James A Coan
Biographic Data
| ID | 154316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Coan |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Coan |
| SIGNATURE | COAN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0662-0123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Does attachment in adolescence predict neural responses to handholding in adulthood? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study
Objective: Early life experiences, including attachment-related experiences, inform internal working models that guide adult relationship behaviors. Few studies have examined the association between adolescent attachment and adult relationship behavior on a neural level. The current study examined attachment in adolescence and its associations with neural correlates of relationship behaviors in adulthood. Method: 85 participants completed the Adu…
The role of perceived negative partner behavior in daily snacking behavior
Past work suggested that psychological stress, especially in the context of relationship stress, is associated with increased consumption of energy-dense food and when maintained for long periods of time, leads to adverse health consequences. Furthermore, this association is moderated by a variety of factors, including emotional over-eating style. That being said, few work utilized a dynamical system approach to understand the intraindividual and…
Social Regulation of the Neural Threat Response Predicts Subsequent Markers of Physical Health
OBJECTIVE: Social support has been linked to a vast range of beneficial health outcomes. However, the physiological mechanisms of social support are not well characterized. Drawing on functional magnetic resonance imaging and health-related outcome data, this study aimed to understand how neural measures of "yielding"-the reduction of brain activity during social support-moderate the link between social support and health. METHODS: We used a data…
Subjective General Health and the Social Regulation of Hypothalamic Activity
OBJECTIVE: Social support is associated with better health. This association may be partly mediated through the social regulation of adrenomedullary activity related to poor cardiovascular health and glucocorticoid activity known to inhibit immune functioning. These physiological cascades originate in the hypothalamic areas that are involved in the neural response to threat. The aim of the study investigated whether the down regulation, by social…
Social Baseline Theory
Voodoo versus me-you correlations in relationship neuroscience
Relationships are an ideal context within which to explore correlations in psychophysiological and brain imaging data, but correlational analyses in functional magnetic resonance imaging are often poorly understood, and fears of non-independent correlational "voodoo" may arouse concern whenever they are used. This paper illustrates how correlations have been used to measure both within-relationship and within-subject covariance in ways that illum…
Individual differences in the physical embodiment of care
Prosocially oriented individuals tend to respond to care-relevant stimuli in a highly embodied manner. Research on facets of prosocial orientation-such as empathy-and embodiment has focused on processes triggered by the perception of others' distress or pain. We suspect that the predisposition among prosocially oriented individuals toward having embodied responses to care-relevant stimuli might be more extensive. We tested the specific hypothesis…
Social Baseline Theory
Social proximity and interaction attenuate cardiovascular arousal, facilitate the development of nonanxious temperament, inhibit the release of stress hormones, reduce threat‐related neural activation, and generally promote health and longevity. Conversely, social subordination, rejection and isolation are powerful sources of stress and compromised health. Drawing on the biological principle of economy of action, perception/action links, and the …
Adult attachment and the brain
Individuals in adult attachment relationships regulate one another via overt emotional and social behavior. Attachment-related styles of utilizing social support moderate these regulatory effects. In recent years, the social and affective neurosciences have begun to clarify how these processes are instantiated in the brain, including the likely neural mechanisms of long-term felt security following past attachment experiences and the neural circu…
Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness
Infantile physical morphology-marked by its "cuteness"-is thought to be a potent elicitor of caregiving, yet little is known about how cuteness may shape immediate behavior. To examine the function of cuteness and its role in caregiving, the authors tested whether perceiving cuteness can enhance behavioral carefulness, which would facilitate caring for a small, delicate child. In 2 experiments, viewing very cute images (puppies and kittens)-as op…
Dynamic variation in pleasure in children predicts nonlinear change in lateral frontal brain electrical activity
Individual variation in the experience and expression of pleasure may relate to differential patterns of lateral frontal activity. Brain electrical measures have been used to study the asymmetric involvement of lateral frontal cortex in positive emotion, but the excellent time resolution of these measures has not been used to capture second-by-second changes in ongoing emotion until now. The relationship between pleasure and second-by-second late…
Sampling, Experimental Control, and Generalizability in the Study of Marital Process Models
Lending a Hand
Social contact promotes enhanced health and well-being, likely as a function of the social regulation of emotional responding in the face of various life stressors. For this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, 16 married women were subjected to the threat of electric shock while holding their husband's hand, the hand of an anonymous male experimenter, or no hand at all. Results indicated a pervasive attenuation of activation in th…
Frontal EEG asymmetry as a moderator and mediator of emotion
Reply to “From Basic Research to Interventions
Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions
John M. Gottman, James Coan, Sybil Carrere, Catherine Swanson, Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Feb., 1998), pp. 5-22
Battering and the male rejection of influence from women
The propensity of men to reject influence from women and individual differences in this tendency were examined in the present report as potentially related to two types of domestically violent men. We operationalized rejection of influence in sequential analyses of emotional behavior during a 15 min marital interaction. In our previous research, we identified two types of batterers: Type-1, whose heart rates decelerated below baseline during the …
Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions
John M. Gottman, James Coan, Sybil Carrere, Catherine Swanson, Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Feb., 1998), pp. 5-22
Reply to “From Basic Research to Interventions
Adult attachment and the brain
Individuals in adult attachment relationships regulate one another via overt emotional and social behavior. Attachment-related styles of utilizing social support moderate these regulatory effects. In recent years, the social and affective neurosciences have begun to clarify how these processes are instantiated in the brain, including the likely neural mechanisms of long-term felt security following past attachment experiences and the neural circu…
Sampling, Experimental Control, and Generalizability in the Study of Marital Process Models
Voodoo versus me-you correlations in relationship neuroscience
Relationships are an ideal context within which to explore correlations in psychophysiological and brain imaging data, but correlational analyses in functional magnetic resonance imaging are often poorly understood, and fears of non-independent correlational "voodoo" may arouse concern whenever they are used. This paper illustrates how correlations have been used to measure both within-relationship and within-subject covariance in ways that illum…
Battering and the male rejection of influence from women
The propensity of men to reject influence from women and individual differences in this tendency were examined in the present report as potentially related to two types of domestically violent men. We operationalized rejection of influence in sequential analyses of emotional behavior during a 15 min marital interaction. In our previous research, we identified two types of batterers: Type-1, whose heart rates decelerated below baseline during the …
Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions
John M. Gottman, James Coan, Sybil Carrere, Catherine Swanson, Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Feb., 1998), pp. 5-22
Reply to “From Basic Research to Interventions
Frontal EEG asymmetry as a moderator and mediator of emotion
Lending a Hand
Social contact promotes enhanced health and well-being, likely as a function of the social regulation of emotional responding in the face of various life stressors. For this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, 16 married women were subjected to the threat of electric shock while holding their husband's hand, the hand of an anonymous male experimenter, or no hand at all. Results indicated a pervasive attenuation of activation in th…
Sampling, Experimental Control, and Generalizability in the Study of Marital Process Models
Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness
Infantile physical morphology-marked by its "cuteness"-is thought to be a potent elicitor of caregiving, yet little is known about how cuteness may shape immediate behavior. To examine the function of cuteness and its role in caregiving, the authors tested whether perceiving cuteness can enhance behavioral carefulness, which would facilitate caring for a small, delicate child. In 2 experiments, viewing very cute images (puppies and kittens)-as op…
Dynamic variation in pleasure in children predicts nonlinear change in lateral frontal brain electrical activity
Individual variation in the experience and expression of pleasure may relate to differential patterns of lateral frontal activity. Brain electrical measures have been used to study the asymmetric involvement of lateral frontal cortex in positive emotion, but the excellent time resolution of these measures has not been used to capture second-by-second changes in ongoing emotion until now. The relationship between pleasure and second-by-second late…
Adult attachment and the brain
Individuals in adult attachment relationships regulate one another via overt emotional and social behavior. Attachment-related styles of utilizing social support moderate these regulatory effects. In recent years, the social and affective neurosciences have begun to clarify how these processes are instantiated in the brain, including the likely neural mechanisms of long-term felt security following past attachment experiences and the neural circu…
Social Baseline Theory
Social proximity and interaction attenuate cardiovascular arousal, facilitate the development of nonanxious temperament, inhibit the release of stress hormones, reduce threat‐related neural activation, and generally promote health and longevity. Conversely, social subordination, rejection and isolation are powerful sources of stress and compromised health. Drawing on the biological principle of economy of action, perception/action links, and the …
Individual differences in the physical embodiment of care
Prosocially oriented individuals tend to respond to care-relevant stimuli in a highly embodied manner. Research on facets of prosocial orientation-such as empathy-and embodiment has focused on processes triggered by the perception of others' distress or pain. We suspect that the predisposition among prosocially oriented individuals toward having embodied responses to care-relevant stimuli might be more extensive. We tested the specific hypothesis…
Voodoo versus me-you correlations in relationship neuroscience
Relationships are an ideal context within which to explore correlations in psychophysiological and brain imaging data, but correlational analyses in functional magnetic resonance imaging are often poorly understood, and fears of non-independent correlational "voodoo" may arouse concern whenever they are used. This paper illustrates how correlations have been used to measure both within-relationship and within-subject covariance in ways that illum…
Social Baseline Theory
Subjective General Health and the Social Regulation of Hypothalamic Activity
OBJECTIVE: Social support is associated with better health. This association may be partly mediated through the social regulation of adrenomedullary activity related to poor cardiovascular health and glucocorticoid activity known to inhibit immune functioning. These physiological cascades originate in the hypothalamic areas that are involved in the neural response to threat. The aim of the study investigated whether the down regulation, by social…
Social Regulation of the Neural Threat Response Predicts Subsequent Markers of Physical Health
OBJECTIVE: Social support has been linked to a vast range of beneficial health outcomes. However, the physiological mechanisms of social support are not well characterized. Drawing on functional magnetic resonance imaging and health-related outcome data, this study aimed to understand how neural measures of "yielding"-the reduction of brain activity during social support-moderate the link between social support and health. METHODS: We used a data…
Does attachment in adolescence predict neural responses to handholding in adulthood? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study
Objective: Early life experiences, including attachment-related experiences, inform internal working models that guide adult relationship behaviors. Few studies have examined the association between adolescent attachment and adult relationship behavior on a neural level. The current study examined attachment in adolescence and its associations with neural correlates of relationship behaviors in adulthood. Method: 85 participants completed the Adu…
The role of perceived negative partner behavior in daily snacking behavior
Past work suggested that psychological stress, especially in the context of relationship stress, is associated with increased consumption of energy-dense food and when maintained for long periods of time, leads to adverse health consequences. Furthermore, this association is moderated by a variety of factors, including emotional over-eating style. That being said, few work utilized a dynamical system approach to understand the intraindividual and…
Psychology (17 works) · Neuroscience (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Functional magnetic resonance imaging (5 works) · Mental Health Research Topics (5 works)