Adela C Timmons
Biographic Data
| ID | 760732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adela C Timmons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adela C |
| FAMILY NAME | Timmons |
| SIGNATURE | TIMMONS A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8518-8812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Call to Action on Assessing and Mitigating Bias in Artificial Intelligence Applications for Mental Health
Advances in computer science and data-analytic methods are driving a new era in mental health research and application. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies hold the potential to enhance the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of people experiencing mental health problems and to increase the reach and impact of mental health care. However, AI applications will not mitigate mental health disparities if they are built from historical data tha…
Relationship satisfaction, feelings of closeness and annoyance, and linkage in electrodermal activity
Physiological linkage refers to moment-to-moment, time-linked coordination in physiological responses among people in close relationships. Although people in romantic relationships have been shown to evidence linkage in their physiological responses over time, it is still unclear how patterns of covariation relate to in-the-moment, as well as general levels of, relationship functioning. In the present study with data collected between 2014 and 20…
Attention toward emotions is modulated by familiarity with the expressor: A comparison between bonobos and humans
Why can humans be intolerant of, yet also be empathic toward strangers? This cardinal question can be tackled by studying emotions in our closest living relatives, bonobos. Their striking xenophilic tendencies make them an interesting model for reconstructing the socioemotional capacities of the last common ancestor of hominids. Within two dot-probe studies, we compared bonobos' and humans' attention toward scenes depicting familiar (kith and kin…
Relationship closeness as a protective factor against the sensitizing effect of adversity history
Exposure to adversity has been shown to amplify individuals' sensitivity to stress, increasing the risk of developing mental health problems in adulthood. Romantic relationships can serve as a broad resource in mitigating the negative impacts of adversity and stress on mental health; however, less is known about how everyday moments of closeness with one's romantic partner impact experiences of daily stress for people exposed to adversity. The pr…
Observed parent–adolescent coalitions and family hostilities during family discussions: Associations with marital aggression
This study investigated bidirectional associations between observed parent–youth coalitions—wherein one parent and a child align themselves against the other parent—and family hostilities as they evolved in real‐time during triadic family conflict discussions. Participants were 102 families with an adolescent child (50% girls, M age = 15.3 years, SD = 0.8). Using time‐lagged, multilevel models, we tested immediate, temporal influences from hostil…
A Systematic Review of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Romantic Relationships
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of the parasympathetic nervous system, has recently gained attention as a physiological component of regulatory processes, social connectedness, and health. Within the context of romantic relationships, studies have operationalized and conceptualized RSA in disparate ways, obscuring a clear pattern of findings. This systematic review synthesizes the rapidly developing literature and clarifies the role …
Feelings of Annoyance and Spoken Anger Words in Couples’ Everyday Lives: The Role of Family-of-Origin Aggression
Little is known about the words that romantic couples use during emotionally heightened moments such as when feeling annoyed with their partner. In the present study, young adult couples received mobile phones that audio-recorded 50% of their day and prompted hourly self-reports of partner-related annoyance. Actor–partner models tested within-person (hourly) and between-person (across the day) associations between feelings of annoyance and spoken…
Interpersonal Violence, Maternal Perception of Infant Emotion, and Child-Parent Psychotherapy
Compassion in a heartbeat: Physiology during couples’ loss discussions
The physiology of compassion, typically studied in individuals, has not yet been studied dyadically and in the context of close relationships. The current study used dating partners’ discussions of personal losses to simultaneously investigate the physiological profile of compassion in an individual sharing an emotionally salient loss, the “narrator,” and his or her partner, the “listener.” In a given moment, listeners who perceived themselves as…
New Frontiers in Ambulatory Assessment: Big Data Methods for Capturing Couples’ Emotions, Vocalizations, and Physiology in Daily Life
With the increasing use of smartphone technologies and wearable biosensors, we are currently undergoing what many have termed a “data revolution,” where intensive, multichannel data are passively collected over long time frames. Such procedures are transforming the way psychologists conceptualize research and have the potential to spur important advances in the study of close relationships. This proof-of-concept study from the Couple Mobile Sensi…
Adolescent Life Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response: The Moderating Roles of Attachment and Sex
This longitudinal study investigated how past versus current life stresses relate to adolescents' cortisol awakening response (CAR), an index of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity. Ninety-nine adolescents reported previous year life stress at ages 12 and 18. At the second assessment, participants also provided self-reports of parent and peer attachment and 3 days of cortisol samples. Current stress was associated with heightened CAR for both…
The Importance of Temporal Design: How Do Measurement Intervals Affect the Accuracy and Efficiency of Parameter Estimates in Longitudinal Research
The timing (spacing) of assessments is an important component of longitudinal research. The purpose of the present study is to determine methods of timing the collection of longitudinal data that provide better parameter recovery in mixed effects nonlinear growth modeling. A simulation study was conducted, varying function type, as well as the number of measurement occasions, in order to examine the effect of timing on the accuracy and efficiency…
Relationship closeness as a protective factor against the sensitizing effect of adversity history
Exposure to adversity has been shown to amplify individuals' sensitivity to stress, increasing the risk of developing mental health problems in adulthood. Romantic relationships can serve as a broad resource in mitigating the negative impacts of adversity and stress on mental health; however, less is known about how everyday moments of closeness with one's romantic partner impact experiences of daily stress for people exposed to adversity. The pr…
Compassion in a heartbeat: Physiology during couples’ loss discussions
The physiology of compassion, typically studied in individuals, has not yet been studied dyadically and in the context of close relationships. The current study used dating partners’ discussions of personal losses to simultaneously investigate the physiological profile of compassion in an individual sharing an emotionally salient loss, the “narrator,” and his or her partner, the “listener.” In a given moment, listeners who perceived themselves as…
Adolescent Life Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response: The Moderating Roles of Attachment and Sex
This longitudinal study investigated how past versus current life stresses relate to adolescents' cortisol awakening response (CAR), an index of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity. Ninety-nine adolescents reported previous year life stress at ages 12 and 18. At the second assessment, participants also provided self-reports of parent and peer attachment and 3 days of cortisol samples. Current stress was associated with heightened CAR for both…
The Importance of Temporal Design: How Do Measurement Intervals Affect the Accuracy and Efficiency of Parameter Estimates in Longitudinal Research
The timing (spacing) of assessments is an important component of longitudinal research. The purpose of the present study is to determine methods of timing the collection of longitudinal data that provide better parameter recovery in mixed effects nonlinear growth modeling. A simulation study was conducted, varying function type, as well as the number of measurement occasions, in order to examine the effect of timing on the accuracy and efficiency…
Adolescent Life Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response: The Moderating Roles of Attachment and Sex
This longitudinal study investigated how past versus current life stresses relate to adolescents' cortisol awakening response (CAR), an index of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity. Ninety-nine adolescents reported previous year life stress at ages 12 and 18. At the second assessment, participants also provided self-reports of parent and peer attachment and 3 days of cortisol samples. Current stress was associated with heightened CAR for both…
New Frontiers in Ambulatory Assessment: Big Data Methods for Capturing Couples’ Emotions, Vocalizations, and Physiology in Daily Life
With the increasing use of smartphone technologies and wearable biosensors, we are currently undergoing what many have termed a “data revolution,” where intensive, multichannel data are passively collected over long time frames. Such procedures are transforming the way psychologists conceptualize research and have the potential to spur important advances in the study of close relationships. This proof-of-concept study from the Couple Mobile Sensi…
Compassion in a heartbeat: Physiology during couples’ loss discussions
The physiology of compassion, typically studied in individuals, has not yet been studied dyadically and in the context of close relationships. The current study used dating partners’ discussions of personal losses to simultaneously investigate the physiological profile of compassion in an individual sharing an emotionally salient loss, the “narrator,” and his or her partner, the “listener.” In a given moment, listeners who perceived themselves as…
Interpersonal Violence, Maternal Perception of Infant Emotion, and Child-Parent Psychotherapy
A Systematic Review of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia in Romantic Relationships
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), an index of the parasympathetic nervous system, has recently gained attention as a physiological component of regulatory processes, social connectedness, and health. Within the context of romantic relationships, studies have operationalized and conceptualized RSA in disparate ways, obscuring a clear pattern of findings. This systematic review synthesizes the rapidly developing literature and clarifies the role …
Feelings of Annoyance and Spoken Anger Words in Couples’ Everyday Lives: The Role of Family-of-Origin Aggression
Little is known about the words that romantic couples use during emotionally heightened moments such as when feeling annoyed with their partner. In the present study, young adult couples received mobile phones that audio-recorded 50% of their day and prompted hourly self-reports of partner-related annoyance. Actor–partner models tested within-person (hourly) and between-person (across the day) associations between feelings of annoyance and spoken…
Observed parent–adolescent coalitions and family hostilities during family discussions: Associations with marital aggression
This study investigated bidirectional associations between observed parent–youth coalitions—wherein one parent and a child align themselves against the other parent—and family hostilities as they evolved in real‐time during triadic family conflict discussions. Participants were 102 families with an adolescent child (50% girls, M age = 15.3 years, SD = 0.8). Using time‐lagged, multilevel models, we tested immediate, temporal influences from hostil…
A Call to Action on Assessing and Mitigating Bias in Artificial Intelligence Applications for Mental Health
Advances in computer science and data-analytic methods are driving a new era in mental health research and application. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies hold the potential to enhance the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of people experiencing mental health problems and to increase the reach and impact of mental health care. However, AI applications will not mitigate mental health disparities if they are built from historical data tha…
Relationship satisfaction, feelings of closeness and annoyance, and linkage in electrodermal activity
Physiological linkage refers to moment-to-moment, time-linked coordination in physiological responses among people in close relationships. Although people in romantic relationships have been shown to evidence linkage in their physiological responses over time, it is still unclear how patterns of covariation relate to in-the-moment, as well as general levels of, relationship functioning. In the present study with data collected between 2014 and 20…
Attention toward emotions is modulated by familiarity with the expressor: A comparison between bonobos and humans
Why can humans be intolerant of, yet also be empathic toward strangers? This cardinal question can be tackled by studying emotions in our closest living relatives, bonobos. Their striking xenophilic tendencies make them an interesting model for reconstructing the socioemotional capacities of the last common ancestor of hominids. Within two dot-probe studies, we compared bonobos' and humans' attention toward scenes depicting familiar (kith and kin…
Relationship closeness as a protective factor against the sensitizing effect of adversity history
Exposure to adversity has been shown to amplify individuals' sensitivity to stress, increasing the risk of developing mental health problems in adulthood. Romantic relationships can serve as a broad resource in mitigating the negative impacts of adversity and stress on mental health; however, less is known about how everyday moments of closeness with one's romantic partner impact experiences of daily stress for people exposed to adversity. The pr…
Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Feeling (3 works) · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Anger (2 works)