Meghan L Meyer

Biographic Data

ID5861777
NAMEMeghan L Meyer
GIVEN NAMESMeghan L
FAMILY NAMEMeyer
SIGNATUREMEYER M L
AFFILIATIONSBrain (Germany)
ORCID0000-0002-9834-5925
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Forgiveness updates interpersonal memories to be less negative

    Open AccessSongzhi Wu, Timothy Broom et al.ARTICLEEmotion2026

    Forgiveness is crucial for restoring social bonds, yet how it shapes impressions of poor treatment remains unclear. Building on memory updating research, we propose forgiveness can change the memory of a negative experience by incorporating information considered during the forgiveness process. On Day 1 of neuroimaging, participants ( N = 23, data collected 2022-2023) observed which stimuli two other participants (or "targets") chose for them to …

  • Daily perceived stress predicts less next day social interaction

    Open AccessAlex W DaSilva, Jeremy F Huckins et al.ARTICLEEmotion2021

    Although mammals have a strong motivation to engage in social interaction, stress can significantly interfere with this desire. Indeed, research in nonhuman animals has shown that stress reduces social interaction, a phenomenon referred to as "stress-induced social avoidance." While stress and social disconnection are also intertwined in humans, to date, evidence that stress predicts reductions in social interaction is mixed, in part, because exi…

  • Mental Health and Behavior of College Students During the Early Phases of the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessJeremy F Huckins, Alex W DaSilva et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Internet…2020

    BACKGROUND: The vast majority of people worldwide have been impacted by coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In addition to the millions of individuals who have been infected with the disease, billions of individuals have been asked or required by local and national governments to change their behavioral patterns. Previous research on epidemics or traumatic events suggests that this can lead to profound behavioral and mental health changes; however, r…

  • Creative expertise is associated with transcending the here and now

    Meghan L Meyer, Hal E Hershfield et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2019Cited by: 2References: 3

    Human imagination is bounded. As situations become more distant in time, place, perspective, and likelihood, they also become more difficult to simulate. What underlies the ability to successfully engage in distal simulations? Here we examine the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying distal simulation by studying individuals known for transcending these limits: creative experts. First, 2 behavioral studies establish that creative experts…

  • Exploring the role of gratitude and support-giving on inflammatory outcomes

    Open AccessMona Moieni, Michael R Irwin et al.ARTICLEEmotion2018

    Although there has been much interest in understanding the effect of gratitude on health-related outcomes, this remains an understudied area of research, particularly regarding mechanisms and measurement of biological outcomes. The present study explored whether a gratitude intervention could reduce inflammatory outcomes and whether this occurred through increased support-giving. Healthy women ( n = 76) were randomly assigned to a 6-week gratitud…

  • Social Working Memory Training Improves Perspective-Taking Accuracy

    Open AccessMeghan L Meyer, Matthew D LiebermanARTICLESocial Psychological and…2016

    Despite the importance of perspective taking for navigating the social world, even healthy adults frequently misinterpret what other people think and feel. Yet, to date, no research examines whether perspective-taking accuracy can be improved among healthy adult samples. Building off of work suggesting that social working memory (SWM) capacity (i.e., the ability to maintain and manipulate social cognitive information in mind) predicts perspective…