Publications

2017 – 2020

Beckes, L., Medina-Devilliers, S. E., & Coan, J. A. (In Press). The social regulation of emotion: Inconsistencies suggest no mediation through ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Social neuroscience.

Tsapelas, I., Beckes, L., & Aron, A. (In Press). Manipulation of Self-Expansion Alters Responses to Attractive Alternative Partners. Frontiers in Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology.

Saxbe, D. E., Beckes, L., Stoycos, S. A., & Coan, J. A. (2019). Social allostasis and social allostatic load: A new model for research in social dynamics, emotion, and stress. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 469-482. DOI: 10.1177/1745691619876528

Beckes, L. & Edwards, W. L. (2018). Emotions as regulators of social behavior. In T. P. Beauchaine & S. E. Crowell (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Emotion Dysregulation. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190689285.013.3

Coan, J. A., Beckes. L., Gonzalez, M. Z., Maresh, E. L., Brown, C. L., & Hasselmo, K. (2017). Relationship status and perceived support in the social regulation of neural threat responding. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1574-1583.

Brown, C. L., Beckes, L., Allen, J. P., & Coan, J. A. (2017) Subjective general health and the social regulation of hypothalamic activity. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79, 670-673.

Beckes, L. Simons, K., Lewis, D., Le, A., & Edwards, W. L. (2017). Desperately seeking support: Negative reinforcement schedules in the formation of adult attachment associations. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 229-238.

2013 – 2016

Beckes, L., Ijzerman, H. & Tops, M. (2015). Toward a radically embodied neuroscience of attachment and relationships. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 266.

Gonzalez, M. Z., Beckes, L., Chango, J., Allen, J. P., & Coan, J. A. (2015). Adolescent neighborhood quality predicts adult neural response to social exclusion. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 921-928.

Beckes, L., & Coan, J. A. (2015). The distress-relief dynamic in attachment bonds. In C. Hazan & V. Zayas (Eds.), Bases of Adult Attachment: Linking Brain, Mind, and Behavior (pp. 11-33). New York, NY, US: Springer Science  Business Media.

Beckes, L., & Coan, J. A. (2014). Relationship neuroscience. In J. A. Simpson & J. Dovidio (Eds.), The Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, Volume 3: Interpersonal Relations (pp. 119-149). Washington DC., American Psychological Association Press.

Coan, J. A., Brown, C., & Beckes, L. (2014). Our social baseline: The role of social proximity in economy of action. In M. Mikulincer & P. R. Shaver (Eds.) Nature and Formation of Social Connections: From Brain to Group (pp. 89-104). Washington DC., American Psychological Association Press.

Maresh, E. L., Beckes, L., & Coan, J A. (2013). The social regulation of attentional disengagement in highly anxious individuals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 515.

Johnson, S. M., Burgess Moser, M. Beckes, L., Smith, A., Dagleish, T., Halchuk, R., Hasselmo, K., Greenman, P. S., Merali, Z., & Coan, J. A. (2013). Soothing the threatened brain: Leveraging contact comfort with emotionally focused therapy. PLoS One, 8(11), e79314, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079314

Beckes, L., Coan, J. A., & Morris, J. P. (2013). Implicit conditioning of faces via the social regulation of emotion: ERP evidence of early attentional biases for security conditioned faces. Psychophysiology, 50, 734-742.

Beckes, L. & Coan, J. A. (2013a). Toward an integrative neuroscience of relationships. In J. A. Simpson & L. Campbell (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships, (pp. 684-710). New York: Oxford University Press.

Coan, J. A., Beckes, L., & Allen, J. (2013). Childhood maternal support and neighborhood quality moderate the social regulation of neural threat responding in adulthood. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 88, 224-231.

Zhang, T., Li, F., Beckes, L., Brown, C., & Coan, J. A. (2013). Semiparametric inference of hemodynamic response for multi-subject fMRI data under multi-stimulus design. NeuroImage, 75, 136-145.

Beckes, L., Coan, J. A., & Hasselmo, K. (2013). Familiarity promotes the blurring of self and other in the neural representation of threat. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 670-677.

Beckes, L., & Coan, J. A. (2013b). Social baseline theory and the social regulation of emotion. In L. Campbell, J. La Guardia, J. Olsen, & M. Zanna (Eds.), The 12th Ontario symposium: The Science of the Couple, (pp. 79-91). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

2010-2012

Beckes L. & Coan, J. A. (2012). Voodoo versus me-you correlations in relationship neuroscience. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 30, 189-197.

Zhang, T., Li, F., Beckes, L., Brown, C., & Coan, J. A. (2012). Nonparametric inference of hemodynamic response for multi-subject fMRI data under multi-stimulus design. NeuroImage, 63, 1754-1765.

Hasselmo, K., Coan, J. A., & Beckes, L. A. (2012). Die Social Baseline Theorie und die Soziale Regulierung von Emotionen. In K. H. Brisch (Ed.), Bindungen – paare, sexualitat und kinder, (pp. 22-35). Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

Beckes, L. & Coan, J. A. (2011). Social baseline theory: The role of social proximity in emotion and economy of action. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5, 976-988.

Beckes, L. & Simpson, J. A. (2011). Evolutionary perspectives on caring and prosocial behavior. In O. Gillath, G. Adams, A. Kunkel (Eds.), New directions in research on close relationships: integrating across disciplines and theoretical approaches (pp. 27-47). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Simpson, J. A., & Beckes, L. (2010). Attachment theory. In J. M. Levine & M. A. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of group processes and intergroup relations. New York: Sage.

Beckes, L., Simpson, J. A, & Erickson, A. B. (2010).  Of snakes and succor: Learning secure attachment associations with novel faces via negative stimulus pairings. Psychological Science, 21, 721 – 728.

2008-2009

Beckes, L., & Simpson, J. A. (2009). Attachment reproduction and life history trade-offs: A broader view of human mating.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 23-24.

Simpson, J. A., & Beckes, L. (2009). Evolutionary perspectives on prosocial behavior. In M. Mikulincer & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Prosocial motives, emotions, and behavior: The better angels of our nature (pp. 35-53). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Simpson, J. A., & Beckes, L. (2009). Attachment. In D. Sander, K. R.

Klaus et al. (Eds.), Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences. New York: Oxford University Press.

Simpson, J. A., & Beckes, L. (2008).  Reflections on the nature (and nurture) of cultures.  Biology and Philosophy, 23, 257 -258.

Simpson, J. A., Beckes, L., & Weisberg, Y. J. (2007). Evolutionary accounts of individual differences in adult attachment orientations. In J. V. Wood, A. Tesser, & J. G.Holmes (Eds.), The self and social relationships (pp. 183-206). New York: Psychology Press.