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  1. Semantic alignment between clients and therapists predicts therapeutic alliance and treatment outcomes in message-based psychotherapy

    Article • July 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  2. People Regulate Emotions During Spontaneous Thought Using Detectable Linguistic Signatures

    Article • June 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  3. Empathy and mental imagery underlie the contagious spread of anxiety

    Article • June 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  4. Cognitive reappraisal changes cognitive evaluations more than affective experiences

    Article • June 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  5. The valence of client and therapist language reflects symptom changes in messaging-based psychotherapy

    Article • May 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  6. A Systematic Review of Research on Emotion Differentiation and Emotion Regulation

    Article • May 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  7. Empathy Regulation in Clinical Science: Regulating the Therapeutic Emotional Circuit

    Article • Clinical Psychological Science, April 2026, SAGE Publications

    Mr Erik C Nook

  8. Language-based assessments can predict psychological and subjective well-being

    Article • Communications Psychology, February 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Erik C Nook

  9. Expansive Thought Dynamics Support Emotional Recovery

    Article • January 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  10. Predicting Psychological and Subjective Well-being through Language-based Assessment

    Article • January 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  11. Sharing is believing: Saying or writing reframes of emotional experiences boosts cognitive emotion regulation

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  12. Depression is associated with higher sensitivity to social media rewards

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  13. Cognitive reappraisal changes cognitive evaluations more than affective experiences

    Article • October 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  14. Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Treatment and Research

    Article • October 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  15. Examining Social Emotion Regulation in Spanish-English Bilinguals

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  16. Predicting Psychological and Subjective Well-being through Language-based Assessment

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  17. Large natural emotion vocabularies are linked with better mental health in psychotherapeutic conversations

    Article • June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Erik C Nook

  18. Cognitive Modeling of Real-World Behavior for Understanding Mental Health

    Article • March 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  19. Predicting Psychological and Subjective Well-being through Language-based Assessment

    Article • March 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  20. Diverse approaches to sentiment analysis reliably reflect and explain symptom changes in psychotherapy

    Article • February 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  21. Leveraging Large Language Models to Estimate Clinically Relevant Psychological Constructs in Psychotherapy Transcripts

    Article • Computational Psychiatry, January 2025, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Mr Erik C Nook

  22. Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Erik C Nook

  23. Emotion Regulation is Associated with Increases in Linguistic Measures of Both Psychological Distancing and Abstractness

    Article • Affective Science, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Erik C Nook

  24. From talk to telepathy: The spontaneous use of insider language in casual conversation

    Article • September 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  25. Depression is associated with higher sensitivity to social media rewards

    Article • June 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  26. Perceptions of Caring and Mental Health in LGBTQ+ Youth in Foster Care

    Article • May 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  27. How first- and second-language emotion words influence emotion perception in Swedish–English bilinguals

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, January 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Marie-France Champoux-Larsson, Mr Erik C Nook

  28. Peer Threat Evaluations Shape One’s Own Threat Perceptions and Feelings of Distress

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Erik C Nook

  29. Perceptual sensitivity to labeling stereotyped emotion expressions: Associations with age and subclinical psychopathology symptoms from childhood through early adulthood

    Article • November 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  30. Emotion regulation is associated with increases in linguistic measures of both psychological distancing and abstractness

    Article • November 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  31. Emotion word production tasks grant insight into the development of emotion word organization and accessibility

    Article • October 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  32. The Promise of Affective Language for Identifying and Intervening on Psychopathology

    Article • Affective Science, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Erik C Nook

  33. The co-emergence of emotion vocabulary and organized emotion dynamics in childhood

    Article • February 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  34. Managing fear and anxiety in development: A framework for understanding the neurodevelopment of emotion regulation capacity and tendency

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, February 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Erik C Nook

  35. Fluency generating emotion words correlates with verbal measures but not emotion regulation, alexithymia, or depressive symptoms

    Article • January 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  36. The promise of affective language for identifying and intervening on psychopathology

    Article • January 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  37. Affective language spreads between anxious children and their mothers during a challenging puzzle task.

    Article • Emotion, January 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Erik C Nook

  38. How First- and Second-Language Emotion Words Influence Emotion Perception in Swedish-English Bilinguals

    Article • December 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Marie-France Champoux-Larsson, Mr Erik C Nook

  39. Linguistic distancing predicts response to a digital single-session intervention for adolescent depression

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, December 2022, Elsevier

    Mr Erik C Nook

  40. A Cognitive-Behavioral Formulation of Narcissistic Self-Esteem Dysregulation

    Article • FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, October 2022, American Psychiatric Association

    Mr Erik C Nook

  41. Linguistic Analysis of Adolescent Responses to Writing Prompts in a Growth Mindset Intervention

    Article • March 2022, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  42. We can tell how depressed or anxious people are from their language alone.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Mr Erik C Nook

  43. Do Patterns and Types of Negative Affect During Hospitalization Predict Short-Term Post-Discharge Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors?

    Article • Affective Science, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Erik C Nook

  44. Linguistic measures of psychological distance track symptom levels and treatment outcomes in a large set of psychotherapy transcripts

    Article • August 2021, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  45. Emotion Differentiation and Youth Mental Health: Current Understanding and Open Questions

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2021, Frontiers

    Mr Erik C Nook

  46. Communicating emotion through facial expressions: Social consequences and neural correlates

    Article • May 2021, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  47. A Year in the Social Life of a Teenager: Within-Persons Fluctuations in Stress, Phone Communication, and Anxiety and Depression

    Article • Clinical Psychological Science, April 2021, SAGE Publications

    Mr Erik C Nook

  48. Emotion Differentiation and Youth Mental Health: Current Understanding and Open Questions

    Article • April 2021, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  49. Emotion Naming Impedes Both Cognitive Reappraisal and Mindful Acceptance Strategies of Emotion Regulation

    Article • Affective Science, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Erik C Nook

  50. High Emotion Differentiation Buffers Against Internalizing Symptoms Following Exposure to Stressful Life Events in Adolescence: An Intensive Longitudinal Study

    Article • Clinical Psychological Science, March 2021, SAGE Publications

    Mr Erik C Nook

  51. Developmental Variation in the Associations of Attention Bias to Emotion with Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology

    Article • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Erik C Nook

  52. A year in the social life of a teenager: Within-person fluctuations in stress, phone communication, and anxiety and depression

    Article • November 2020, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  53. Voluntary pursuit of negatively valenced stimuli from childhood to early adulthood

    Article • Developmental Science, August 2020, Wiley

    Mr Erik C Nook

  54. Low Emotional Awareness as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism Underlying Psychopathology in Adolescence

    Article • Clinical Psychological Science, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Mr Erik C Nook

  55. High emotion differentiation buffers against internalizing symptoms following exposure to stressful life events in adolescence: An intensive longitudinal study

    Article • February 2020, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  56. Low Emotional Awareness as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism Underlying Psychopathology in Adolescence

    Article • August 2019, Center for Open Science

    Mr Erik C Nook

  57. Using Topic Modeling to Detect and Describe Self‐Injurious and Related Content on a Large‐Scale Digital Platform

    Article • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, July 2019, Wiley

    Mr Erik C Nook

  58. Charting the development of emotion comprehension and abstraction from childhood to adulthood using observer-rated and linguistic measures.

    Article • Emotion, June 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Erik C Nook

  59. Supplemental Material for Charting the Development of Emotion Comprehension and Abstraction From Childhood to Adulthood Using Observer-Rated and Linguistic Measures

    Article • Emotion, June 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Erik C Nook

  60. Use of linguistic distancing and cognitive reappraisal strategies during emotion regulation in children, adolescents, and young adults.

    Article • Emotion, March 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Erik C Nook

  61. Emotion Concept Development from Childhood to Adulthood

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Erik C Nook

  62. Emotion differentiation falls from childhood to adolescence and rises from adolescence to adulthood

    Article • Psychological Science, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    Mr Erik C Nook

  63. Weak dorsolateral prefrontal response to social criticism predicts worsened mood and symptoms following social conflict in people at familial risk for schizophrenia

    Article • NeuroImage Clinical, January 2018, Elsevier

    Mr Erik C Nook

  64. Increasing verbal knowledge mediates development of multidimensional emotion representations

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Erik C Nook

  65. A linguistic signature of psychological distancing in emotion regulation.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, March 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Ms Jessica Lee Schleider, Mr Erik C Nook

  66. Utilization of Chiropractic Care at the World Games 2013

    Article • Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, November 2016, Elsevier

    Mr Erik C Nook

  67. Emotions in “Black and White” or Shades of Gray? How We Think About Emotion Shapes Our Perception and Neural Representation of Emotion

    Article • Psychological Science, September 2016, SAGE Publications

    Ajay Satpute, Mr Erik C Nook

  68. Prosocial Conformity

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, May 2016, SAGE Publications

    Mr Erik C Nook

  69. Social Norms Shift Behavioral and Neural Responses to Foods

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, July 2015, The MIT Press

    Mr Erik C Nook

  70. A new look at emotion perception: Concepts speed and shape facial emotion recognition.

    Article • Emotion, January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Erik C Nook

  71. Supplemental Material for A New Look at Emotion Perception: Concepts Speed and Shape Facial Emotion Recognition

    Article • Emotion, January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Erik C Nook

  72. Audiences enhance the expression, but not experience, of emotion

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Erik C Nook

  73. I'll like it if you do, too: Social conformity can shift food preferences at behavioral and neural levels

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Erik C Nook

  74. Let's talk about feelings: Differential consequences of four methods of affect labeling

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Erik C Nook