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.

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. (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.

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.

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.

Knox, D. & Berntson, G. G. (2006). Effect of nucleus basalis magnocellularis cholinergic lesions on fear-like and anxiety-like behavior. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, 307-312.

Cacioppo J. T. & Berntson, G. G. (2006) The brain, homeostasis and health: balancing demands of the internal and external milieu. In Friedman, H. S. & Cohen Silver, R. (Eds.) Foundations of Health Psychology. (pp 73-91). New York: Oxford University Press.

Cacioppo, J. T., Hawkley, L., Ernst, J. M., Burleson, M., Berntson, G. G., Nouriani, B., & Spiegel, D. (2006). Loneliness within a nomological net: An evolutionary perspective. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 1054-1085.

Berntson, G. G., Cacioppo, J. T., & Grossman, P. (2007). Whither vagal control. Biological Psychology, 74, 295-300. Lozano, D., Norman, G., Knox, D., Wood, B. L., Miller, B. D., Emery, C. L., & Berntson, G. G. (2007). Where to B in dZ/dt. Psychophysiology, 44, 113-119.

Berntson, G. G., Quigley, K. S., & Lozano, D. (2007). Cardiovascular psychophysiology. In Cacioppo, J. T., Tassinary, L. G., & Berntson, G. G. (eds.). Handbook of Psychophysiology, 3rd edition (182-210). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Berntson, G. G., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). Integrative physiology: Homeostasis, allostasis and the orchestration of systemic physiology. In Cacioppo, J. T., TassELinary, L. G., & Berntson, G. G. (eds.). Handbook of Psychophysiology, 3rd edition, (433-452). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Berntson, G.G., Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Tranel, D., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2007). Amygdala contributions to selective dimensions of emotion. Social, Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 2, 123-129.

Cacioppo, J. T. & Berntson, G. G. (2007). Affective Distinctiveness: Illusory or Real? Cognition and Emotion, 21, 1347-1359.

Berntson, G. G., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). The neuroevolution of motivation. In Shah, J. Y. & Gardner, W. L. (Eds.). Handbook of motivation science. (pp 188-200). New York: Guilford Press.

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G., & Thisted, R. A. (2008). Multi-level Analyses: Conceptual Mappings and Perspectives. In Weinstein, M., Vaupel, J. W. & Wachter, K. W. (eds.), Biosocial surveys. (pp 367-380). Washington D. C.: National Academies Press.

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G. & Nusbaum, H. C. (2008). Neuroimaging as a new tool in the toolbox of psychological science. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 62-67.

Berntson, G. G., Norman, G., Hawkley, L., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). Spirituality and autonomic cardiovascular control. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 35, 198-208.

Knox, D., Brothers, H., Norman, G., & Berntson, G. G. (2008). Nucleus basalis magnocellularis and substantia innominata corticopetal cholinergic lesions attenuate freezing induced by predator odor. Behavioral Neuroscience, 122, 601-610.

Berntson, G. G., Norman, G. J., Hawkley, L. C. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). Cardiac Autonomic Balance vs. Cardiac Regulatory Capacity. Psychophysiology, 45, 643-652.

Knox, D. & Berntson, G. G. (2008). Cortical modulation by nucleus basalis magnocellularis corticopetal cholinergic neurons during anxiety-like states are reflected by decreases in delta. Brain Research, 1227, 142-152.

Berntson, G. G. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). The functional neuroarchitecture of evaluative processes. In A. Elliot (Ed.) Handbook of Approach and Avoidance Motivation. (pp. 307-321). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Weil, Z. M., Norman, G. J., DeVries, A. C., Berntson, G. G. & Nelson, R. J. (2009). Photoperiod alters autonomic regulation of the heart. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 4525-4530.

Berntson, G. G., Norman, G. J., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2009). Evaluative Processes. In G. G. Berntson & J. T. Cacioppo (Eds.), Handbook of neuroscience for the behavioral sciences. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley.

Berntson, G. G. & Cacioppo, J. T. (1980). Handbook of neuroscience for the behavioral sciences. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Norman, G. J., Cacioppo, J.T., Berntson, G.G. (2010). Social neuroscience. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1, 60-68.

Norris, C. J., Gollan, J., Berntson, G. G., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2010). The current status of research on the structure of evaluative space. Biological Psychology. 84, 422–436

Norman, G. J., Zhang, N., Karelina, K., Morris, J. S., Berntson, G. G., & DeVries, A. C. (2010). Social isolation potentiates autonomic, inflammatory and depressive-like responses to cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 16342-7

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., & J. Decety. (2010). Social neuroscience and its relationship to social psychology. Social Cogntion, 28, 675-684.

Cacioppo, J. T. Berntson, G. G., Bechara, A., Tranel, D., & Hawkley, L. C. (2011). Could an aging brain contribute to subjective well being: The value added by a social neuroscience perspective. In A. Todorov, S. T. Fiske, & D. Prentice (Eds), Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind. (pp.249-262). New York: Oxford University Press.

Norman, G. J., DeVries, A. C., Cacioppo, J. T. & Berntson, G. B. (2011). Multilevel analysis of stress. In R. J. Contrada & A. Baum (eds.) Handbook of Stress Science: Psychology, Biology, and Health. (pp. 619-634). New York: Springer.

Berntson, G.G., Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Tranel, D., Norman, G. J. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2011). The insula and evaluative processes. Psychological Science, 22, 80-86.