Selected Publications

Berntson, G. G., Bigger, J. T., Eckberg, D. L., Grossman, P., Kaufmann, P. G., Malik, M., Nagaraja, H. N., Porges, S. W., Saul, J. P., Stone, P. H., van der Molen, M. W. (1997). Heart rate variability: Origins, methods, and interpretive caveats. Psychophysiology, 34, 623-648.

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Kline, D. J. Poehlmann, K. M. (1997). The psychophysiology of emotion across the lifespan. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 17, 27-74.

Berntson, G. G., Stowell, J. (1998). ECG artifacts and heart period variability: Don't miss a beat! Psychophysiology, 35, 127-132.

Cacioppo, J. T., Poehlmann, K. M., Kiecolt-Glaser, Malarkey, W. B., Burleson, M., Berntson, G. G., Glaser, R. (1998). Cellular immune responses to acute stress in female caregivers of demented patients and matched controls. Health Psychology, 17, 182-189.

Hart, S., Sarter, M., Berntson, G. G. (1998). Cardiovascular and somatic startle and defense: Concordant and discordant actions of benzodiazepine receptor agonists and inverse agonists. Behavioural Brain Research, 90, 175-186.

Fieldstone, A., Zipf, W. B., Sarter, M. F., Berntson, G. G. (1998). Food intake in Prader-Willi syndrome and obese controls following administration of a benzodiazepine receptor agonist. Obesity Research, 6, 29-33.

Padgett, D. A., Sheridan, J. F., Dorne, J., Berntson, G. G., Candelora, J., Glaser, R. (1998). Social stress and the reactivation of latent herpes simplex virus-type 1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95, 7231-7235.

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Malarkey, W. B., Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Sheridan, J. F., Poehlmann, K. M., Burleson, M. H., Ernst, J. M., Hawkley, L. C., Glaser, R. (1998). Autonomic, neuroendocrine, and immune responses to psychological stress: The reactivity hypothesis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 840, 664-673.

Burleson, M. H., Malarkey, W. B., Cacioppo, J. T., Poehlmann, K. M., Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Berntson, G. G. Glaser, R. (1998). Postmenopausal hormone replacement: Effects on autonomic, neuroendocrine, and immune reactivity to brief psychological stressors. Psychosomatic Medicine, 60, 17-25.

Berntson, G. G., Sarter, M., Cacioppo, J. T. (1998). Anxiety and cardiovascular reactivity: The basal forebrain cholinergic link. Behavioural Brain Research, 94, 225-248.

Ernst, J. M., Litvack, D. A., Lozano, D. L., Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G.G. (1999). Impedance pneumography: Noise as signal in impedance cardiography. Psychophysiology, 36, 333-338.

Cacioppo, J. T., Gardner, W. L., Berntson, G. G. (1999). The affect system has parallel and integrative processing components: Form follows function. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 839-855.

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G. (1999). The affect system: Architecture and operating characteristics.Current Directions in Psychological Science. 8, 133-137.

Hart, S., Sarter, M., Berntson, G.G. (1999). Cholinergic inputs to the medial prefrontal cortex mediate potentiation of the cardiovascular defensive response by the anxiogenic benzodiazepine receptor partial inverse agonist FG 7142. Neuroscience, 94, 1029-1038.

Berntson, G. G. Cacioppo, J. T. (1999). Heart rate variability: A neuroscientific perspective for furthur studies. Cardiac Electrophysiology Review, 3, 279-282.

Berntson, G. G., Cacioppo, J. T. (2000). Psychobiology and social psychology: Past, present and future. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4, 3-15.

Cacioppo, J. T., Ernst, J. M., Burleson, M. H., McClintock, M. K., Malarkey, W. B., Hawkley, L. C., Kowalewski, R. B., Paulsen, A., Hobson, J. A., Hugdahl, K., Spiegel, D., Berntson, G. G. (2000). Lonely traits and concomitant physiological processes: the MacArthur social neuroscience studies. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 35, 143-154.

Cacioppo, J. T., Tassinary, L. G., Berntson, G. G. (2000). Psychophysiological Science. In J. T. Cacioppo, L. G. Tassinary, G. G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of psychophysiology (pp. 3-23). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Berntson, G. G., Cacioppo, J. T. (2000). From homeostasis to allodynamic regulation. In J. T. Cacioppo, L. G. Tassinary, G. G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of psychophysiology (pp. 459-481). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Larsen, J. T., Poehlmann, K. M., Ito, T. A. (2000). The psychophysiology of emotion. In M. Lewis, R. J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), The handbook of emotions (2nd Ed.; pp 173-191). New York: Guilford Press.

Stowell, J. R., Berntson, G. G., Sarter, M. (2000). Attenuation of the bidirectional effects of chlordiazepoxide and FG 7142 on conditioned response suppression and associated cardiovascular reactivity by loss of cortical cholinergic inputs. Psychopharmacology, 150, 141-149.

Cacioppo, J. T., Burleson, M. H., Poehlmann, K. M., Malarkey, W. B., Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Berntson, G. G., Uchino, B., Glaser, R. (2000). Autonomic and neuroendocrine responses to mild psychological stressors: effects of chronic stress on older women. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 22, 140-148.

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Sheridan, J. F., McClintock, M. K. (2000). Multi-level integrative analyses of human behavior: The complementing nature of social and biological approaches. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 829-843.

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Ernst, J. M., Ito, T. A. (2000). Social neuroscience. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology. New York: Oxford University Press American Psychological Association.

Uchino, B. N., Berntson, G. G., Holt-Lunstad, J., Cacioppo, J. T. (2001). Stress-induced autonomic and immunologic reactivity. In R. Ader, D. L. Felton, N. Cohen (Eds.) Psychoneuroimmunology. (3rd ed., Vol. 2, pp 317-333) San Diego: Academic Press.

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G. (2001). The affect system and racial prejudice. In J. A. Bargh D. K. Apsley (Eds.), Unraveling the complexities of social life. (Pp 95-110). Washington: American Psychological Association.

Winkielman, P., Berntson, G. G., Cacioppo, J. T. (2001). The psychophysiological perspective on the social mind. In A. Tesser N. Schwartz (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology. (pp. 89-108). New York: Blackwell.

Nakonezny, P. A., Kowalewski, R. B., Ernst, J. M., Hawkley, L. C., Lozano, D. L., Litvack, D. A., Berntson, G. G., Sollers, J.J., Kizakevich, P., Cacioppo, J. T., Lovallo, W. R. (2001). New ambulatory impedance cardiograph validated against the Minnesota Impedance Cardiograph. Psychophysiology, 38, 465-473.

Sarter, M., Bruno, J. P., Berntson, G. G. (2001). Psychotogenic properties of benzodiazepine receptor inverse agonists. Psychopharmacology, 156, 1-13.

Hawkley, L. C., Burleson, M. H., Poehlmann, K. A., Berntson, G. G., Malarkey, W. B., Cacioppo, J. T. (2001). Cardiovascular and endocrine reactivity in older females: Intertask consistency. Psychophysiology, 38, 863-872.

Cacioppo, J. T., Hawkley, L. C., Crawford, L. E., Ernst, J. M., Burleson, M. H.,             Kowalski, R. B., Malarkey, W. B., VanCauter, E., & Berntson, G. G. (2002).     Loneliness and health: Potential mechanisms. Psychosomatic Medicine, 64, 407-417.

Cacioppo, J. T., Hawkley, L. C., Berntson, G. G., Ernst, J. M., Gibbs, A. C., Stickold, R. & Hobson, J. A. (2002). Do lonely days invade the nights?: The possible social modulation of sleep efficiency. Psychological Science, 13, 384-387.

Burleson, M. H., Poehlman, K. M., Hawkley, L. C., Ernst, J. M., Berntson, G. G., Malarkey, W. B., Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Glaser, R., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2002). Stress-related immune changes in mid-aged and older women: 1-year consistency of individual differences. Health Psychology, 21, 321-331.

Berntson, G. G., Cacioppo, J. T., & Sarter, M.  (2002). Psychophysiology. In D’haenen, H., den Boer, J. A., & Willner, P. (Eds.) Textbook of Biological Psychiatry. (pp 123-138). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Cacioppo, J. T., & Berntson, G. G. (2002). Social neuroscience. In Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Adolphs, R., Carter, C. S., Davidson, R. J., McClintock, M.K., McEwen, B. S., Meaney, M. J., Schacter, D. L., Sternberg, E. M., Suomi, S. S. & Taylor, S. E. (Eds.). Foundations in social neuroscience.  (pp 1-10) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Berntson, G. G., Cacioppo, J. T., & Sarter, M.  (2002). Bottom-up: Implications for neurobehavioral models of anxiety and autonomic regulation. In R. J. Davidson,  K. R. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of affective sciences. (pp. 1105-1116) New York:  Oxford University Press.

Berntson, G. G., Shafi, R., & Sarter, M. (2002). Specific contributions of the basal    forebrain corticopetal cholinergic system to electroencephalographic activity and      sleep/waking behavior. European Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 2453-2461.

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G. (2002). Social neuroscience. In Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Adolphs, R., Carter, C. S., Davidson, R. J., McClintock, M., McEwen, B. S., Meaney, M. J., Schacter, D. L., Sternberg, E. M., Suomi, S. S. Taylor, S. E. (Eds.). Foundations in social neuroscience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Berntson, G. G., Cacioppo, J. T., Sarter, M. (2002). Bottom-up: Implications for neurobehavioral models of anxiety and autonomic regulation. In R. J. Davidson, K. R. Scherer, H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of affective science. New York: Oxford University Press.

Berntson, G. G., Sarter, M. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2003). Autonomic nervous system. In Nadel, L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Vol. 1 (pp 301-308) London: Nature Publishing Group.

Sarter, M., Bruno, J. P., & Berntson, G. G. (2003). Reticular activating system.  In         Nadel, L. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Vol. 3 (pp 963-967). London:         Nature Publishing Group.

Berntson, G. G., Shafi, R., Knox, D. & Sarter, M. (2003). Blockade of epinephrine priming of the cerebral auditory evoked response by cortical cholinergic deafferentation. Neuroscience, 116, 179-186

Berntson, G. G. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2003). A contemporary perspective on multilevel analyses and social neuroscience. In Kessel, F., Rosenfield, P. L., & Anderson, N. (Eds.) Expanding the boundaries of health and social science: Case studies in interdisciplinary innovation. (pp. 18-40). New York: Oxford University Press.

Burleson, M. H., Poehlmann, K. M., Hawkley, L. C., Ernst, J. M., Berntson, G. G., Malarkey, W. B., Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Glaser, R., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2003). Neuroendocrine and cardiovascular reactivity to stress in mid-aged and older women: Long term temporal consistency of individual differences. Psychophysiology, 40, 358-369.

Bosch, J. A., Berntson, G. G., Cacioppo, J. T.,  Dhabhar, F. S., & Marucha, P. T.             (2003). Acute stress evokes a selective mobilization of T cells that differ in chemokine receptor expression: A potential pathway linking immunologic reactivity to  cardiovascular disease. Brain, Behavior & Immunity, 17, 251-259.

Cacioppo, J. T, Hawkley, L. C., & Berntson, G. G. (2003). The Anatomy of Loneliness. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 12, 71-74.

Hawkley, L. C., Burleson, M. H., Berntson, G. G. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2003) Loneliness in everyday Life: Cardiovascular activity, psychosocial context, and health behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 105-120.

Cacioppo, J. T. Berntson, G. G., Lorig, T. S., Norris, C. J., Ricket, E., & Nusbaum, H. (2003). Just because you are imaging the brain doesn't mean you can stop using your head: A primer and first set of principles. Journal of Personality and Social  Psychology, 85, 650-661.

Berntson, G. G., Sarter, M. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2003). Ascending visceral regulation of cortical affective information processing. European Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 103-2109.

Cacioppo, J. T., Lorig, T. S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Berntson, G. G. (2004). Social  neuroscience: Bridging social and biological systems. In Sansone, C., Morf, C. C. &  Panter, A. T. (Eds), The Sage Handbook of Methods in Social Psychology. (pp 383-404).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Berntson, G. G. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2004). Heart rate variability: Stress and psychiatric conditions. In Malik, M. & Camm, A. J. Dynamic Electrocardiography. (pp. 57-64) New York: Blackwell/Futura.

Berntson, G. G., Lozano, D. L., Chen, Y-J, & Cacioppo, J. T. (2004). Where to Q in PEP:  Reliability and Validity. Psychophysiology, 41, 333-337.

Cacioppo, J. T., Larsen, J. T., Smith, N. K., & Berntson, G. G. (2004). The affect system: What lurks below the surface of feelings. In Manstead, A. S. R., Frijda, N., & Fischer, A. (eds.). Feelings and Emotions. (pp.221-240) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Cacioppo, J. T., Semin, G. R., & Berntson, G. G. (2004). Realism, instrumentalism, and scientific symbiosis: Psychological theory as a search for truth and the discovery of solutions. American Psychologist, 59, 214-223.

Berntson, G. G., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2004) Multilevel analyses and reductionism: Why     social psychologists should care about neuroscience and vice versa. In Cacioppo, J. T. & Berntson, G. G.  (eds) Essays in social neuroscience. (pp. 107-120) Cambrdige,  MA: MIT Press.

Cacioppo, J. T., & Berntson, G. G. (2004). Social Neuroscience. In Gazzaniga, M. S.     (Ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences III. (pp. 977-985) Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Knox, D., Sarter, M., & Berntson, G. G. (2004). Visceral afferent bias on cortical processing: Role of adrenergic afferents to the basal forebrain cholinergic system. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 1455-1459.

Cacioppo, J. T. & Berntson, G. G. (2005). Analysis of the social brain through the lens of human brain imaging. In Cacioppo, J. T. & Berntson, G. G. (eds.) Social Neuroscience (pp. 1-17). New York: Psychology Press.

Mandrekar, S. J., Nagaraja, H. N., & Berntson, G. G. (2005). Statistical modeling of        the differences between successive R-R intervals. Statistics in Medicine, 24,  437-451.

Berntson, G. G., Lozano, D. L., & Chen, Y-J. (2005). Filter properties of the root mean square successive difference (RMSSD) statistic in heart rate. Psychophysiology, 42,    246-252.

Bosch, J. A., Berntson, G. G., Cacioppo, J. T., & Marucha, P.T. (2005). Differential mobilization of functionally distinct Natural Killer subsets during acute psychological stress. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 366-375.

Hawkley, L. C., Berntson, G. G., Engeland, C. G., Marucha, P. T., Masi, C. M., &  Cacioppo, J. T. (2005). Stress, aging, and resilience: Can accrued wear and tear be slowed? Canadian Psychology, 46, 114-125.

Berntson, G. G., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2005). Multilevel analysis: Physiological and biochemical measures. In Eid, M. & Diener, E. (Eds.), Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology. (pp.157-172). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Berntson, G. G. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2006). Reasoning about brains. In Cacioppo, J. T., Visser, P. S., & Picket, C. L. (Eds.) Social neuroscience: People thinking about thinking people. (pp 1-11). Cambrdige, MA: MIT Press.

Demaree, H. A., Schmeichel, B. J., Robinson, J. L., Pu, J., Everhart, D. E., & Berntson, G. G. (2006). Up- and down-regulating facial disgust: Affective, vagal, sympathetic, and respiratory consequences. Biological Psychology, 71, 90-99.

Cacioppo J. T. & Berntson, G. G. (2006). A bridge linking social psychology and the neurosciences. In Lange, P.V. (Ed.) Bridging social psychology. (pp 91-96). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.