In Revision and Review
Isaacowitz, D., Barber, S., Bliss-Moreau, E., English, T., & MacCormack, J. K. (in review). The future of the affective science of aging: Open questions, methodological challenges, and critical directions. Affective Science.
Kushimo, O., Beliveau, L. E., Henry, T. R., Barbaro, A. B. T., MacCormack, J. K., Abaid, N., & Butail, S. (in review). Stress and personality mediate crowd motion during emergency evacuations.
MacCormack, J. K., Henry, T. R., Watts, J., & List, M., & Jackson, J. C. (in review). World languages represent mind and body as distinct conceptual categories bridged by emotion.
Toner, E. R., Larrazabal, M. E., Cai, L., Henry, T. R., MacCormack, J. K., Boukhechba, M., Barnes, L. E., & Teachman, B. E. (in revision). Social anxiety and concordance in emotional responses across levels of evaluative threat.
Feldman, M. J., MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (in review). Bodies, behaviors, and situations: A representational similarity analysis of emotion concept knowledge and its links to emotional granularity.
Inagaki, T. K., Steele, C. M., DeCataldo, M. K., Dembling, S. J., Bonar, A. S., Feldman, M. J., MacCormack, J. K., Lindquist, K. A., Gianaros, P. J. (in review). Ups and downs of blood pressure-related social algesia: A daily sampling study.
Published Work
Kushimo, O., Beliveau, L. E., Barbaro, A. B. T., MacCormack, J. K., Abaid, N., & Butail, S. (2026). Short horizon wayfinding in agent-based models of pedestrian evacuation. Modeling, Estimation and Control.
MacCormack, J. K., Beeler-Duden, S., & Stephenson, E. S. (2026). Interoception in emotional development. In (Eds., V. LoBue, K. E. Perez-Edgar, & K. Buss). Handbook of Emotional Development: Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice. Springer. PDF
Costello, M. C., MacCormack, J. K., Paek, E., Jalloh, U., & Borghi, A. M. (2025). Evidence for embodiment-based changes in older adult language. Psychological Research.
MacCormack, J. K., Gianaros, P. J., & Kraynak, T. E. (2025). Neuroimaging in health psychology: Methods, concepts, and applications. In the APA Handbook of Health Psychology (Vol. 1: Foundations and Context). PDF
Lin, J., MacCormack, J. K., Boker, S. M., Coan, J. A., & Stanton, SCE. (2024). The role of perceived negative partner behavior in daily snacking behavior: A dynamical systems approach. Appetite., 199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107393
MacCormack, J. K., Bonar, A. S., & Lindquist, K. A. (2024). Interoceptive beliefs moderate the link between physiological and emotional arousal during an acute stressor. Emotion, 24, 269-290. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001270 | Preprint | Supplementary Materials
Bonar, A. S., MacCormack, J. K., Feldman, M. J., & Lindquist, K. A. (2023). Examining the role of emotional granularity on emotion and cardiovascular physiological activity during acute stress. Affective Science, 4, 317–331. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00189-y
Feldman, M. J., MacCormack, J. K., Bonar, A. S., & Lindquist, K. A. (2023). Interoceptive ability moderates the effect of physiological reactivity on social judgment. Emotion, 23, 2231–2242. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001210 | Preprint | Supplementary Materials
MacCormack, J. K., Bonar, A. S., Feldman, M. J., & Lindquist, K. A. (2023). Aging bodies, brains, and emotions: The physiological hypothesis of emotional aging. In (Eds., R. E. Kleck, R. B. Adams, Jr., & U. Hess). Emotion communication by the aging face and body: A multidisciplinary view. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. PDF
Atzil, S., Satpute, A. B., Zhang, J., Parrish, M. H., Shablack, H., MacCormack, J. K., Leshin, J. C., Goel, S., Brooks, J. A., Kang, J., Xu, Y., Cohen, M., & Lindquist, K. A. (2023). The impact of sociality and affective valence on brain activation: A meta-analysis. NeuroImage, 268, 119879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119879
Sosoo, E. E., MacCormack, J. K., & Neblett, E. W. (2022). Psychophysiological and affective reactivity to vicarious police violence. Psychophysiology, e14065. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14065
Gray, K., MacCormack, J. K., Henry, T. R., Banks, E., Schein, C., Armstrong-Carter, E. L., Abrams, S., & Muscatell, K. A. (2022). The affective harm account of moral judgment: Reconciling cognition and affect, dyadic morality and gut feelings, harm and purity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000310
Inagaki, T. K., MacCormack, J. K., & Muscatell, K. A. (2022). Prosocial and positive health behaviors during a period of chronic stress protect socioemotional well-being. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00095-1
MacCormack, J. K., Armstrong-Carter, E. L., Gaudier-Diaz, M. M., Meltzer-Brody, S., Sloan, E. K., Lindquist, K. A., & Muscatell, K. A. (2021). Beta-adrenergic contributions to emotion and physiology during an acute stressor. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83, 959-968. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000001009
MacCormack, J. K., Armstrong-Carter, E. L., Humphreys, K. L., & Muscatell, K. A. (2021). Neurophysiological contributors to advantageous risk-taking: An experimental psychopharmacology investigation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 926-936. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab047
MacCormack, J. K., Gaudier-Diaz, M. M., Armstrong-Carter, E. L., Arevalo, J. M. G., Meltzer-Brody, S., Sloan, E. K., Cole, S. W., & Muscatell, K. A. (2021). Beta-adrenergic blockade blunts inflammatory and antiviral/antibody gene expression responses to acute psychosocial stress. Neuropsychopharmacology, 46, 756–762. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-020-00897-0
Merritt, C. C., MacCormack, J. K., Stein, A. G., Lindquist, K. A., & Muscatell, K. A. (2021). The neural underpinnings of intergroup social cognition: An fMRI meta-analysis. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 903-914. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab034
MacCormack, J. K., Henry, T. R., Davis, B. M., Oosterwijk, S., & Lindquist, K. A. (2021). Aging bodies, aging emotions: Interoceptive differences in emotion representations and self-reports across adulthood. Emotion, 21, 227-246. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000699
MacCormack, J. K., Stein, A. G., Giovanello, K. S., Kang, J., Satpute, A. B., & Lindquist, K. A. (2020). Affect in the aging brain: A neuroimaging meta-analysis of functional activation and coactivation differences in older vs. younger adult affective experience and perception. Affective Science, 1, 128-154. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-020-00016-8
MacCormack, J. K., Castro, V. L., Halberstadt, A. G., & Rogers, M. L. (2020). Maternal interoceptive knowledge predicts children’s emotion regulation and social skills in middle childhood. Social Development, 29, 578-599. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12418
MacCormack, J. K., & Muscatell, K. A. (2019). The metabolic mind: A role for leptin and ghrelin in affect and social cognition. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13, e12496. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12496
MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (2019). Feeling hangry? When hunger is conceptualized as emotion. Emotion, 19, 301-319. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000422
MacCormack, J. K,. & Lindquist, K. A. (2017). Bodily contributions to emotion: Schachter’s legacy for a psychological constructionist approach. Emotion Review, 9, 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073916639664
Rogers, M., L., Halberstadt, A. G., Castro, V. L., MacCormack, J. K., & Garrett-Peters, P. (2016). Maternal emotion socialization differentially predicts emotion regulation and lability in middle childhood. Emotion, 16, 280-291. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000142
MacCormack, J. K., & Lindquist, K. A. (2016). Detection of emotion. SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology.
Lindquist, K. A., MacCormack, J. K., & Shablack, H. (2015). The role of language in emotion: Predictions from psychological constructionism. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00444
Lindquist, K. A., & MacCormack, J. K. (2014). Constructionism is a multi-level framework for affective science. Emotion Review, 6, 134-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073913512000
Other Scholarship
ten Brink, M., Feldman, M. J., LePage Drummond, T. M.*, Beliveau, L. E.*, Stephenson, E. S.*, Liu, J., Ma, R., Xu, E., Kaduk, K., & MacCormack, J. K. (2025). Public Repository of Interoceptive Science Measures (PRISM). Open Science Framework. [https://osf.io/cvbzj/]
Bonar, A. S., MacCormack, J. K., Feldman, M. J., Inagaki, T. K., & Lindquist, K. A. The Body Signal Beliefs Questionnaire: Assessing beliefs about the value and management of interoceptive sensations. Questionnaire posted here and on OSF.
MacCormack, J. K. (2018). When does hungry become hangry? The Conversation.