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The Relation Between Age and Experienced Stress, Worry, Affect, and Depression During the Spring 2020 Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States by Cunningham, Tony J., Fields, Eric C., Garcia, Sandry M., Kensinger, Elizabeth A.

“…Advanced age is often associated with increased emotional well-being, with older adults reporting more positive and less negative affect than younger adults…”
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Dynamic Effects of Self-Relevance and Task on the Neural Processing of Emotional Words in Context by Fields, Eric C, Kuperberg, Gina R

“…We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the interactions between task, emotion, and contextual self-relevance on processing words in social…”
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Boston College daily sleep and well-being survey data during early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic by Cunningham, Tony J., Fields, Eric C., Kensinger, Elizabeth A.

“…While there was a necessary initial focus on physical health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is becoming increasingly clear that many have…”
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Comparing the Impact of COVID-19-Related Social Distancing on Mood and Psychiatric Indicators in Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) and Non-SGM Individuals by Rodriguez-Seijas, Craig, Fields, Eric C, Bottary, Ryan, Kark, Sarah M, Goldstein, Michael R, Kensinger, Elizabeth A, Payne, Jessica D, Cunningham, Tony J

“…Empirical evidence demonstrates mental health disparities between sexual and gender minority individuals (SGM) compared with cisgender heterosexual…”
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Perceived event resolution-rather than time-allows older adults to reduce the negativity of their memories by Ford, Jaclyn H, Fields, Eric C, Garcia, Sandry M, Cunningham, Tony J, Kensinger, Elizabeth A

“…In addition to showing greater memory positivity soon after negative events, older adults can be more likely than younger adults to show decreases in memory…”
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The P300, the LPP, context updating, and memory: What is the functional significance of the emotion-related late positive potential? by Fields, Eric C

“…The emotion-related late positive potential (LPP) of the event-related potential (ERP) has been the topic of many studies over the previous two decades, but…”
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Changes in Sleep Regularity and Perceived Life Stress across the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Predominately Female United States Convenience Sample by Bottary, Ryan, Fields, Eric C, Ugheoke, Loren, Denis, Dan, Mullington, Janet M, Cunningham, Tony J

“…The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a profound impact on sleep and psychological well-being for individuals worldwide. This pre-registered…”
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Having your cake and eating it too: Flexibility and power with mass univariate statistics for ERP data by Fields, Eric C., Kuperberg, Gina R.

“…ERP studies produce large spatiotemporal data sets. These rich data sets are key to enabling us to understand cognitive and neural processes. However, they…”
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It's All About You: An ERP Study of Emotion and Self-Relevance in Discourse by Fields, Eric C., Kuperberg, Gina R.

“…Accurately communicating self-relevant and emotional information is a vital function of language, but we have little idea about how these factors impact normal…”
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Age and chronotype influenced sleep timing changes during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic by Bottary, Ryan, Fields, Eric C., Kensinger, Elizabeth A., Cunningham, Tony J.

“…Summary Social restrictions necessary to reduce the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) profoundly changed how we socialised, worked and, for…”
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Spatial frequency impacts perceptual and attentional ERP components across cultures by Lin, Tong, Zhang, Xin, Fields, Eric C., Sekuler, Robert, Gutchess, Angela

“…•ERP responses were stronger to low compared to high frequency Gabor patches.•There was a frontal negativity around 150 ms.•There was also a widespread…”
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With age comes well-being: older age associated with lower stress, negative affect, and depression throughout the COVID-19 pandemic by Fields, Eric C., Kensinger, Elizabeth A., Garcia, Sandry M., Ford, Jaclyn H., Cunningham, Tony J.

“…Objectives: Despite initial concerns about older adult's emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, reports from the first months of the pandemic…”
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Loving yourself more than your neighbor: ERPs reveal online effects of a self-positivity bias by Fields, Eric C, Kuperberg, Gina R

“…A large body of social psychological research suggests that we think quite positively of ourselves, often unrealistically so. Research on this 'self-positivity…”
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Functional MRI reveals evidence of a self-positivity bias in the medial prefrontal cortex during the comprehension of social vignettes by Fields, Eric C, Weber, Kirsten, Stillerman, Benjamin, Delaney-Busch, Nathaniel, Kuperberg, Gina R

“…Abstract A large literature in social neuroscience has associated the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) with the processing of self-related information. However,…”
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Influence of age on the effects of lying on memory by Paige, Laura E., Fields, Eric C., Gutchess, Angela

“…•Lying requires cognitive control, which may impair memory at later test.•Participants lied about completing actions while EEG data were collected.•Older…”
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Individual Differences in Older Adult Frontal Lobe Function Relate to Memory and Neural Activity for Self-Relevant and Emotional Content by Daley, Ryan T, Bowen, Holly J, Fields, Eric C, Parisi, Katelyn R, Gutchess, Angela, Kensinger, Elizabeth A

“…Abstract Objectives Older adults show memory benefits for self-relevant and emotional content, but there are individual differences in this effect. It has been…”
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Older Adults Remember More Positive Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Ford, Jaclyn H., Garcia, Sandry M., Fields, Eric C., Cunningham, Tony J., Kensinger, Elizabeth A.

“…The initial phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic changed our lives dramatically, with stay-at-home orders and extreme physical distancing…”
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Late frontal positivity effects in Self-referential Memory: Unique to the Self? by Porter, Nicole A., Fields, Eric C., Moore, Isabelle L., Gutchess, Angela

“…The self-reference effect in memory (SRE), in which stimuli related to self are better remembered than other stimuli, has been studied often in the fMRI…”
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An ERP investigation of age differences in the negativity bias for self-relevant and non–self-relevant stimuli by Fields, Eric C., Bowen, Holly J., Daley, Ryan T., Parisi, Katelyn R., Gutchess, Angela, Kensinger, Elizabeth A.

“…•Self-relevance modulated previously observed effects of valence on the late positive potential (LPP) of the event-related potential for younger adults, but…”
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Neural mechanisms supporting emotional and self-referential information processing and encoding in older and younger adults by Daley, Ryan T, Bowen, Holly J, Fields, Eric C, Parisi, Katelyn R, Gutchess, Angela, Kensinger, Elizabeth A

“…Abstract Emotion and self-referential information can both enhance memory, but whether they do so via common mechanisms across the adult lifespan remains…”
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