Reuma Gadassi Polack
Biographic Data
| ID | 5424129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reuma Gadassi Polack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reuma Gadassi |
| FAMILY NAME | Polack |
| SIGNATURE | POLACK R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7936-0679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond snapshots
The last decade has seen a surge in studies using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), where participants complete brief daily questionnaires to capture real‐time experiences. While widely used to study adolescents' social–emotional processes, EMA that simultaneously assesses adolescents and their parents (i.e., dyadic and triadic designs) remains underutilized, particularly within diverse families. This gap is surprising given the proven value…
The Interplay Between Emotion Regulation, Parental Burnout, and Psychological Distress During War
Objective This study examined whether emotion regulation (ER) strategies during wartime predicted levels of parental distress and burnout at T2, controlling for baseline levels. Background Parenting under extreme stress, such as war, increases vulnerability to psychological distress and parental burnout. Although ER strategies like reappraisal, suppression, and rumination are known to influence stress responses, their longitudinal role in war con…
Changes in emotional granularity under a population‐level stressor predict social anxiety and depressive symptoms
Emotional granularity, reflecting the specificity with which individuals distinguish their emotional experiences, is crucial to emotional well-being. This study examined whether emotional granularity predicts adolescents' social anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 140 adolescents (M age = 11.91) reported daily emotions for 21-28 days at three timepoints: before the pandemic, during the acute phase, and 1 year …
Social reorientation of emotion regulation
The emotional climate of the family and peer group is theorized to play a central role in the development of emotion regulation (ER) in children and adolescents, such that warmer, more supportive environments promote more effective ER. However, most studies demonstrating associations between social interactions and ER use have focused on individual differences in the regulation of negative affect. This study is the first to investigate whether so…
Networks of guilt, shame, pride, and disordered eating in youths show stability over time
Recent literature suggests that self-conscious emotions (i.e., shame, guilt, and pride) play an important role in increasing the risk for disordered eating behaviors and cognitions. Despite the increasing frequency and intensity of self-conscious emotions and of disordered eating behaviors and cognitions during childhood and adolescence, little is known about how self-conscious emotions are related to disordered eating during this age, or how sta…
Examining the association among adolescents’ emotional clarity, emotion differentiation, and the regulation of negative and positive affect using a daily diary approach
Emotional clarity and emotion differentiation (ED) are two core aspects of the application of emotional knowledge. During adolescence, novel emotional experiences result in temporary decreases of differentiation and clarity. These temporary difficulties might profoundly impact choices of regulatory strategies. And indeed, prior research has shown that lower emotional clarity and emotion differentiation are each associated with higher use of putat…
Interpersonal emotion regulation and depressive symptoms in parent–adolescent dyads
Deficient parental extrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation (IER, how people regulate others' emotions) is a known risk factor for adolescent depression. Although IER and depression development are transactional, dyadic processes, previous work has almost exclusively focused on how parental IER is associated with adolescent depression. The association between parental IER and adolescent depression, and the associations between adolescent IER an…
Dynamics between affect and social acceptance as a function of social anxiety
Social acceptance and rejection are salient experiences, especially during adolescence. Acceptance and rejection relate to changes in positive and negative affect, although directionality of the relation remains unclear. The ability to regulate affect following social experiences may be part of the etiology of social anxiety disorder. With the importance of social cues in adolescence, as well as adolescence as a key window for the onset of social…
Emotion regulation and self-criticism in children and adolescence
Adolescence is a time of heightened risk for the development of psychopathology. Difficulties in emotion regulation and heightened levels of self-criticism are two processes that have been proposed as critical risk factors. Considering the accumulating evidence that risk factors rarely work in isolation, there is a pressing need to examine how self-criticism and emotion regulations strategies interact. The present study utilizes a network analysi…
Predicting Negative and Positive Affect During Covid‐19
The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to profoundly affect youths' mental health. Understanding predictors of affective responding to the pandemic is critical for prevention and intervention efforts. This study examines emotion regulation as an important predictor of youth's changes in positive and negative affect. The present study of 115 participants (62 girls, M age = 11.77) explores the relation between pre-existing emotion regulation strat…
Connections during crisis
Adolescence is a critical period for social development, which COVID-19 has dramatically altered. Quarantined youths had limited in-person interactions with peers. The present study used an intensive longitudinal design to investigate changes in interpersonal dynamics and mental health during COVID-19. Specifically, we investigated whether the associations between different social contexts-that is, "spillover"-changed during COVID-19 and whether …
Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies
Significance What predicts how happy people are with their romantic relationships? Relationship science—an interdisciplinary field spanning psychology, sociology, economics, family studies, and communication—has identified hundreds of variables that purportedly shape romantic relationship quality. The current project used machine learning to directly quantify and compare the predictive power of many such variables among 11,196 romantic couples. P…
“What has been is what will be”? Autobiographical memory and prediction of future events in depression
Depression is associated with negative autobiographical thinking regarding the past and the future. The association between the two temporal dimensions, however, has not been examined. In the present study, 32 participants diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and 32 controls completed a cued-recall task. Participants rated memories for positivity, frequency of occurrence to themselves/others, and expected recurrence, and listed planned …
Maternal depression and anxiety, social synchrony, and infant regulation of negative and positive emotions
Maternal postpartum depression (PPD) exerts long-term negative effects on infants; yet the mechanisms by which PPD disrupts emotional development are not fully clear. Utilizing an extreme-case design, 971 women reported symptoms of depression and anxiety following childbirth and 215 high and low on depressive symptomatology reported again at 6 months. Of these, mothers diagnosed with major depressive disorder (n = 22), anxiety disorders (n = 19),…
Now you have my attention
Recent research on empathy finds evidence for 2 different pathways that enable individuals to accurately infer other persons' inner mental states: an automatic, indirect pathway that operates by having a mental state similar to the target's and (correctly) assuming that this state is similar to the target's, and a more controlled direct pathway that involves assessing the target's mental state with no regard for one's own. We present 3 daily diar…
Perceived Partner Responsiveness Mediates the Association Between Sexual and Marital Satisfaction
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Young Children Exposed to Terrorism
The Effect of Gender Stereotypes on Explicit and Implicit Career Preferences
The present study compared gender differences in directly reported and indirectly derived career preferences and tested the hypothesis that individuals' implicit preferences would show less gender-biased occupational choices than their directly elicited ones. Two hundred sixty-six visitors to a career-related Internet site were asked to (a) list 5 to 10 suitable occupations (the directly reported list) and (b) report their preferences in terms of…
Perceived Partner Responsiveness Mediates the Association Between Sexual and Marital Satisfaction
Connections during crisis
Adolescence is a critical period for social development, which COVID-19 has dramatically altered. Quarantined youths had limited in-person interactions with peers. The present study used an intensive longitudinal design to investigate changes in interpersonal dynamics and mental health during COVID-19. Specifically, we investigated whether the associations between different social contexts-that is, "spillover"-changed during COVID-19 and whether …
The Effect of Gender Stereotypes on Explicit and Implicit Career Preferences
The present study compared gender differences in directly reported and indirectly derived career preferences and tested the hypothesis that individuals' implicit preferences would show less gender-biased occupational choices than their directly elicited ones. Two hundred sixty-six visitors to a career-related Internet site were asked to (a) list 5 to 10 suitable occupations (the directly reported list) and (b) report their preferences in terms of…
Predicting Negative and Positive Affect During Covid‐19
The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to profoundly affect youths' mental health. Understanding predictors of affective responding to the pandemic is critical for prevention and intervention efforts. This study examines emotion regulation as an important predictor of youth's changes in positive and negative affect. The present study of 115 participants (62 girls, M age = 11.77) explores the relation between pre-existing emotion regulation strat…
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Young Children Exposed to Terrorism
The Effect of Gender Stereotypes on Explicit and Implicit Career Preferences
The present study compared gender differences in directly reported and indirectly derived career preferences and tested the hypothesis that individuals' implicit preferences would show less gender-biased occupational choices than their directly elicited ones. Two hundred sixty-six visitors to a career-related Internet site were asked to (a) list 5 to 10 suitable occupations (the directly reported list) and (b) report their preferences in terms of…
Maternal depression and anxiety, social synchrony, and infant regulation of negative and positive emotions
Maternal postpartum depression (PPD) exerts long-term negative effects on infants; yet the mechanisms by which PPD disrupts emotional development are not fully clear. Utilizing an extreme-case design, 971 women reported symptoms of depression and anxiety following childbirth and 215 high and low on depressive symptomatology reported again at 6 months. Of these, mothers diagnosed with major depressive disorder (n = 22), anxiety disorders (n = 19),…
Now you have my attention
Recent research on empathy finds evidence for 2 different pathways that enable individuals to accurately infer other persons' inner mental states: an automatic, indirect pathway that operates by having a mental state similar to the target's and (correctly) assuming that this state is similar to the target's, and a more controlled direct pathway that involves assessing the target's mental state with no regard for one's own. We present 3 daily diar…
Perceived Partner Responsiveness Mediates the Association Between Sexual and Marital Satisfaction
Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies
Significance What predicts how happy people are with their romantic relationships? Relationship science—an interdisciplinary field spanning psychology, sociology, economics, family studies, and communication—has identified hundreds of variables that purportedly shape romantic relationship quality. The current project used machine learning to directly quantify and compare the predictive power of many such variables among 11,196 romantic couples. P…
“What has been is what will be”? Autobiographical memory and prediction of future events in depression
Depression is associated with negative autobiographical thinking regarding the past and the future. The association between the two temporal dimensions, however, has not been examined. In the present study, 32 participants diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and 32 controls completed a cued-recall task. Participants rated memories for positivity, frequency of occurrence to themselves/others, and expected recurrence, and listed planned …
Emotion regulation and self-criticism in children and adolescence
Adolescence is a time of heightened risk for the development of psychopathology. Difficulties in emotion regulation and heightened levels of self-criticism are two processes that have been proposed as critical risk factors. Considering the accumulating evidence that risk factors rarely work in isolation, there is a pressing need to examine how self-criticism and emotion regulations strategies interact. The present study utilizes a network analysi…
Predicting Negative and Positive Affect During Covid‐19
The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to profoundly affect youths' mental health. Understanding predictors of affective responding to the pandemic is critical for prevention and intervention efforts. This study examines emotion regulation as an important predictor of youth's changes in positive and negative affect. The present study of 115 participants (62 girls, M age = 11.77) explores the relation between pre-existing emotion regulation strat…
Connections during crisis
Adolescence is a critical period for social development, which COVID-19 has dramatically altered. Quarantined youths had limited in-person interactions with peers. The present study used an intensive longitudinal design to investigate changes in interpersonal dynamics and mental health during COVID-19. Specifically, we investigated whether the associations between different social contexts-that is, "spillover"-changed during COVID-19 and whether …
Examining the association among adolescents’ emotional clarity, emotion differentiation, and the regulation of negative and positive affect using a daily diary approach
Emotional clarity and emotion differentiation (ED) are two core aspects of the application of emotional knowledge. During adolescence, novel emotional experiences result in temporary decreases of differentiation and clarity. These temporary difficulties might profoundly impact choices of regulatory strategies. And indeed, prior research has shown that lower emotional clarity and emotion differentiation are each associated with higher use of putat…
Interpersonal emotion regulation and depressive symptoms in parent–adolescent dyads
Deficient parental extrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation (IER, how people regulate others' emotions) is a known risk factor for adolescent depression. Although IER and depression development are transactional, dyadic processes, previous work has almost exclusively focused on how parental IER is associated with adolescent depression. The association between parental IER and adolescent depression, and the associations between adolescent IER an…
Dynamics between affect and social acceptance as a function of social anxiety
Social acceptance and rejection are salient experiences, especially during adolescence. Acceptance and rejection relate to changes in positive and negative affect, although directionality of the relation remains unclear. The ability to regulate affect following social experiences may be part of the etiology of social anxiety disorder. With the importance of social cues in adolescence, as well as adolescence as a key window for the onset of social…
Social reorientation of emotion regulation
The emotional climate of the family and peer group is theorized to play a central role in the development of emotion regulation (ER) in children and adolescents, such that warmer, more supportive environments promote more effective ER. However, most studies demonstrating associations between social interactions and ER use have focused on individual differences in the regulation of negative affect. This study is the first to investigate whether so…
Networks of guilt, shame, pride, and disordered eating in youths show stability over time
Recent literature suggests that self-conscious emotions (i.e., shame, guilt, and pride) play an important role in increasing the risk for disordered eating behaviors and cognitions. Despite the increasing frequency and intensity of self-conscious emotions and of disordered eating behaviors and cognitions during childhood and adolescence, little is known about how self-conscious emotions are related to disordered eating during this age, or how sta…
Beyond snapshots
The last decade has seen a surge in studies using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), where participants complete brief daily questionnaires to capture real‐time experiences. While widely used to study adolescents' social–emotional processes, EMA that simultaneously assesses adolescents and their parents (i.e., dyadic and triadic designs) remains underutilized, particularly within diverse families. This gap is surprising given the proven value…
The Interplay Between Emotion Regulation, Parental Burnout, and Psychological Distress During War
Objective This study examined whether emotion regulation (ER) strategies during wartime predicted levels of parental distress and burnout at T2, controlling for baseline levels. Background Parenting under extreme stress, such as war, increases vulnerability to psychological distress and parental burnout. Although ER strategies like reappraisal, suppression, and rumination are known to influence stress responses, their longitudinal role in war con…
Changes in emotional granularity under a population‐level stressor predict social anxiety and depressive symptoms
Emotional granularity, reflecting the specificity with which individuals distinguish their emotional experiences, is crucial to emotional well-being. This study examined whether emotional granularity predicts adolescents' social anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 140 adolescents (M age = 11.91) reported daily emotions for 21-28 days at three timepoints: before the pandemic, during the acute phase, and 1 year …
Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Mental Health Research Topics (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works)