Grant S Shields

Dados Biográficos

ID1663065
NOMEGrant S Shields
PRENOMESGrant S
SOBRENOMEShields
ASSINATURASHIELDS G S
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of California, Davis
ORCID0000-0002-0827-4669
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS19
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES16
TOTAL COMO AUTOR19
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2015
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Distinguishing the Attentional Mechanisms of Distinct Mindfulness States

    Open AccessYanli Lin, Grant S ShieldsARTICLEMindfulness2026

  • Lifetime Stressor Exposure Profiles and Trait Risk for Substance Use in Young Adults

    Open AccessZach J Gray, Josiah K Leong et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2026

    Background: Substance use severity is shaped by a range of developmental and psychological factors, including the timing of stressor exposure across the lifespan. Previous research identified early-life stressor exposure as a factor in this progression, but emerging research has suggested the importance of considering the timing of stressor exposure across development. Objectives: Here, we tested whether distinct profiles of stressor exposure—in …

  • To mask, or not to mask

    Open AccessZach J Gray, Hannah Henderson et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2025

    The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted society for years. Much evidence shows face masks reduced the spread of the virus; nonetheless, many individuals stopped wearing masks before recommendations (or even mandates) for their use ended. Although predictors of mask wearing have been explored, this preregistered, exploratory study was the first to examine psychological predictors of changes in mask wearing over the course of the pandemic. In particular, w…

  • Lifetime Stressor Severity and Diurnal Cortisol in Older African American Adults

    Open AccessKatherine Knauft, Kristin M Davis et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychobiology2025Referências: 76

    Multiple theoretical models have been proposed to explain how stressor exposure across the life course relates to the functioning of the hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) axis, as indexed by daily cortisol secretion. However, this association remains understudied in African Americans. The present study tested three competing models of stressor severity across the lifespan and diurnal cortisol secretion in a sample of 203 older African American…

  • Stress, positive affect, and sleep in older African American adults

    Open AccessKristin M Davis, Grant S Shields et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Behavioral Medicine2025Referências: 70

    BACKGROUND: Although sleep disparities contribute to racial health disparities, little is known about factors affecting sleep among African Americans. One such factor may be positive affect, which could impact sleep directly (direct effect hypothesis) or indirectly by buffering the effects of stress (stress buffering hypothesis). PURPOSE: We tested the direct effect and stress buffering effects of positive affect on sleep at three levels (day, we…

  • Neonatal Hair Cortisol and Birth Outcomes

    LillyBelle K Deer, Catherine Demers et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2024

    OBJECTIVE: Prenatal stress physiology is often posited as a predictor of birth outcomes, including gestational age at birth and birthweight. However, research has predominantly relied on indicators in the maternal system, with few studies examining hormones of the fetal system. The current study focuses on fetal cortisol in the third trimester, as measured in neonatal hair, as a biological factor that might be associated with birth outcomes (gest…

  • Neural correlates underlying preference changes induced by food Go/No-Go training

    Open AccessQian Wu, Haishuo Xia et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023Referências: 51

  • Effects of Early Life Adversity on Pubertal Timing and Tempo in Black and White Girls

    Elio Dovere, Elissa June Hamlat et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2022

    Screening for early life abuse may help address health disparities related to earlier pubertal timing

  • Associations between lifetime stress exposure, race, and first-birth intendedness in the United States

    Open AccessJennifer Malat, Elaina Johns-Wolfe et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2022Referências: 36

    This study examined how lifetime stress exposure and race are associated with first-birth intendedness, and whether these associations differ based on stress exposure timing. Greater lifetime stress exposure was related to increased first-birth intendedness for black women but was unrelated or even associated with decreased first-birth intendedness for white women, depending on stress exposure timing. These effects were robust while controlling f…

  • Cumulative lifetime stress exposure predicts greater impulsivity and addictive behaviors

    Open AccessSara D Mcmullin, Grant S Shields et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2021Citada por: 2Referências: 58

    The study investigated whether lifetime stress exposure is associated with greater impulsivity and addictive behavior. We also examined whether stress and impulsivity interactively predicted food addiction and alcohol-related behavior. Greater lifetime stress exposure was related to more impulsivity and food addictive behaviors, but not alcohol-related consequences. There were no interactions between lifetime stress exposure and impulsivity in pr…

  • Assessing Lifetime Stress Exposure Using the Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN)

    Open AccessGeorge M Slavich, Grant S ShieldsARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2018

    OBJECTIVE: Numerous theories have proposed that acute and chronic stressors may exert a cumulative effect on life-span health by causing biological "wear and tear," or allostatic load, which in turn promotes disease. Very few studies have directly tested such models, though, partly because of the challenges associated with efficiently assessing stress exposure over the entire life course. To address this issue, we developed the first online syste…

  • Feel free to write this down

    Grant S Shields, Chandler M Spahr et al.ARTICLEEmotion2018

    Acute stress impairs working memory (i.e., the ability to update and keep information in mind). Although that effect is well established, the boundaries around it are not. In particular, little is known about how recalling an unresolved stressor might influence working memory, or about how stress-or recalling a stressful event-influences the processes underlying working memory task performance (e.g., sustained/controlled attention vs. capacity). …

  • The effects of acute stress on episodic memory

    Open AccessGrant S Shields, Matthew A Sazma et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2017

    A growing body of research has indicated that acute stress can critically impact memory. However, there are a number of inconsistencies in the literature, and important questions remain regarding the conditions under which stress effects emerge as well as basic questions about how stress impacts different phases of memory. In this meta-analysis, we examined 113 independent studies in humans with 6,216 participants that explored effects of stress …

  • The effects of acute stress on core executive functions

    Open AccessGrant S Shields, Matthew A Sazma et al.ARTICLENeuroscience & Biobehavioral…2016

  • The effect of negative affect on cognition

    Open AccessGrant S Shields, Wesley G Moons et al.ARTICLEEmotion2016

    It is often assumed that negative affect impairs the executive functions that underlie our ability to control and focus our thoughts. However, support for this claim has been mixed. Recent work has suggested that different negative affective states like anxiety and anger may reflect physiologically separable states with distinct effects on cognition. However, the effects of these 2 affective states on executive function have never been assessed. …

  • Stress-related changes in personality

    Open AccessGrant S Shields, Loren L Toussaint et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2016Referências: 60

  • Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood

    Open AccessLoren L Toussaint, Loren Toussaint et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2016Citada por: 14Referências: 40

    To examine risk and resilience factors that affect health, lifetime stress exposure histories, dispositional forgiveness levels, and mental and physical health were assessed in 148 young adults. Greater lifetime stress severity and lower levels of forgiveness each uniquely predicted worse mental and physical health. Analyses also revealed a graded Stress × Forgiveness interaction effect, wherein associations between stress and mental health were …

  • Anxiety, not anger, induces inflammatory activity

    Wesley G Moons, Grant S ShieldsARTICLEEmotion2015

    Psychological stressors reliably trigger systemic inflammatory activity as indexed by levels of proinflammatory cytokines. This experiment demonstrates that one's specific emotional reaction to a stressor may be a significant determinant of whether an inflammatory reaction occurs in response to that stressor. Based on extant correlational evidence and theory, a causal approach was used to determine whether an avoidant emotion (anxiety) triggers m…

  • Avoidance-related EEG asymmetry predicts circulating interleukin-6

    Open AccessGrant S Shields, Wesley G MoonsARTICLEEmotion2015

    Recent research has linked avoidance-oriented motivational states to elevated pro-inflammatory cytokine levels. According to one of many theories regarding the association between avoidance and cytokine levels, because the evolutionarily basic avoidance system may be activated when an organism is threatened or overwhelmed, an associated inflammatory response may be adaptive for dealing with potential injury in such threatening situations. To exam…