Publications

del Rosario, K.S., & West, T.V. (invited revision). A Guide for Estimating Random Effects in Longitudinal Dyadic Analysis. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

del Rosario, K.S., West, T.V., Siegel, E.H, &; Mendes, W.B., (2025). Working through emotions: sadness predicts social engagement and physiological linkage for men and disengagement for women in dyadic cooperative interactions. Emotion.
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del Rosario, K., West, T.V., Mendes, W. B., Kuduzi, B., Mamode, N., & Gogalniceanu, P. (2024). How does surgeons’ autonomic physiology vary intraoperatively? A real time study of cardiac reactivity. Annals of Surgery, 10.
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Davidesco, I., Laurent, E., Valk, H., West, T.V, Milne, C., Poeppel, D., Dikker, S. (2023). The temporal dynamics of brain-to-brain synchrony between students and teachers predict learning outcomes. Psychological Science, 34, 633-643
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West, T.V., & Mendes, W. B. (2023). Affect Contagion: Physiologic covariation and linkage offer insight into socially shared thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 67.
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Yu, S., Kilduff, G. J., West, T. V. (2022). Status Acuity: The Ability to Accurately Perceive Status Hierarchies Reduces Status Conflict and Benefits Group Performance. Journal of Applied Psychology.
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Dikker, S., Mech, E. N., Gwilliams, L., West, T., Dumas, G., & Federmeier, K. D. (2022). Exploring age-related changes in inter-brain synchrony during verbal communication. Psychology of Learning and Motivation..
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Dumitru, O. D., Thorson, K. R., & West, T. V. (2022). Investigating Gender Differences among Tutors and Students during STEM Peer Tutoring: Women Are as Behaviorally Engaged as Men but Experience More Negative Affect. Contemporary Educational Psychology.
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Thorson, K. R., McKernan, S. M., West, T. V., Woolley, J. D., Mendes, W. B., & Stauffer, C. S. (2021). Oxytocin increases physiological linkage during group therapy for methamphetamine use disorder: A randomized clinical trial. Scientific Reports.
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Thorson, K. R., Dumitru, O. D., & West, T. V. (2021). Physiological linkage among successful high-status women in international teams. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 167-176.
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Thorson, K. R., Mendes, W. B., & West, T. V. (2021). Controlling the uncontrolled: Are there incidental experimenter effects on physiologic responding? Psychophysiology, 57(3), e13500 .
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Jobin, A., Kingston, M., Damasio, A., Kaissis, G., Braren, R., Stoyanovich, J., Van Bavel, J. J., West, T.V., Mittelstadt, B., Eshraghian, J., Costa-Jussa, M. R., Tzachor, A., Jamjoom, A. B.,Taddeo, M., Sinibaldi, E., Hu, Y., & Luengo-Oroz, M. (2021). AI Reflections in 2020. Nature Machine Intelligence, 3, 2-8.
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Thorson, K. R., Dumitru, O. D., Mendes, W. B., & West, T. V. (2021). Influencing the physiology and decisions of groups: Physiological linkage during group decision-making. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 24, 145-159.
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Brown, C. L., West, T. V., Sanchez, A. H., Mendes, W. B. (2020). Emotional empathy in the social regulation of distress: A dyadic approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-16.
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West, T. V. (2020). The lies we tell at work and the damage they do. The Wall Street Journal.
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Stoyanovich, J., Van Bavel, J. J. & West, T. V. (2020). The imperative of interpretable machines. Nature Machine Intelligence. 197-199.
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Dikker, S., Haegens, S., Bevilacqua. D., Davidesco, I., Wan, L., Kaggen, L., McClintock, J., Chaloner, K., Ding, M., West, T. V., & Poeppel, D. (2020). Morning brain: Real-world neural evidence that high school class times matter. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1193-1202, doi: 10.1093/scan/nsaa142.
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Waters, S. F., Karnilowicz, H. R., West, T. V., & Mendes, W. B. (2020). Keep it to yourself? Parent emotion suppression influences physiological linkage and interaction behavior. Journal of Family Psychology.
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*Thorson, K. R., Forbes, C. E., Magerman, A. B., & West, T. V. (2019). Under threat but engaged: Stereotype threat leads women to engage with female but not male partners in math.Contemporary Educational Psychology.
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Cornelius, T., Meli, L., *Thorson, K. R., Chang, B., Edmondson, D., & West, T. V. (2019). Bringing close others to the emergency department for an acute coronary event is associated with increased patient perception of threat.General Hospital Psychiatry.
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*Thorson, K. R., & West, T. V. (2018). Physiological linkage to an interaction partner is negatively associated with stability in sympathetic nervous system responding. Biological Psychology.
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*Thorson, K. R., West, T. V., & Mendes, W. B. (2018). Measuring physiological influence in dyads: A guide to designing, implementing, and analyzing dyadic physiological studies.Psychological Methods.
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Schoenthaler, A., Basile, M., West, T.V., & Kalet, A. (2018). I takes two to tango: A dyadic approach to understanding the medication dialog in patient-provider relationships. Patient Education and Counseling.
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*Stern, C., & West, T. V. (2018). Assessing accuracy in close relationships approach: A truth and bias approach. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
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West, T.V., Koslov, K., Page-Gould, E., Major, B., & Mendes, W. B. (2017). Contagious anxiety: Anxious European Americans can transmit their physiological reactivity to African Americans. Psychological Science.
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Waters, S. F., West, T. V., Karnilowicz, H. R., & Mendes, W.B. (2017). Affect contagion between mothers and infants: Examining valence and touch. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

West, T. V., & Schoenthaler, A. (2017). Color-blind and multicultural strategies in medical settings. Social Issues and Policy Review, 11, 124-158.
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*Stern, C., & West, T.V. (2016). Ideological differences in anchoring and adjustment during social inferences. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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*Stern, C., Balcetis, E., Cole, S., West, T. V., & Caruso, E. (2016). Government instability shifts skin tone representations of and intentions to vote for political candidates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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*Stern, C., West, T. V, & Rule, N. O. (2015). Conservatives negatively evaluate counterstereotypical people to maintain a sense of certainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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*Stern, C., West, T. V., Jost, J. T., & Rule, N. O. (2014). 'Ditto Heads': Do conservatives perceive greater consensus within their ranks than liberals?" Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1162-1177.
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West, T. V., Pearson, A. R., Dovidio, J. D., Johnson, B. T. J., & *Phills, C. E. (2014). Racial Attitudes and Visual Cues in Political Judgments: Support for Obama during the 2008 Presidential Election. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20, 583-590.
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West, T. V., Pearson, A. R., & *Stern, C. (2014). Anxiety appraisal in intergroup interaction: When situational explanations backfire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 825-843.
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*Thomas, E. L., Dovidio, J. F., & West, T. V. (2014). Lost in the categorical shuffle: Evidence for the social non-prototypicality of Black women. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20, 370-376.
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West, T. V., Magee, J. C., *Gullett, L., & **Gordon, S. H. (2014). A little similarity goes a long way: The effects of peripheral but self-revealing similarities on improving and sustaining interracial relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 81-100.
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Waters, S. F., West, T. V., & Mendes, W. B. (2014). Stress contagion: Physiological covariation between mothers and babies. Psychological Science, 25, 934-942.
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*Stern, C., & West, T. V. (2014). Circumventing anxiety during interpersonal encounters to promote interest in contact: An implementation intention approach. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50, 82-93.
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*Stern, C. V., West, T. V., & **Schmitt, P. G. (2014). The liberal illusion of uniqueness. Psychological Science, 25, 137-144.
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West, T. V., Dovidio, J. F., & Pearson, A. R. (2014). Accuracy and Bias in Perceptions of Relationship Interest for Intergroup and Intragroup Roommates. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 235-242.
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*Dutra, S. J., West, T. V., Impett, E. A., Oveis, C., Kogan, A., Keltner, D., & Gruber, J. (2014). Rose-colored glasses gone too far? Mania symptoms predict biased emotion experience and perception in couples. Motivation and Emotion 38, 157-165.
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*Stern, C., West, T.V., & Schoenthaler, A. (2013). The dynamic relationship between accuracy and bias in social perception research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 303-314.
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Hagiwara, N., Penner, L. A., Gonzalez, R., Eggly, S., Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., West, T., & Albrecht, T. L. (June, 2013). Racial attitudes, social control, and adherence in racially discordant medical interactions. Social Science & Medicine, 123-131.
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*Stern, C., West, T. V., Jost, J. T., & Rule, N. O. (2013). The politics of gaydar: Ideological differences in the use of gendered cues in categorizing sexual orientation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 520-541.
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West, T. V., Heilman, M. E., *Gullet, L., Moss-Racusin, C., A., & Magee, J. C. (2012). Building blocks of bias: Gender composition predicts male and female group members; evaluations of each other and the group. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 1209-1212.
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West, T. V. (2011). Interpersonal perception in cross-group interactions: Challenges and potential solutions. European Review of Social Psychology, 22, 364-401.
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Powers, S. R., Rauh, C. Buck, R., Henning, R., & West, T. V. (2011). The effect of video feedback delay on frustration and emotion communication accuracy. Computers in Human Behavior, 27, 1651-1657.
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West, T. V., & Kenny, D. A. (2011). The truth and bias model of judgment. Psychological Review, 118, 357-378.
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Shelton, J. N., West, T. V., & Trail, T. E. (2010). Concerns with appearing prejudiced: Implications for anxiety during daily interracial interactions. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13, 329-344.
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Penner, L. A., Dovidio, J. F., West, T. V., Gaertner, S. L., Albrecht, T. L., Dailey, R. K., & Markova, T. (2010). Aversive Racism and Medical Interactions with Black Patients: A Field Study. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 46, 436-440.
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Kenny, D. A., & West, T. V. (2010). Similarity and agreement in self and other perception: A meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 196-213.
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Shelton, J. N., *Trail, T. E., West, T. V., & Bergsieker, H. (2010). From strangers to friends: The Interpersonal Process Model of Intimacy in Developing Interracial Friendships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 71-90.
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West, T. V., *Pearson, A. R., Dovidio, J. F., Shelton, J. N., & *Trail. T. E. (2009). Superordinate identity and intergroup roommate friendship development. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1266-1272.
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Jost, J. T., West, T.V., & Gosling, S.D. (2009). Personality and ideology as determinants of candidate preferences and "Obama conversion" in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. The Dubois Review: Social Science on Race, Special issue on "The Obama Candidacy"; guest edited by L.Bobo & E. Dawson, 6, 103-124.
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*Eaton, L., Kalichman, S. C., West, T. V., & Kenny, D. A. (2009). HIV transmission risk among HIV seroconcordant and serodiscordant couples: Dyadic processes of partner selection. AIDS and Behavior, 2, 185-195.
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*Trail, T. E., Shelton, J. N., & West, T. V. (2009). Interracial roommate relationships: Negotiating daily interactions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 671-684.
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West, T. V., Shelton, J. N., & *Trail, T. E. (2009). Relational anxiety in interracial interactions. Psychological Science, 20, 289-292.
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*Pearson, A.R., West, T.V., Dovidio, J.F., Powers, S., Buck, R., & Henning, R. (2008). The fragility of intergroup relations: Divergent effects of delayed audio-visual feedback in intergroup and intragroup interactions. Psychological Science, 19, 1272-1279.
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Seery, M. D., West, T. V., Weisbuch, M., & Blascovich, J. (2008). The effects of negative reflection for defensive pessimists: Dissipation or harnessing of threat? Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 515-520.
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West, T. V., *Popp, D., & Kenny, D. A. (2008). A guide for the estimation of gender and sexual orientation effects in dyadic data: An Actor-partner interdependence model approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 321-336.
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Kenny, D. A., West, T. V., Cillessen, A. H. N., Coie, J. D., Dodge, K. A., Hubbard, J. A., & Schwartz, D. (2007). Accuracy in the judgment of aggressiveness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1225-1236.
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Kenny, D. A., West, T. V., Malloy, T., & Albright, L. (2006). Componential analysis of interpersonal perception data. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 282-294.
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Cillessen, A. H. N., *Jiang, X. L., West, T. V., & *Laszkowski, D. K. (2005). Predictors of dyadic friendship quality in adolescence. International Journal for the Study of Behavioral Development, 29, 165-172.
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Book Chapters

Dumitru, O.D. & West, T.V. (2019). Community enforcement of racial bias. In Avery, J. & Cooper, J. (Eds). Bias in the law: A definitive look at racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system. Maryland: Lexington Books.
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Hall, J. A., Schmid Mast, M., & West, T.V. (2016). Accurate interpersonal perception: Many traditions, one topic (in press). In J. A. Hall, M. Schmid Mast., & T. V. West (Eds.). (in press). The social psychology of perceiving others accurately. Paris: Cambridge University Press.
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West, T. V. Accuracy of judging group attitudes. (2016). In J. A. Hall, M. Schmid Mast., & T. V. West (Eds.). The social psychology of perceiving others accurately. Paris: Cambridge University Press.
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*Gullett, L., & West, T. V. (2016). Understanding colorblindness in interracial relationships: Cognitive and emotional tensions and their implications. In Neville, Gallardo, & Sue (Eds.), What Does It Mean To Be Colorblind: Manifestations, Dynamics, and Impact. American Psychological Association.
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Heyman, R. E., Lorber, M. F., Eddy, J. M., & West, T. V. (2014). Behavioral observation and coding (pp. (). In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press.
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West, T. V. (2013). Repeated-measure methods with dyads. In J. A. Simpson & L. Campbell (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of close relationships (pp.731-749). New York: Oxford University Press.
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West, T. V., & Dovidio, J. F. (2013). Intergroup contact across time: Beyond initial contact. In G. Hodson & M. Hewstone (Eds.), Advances in intergroup contact. (pp. 152-175). New York, NY, US: Psychology Press.
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Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., *Ditlmann, R.K., & West, T. V. (2012). Intergroup Relations in Post-Conflict Contexts: How the Past Influences the Present (and Future) (pp.135-155). In K. J. Jonas & T. Morton (Eds.), Restoring Civil Societies: The Psychology of Intervention and Engagement Following Crisis. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Dovidio, J. F., Saguy, T., West, T. V., & Gaertner, S. L. (2012). Divergent intergroup perspectives.  In L. A. Tropp (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of intergroup conflict (pp.158-175). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Kenny, D. A., & West, T. V. (2008). Self perception as interpersonal perception. In J. Wood, J. Holmes, & A. Tesser (Eds.), Self and relationships (pp. 119-138). New York: Psychology Press.

Kenny, D. A., & West, T. V. (2007). Zero acquaintance: Definitions, statistical model, findings, and process. In J. Skowronski, & N. Ambady (Eds.), First impressions. New York: Guilford.
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Edited Book

Hall, J. A., Schmid Mast, M., & West, T. V. (Eds.). (In Press). The social psychology of perceiving others accurately. Paris: Cambridge University Press.