Alexander J Shackman

Biographic Data

ID1661043
NAMEAlexander J Shackman
GIVEN NAMESAlexander J
FAMILY NAMEShackman
SIGNATURESHACKMAN A J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
ORCID0000-0002-3629-4704
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • The momentary benefits of positive events for individuals with elevated social anxiety

    Open AccessJames Doorley, Fallon R Goodman et al.ARTICLEEmotion2020

    Understanding how individuals with varying levels of social anxiety respond to daily positive events is important. Psychological processes that increase positive emotions are being widely used as strategies to not only enhance well-being but also reduce the symptoms and impairment tied to negative emotional dispositions and conditions, including excessive social anxiety. At present, it is unclear whether and how levels of social anxiety impact th…

  • Dispositional negativity in the wild: Social environment governs momentary emotional experience

    Open AccessAlexander J Shackman, Jennifer S Weinstein et al.ARTICLEEmotion2017

    Dispositional negativity-the tendency to experience more frequent or intense negative emotions-is a fundamental dimension of temperament and personality. Elevated levels of dispositional negativity have profound consequences for public health and wealth, drawing the attention of researchers, clinicians, and policymakers. Yet, relatively little is known about the factors that govern the momentary expression of dispositional negativity in the real …

  • Dispositional negativity: An integrative psychological and neurobiological perspective

    Open AccessAlexander J Shackman, Do P M Tromp et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2016Cited by: 5References: 6

    Dispositional negativity-the propensity to experience and express more frequent, intense, or enduring negative affect-is a fundamental dimension of childhood temperament and adult personality. Elevated levels of dispositional negativity can have profound consequences for health, wealth, and happiness, drawing the attention of clinicians, researchers, and policymakers. Here, we highlight recent advances in our understanding of the psychological an…

  • Worry is associated with impaired gating of threat from working memory

    Daniel M Stout, Alexander J Shackman et al.ARTICLEEmotion2014

    Dispositional anxiety is a well-established risk factor for the development of anxiety and other emotional disorders. These disorders are common, debilitating, and challenging to treat, pointing to the need to understand the more elementary neurocognitive mechanisms that confer elevated risk. Importantly, many of the maladaptive behaviors characteristic of anxiety, such as worry, occur when threat is absent. This raises the possibility that worry…

  • Compassion Training Alters Altruism and Neural Responses to Suffering

    Open AccessHelen Y Weng, Andrew S Fox et al.ARTICLEPsychological Science2013

    Compassion is a key motivator of altruistic behavior, but little is known about individuals’ capacity to cultivate compassion through training. We examined whether compassion may be systematically trained by testing whether (a) short-term compassion training increases altruistic behavior and (b) individual differences in altruism are associated with training-induced changes in neural responses to suffering. In healthy adults, we found that compas…

  • Physical abuse amplifies attention to threat and increases anxiety in children

    Jessica E Shackman, Alexander J Shackman et al.ARTICLEEmotion2007

    Two experiments using event-related potentials (ERPs) examined the extent to which early traumatic experiences affect children's ability to regulate voluntary and involuntary attention to threat. The authors presented physically abused and nonabused comparison children with conflicting auditory and visual emotion cues, posed by children's mothers or a stranger, to examine the effect of emotion, modality, and poser familiarity on attention regulat…

  • Anxiety selectively disrupts visuospatial working memory

    Alexander J Shackman, Issidoros Sarinopoulos et al.ARTICLEEmotion2006

    On the basis of a review of the extant literature describing emotion-cognition interactions, the authors propose 4 methodological desiderata for studying how task-irrelevant affect modulates cognition and present data from an experiment satisfying them. Consistent with accounts of the hemispheric asymmetries characterizing withdrawal-related negative affect and visuospatial working memory (WM) in prefrontal and parietal cortices, threat-induced a…