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Featured Papers

Rubin, M., Li, J. Z., Zimmerman, F., Ong, D. C., *Goldenberg, A., & Perry, A. (2025). Comparing the value of perceived human versus AI-generated empathy. Nature Human Behavior.​ data & code,  preprint

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Main idea: We manipulated the perceived identity of a real-time empathic response to be or AI. We observed a drop in perceived empathy when label was AI, and this effect was mainly driven by sensitivity to emotion expressed by AI.

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*Pinus, M., Cao, Y., Halperin, E., Gross, J.J. & Goldenberg, A. (2025). Emotion regulation contagion drives reduction in negative intergroup emotionsNature Communications. data & code, preprint
 

Main finding: Emotion regulation interventions can spread from treated to not treated people in the group. 

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Li, J. Z., Herderich, A., & Goldenberg, A. (under review). Skill but not effort drive GPT overperformance over humans in cognitive reframing of negative scenarios. data & code, preprint

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Main idea: We compared the performance of GPT-4 and humans in reframing negative scenarios. GPT-4 was ranked in the 85th percentile compared to humans.  

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Journal Publications (*denotes co first authorship)

  1. Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Lerner, J. S., & Gross, J. (Under review). An emotion regulation intervention increases long-term well-being among education workers. data & code, preprint
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  2. Li, J. Z., Herderich, A., & Goldenberg, A. (under review). Skill but not effort drive GPT overperformance over humans in cognitive reframing of negative scenarios. data & code, preprint
     

  3. Schöne, J., Rocklage, M.D., Parkinson, B., & Goldenberg, A. (2025). Overestimation in the aggregation of emotional intensity of social media content. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. data & code, preprint
     

  4. LaFollette, K., J., Rubez, D., Demaree, H., A., & Goldenberg, A. (2025). Challenging the mechanism for the implicit association test. Nature Human Behavior. data & code, preprint
     

  5. Rubin, M., Li, J. Z., Zimmerman, F., Ong, D. C., *Goldenberg, A., & Perry, A. (2025). Comparing the value of perceived human versus AI-generated empathy. Nature Human Behavior. data & code,  preprint
     

  6. LaFollette, K. J., Yuval, J., Schurr, R., Melnikoff, D., & Goldenberg, A. (2025). Data driven equation discovery reveals non-linear reinforcement learning in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. data & code, preprint.
     

  7. Goldenberg, A., LaFollette, K., Huang, Z., Weisz, E., & Cikara, M. (2025). Judgement of crowds as emotional increases with the proportion of Black faces. Scientific Reports. data & code, preprint
     

  8. *Pinus, M., Cao, Y., Halperin, E., Gross, J.J. & Goldenberg, A. (2025). Emotion regulation contagion drives reduction in negative intergroup emotionsNature Communications. 16. 1387. data & code, preprint
     

  9. Millgram, Y., Goldenberg, A., & Nock, M. M. (2024). Suicidal thoughts are associated with reduced source attribution of emotions. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. 134 (1), 18-30. preprint
     

  10. Zimmerman, F., Bailey, D., Muric, G., Ferrara, E., Schöne, J., Willer, R., Halperin, E., Navajas, J., Gross, J. J. & Goldenberg, A. (2024). Attraction to politically extreme users on social mediaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus. 3 (10).  data & code, preprint
     

  11. Enav, Y., Knudtson, M., Goldenberg, A., & Gross, J. J. (2024). Effect of partner presence on emotion regulation during parent-child interactions. Scientific Reports.
     

  12. Vlasceanu, M, Doell, K.C., …Goldenberg, A.,.....Van Bavel, J.J. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances. 10 (6). eadj5778.
     

  13. Eldesouky, L., Goldenberg, A., & Ellis, K. (2024). Loneliness and emotion regulation in daily life. Personality and Individual Differences. 221  
     

  14. Goldenberg, A., (2023). What makes groups emotional? Perspectives in Psychological Science. 19 (2). 489-502. preprint
     

  15. Elad-Strenger, J., Goldenberg, A., Saguy, T., & Halperin, E (2023). How our ideological out-group shapes our emotional response to our shared socio-political reality. British Journal of Social Psychology.
     

  16. Shuman, E., Goldenberg, A., Saguy, T., Halperin, E., & van Zomeren, M. (2023). When are Social Protests Effective? Trends in Cognitive Science. 
     

  17. Milgram, Y., Nock, M. K., & Goldenberg, A. (2023). Knowledge about the source of emotion predicts adaptive emotion regulation. Psychological Science. data & code, preprint
     

  18. Schöne, J., Garcia, D., Parkinson, B., & Goldenberg, A. (2023). Negative expressions are shared more on Twitter for public figures than for ordinary users. PNAS Nexus. preprint
     

  19. Goldenberg, A., Willer, R. (2023). Amplification of emotion on social media. Nature Human Behavior.
     

  20. Goldenberg, A., Abruzzo, J. M., Huang, Z., Schöne, J., Bailey, D.,  Willer, R., Halperin, E., Gross, J. J. Homophily and acrophily as drivers of political segregation. (2023). Nature Human Behavior. 7, 219-230 data & codepreprint
     

  21. *Goldenberg, A., †Schöne, J., Huang, Z., Sweeny, T. D., Ong, D. C., Brady, T. F., Robinson, M. M., Levari, D., Zaki J, & Gross, J. J.  (2022). Amplification in the evaluation of emotional expressions over time. Nature Human Behavior. 6(10), 1408-1416data & code, preprint
     

  22. Tan, A. J., Mancini, V., Gross, J. J., Goldenberg, A., Badcook, J. C., Lim, M. H.. Becerra, R., Jackson, B., Preece, D. A. (2022) Loneliness versus distress: A comparison of emotion regulation profiles. Behavior Change. 39(3), 180-190.
     

  23. *Lin, G.-X., Goldenberg, A., Arikan, G., Brytek-Matera, A., Czepczor-Bernat, K., Manrique-Millones, D., Mikolajczak, M., Overbye, H., Roskam, I., SzczygieÅ‚, D., Ustundag-Budak, A. M., & Gross, J. J. (2022). Reappraisal, Social Support, and Parental Burnout. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 61(4), 1089-1102. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12380
     

  24. Kaveladze, B. T., Morris, R. R., Dimitrova-Gammeltoft, R. V., Goldenberg, A., Gross, J. J., Antin, J., Sandgren, M., & Thomas-Hunt, M. C. (2022). Social interactivity in live video experiences reduces loneliness. Frontiers in Digital Health, 0, 43.
     

  25. Morrison, A. S., Uusberg, A., Ryan, J., Goldenberg A., Etkin, A., Gross, J. J. (2022). Assessing and improving public mental health literacy concerning rTMS. BMC Psychiatry. 22, 249.
     

  26. Schöne, J., Parkinson, Goldenberg, A. Negativity spreads more than positivity on Twitter after both positive and negative political situations. Affective Science, 2, 379-390. data & codepreprint
     

  27. Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C., Miller, J. K., Lerner, J. S., & Gross, J. & Psychological Science Accelerator. (2021). A global test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behavior, 5, 1089-1110. data & code, preprint
     

  28. Bellovary, A., Young, N. A., & Goldenberg, A. Left- and Right-Leaning News Organizations’ Use Negative Emotional Content and Elicit User Engagement Similarly. Affective Science, 2, 391-396. data & codepreprint
     

  29. Preece, D., Goldenberg, A., Becerra, R., Boyes, M., Hasking, P., & Gross, J. J. (2021). Loneliness and Emotion Regulation. Personality and Individual Differences
     

  30. Zmigrod, L., Goldenberg, A. (2021). Cognition and emotion in extreme political action. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(3), 218-227. preprint
     

  31. *Goldenberg, A., Weisz, E., Sweeny, T., Cikara, M., & Gross, J. (2021). The crowd emotion amplification effect. Psychological Science.  32(2).  437-450. data & code, preprint
     

  32. Cohen-Chen, S., Pliskin, R., & Goldenberg, A., (2020). Feel good or do good? A valence / function framework for understanding emotions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(4), 388-393.
     

  33. Enav, Y., Erhard-Weiss, D., Goldenberg, A., Knudston, M., Hardan, A.Y., & Gross, J.J. (2020). Contextual determinants of parental reflective functioning: Children with autism versus their typically developing siblings. Autism, 24(6), 1578-158.
     

  34. Hasan-Aslih, S., Shuman, E., Goldenberg, A., Pliskin, R., van Zomeren, M., & Halperin, E. (2020). The quest for hope: Disadvantaged group members can fulfil their desire to feel hope, but only when they believe in their power. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(7), 879-888. data & codepreprint
     

  35. Goldenberg, A., Gross, J.J. (2020). Digital emotion contagion. Trends in Cognitive Science, 24(4), 316-328. preprint
     

  36. Goldenberg, A., Garcia, D., Halperin, E., & Gross, J.J. (2020). Collective emotions. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 29(2), 154-160. preprint
     

  37. Goldenberg, A., Sweeny, T., Spiegel, E., & Gross, J.J. (2019). Is this my group or not? The role of ensemble coding of emotional expressions in group categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 143(3), 445-460. data & codepreprint
     

  38. Goldenberg, A., Garcia, D., Halperin, E., Jaki, J., Kong, D., Golarai, G., & Gross, J.J. (2019). Beyond emotional similarity: The role of situation-specific motives. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(1), 138–159. data & codepreprint
     

  39. Milyavsky, M., Webber, D., Fernandez, J. R., Kruglanski, A., Goldenberg, A., Suri, G., & Gross, J. J. (2019). To reappraise or not to reappraise? Emotion regulation choice and cognitive energetics. Emotion, 19(6), 964-981. data & code
     

  40. Goldenberg, A., Cohen-Chen, S., Goyer, J. P., Dweck, C. S., Gross, J. J., & Halperin, E. (2018). Testing the impact and durability of group malleability intervention in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(4), 696–701.
     

  41. Formanowicz, M., Goldenberg, A., Saguy, T., Pietraszkiewicz, A., Walker, M. & Gross, J. J. (2018). Understanding dehumanization: The role of agency and communion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 77, 102–116. data & code
     

  42. Goldenberg, A., Endevelt, K., Ran, S., Dweck, C. S., Gross, J. J., & Halperin, E. (2017). Making intergroup contact more fruitful: Enhancing cooperation between Palestinian and Jewish Israeli adolescents by fostering beliefs about group malleability. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 8, 3-10.
     

  43. ÄŒehajić-Clancy, S., Goldenberg, A., Gross, J. J., Halperin, E. (2016). Social-psychological interventions for intergroup reconciliation: An emotion regulation perspective. Psychological Inquiry, 27, 73-88.
     

  44. Goldenberg, A., Halperin, E., Van-Zomeren, M., & Gross, J. J. (2016). The process model of group-based emotion: Integrating intergroup emotion and emotion regulation perspectives. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 20, 118-141.
     

  45. Goldenberg, A., Enav, Y., Halperin, E., Saguy, T., & Gross, J. J. (2017). Emotional Compensation in parents. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 67, 150-155. 
     

  46. Halevy, N., Kreps, T., Weisel, O., & Goldenberg, A. (2015). Morality in intergroup conflict. Current Opinion in Psychology, 6, 10-14.
     

  47. Saguy, T., Szekeres, H., Nouri, R., Goldenberg, A., Doron, G., Dovidio, J. F, & Halperin, E. (2015). Awareness of intergroup help can re-humanize the outgroup. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 6, 551-558.
     

  48. Goldenberg, A., Saguy, T., & Halperin, E. (2014). How group-based emotions are shaped by collective emotions: Evidence for emotional burden and emotional transfer. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 581-596.
     

  49. Halperin, E., Cohen-Chen, S., & Goldenberg, A. (2014). Indirect emotion regulation in intractable conflicts: A new approach to conflict resolution. European Review of Social Psychology, 25, 1-30.

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Cohen-Chen, S., Goldenberg, A., Gross, J. J., & Halperin, E. (2023). Malleability Interventions in Intergroup Relations. In E. Halperin, B. Hameiri & R. Littman. Psychological Intergroup Interventions: Evidence-based Approaches to Improve Intergroup Relations. New York, NY: Routledge.
     

  2. Goldenberg, A. Collective Emotion Regulation. (2023).  In J. J. Gross & B.Q. Ford (Eds.) Handbook of Emotion Regulation 3rd ed. New York, NY: Guilford Press. preprint.
     

  3. Goldenberg, A., Gross, J. J. & Halperin, E., The group Malleability Intervention: Addressing Intergroup Conflicts by Changing Perceptions of Outgroup Malleability. In G. M. Walton & A. J. Crum (Eds.). Handbook of wise interventions: How Social Psychology can Help People Change. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
     

  4. Wolf, S. A., Campo, M., & Goldenberg, A.  (2020). Emotions and emotion regulation. In A. S. Haslam, K Fransen, & F. Boen (Eds.). The new psychology of sport & exercise: The social identity approach. London, UK: Sage.
     

  5. Pliskin, R., Goldenberg, A., Ambar, E., & Bar-Tal, D. (2017). Speaking out and breaking the silence. In D. Bar-Tal (Ed.) Self-censorship in context: Theory and research on a barrier to peace. New York, NY: Springer Press
     

  6. Goldenberg, A. (2015). A city forsaken. Jerusalem, Israel: Keter Publishing House
     

  7. Goldenberg, A., & Szajnberg, N. (2013). A soldier’s loneliness. In A.K. Richards, L. Spira, & A. Lynch (Eds.) Encounters with loneliness: Only the lonely. (pp. 256-280). New York, NY: International Psychoanalytic Books.

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