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Publications
2022
Cole**, E., Su, S., Diaz, A., Mengxi, Z. (2022). Resilience in adolescent Burmese refugees: Ethnic identity as a moderator of social support. Children and Youth Services Review.
2021
Gartstein MA, Seamon DE, Mattera JA, Bosquet Enlow M, Wright RJ, Perez-Edgar K, et al. (2022). Using machine learning to understand age and gender classification based on infant temperament. PLoS ONE 17(4): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266026
Hernández, M. M., Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Spinrad, T. L., Berger, R. H., Johns, S. K., Diaz, A., Gal-Szabo, D. E., Thompson, M. S., Southworth, J., & Pina, A. A. (2022) Peers’ emotionality and children’s academic achievement in second grade: Testing the moderating role of children’s behavioral self-regulation. Social Development.
Hernández, M., Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Spinrad, T.L., Johns, S.K., Berger, R., Diaz, A., Silva, K.S., Thompson, M.S., Gal-Szabo, D. E, & Southworth, J (2021). Effortful Control and Extensive Observations of Negative Emotion as Joint Predictors of Teacher–Student Conflict. Childhood, Early Education and Development, 33(1), 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/10409289.2020.1857169
Li, L., Sheehan, C.M., Valiente, C., Eisenberg, N., Doane, L.D., Spinrad, T.L., Johns, S.K., Diaz, A., Berger, R.H., Southworth, J. (2021). Similarities and differences between actigraphy and parent-reported sleep in a Hispanic and non-Hispanic White sample. Sleep Medicine, 83:160-167. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2021.04.036.
Simon-Dack, S.L., Perrone-McGovern, K.M., Marmarosh, C.L., Matsen, J.* (2021). The Role of Attachment Security in Error Self-Monitoring: Is a Social Component Necessary? Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, 168.
Sully, H. *, Perrone, K., Barrera, S. *, & Simon-Dack, S. (2021). Preconscious categorization impacts how interracial same-sex couples are perceived by others: Implications for counseling and supervision. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 1-23.
Tomlinson**, C. S., Rudd**, B. N., Applegate, A. G., Diaz, A., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2022). Lessons for a COVID-19 era: Barriers and facilitators to court ordered online parenting programs for divorcing and separating parents. Family Court Review, 60(2), 303.
Zerrouk**, M.R., Diaz, A., & Bell, MA. (2022). Inhibitory Control Moderates the Association Between Fear and Attention Bias to Snakes in Middle Childhood. Cognitive Development.
2019
Berger, R. H., Diaz A., Valiente, C., Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., Doanne Sampey, L., Thompson, M., Hernandez, M. M., Johns, S. K., & Southworth, J. (2019). The association between home chaos and academic achievement: The moderating role of sleep. Journal of Family Psychology, 33(8), 975-981. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000535
Kraus, B.*, Cadle C.*, & Simon-Dack, S. L. (2019). EEG Alpha Activity isModerated by the Serial Order Effect During Divergent Thinking. Biological Psychology, 145, 84-95.
Van Hoven, J.*, Perrone-McGovern, K., Simon-Dack, S., & Nicholas, D. (in press). Attachment anxiety, stranger support, and attentional bias for relational negativity in response to pain among women. The Journal of Rehabilitation.
2018
Berger, R. H., Diaz, A., Valiente, C., Eisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., Thompson, M. S., …Southworth, J. (2018). Sleep duration moderates the association between children’s temperament and academic achievement. Early Education & Development, 29(5), 624-640.
Diaz, A., Blankenship, T. L., & bell, M. A. (2018). Episodic memory in middle childhood: Age, brain electrical activity, and self-reported attention. Cognitive Development, 47, 6370: doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.03.003
Hernandez, M. M., Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Spinrad, T. L., Berger, R. H., VanSchyndel, S. K., Silva, K. M., Diaz, A., Thompson, M. S., Gal, D. E., & Southworth, J. (2018). Bidirectional associations between emotions and school adjustment. Journal of personality, 86(5), 853-867. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12361
Hernandez, M. M., Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Spinrad, T. L., VanSchyndel, S. K., Berger, R. H., Silva, K. M., Diaz, A., Gal, D. E., Thompson, M. S., & Southworth, J. (2018). Self-regulation and academic achievement across the early elementary school grades: Examining longitudinal and bidirectional associations. Early Education and Development. Advance online publication: doi: 10.1080/10409289.2018.1496722
Hernandez, M. M., Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Spinrad, T. L., Berger, R. H., VanSchyndel, S. K., Silva, K. M., Diaz, A., Southworth, J., & Thompson, M. S., (2018). Emotions in school and psychological maladjustment from kindergarten to first grade. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 176, 101-112. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.07.010.
Holtgraves, T. & Kraus, B.* (2018). Processing scalar implicatures in conversational contexts: An ERP study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 46, 93-108.
Smith, S.*, Ritchey, K., Allen, A.**, Wittman, S.*, Ward, R.*, & Simon-Dack, S. (in preparation). A spectral analysis examining the cognitive and electrophysiological construction of generalization inferences during reading. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.
Simon-Dack, S., Kraus, B.*, Walter, Z.*, Smith, S.*, & Cadle, C.* (2018). Underlying neural alpha frequency patterns associated with intra-hemispheric inhibition during an interhemipsheric transfer task. Biological Psychology, 136, 39-45.
Ward, R.*, Smith, S.*, Kraus, B.*, Allen, A.**, Moses, M.*, & Simon-Dack, S. (2018). Alpha band frequency differences between low and high trait anxious individuals. NeuroReport, 29, 79-83.
2017
Diaz, A., Berger, R., Valiente, C., Tao, C., Eisenberg, N., VanSchyndel, S., Spinrad, T. L., Doane, L. D., Thompson, M. S., Silva, K. M., & Southworth, J. (2017). Children’s sleep and academic achievement: The moderating role of effortful control. International Journal of Behavioral Development. 41, 275-284. doi: 10.1177/0165025416635284
Diaz, A., Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., VanSchyndel, S., Spinrad, T. L., Berger, R., Hernandez, M. M., Silva, K. M., & Southworth, J. (2017). Relations of Positive and Negative Expressivity and Effortful Control to Kindergarteners’ Student-Teacher Relationship, Academic Engagement, and Externalizing Problems at School. Journal of Research in Personality, 16, 3-14. doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2015.11.002.
Hernandez, M. M., Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Diaz, A., VanSchyndel, S. K., Berger, R. H., Terrell, N., Silva, K. M., Spinrad, T. L., & Southworth, J. (2017). Concurrent and longitudinal associations of peers’ acceptance with emotions and effortful control in kindergarten. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41, 30-40. doi:10.1177/0165025415608519
Hernandez, M. M. Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., Spinrad, T. L., VanSchyndel, S. K., Diaz, A., Silva, K. M., Berger, R. H., & Southworth, J. (2017). Observed emotions as predictors of quality of kindergarteners’ social relationships. Social Development. 26, 21-30. doi: 10.1111/sode.12179
Perrone-McGovern, K., Simon-Dack, S., Esche, A.*, Thomas, C.*, Beduna, K.*, Rider, K.*, Spurling, A.*, Matsen, J.* (2017). The influence of emotional intelligence and perfectionism on error-related negativity: An event related potential study. Personality and Individual Differences, 111, 65–70.
2016
Hernandez, M. M., Eisenberg, N., Valiente, C., VanSchyndel, S. K., Spinrad, T. L., Silva, K. M., Berger, R. H., Diaz, A., Terrell, N., Thompson, M. & Southworth, J. (2016). Emotional expression in school context, social relationships, and academic adjustment in Kindergarten. Emotion, 16, 553-566. doi: 10.1037/emo0000147
Smith, C. L., Diaz, A., Day, K. L., & Bell, M. A. (2016). Infant frontal electroencephalogram asymmetry and negative emotional reactivity as predictors of toddlerhood effortful control. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 262-273.
2015
Diaz, A., & Eisenberg, N. (2015). The Process of emotion regulation is different from individual differences in emotion regulation: Conceptual arguments and a focus on individual differences. Psychological Inquiry, 26, 37-47. doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2015.959094
Simon-Dack, S., Holtgraves, T., Hernandez, K.*, & Thomas, C.* (2015). Resting EEG and behavioural correlates of interhemispheric transfer times. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain, and Cognition, 20, 618-638.
Hernandez, K.*, Woodall, K.*, & Simon-Dack, S. (2015). Left hemispheric contributions to temporal perception: A resting EEG study. NeuroReport, 26, 163-166.
2013
Simon-Dack, S., Holtgraves, T., Marsh, L.*, & Fogle, K.* (2013). Resting electroencephalography correlates of pseudoneglect: An individual differences approach. NeuroReport, 24, 827-830.
Presentations
2022
Sederlund**, A., Price**, K., Woodling**, C., Humble**, J., Pellegrino**, A., Assar**, A., Okere*, I., Ericson*, G., Ramsey*, A., Isolagbenla*, R., & Diaz, A. (2022, May). Self-Efficacy as a Mediator between the Relationship of Stress and Amotivation. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Assar**, A., Humble**, J., Woodling**, C., Pellegrino**, A., Price**, K., Sederlund** A., & Diaz, A. (2022). The Mediating Role of Behavioral Disengagement in the Relationship between Adaptive Metacognition and Anxiety. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Isolagbenla*, R., Ericson*, G., Okere*, J., Woodling**, C., & Diaz, A. (2022). Risk-Taking Behaviors in Young Adults. Poster presented at Mid-America Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Richmond, IN.
Tomlinson**, C. S., Rudd**, B. N., Applegate, A. G., Diaz, A., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2022, May). Evaluation of Court-Initiated Randomized Controlled Trial of Online Parent Programs for Divorcing and Separating Parents. Paper presented at Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Chicago, IL
2021
Britton, K., & Diaz, A. (2021, May). The Importance of Health Behaviors: Increased Physical Activity and Sleep Quality Result in Better Prospective Memory. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Virtual Conference.
Cole**, E., & Diaz, A. (2021, May). Emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and anxious arousal and apprehension. Poster accepted by Association for Psychological Science (APS), Virtual Conference.
Woodling**, C., Cole**, E., Epperly* A., Doerner*, A. Dahlinghau**, E., & Diaz, A. (2021, May). Are “grittier” students more strategic learners: The role of procrastination in grit and approaches to learning. Poster accepted by 33rd Association for Psychological Science (APS) Convention, Virtual Conference.
Cole, E. & Diaz, A. (2021, April). Graduate students’ insurance needs: The relationship to depression, anxiety, and perceived stress. Poster presented at Ball State University 26th Annual Student Symposium, Virtual Conference.
Doerner*, A., Woodling**, C., Cole**, E. Epperly*. & Diaz, A. (2021, April) The influence of perseverance and procrastination on strategic approaches to learning. Poster presented at Ball State University 26th Annual Student Symposium, Virtual Conference.
Cole**, E., & Diaz, A. (2021, April 22-24). Household dysfunction, abuse, and neglect as predictors of depression and anxiety. Poster presented at the 93rd Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) Conference, Virtual Conference.
Cole**, E., Woodling**, C., Epperly*, A., Jackson*, C., Doerner*, A., Dahlinghaus*, E., Diaz, A. (2021, April 22-24). Distress is predicted by suppression, sleep, and attitudes toward sleep. Poster presented at the 93rd Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) Conference, Virtual Conference.
Bielski, L., Shaffer, L., Diaz, A. & Bolin, J (2021 Apr 9-10). Memory, Acoustics and Effort: Examining Attitudes Toward Mask Wearing. Poster Presentation at Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Britton, K.*, Grzywana, J.*, Caballero, A.*, Ahmed, A.*, Simon-Dack, S.L. The Neurophysiological Impact of Sleep and Alcohol on Interhemispheric Transfer. Poster to be presented at the annual Midwestern Psychological Association (April, 2021), Digital Conference.
Cole, E., Woodling, C., Doerner, A., Epperly, A., Jackson, C., Dahlinghaus, E., Diaz A. (2021, April 22-24). Psychological Distress is Predicted by Emotion Suppression, Sleep Duration, and Dysfunctional Attitudes Toward Sleep [Poster Presentation]. 93rd Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) Conference, Chicago, IL.
Doerner, A., Woodling, C. M., Cole, E., Epperly A., Dahlinghaus, E., Diaz, A. (2021, April 15-May 1). The Influence of Perseverance and Procrastination on Strategic Approaches to Learning. [Poster Presentation]. Ball State University 26th Annual Student Symposium, Virtual Conference.
Woodling, C., Cole, E., Epperly A., Doerner, A. Dahlinghaus, E., Diaz, A. (2021, May 26-27). Are “grittier” students more strategic learners: The role of procrastination in grit and approaches to learning. [Poster Presentation]. 33rd Association for Psychological Science (APS) Convention, Virtual Conference.
2020
Ritchey, K., Simon-Dack, S.L., Smith, S.*, Johnson, S.*, Wittman, S.*, Jackson, C.*, & Grzywana, J.A.* The relation between text comprehension and interhemispheric transfer tasks. Poster presented at the annual Association for Psychological Science convention (2020), Chicago, Ill. Virtually presented due to COVID-19.
Grzywana**, J., Cole**, E., Carpenter**, S., & Diaz, A. (2020, May). Psychological capital in undergraduate students: Emotional well-being, impulsivity, and distress. Poster presented at the 32nd Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Grzywana**, J., Cole**, E., Brown*, J., Epperly*, A., Trentadue*, J., Diaz, A. (2020, April). Metacognitive thoughts: The role of temperament and depressive and anxious symptoms. Poster presented at the Ball State 2020 Student Symposium, Muncie, IN.
Grzywana**, J., Lee, T. T. C., Simon-Dack, S., Diaz, A., & Finch W. H. (2020, April). Validating emotionally driven variations of the n-back task. Poster presented at the 2020 Meeting of Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Cole**, E., Grzywana**, J., Carpenter**, S., & Diaz, A. (2020, November). The role of extraversion and effortful control in predicting psychological capital. Poster presented at the 23rd Occasional Temperament Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Diaz, A., Johns, S., Eisenburg., N. & Spinrad, T. (2020, November). Development of Effortful Control during Childhood: Interactive Prediction by Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Maternal Interaction Quality. Paper presented at the 23rd Occasional Temperament Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia.
2019
Perrone-McGovern, K.P., Simon-Dack, S.L., Marmarosh, C., Matsen, J.* (2019, October). The effect of attachment style on Error-Related Negativity neural waveforms: is a social component necessary? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience, Chicago, Il.
Ritchey, R., Simon-Dack, S., Smith, S., Jackson, C., Robinson, C. (2019, July). Is a Lobster an Insect?: An Electrophysiological Investigation of Generalizations Inferred from Expository Text. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, New York City, NY.
2018
Simon-Dack, S.L., Kraus, B., Walter, Z., Cadle, C., Smith, S. (2018, May). The role of alpha-band frequency activity during performance of a visual-motoric interhemispheric transfer task. Poster presented at the Visual Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL.
Smith, S., Ritchey, K., Allen, A., Wittman, S., Halbert, T., Robinson, C., Morales, T., Jackson, C., Conner, C., Myers, A., Riels, K., Tatum, A., Robbins, M., & Simon-Dack, S. L. (2018, April). The role of attentional control during global text comprehension. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association’s Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Gundlach, J., & Simon-Dack, S. (2018, April). “Why do I ruminate?”: An investigation of working memory updating. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
Riels, K., Allen, A., Robbins, M., Gundlach, J., Smith, S., Tatum, A., & Simon-Dack, S. (2018, April). A reliability analysis of the shortened Ruminative Response Scale (RRS). Poster presentation to be presented and the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
2016
Davis, A. S., Simon-Dack, S.L., Fogle, K.L., & Lemann, E.R. (2016, April). QEEG Beta and Gamma Activation Associated with Inhibition. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Fogle, K. L. & Simon-Dack, S. L. (2016, April). Cognitive Flexibility, Interhemispheric Transfer, and QEEG in Female Athletes. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Cadle, C., Kraus, B. T., Walter, Z., Eagan, S., Moses, M., Kanazeh, T., & Simon-Dack, S. (2016, May). Residual neural activation patterns demonstrate processing asymmetries during a novel adaptation of the Poffenberger Paradigm. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
Kraus, B. T., Cadle, C., Roviso, N., Ward, R., Walter, Z., Rohaly, T., Sheets, J., Price, D., & Simon-Dack, S. (2016, May). EEG Alpha Band Power and Creative Task Ideation. Poster submitted to the Association for Psychological Science National Conference, Chicago,IL.
Cromas, C. S., Roviso, N. R., Eagan, S. R., Dahab, R. M., Hernandez, K. O., & Simon-Dack, S. L. (2016, May). Subclinical measures of cognitive disinhibition are uncorrelated with temporal sensitivity. Poster at the Association for Psychological Science in Chicago, IL.
Roviso, N., Hurm, K., Dille, M., Cromas, C., Eagan, S., and Simon-Dack, S. (2016, May) Interhemispheric transfer in a non-institutionalized sample of individuals endorsing psychopathic personality traits. Poster at the Association for Psychological Science in Chicago, IL.
2015
Perrrone-McGovern, K., Simon-Dack, S.L., Esche, A., Thomas, C., Smith, K., Rider, K., & Spurling, A. (2015, October). The Influence of Emotional Intelligence and Perfectionism on Error-Related Negativity: An Event Related Potential Study. Poster at the Society for Social Neuroscience Annual Conference in Chicago, Ill.
Simon-Dack, S.L. (2015, May). Neural and Behavioral Markers of Inter- and Intra-hemispheric Communication. Poster at the Visual Sciences Society Conference in St. Petersburg, Fl.
Thomas, C., Tagler, M., Furniss, B., Matsen, J., Spurling, A., & Simon-Dack, S.L. (2015, May). Neural Evidence Supporting The Role of a Defensive Motivation In The Congeniality Bias: An Event-Related Potential Study. Poster at the Association of Psychological Science Conference in New York, NY.
Woodall, K., Holtgraves, T., Kraus, B., Linser, B., Austin, A., Robins, C., Cromas, C., Roviso, N., Simon-Dack, S.L. (2015, May). Right-Hemispheric Excitation in Individuals Endorsing Unusual Perceptual Experiences. Poster at the Association of Psychological Science Conference in New York, NY.
Hernandez, K., Thomas, C., Woodall, K., Spurling, A., Matsen, J., Simon-Dack, S. (2015, March). Hammering down the perfect amount of inhibition for time perception accuracy. Poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference in San Francisco, CA.
2014
Hernandez, K., Woodall, K., Thomas, C., & Simon-Dack, S. (2014, May). Temporal processing and interhemispheric transfer time. Poster at the Association of Psychological Science National Conference in San Francisco, CA.
Simon-Dack, S.L., Hernandez, K., Woodall, K., Thomas, C., Andrick, G., Bailey, Z., Daly, H., Helminger, H., Shirley, K., Stettler, B., Holtgraves, T. (2014, April). Right-hemispheric processes, interhemispheric transfer, and pseudoneglect: A quantitative EEG study. Poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual conference in, Boston, MA.
2013
Neuroscience Society annual conference in Boston, MA. Simon-Dack, S.L., Marsh, L., Fogle, K., Hernandez, K. (2013, May). Resting EEG correlates of differential interhemispheric transfer. Poster at the annual convention for the Association of Psychological Science, Washington DC.
2012
Marsh, L., Fogle, K., Simon-Dack, S., Davis, A., Lemann, E., Parkison, P., & Holtgraves, T. (2012, May). An exploratory study of line perception performance and resting alpha power asymmetries. Poster at the Association for Psychological Science Conference, Chicago, IL.