Publications

Holman, E. A., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2024). It matters what you see: Graphic media images of war and terror may amplify distress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 121(29), e2318465121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318465121

Thompson, R. R., Jones, N. M., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2024). Contrasting objective and perceived risk: Predicting COVID-19 health behaviors in a nationally representative U.S. sample. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, kaad055. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaad055

Garfin, D. R., Jones, N. M., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2024). Finding benefits during collective stress: A study of health behaviors in a longitudinal representative U.S. sample during the COVID-19 era. Health Psychology, 43(10), 705-717. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001394

Garfin, D. R., & Estes, K. D. (2023). The collective trauma and chronic stress of COVID-19: Risk and resilience. In M. Miller (Ed.), The social science of the COVID-19 pandemic: A call to action for researchers (pp. 259-271). Oxford Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197615133.003.0020

Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2025). Psychosocial aspects of pandemics. In T. W. Smith & N. B. Anderson (Eds.), APA handbook of health psychology (Vol. 1): Foundations and context of health psychology (pp. 707-724). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000394-032

Jones, N. M., Thompson, R. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2023). Idiosyncratic media exposures during a pandemic and their link to well-being, cognition, and behavior over time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 120 (26), e2304550120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2304550120

Relihan, D. R., Holman, E. A., Garfin, D. R., Ditto, P. H., & Silver, R. C. (2023). Politicization of a pathogen: A prospective longitudinal study of COVID-19 responses in a nationally representative U.S. sample. Political Psychology, 44(6), 1193-1213. doi: 10.1111/pops.12894

Jones, E. J., Ayling, K., Wiley, C. R., Geraghty, A. W. A., Greer, A. L., Holt-Lunstad, J., Prather, A. A., Schreier, H. M. C., Silver, R. C., Sneed, R. S., Marsland, A. L., Pressman, S. D., & Vedhara, K. (2023). Psychology meets biology in COVID-19: What we know and why it matters for public health. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10(1), 33-40. https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322221145308

Holman, E. A., Jones, N. M., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2023). Distortions in time perception during collective trauma: Insights from a national longitudinal study during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 15(5), 800–807. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0001326

Thompson, R. R., Jones, N. M., Freeman, A. M., Holman, E. A., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2022). Psychological responses to U.S. statewide restrictions and COVID-19 exposures: A longitudinal study. Health Psychology, 41(11), 817-825. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001233

• Highlighted in APA Science Showcase: Health Psychology and COVID-19 (9/28/22)
• Article selected as “Editor’s Choice” (“journal articles selected as outstanding, noteworthy, and impactful for the field by American Psychological Association journal editors”)

Williams, D. P., Jones, N. M., & Holman, E. A. (2022). Racial and ethnic differences in perseverative cognition at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine, 306, 115105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115105

Garfin, D. R., Djokovic, L., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2022). Acute stress, worry, and impairment in health care and non-health care essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 14(8), 1304-1313 (published ahead of print April 28, 2022). DOI: 10.1037/tra0001224

Garfin, D. R., Fischhoff, B., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2021). Risk perceptions and health behaviors as COVID-19 emerged in the United States: Results from a probability-based nationally representative sample. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(4), 584-598. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000374

Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., & Garfin, D. R. (2021). Coping with cascading collective traumas in the United States. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 4-6 (published ahead of print October 26, 2020). doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-00981-x

Holman, E. A., Thompson, R. R., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2020). The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic: A probability-based, nationally representative study of mental health in the U.S. Science Advances. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd5390

Silver, R. C. (2020). Surviving the trauma of COVID-19. Science, 369 (6499), 11. DOI: 10.1126/science.abd5396

Garfin, D. R. (2020). Technology as a coping tool during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: Implications and recommendations. Stress and Health.36, 555-559. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2975 

Garfin, D. R., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2020). The novel coronavirus (COVID-2019) outbreak: Amplification of public health consequences by media exposure. Health Psychology, 39(5), 355-357. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/hea0000875

• 3^rd most downloaded journal article of 2020 (across 89 journals) published by the American Psychological Association
• Abstracted in Too Much Coronavirus Media Exposure May Be Bad for Your Health, American Psychological Association
• Abstracted in COVID: Media Literally Makes Us Sick With Non-Stop Bad News, American Council on Science and Health

McBride, L., & Silver, R. C. (2020, April 28). We are doctors who study trauma. Here’s how to cope with the COVID-19 crisis. Huffington Post. 

Kofman, Y. B., & Garfin, D. R. (2020). Home is not always a haven: The domestic violence crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(S1), S199-S201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000866

Holman, E. A., & Grisham, E. L. (2020). When time falls apart: The public health implications of distorted time perception in the age of COVID-19. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(S1), S63-S65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000756

Estes, K. D., & Thompson, R. R. (2020). Preparing for the aftermath of COVID-19: Shifting risk and downstream health consequences. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(S1), S31-S32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000853

Holmes, E. A., O’Connor, R. C., Perry, V. H., Tracey, I., Wessely, S., Arseneault, L., Ballard, C., Christensen, H., Silver, R. C., Everall, I., Ford, T., John, A., Kabir, T., King, K., Madan, I., Michie, S., Przybylski, A. K., Shafran, R., Sweeney, A., Worthman, C. M., Yardley, L., Cowan, K., Cope, C., Hotopf, M., & Bullmore, E. (2020). Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: A call for action for mental health science. Lancet Psychiatry, 7, 547-560 (published ahead of print April 15, 2020). doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30168-1