bold indicates CSN Lab student/trainee author
In Press & Preprint
Stendel, M.S., Clithero, J.A., & Chavez, R.S. (preprint). Computational mechanisms of self-enhancement during social comparison and their relationship to internalizing symptoms.
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Stendel, M.S. & Chavez, R.S. (preprint). The role of meta-perception in self-esteem and implications for mental health.
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Chavez, R.S., Guthrie, T.D., & Kapustka, J.M. (in press). Person knowledge is independently encoded by allocentric and egocentric reference frames within separate brain systems. Psychological Science.
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Stendel, M.S., Guthrie, T.D., Guazzelli Williamson, V., & Chavez, R.S. (in press). Self-esteem modulates the representation of the self in the brains of others. Communications Psychology.
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DeYoung, C.D., Hilger, K., Hanson, J.L., Abend, R., Allen, T.A., Beaty,R.E., Bellgrove, M.A., Blain,S.D., Chavez, R.S., Engel, S.A., Feilong, M.,Fornito, A.,Genç, E., Goghari,V., Grazioplene, R.G., Homan, P., Joyner, K., Kaczkurkin, A.N., Latzman, R.D., Martin, E.A., Nikolaidis, A., Pickering, A.D., Safron, A., Sassenberg, T.A., Servaas, M.N., Smillie, L.D., Spreng, R.N., Tiego, J., Viding, E., & Wacker, J. (preprint). Beyond increasing sample sizes: optimizing effect sizes in neuroimaging research on individual differences.
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2024
Guthrie, T.D. & Chavez, R.S. (2024). Normativity vs. uniqueness: Effects of social relationship strength on neural representations of others. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 19(1), 1-10.
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Chavez, R.S., Cunningham, W.A., & Berkman, E.T. (2024). Multivariate Neuroimaging in Social and Personality Psychology. In Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology, 3rd edition (H. Reis, T. West, C. Judd, Eds.), Cambridge University Press.
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2023
Stendel, M.S. & Chavez, R.S. (2023). Beyond the brain localization of complex traits: Distributed white matter markers of personality. Journal of Personality, 91, 1140-1151.
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2022
Hyon, R., Chavez, R.S., Chwe, J.A., Wheatley, T., Kleinbaum, A.M., & Parkinson, C. (2022). White matter connectivity in brain systems supporting social and affective processing predicts real-world social network characteristics. Communications Biology, 5(1), 1-11.
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Guthrie, T.D., Benadjaoud, Y.Y., & Chavez, R.S. (2022). Social relationship strength modulates the similarity of brain-to-brain representations of group members. Cerebral Cortex, 32, 2469–2477.
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Chavez, R.S., Tovar, D.T., Stendel, M.S., & Guthrie, T.D. (2022). Generalizing effects of frontostriatal structural connectivity on self-esteem using predictive modeling. Cortex, 146, 66-73.
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Mattek, A., Chavez, S.J., Berkowitz, J.L., Gobbini, M.I., & Chavez, R.S. (2022). 100 Peers: An open set of controlled emotional facial expressions for use in psychology and neuroscience experiments. PsyArXiv.
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2021
Broom, T.W., Chavez, R.S., Wagner, D.D. (2021). Becoming the king in the north: Identification with fictional characters is associate with greater self-other neural overlap. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(6), 541-551.
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Tovar, D.T. & Chavez, R.S. (2021). Large-scale functional coactivation patterns reflect the structural connectivity of the medial prefrontal cortex. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(8), 875-882.
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Voelker, P., Weible, A.P., Niell, C.M., Chavez, R.S., Tovar, D.T., Rothbart, M.K., & Posner, M.I. (2021).Evaluating an approach to improving attention networks by theta stimulation. Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 3(1), 17-22.
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2020
Chavez, R.S. & Wagner, D.D. (2020). The neural representation of self is recapitulated in the brains of friends: A round-robin fMRI study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(3), 407-416.
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Chavez, R.S. (2020). Tangled representations of self and others in the medial prefrontal cortex. In Ochsner, K., & Gilead, M. (Eds.), The Neural Bases of Mentalizing. Springer Press.
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2019
Wagner, D.D., Chavez, R. S., & Broom, T. W. (2019). Decoding the neural representation of self and person knowledge with multivariate pattern analysis and data‐driven approaches. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 10(1), e1482.
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2017
Chavez, R.S., Heatherton, T.F., & Wagner, D.D. (2017). Neural population decoding reveals the intrinsic positivity of the self. Cerebral Cortex, 11(1), 5222-5229.
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Chavez, R.S. & Wagner, D.D. (2017). Mass univariate testing biases the detection of interaction effects in whole-brain analysis of variance. bioRxiv.
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Chen, P.H.A., Chavez, R.S., & Heatherton, T.F. (2017). Structural integrity between executive control and reward regions of the brain predicts body fat percentage in chronic dieters. Cognitive Neuroscience, 8(3), 162-166.
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2016
Chavez, R.S. & Heatherton, T.F. (2016). Structural integrity of frontostriatal connections predicts longitudinal changes in self-esteem. Social Neuroscience, 12(3), 280-286.
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Grazioplene, R., Chavez, R.S., Rustichini, A., & DeYoung, C.G. (2016). White matter correlates of psychosis-linked traits support continuity between personality and psychopathology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(8), 1135-1145.
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Powers, K.E., Chavez, R.S., & Heatherton, T.F. (2016). Individual differences in response of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex predict daily social behavior. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(1), 121-126.
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2015
Chavez, R.S. & Heatherton, T.F. (2015). Multimodal frontostriatal connectivity underlies individual differences in self-esteem. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(3), pp. 364-370.
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Chavez, R.S. & Heatherton, T.F. (2015), Representational similarity of social and valence information in the medial pFC. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(1), pp. 73-82.
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2012
Jung, R.E., Chavez, R.S., Flores, R.A., Qualls, C.R., Sibbitt, W., & Roldan, C.A. (2012). White matter correlates of neuropsychological dysfunction in systemic lupus erythematosus. PLoS ONE, 7(1).
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2010
Arden, R., Chavez, R.S., Grazioplene, R., Jung, R.E. (2010) Neuroimaging creativity: A psychometric view. Behavioural Brain Research, 214(2), 143-156.
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Jung, R.E., Segall, J.M., Bockholt, H.J., Flores, R.A., Smith, S.M., Chavez, R.S., & Haier, R.J. (2010). Neuroanatomy of creativity. Human Brain Mapping, 31(3), 398-409.
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Jung, R.E., Grazioplene, R.G., Caprihan, A., Chavez, R.S., & Haier, R.J. (2010). White matter integrity, creativity, and psychopathology: Disentangling constructs with diffusion tensor imaging. PLoS ONE, 5(3).
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Jung, R.E., Caprihan, A., Chavez, R.S., Flores, R.A., Sharrar, J., Qualls, C.R., Sibbitt, W., & Roldan, C.A. (2010). Diffusion tensor imaging in neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus, BMC Neurology, 10(65), 1-9.
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Filbey, F.M., Schacht, J.P., Myers, U.S., Chavez, R.S., & Hutchison, K.E. (2010). Individual and additive effects of the CNR1 and FAAH genes on brain response to marijuana cues. Neuropsychopharmacology, 35, 967-975.
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2009
Filbey, F.M., Schacht, J.P., Myers, U.S., Chavez, R.S., & Hutchison, K.E. (2009). Marijuana craving in the brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (41), 13016-13021.
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Jung, R.E., Gasparovic, C., Chavez, R.S., Barrow, R.A., Smith, S.M., Caprihan, A., & Yeo, R.A. (2009). Biochemical support for the “threshold” theory of creativity: A magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(16), 5319-5325.
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Jung, R.E., Gasparovic, C., Chavez, R.S., Caprihan, A., Barrow, R., & Yeo, R.A. (2009). Imaging intelligence with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Intelligence, 37(2), 192-198.
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