic Arousal and Self-Reported Stress in Children's Disclosure of a Minor Transgression.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. J. Zoe Klemfuss
“Examining the impact of total sleep duration on daily affect among short-sleeping adolescents: an experimental study.” Annals of Behavior Medicine. Kate Kuhlman
- “Capturing inflammatory reactivity to acute psychosocial stress in plasma and saliva among adolescents.” Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. Kate Kuhlman, Candice L. Odgers, Sarah Pressman
- “Relationship Quality and Prison Visitation: Examining Contemporary Modes of Contact in Prison Settings.” Justice Evaluation Journal. Nancy Rodriguez
- “Performative planning creates a values mismatch between wildfire plans and community needs.” Sustainability Science. Nícola Ulibarrí
- “Peer influence decay and behavioral diffusion in adolescent networks: A simulation approach.” Science. Cheng Wang, Carter T. Butts, John R. Hipp, and Cynthia M. Lakon
- “Paralysis or empowerment: climate anxiety, hope and action in planning education.” Planning Practice & Research. Jessica Debats Garrison, Douglas Houston
“Rethinking Drug Prosecution: The Impact of Progressive Prosecutors on Outcomes and Disparities.” Crime & Delinquency. Daniela Oramas Mora, Ojmarrh Mitchell, Cassia Spohn
“Contention and change in Southern California: Post-suburban governance and its evolution.” Journal of Urban Affairs. L. Alejandra Reyes R.C, Maxwell Brooks Cabello
“Intentional Strategies for Changing Character Traits.” Elements in Applied Psychology. Juliette L. Ratchford, Stephen M. Schueller, Eranda Jayawickreme
“Engagement in Digital Health Interventions: Open Questions for Research and Design.” Association for Computer Machinery. Saskia M. Kelders, Iris Ten Klooster, Sofia Bastoni, Isabella Cadoni, Keren Doğan, Hanneke Kip, Nienke Beerlage-de Jong, Ruben Gouveia, Stephen M. Schueller, Bruna Oewel, Kevin Doherty, Guendalina Graffigna, Silvia Gabrielli, Tom Van Daele, Tobias Kowatsch, Gavin Doherty Qinggang Yu, David Coyle, Olga Perski, Maria Karekla, Adriana Rios Rincon, Sean A. Munson
“Popular Online Content as a Treatment-as-Usual Control in Digital Mental Health Intervention Trials: Secondary Analysis of Two Online Randomized Controlled Trials With Repeated Measures.” JMIR Mental Health. Benjamin T. Kaveladze, Stephen M. Schueller, David C. Mohr
“Capturing sex differences in spontaneous autonomic fluctuations of resting heart rate using a similarly graph theory approach.” Biology of Sex Differences. Lin Sørensen, Elisabet Kvadsheim, Julian Koenig, Julian F. Thayer, DeWayne P. Williams, Hayley J. MacDonald, Ryan Douglas McCardle, Daniel Wollschlaeger, Ole Bernt Fasmer, Berge Osnes
“Deepening Our Understanding of Basic Needs Through the Lens of Undocumented College Students.” Journal of Latinos & Education. Carolina Valdivia, Isabel Patten, Josefina Espino, Danielle Puretz
March
- “Perceptions of AI-Driven EdTech: Nationwide Survey and Focus Group Insights from Key End Users.” ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Candice Odgers
- “Exploring Interviews with Adolescent Victims of Human Trafficking: Interviewer Questions and Adolescent Reluctance.” Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law. Jodi Quas
- “The highs and lows: Cannabis use and positive valence bipolar mood and emotion processes in emerging adults.” Journal of Affective Disorders. Jessica L. Borelli
- “Pathways to honesty: Exploring the ecological desistance of atypical lying features.” Journal of Research on Adolescence. Elizabeth Cauffman
- “Behavioral health trajectories and rearrest outcomes among system-involved male youth.” Development and Psychopathology. Elizabeth Cauffman
- “Purpose in life mediates the relationship between social activity variety and depressive symptoms in Middle-aged and older U.S. adults.” Aging & Mental Health. Susan Turk Charles
- “Loneliness, positive social interactions, and diurnal cortisol among mid-to-later life adults in everyday life.” Biological Psychology. Susan Turk Charles
- “ ‘I thought I was appreciating’: The role of perpetrator intentions in perceptions of cultural appropriation.” Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. Pia Dietze
- “How Does the Business Environment Shape Mobility By Offenders and Mobile Targets?” Crime & Delinquency. John R. Hipp
- “Business environment ecology and crime: A robust test across 182 cities.” Journal of Criminal Justice. John R. Hipp
- “Inflammation is associated with greater social media use over face-to-face interaction, especially among individuals high in introversion or neuroticism.” Scientific Reports. Tao Jiang
- “Appealing for Local Control and Spatial Inequality: Reforming Governance and Development Rationalities in Southern California.” Journal of Planning and Spatial Inequality: Reforming Governance and Developmental Rationalities in Southern California. L. Alejandra Reyes R.C
- “The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico.” Journal of the American Planning Association. L. Alejandra Reyes R.C
- “A crowdsourced megastudy of 12 digital single-session interventions for depression in US adults.” Nature Human Behaviour. Stephen Schueller
- “Exploring online and in-person mental healthcare access and app use in a cohort of people living with disability: results from the 2019 and 2020 California Health Interview Survey.” Internet Interventions. Stephen Schueller
- “State of the Science in Clinical Practice: Digital Mental Health Interventions.” Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. Stephen Schueller
- “A new era for understanding mental health with smartphone-derived digital traces.” Nature Health. Stephen Schueller
- “Heart Rate Variability and Emotion Regulation: Multiethnic Differences in Reappraisal and Suppression.” Emotion. Julian F. Thayer
- “Discipline to flourish: a framework for the political economy of discipline in industrial policy.” Review of International Political Economy. Seth Pipkin
- “Life cycle assessment approach for upcycling expanded polystyrene across industrial sectors.” Circular Economy. Oladele Ogunseitan
- “Towards a novel contactless autonomic biomarker: Investigating the relationship between heart rate variability and facial temperature during resting state.” International Journal of Psychophysiology. Julian F. Thayer
- “Testing effects of paced breathing on plasma Aβ and brain perivascular spaces.” International Journal of Psychophysiology. Julian F. Thayer
- “Psychotherapy treatment manuals for adult populations (1950–2025): A scoping review.” Clinical Psychology Review. Alyson Zalta
February
- “Health-focused frames mobilize Americans to action to address LGBTQ inequality.” Psychological and Cognitive Sciences. Pia Dietze
- “Conspiracy thinking in American politics.” Politics and the Life Sciences. Peter H. Ditto
“Then they came for the cities: Radical geography's puzzling silence in the summer of fascism.” Institute of Human Geography. Walter J. Nicholls
“Everyday Discrimination and Adolescents’ Mental Health: Evidence From an Ecological Momentary Assessment.” The Journal of Early Adolescence. Candice L. Odgers
“Bifurcating Relief and Legitimating Mass Incarceration: An Analysis of Obama's Clemency Initiative.” Law & Policy. Keramet Reiter
“Under Watchful Eyes: Gendered Surveillance and Control in Correctional Officers’ Disciplinary Narratives of Incarcerated Women.” Gender & Society. Nancy Rodriguez
“Computational phenotypes underlying effort-based decision-making and negative symptoms in a transdiagnostic severe mental illness sample.” Molecular Psychiatry. Jason Schiffman
“Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on Mental Health Help-Seeking Among Asian American Adults: Findings from the 2021 California Health Interview Survey.” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Stephen Schueller
“Vagal modulation in pediatric disorders of gut-brain interaction: the role of 24 h heart rate variability.” Clinical Autonomic Research. Julian F. Thayer, DeWayne Williams
“Assessment of Music Experiences in Navigating Depression (AMEND) through a Tour of the Room assessment model.” Frontiers in Psychiatry. Julian F. Thayer, DeWayne Williams
“A randomized trial of prenatal cognitive behavioral stress management effects on obstetric health outcomes and infant cortisol levels.” Psychoneuroendocrinology. Ilona S. Yim
January
- “Navigating shared stress: Dyadic links between COVID-19 stressors and mental health in low-income Latine youth and mothers.” American Psychological Association. Jessica Borelli
- “Why Bother? There’s Always Another Question”: Shortening Bandura’s Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement Scale.” Assessment. Elizabeth Cauffman
- “Who gets quality urban parks? A socioeconomic disparity analysis using user reviews and the opportunity algorithm in Los Angeles.” Urban Forestry & Urban Greeting. John R. Hipp, Jae Hong Kim
- “An Archival Analysis of 326 Child Sexual Abuse Cases From the National Registry of Exonerations.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. J. Zoe Klemfuss
- “Experimentally testing effects of rapport and age on children’s transgression reports during a virtual interview.” Applied Developmental Sciences. J. Zoe Klemfuss
- “Cybervictimisation and mental health conditions in young people: findings from a nationally representative longitudinal cohort.” Child & Adolescent Health. Candice L. Odgers
- “Low-burden preventative digital mental health interventions for first-year college students: A pilot feasibility microrandomized trial.” Internet Interventions. Stephen Schueller
- “Health Axis: Chronic Illness, Aging and the Lived Experience of Imprisonment.” The British Journal of Criminology. Christopher Seeds, Joanne DeCaro
- “Climate Risk, Governance, and Institutional Adaptation Challenges in Liberia.” Case Studies in the Environment. Nícola Ulibarrí
- “Maternal Milk Allopregnanolone May Buffer Negative Associations Between Maternal Postpartum Psychological Distress and Infant Regulatory Capacity.” Developmental Psychobiology. Denise M. Werchan
- “Towards a novel contactless autonomic biomarker: Investigating the relationship between heart rate variability and facial temperature during resting state.” International Journal of Psychophysiology. Julian F. Thayer
Book Chapters
- “Downstream Consequences: The Children of the Prison Boom.” The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing. Amanda Geller
- “Environmental Security Studies.” Environmental Security: Approaches, Issues, and Actions. Richard A. Matthew
- “Marginalia on Militant Democracy, (Un)Civil Disobedience, and the Right to Resistance.” Philosophizing Contestation. Eraldo Souza dos Santos
- “She is There.” Best Small Fictions 2025. Eraldo Souza dos Santos
“Mobilizing Communities of Color for Housing Policy Change.” Progressive Planning Practice. L. Alejandra Reyes R.C
Books
“Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability.” University of California Press. Carolina Valdivia (Read the feature story)
“Eyewitness Testimony: Civil and Criminal.” 7th edition. LexisNexis. Elizabeth F. Loftus
- “Environmental Security Approaches, Issues and Actors.” 2nd edition. Routledge. Richard Matthew
“Memory Pool.” Atmosphere Press. Scott Bollens