Nicholas R Harp

Biographic Data

ID770700
NAMENicholas R Harp
GIVEN NAMESNicholas R
FAMILY NAMEHarp
SIGNATUREHARP N R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln
ORCID0000-0002-8115-9309
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Greater social network complexity mitigates pandemic-related negativity

    Open AccessEisha Haque, Nicholas R Harp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2025Cited by: 1References: 71

    Having strong, diverse social relationships is tightly linked to myriad physical and mental health benefits by mitigating the negative impacts of adverse events. The COVID-19 pandemic brought increased uncertainty and changes to our social lives that reduced the spread of COVID-19 (e.g., social distancing), but also likely impacted emotional well-being. We investigated how one of these changes - changing social networks - relates to emotional bia…

  • Proposing a model whereby negative valence bias increases the risk for more severe dysphoric posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptomology

    Open AccessClaudia Clinchard, Nicholas R Harp et al.ARTICLEEmotion2024

    Experiencing trauma increases risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, and individuals who experience psychopathology after a traumatic event often experience symptoms from both disorders. Because a tendency to view events in a more negative light and a propensity toward threat appraisals are risk factors for both PTSD and depression, negative valence bias-a tendency to appraise emotional ambiguity as having a more negative (…

  • Think again

    Maital Neta, Nicholas R Harp et al.ARTICLECognition & Emotion2023

    Stimuli such as surprised faces are ambiguous in that they are associated with both positive and negative outcomes. Interestingly, people differ reliably in whether they evaluate these and other ambiguous stimuli as positive or negative, and we have argued that a positive evaluation relies in part on a biasing of the appraisal processes via reappraisal. To further test this idea, we conducted two studies to evaluate whether increasing the cogniti…

  • Face Coverings Differentially Alter Valence Judgments of Emotional Expressions

    Nicholas R Harp, Andrew T Langbehn et al.ARTICLEBasic and Applied Social Psychology2023

    Face masks that prevent disease transmission obscure facial expressions, impairing nonverbal communication. We assessed the impact of lower (masks) and upper (sunglasses) face coverings on emotional valence judgments of clearly valenced (fearful, happy) and ambiguously valenced (surprised) expressions, the latter of which have both positive and negative meaning. Masks, but not sunglasses, impaired judgments of clearly valenced expressions compare…

  • Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity

    Open AccessNicholas R Harp, Maital NetaARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2023Cited by: 1References: 52

  • Political identity biases Americans' judgments of outgroup emotion

    Open AccessRuby Basyouni, Nicholas R Harp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2022Cited by: 1References: 35

  • Spring Break or Heart Break? Extending Valence Bias to Emotional Words

    Open AccessNicholas R Harp, Catherine Brown et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2021

    Ambiguous stimuli are useful for assessing emotional bias. For example, surprised faces could convey a positive or negative meaning, and the degree to which an individual interprets these expressions as positive or negative represents their “valence bias.” Currently, the most well-validated ambiguous stimuli for assessing valence bias include nonverbal signals (faces and scenes), overlooking an inherent ambiguity in verbal signals. This study ide…