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Coan, James A.  
Assistant Professor
E-mail: jcoan@virginia.edu Homepage
Room: 324 Phone: (434) 243-2322
Instructor Number: N/A
Areas: Clinical, Sensory and Systems Neuroscience, Social 

 

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Research Interests

I am interested in the neuroscience of emotional expression and individual emotion-regulation capabilities, as well as the social regulation of neural processes underlying emotional responses. These interests are necessarily multidisciplinary, requiring a diversity tools and methods, from observational behavior coding to electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Additional interests include research methodology (particularly with regard to laboratory emotion elicitation), and behavior genetics.

 

Selected Publications

  • BOOKS AND MANUALS

    Coan, J. A. & Allen, J. J. B. (2007). Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

    Gottman, J., McCoy, K., Coan, J., & Collier, H. (1995). The Specific Affect Coding System (SPAFF) for Observing Emotional Communication in Marital and Family Interaction. Mahway, NJ: Erlbaum.

  • EMOTION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

    Salomons, T. V., Coan, J. A., Hunt, S. M., Backonja, M. M., & Davidson, R. J. (submitted). Voluntary facial displays of pain increase suffering in response to nociceptive stimulation.

    Shackman, A. J., Maxwell, J. S., Springborn, K. D., Greischar, L. L., Pizzagalli, D. A., Coan, J. A., & Davidson, R. J. (submitted). Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Regulates Anxiety.

    Light, S. N., Goldsmith, H. H., Coan, J. A., Frye, C., & Davidson, R. J. (under review). Pleasure in children predicts change in lateral prefrontal activity.

    Nusslock, R., Abramson, L. Y., Harmon-Jones, E., Alloy, L. B., & Coan, J. A. (under review). Updating psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder from the perspective of the behavioral approach system (BAS) dysregulation theory

    Nusslock, R., Schackman, A. J., Coan, J. A., Harmon-Jones, E., Alloy, L. B., & Abramson, L. Y. (under review). Relations between cognitive and neurophysiological vulnerability to depression

    Coan, J. A., & Allen, J. J. B. (2007). Affective style, frontal EEG asymmetry and risk for psychopathology. Chapter to appear in T. P. Beauchaine and S. P. Hinshaw (Eds.) Child Psychopathology, Hoboken: Wiley Press.

    Coan, J. A., Allen, J. J. B. & McKnight, P. E. (2006). A capability model of individual differences in frontal EEG asymmetry. Biological Psychology, 72, 198-207.

    Coan, J. A. & Allen, J. J. B. (2004). Frontal EEG asymmetry as a moderator and mediator of emotion. Biological Psychology, 67, 7-49.

    Allen, J. J. B., Coan, J. A. & Nazarian, M. (2004). Issues and assumptions on the road from raw signals to metrics of frontal EEG asymmetry in emotion. Biological Psychology, 67, 183-218.

    Allen, J.J.B., Urry, H.L., Hitt, S.K., & Coan, J.A. (2004). Stability of Resting Frontal EEG Asymmetry Across Different Clinical States of Depression. Psychophysiology, 41, 269-280.

    Coan, J.A., & Allen, J.J.B. (2003). The state and trait nature of frontal EEG asymmetry in emotion. Chapter to appear in K. Hugdahl and R. J. Davidson (Eds.) The Asymmetrical Brain, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

    Coan, J. A. & Allen, J. J. B. (2003). Varieties of emotional experience during voluntary emotional facial expressions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1000, 375-379.

    Coan, J.A., Allen, J.J.B (2003). Frontal EEG asymmetry and the behavioral activation and inhibition systems. Psychophysiology, 40, 106-114.

    Coan, J.A., Allen, J.J.B., & Harmon-Jones, E. (2001). Voluntary facial expression and hemispheric asymmetry over the frontal cortex. Psychophysiology, 38, 912-925.

  • EMOTION AND INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS

    Coan, J. A. & Gottman, J. M. (2007). Sampling, experimental control and generalizability in the study of marital process models. Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 73-80.

    Coan, J. A., & Gottman, J. M. (2007). The specific affect (SPAFF) coding system. In J. A. Coan and J. J. B. Allen (Eds.) Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment (pp. 106-123), New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

    Roberts, N. A., Tsai, J. L. & Coan, J. A. (2007). Emotion elicitation using dyadic interaction tasks. In J. A. Coan and J. J. B. Allen (Eds.) Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment (pp. 106-123), New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

    Coan, J. A., Schaefer, H. S. & Davidson, R. J. (2006). Lending a hand: Social regulation of the neural response to threat. Psychological Science, 17, 1032-1039.

    Carrere, S, Buehlman, K.T., Gottman, J.M., Coan, J.A., & Ruckstuhl, L. (2000). Predicting marital stability and divorce in newlywed couples. Journal Of Marriage and the Family, 14, 42-58.

    Gottman, J.M., Carrere, S., Swanson, C, & Coan, J.A. (2000). Reply to "from basic research to interventions." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62, 265-273.

    Gottman, J.M., Coan, J.A., Carrere, S., & Swanson, C. (1998). Predicting marital happiness and stability from newlywed interactions. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60, 5-22.

    Coan, J., Gottman, J.M., Babcock, J., & Jacobson, N. (1997). Battering and the male rejection of influence from women. Aggressive Behavior, 23, 375-388.

  • ETHICS AND POLICY

    Sechrest, L. & Coan, J.A. (2002). Preparing psychologists to prescribe. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58, 649-658.

    Coan, J.A. (1997). Lost in a shopping mall: An experience with controversial research. Ethics and Behavior, 7, 271-284.

 

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