Featured Papers
Goldenberg, A., (2023). What makes groups emotional? Perspectives in Psychological Science.
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Main idea: Group emotionality is an integration of emotional interactions between people, how people perceive those interactions, and the social infrastructure in which social groups interact. This is a review of many of the ideas that have emerged from the lab in the last few years.

*Pinus, M., Cao, Y., Halperin, E., Gross, J.J. & Goldenberg, A. (2025). Emotion regulation contagion drives reduction in negative intergroup emotions. Nature Communications. data & code, preprint
Main finding: Emotion regulation interventions can spread from treated to not treated people in the group.

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.

Journal Publications (*denotes co first authorship)
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Yan, T. T, Goldenberg, A. (under review). Social information does not improve wisdom of the crowds in making group emotion judgements. data & code, preprint
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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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LaFollette, K., J., Rubez, D., Demaree, H., A., & Goldenberg, A. (first stage registration accepted). Challenging the mechanism for the implicit association test. Nature Human Behavior.
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LaFollette, K. J., Yuval, J., Schurr, R., Melnikoff, D., & Goldenberg, A. (under review). Identifying Learning Models from Human Behavior using Bottom-Up Equation Discovery. preprint
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*Pinus, M., Cao, Y., Halperin, E., Gross, J.J. & Goldenberg, A. (2025). Emotion regulation contagion drives reduction in negative intergroup emotions. Nature Communications. data & code, preprint
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Millgram, Y., Goldenberg, A., & Nock, M. M. (2024). Suicidal thoughts are associated with reduced source attribution of emotions. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
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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 media. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus. 3 (10). data & code, preprint
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Goldenberg, A., Huang, Z., LaFollette, K., Weisz, E., & Cikara, M. (under review). Judgement of
crowds as emotional increases with the proportion of Black faces. data & code, preprint
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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.
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Eldesouky, L., Goldenberg, A., & Ellis, K. (2024). Loneliness and emotion regulation in daily life. Personality and Individual Differences. 221
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Goldenberg, A., (2023). What makes groups emotional? Perspectives in Psychological Science. 19 (2). 489-502. preprint
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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.
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Shuman, E., Goldenberg, A., Saguy, T., Halperin, E., & van Zomeren, M. (2023). When are Social Protests Effective? Trends in Cognitive Science.
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Milgram, Y., Nock, M. K., & Goldenberg, A. (2023). Knowledge about the source of emotion predicts adaptive emotion regulation. Psychological Science. data & code, preprint
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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
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Goldenberg, A., Willer, R. (2023). Amplification of emotion on social media. Nature Human Behavior.
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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 & code, preprint
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*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), 1408-1416. data & code, preprint
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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.
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*Lin, G.-X., Goldenberg, A., Arikan, G., Brytek-Matera, A., Czepczor-Bernat, K., Manrique-Millones, D., Mikolajczak, M., Overbye, H., Roskam, I., Szczygieł, 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
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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.
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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.
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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 & code. preprint
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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
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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 & code. preprint
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Preece, D., Goldenberg, A., Becerra, R., Boyes, M., Hasking, P., & Gross, J. J. (2021). Loneliness and Emotion Regulation. Personality and Individual Differences
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Zmigrod, L., Goldenberg, A. (2021). Cognition and emotion in extreme political action. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(3), 218-227. preprint
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*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
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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.
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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.
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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 & code. preprint
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Goldenberg, A., Gross, J.J. (2020). Digital emotion contagion. Trends in Cognitive Science, 24(4), 316-328. preprint
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Goldenberg, A., Garcia, D., Halperin, E., & Gross, J.J. (2020). Collective emotions. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 29(2), 154-160. preprint
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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 & code. preprint
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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 & code. preprint
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Čehajić-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.
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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.
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Goldenberg, A., Enav, Y., Halperin, E., Saguy, T., & Gross, J. J. (2017). Emotional Compensation in parents. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 67, 150-155.
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Halevy, N., Kreps, T., Weisel, O., & Goldenberg, A. (2015). Morality in intergroup conflict. Current Opinion in Psychology, 6, 10-14.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Goldenberg, A. (2015). A city forsaken. Jerusalem, Israel: Keter Publishing House
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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.