Harp, N. R., Brown, C. C., & Neta, M. (in press). Spring break or heart break? Extending the valence bias to emotional words. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Neta, M., Cantelon, J., Mahoney, C. R., Taylor, H. A., & Davis, F. C. (2017). The impact of uncertain threat on affective bias: Individual differences in response to ambiguity. Emotion, 17(8):1137-1143. doi: 10.1037/emo0000349.
Neta, M., Tong, T. T., Rosen, M. L., Enersen, A., Kim, M. J., & Dodd, M. D. (2017). All in the first glance: First fixation predicts individual differences in valence bias. Cognition & Emotion, 31(4), 772-780. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1152231.
Gratton, C., Neta, M., Sun, H., Ploran, E. J., Schlaggar, B.L., Wheeler, M. E., Petersen, S. E., & Nelson, S. M. (2017). Distinct stages of moment-to-moment processing in the cinguloopercular and frontoparietal networks. Cerebral Cortex, 27(3), 2403-2417. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhw092.
Neta, M., & Whalen, P. J. (2010). The primacy of negative interpretations when resolving the valence of ambiguous facial expressions. Psychological Science, 21(7), 901-907.
Kim, M. J., Loucks, R. A., Neta, M., Davis, F. C., Oler, J. A., Mazzulla, E. C., & Whalen, P. J. (2010). Behind the mask: The influence of mask-type on amygdala response to fearful faces. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5(4): 363-368.
Neta, M., Norris, C. J., & Whalen, P. J. (2009). Corrugator muscle responses to surprised facial expressions are associated with individual differences in positivity-negativity bias. Emotion, 9(5), 640-648.
Gronau, N., Neta, M., & Bar, M. (2008). Integrated contextual representation for objects’ identities and their locations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(3), 371-388.
Greene, D.J., Barnea, A., Herzberg, K., Rassis, A., Neta, M., Raz, A., & Zaidel, E. (2007). Measuring attention in the hemispheres: The Lateralized Attention Network Test (LANT). Brain & Cognition, 66(1), 21-31.
Bar, M. & Neta, M. (2007). Visual elements of subjective preference modulate amygdala activation. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2191-2200.
Bar, M., Neta, M., & Linz, H. (2006). Very first impressions. Emotion, 6, 269-278.
Manuscripts in preparation or review
Neta, M., Berkebile, M., & Freeman, J. B. (revise-resubmit). The dynamic process of ambiguous emotion perception.
Neta, M. & Brock, R. L. (revise-resubmit). Social connectedness predicts individual differences in valence bias: Identifying the mechanisms that drive responses to ambiguity.
Petro, N. M., Tottenham, N., & Neta, M. (revise-resubmit). Exploring valence bias as a metric for fronto-amygdalar connectivity and depressive symptoms in childhood.
Petro, N. M., *Basyouni, R., & Neta, M. (revise-resubmit). Positivity effect in aging: Evidence for the primacy of positive responses toward emotional ambiguity.
Dworetsky, A., Seitzman, B. A., Adeyemo, B., Neta, M., Coalson, R. S., Petersen, S. E., & Gratton, C. (revise-resubmit). Probabilistic mapping of human functional brain networks identifies regions of high group consensus.
Raio, C. M., Brown, C. C., & Neta, M. (under review). Propensity to reappraise promotes resilience to stress-induced negativity bias.
Puccetti, N. A., Villano, W. J., Stamatis, C. A., Torres, V. F., Neta, M., Timpano, K. R., Heller, A. S. (under review). Daily emotion as a pathway between task-based negativity bias and variability in depressive symptoms.
Neta, M., Tong, T. T., Brown, C. C., Clinchard, C. J., Dunne, A., & Davis, F. C. (in preparation). Think again: Reappraisal promotes positivity in the ‘face’ of uncertainty.
Basyouni, R., Harp, N. R., Haas, I. J., & Neta, M. (in preparation). Perceived political threat predicts negative perceptions of outgroup facial expressions.
Brock, R. L., Harp, N. R., & Neta, M. (in preparation). Social support moderates the relationship between trait negativity and valence bias.
Harp, N. R., Dodd, M. D., & Neta, M. (in preparation). Emotional working memory load selectively increases negativity bias.
Harp, N. R., Brock, R. L., & Neta, M. (in preparation). Feeling fast and slow: Reaction times moderate the relationship between emotional empathy and valence bias.
Harp, N. R., Freeman, J. B., & Neta, M. (in preparation). Mindfulness training promotes long-lasting changes toward a more positive valence bias.