Recent Publications

COVID-19 and the Ebola Public Health Crisis

• 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
• 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, 58(4), 242-252. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaad055
• 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
• 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 (published ahead of print August 4, 2022). 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
• 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 COVID-19 pandemic: Implications and recommendations. Stress & Health, 36(4), 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
• 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
• Thompson, R. R., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Distress, worry, and functioning following a global health crisis: A national study of Americans’ responses to Ebola. Clinical Psychological Science, 5, 513-521 (published ahead of print April 26, 2017). DOI: 10.1177/2167702617692030
• Jose, R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2017). The importance of the neighborhood in the 2014 Ebola outbreak in the United States: Distress, worry, and functioning. Health Psychology, 36, 1181-1185. DOI: 10.1037/hea0000518
• Fischhoff, B., Wong-Parodi, G., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2018). Public understanding of Ebola risks: Mastering an unfamiliar threat. Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 38, 71-83 (published ahead of print June 8, 2017). DOI: 10.1111/risa.12794

Collective Traumas (Mass Violence)

• 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
• Frolova, N., & Silver, R. C. (2024). A sudden but prolonged collective trauma: The Ukrainian experience. PLOS Mental Health, 1(1): e0000056. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000056
• Relihan, D. P., Jones, N. M., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2023). Shared social identity and media transmission of trauma. Scientific Reports, 13, 11609. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33898-2
• Grisham, E. L., Jones, N. M., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2023). Do past events sow future fears? Temporal disintegration, distress, and fear of the future following collective trauma. Clinical Psychological Science, 11(6), 1064-1074 (published ahead of print December 8, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221119477
• Poulin, M. J., & Silver, R. C. (2020). What might have been: Near-miss experiences and adjustment to a terrorist attack. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 11, 168-175 (published ahead of print April 24, 2019). DOI: 10.1177/194855061982906
• Thompson, R. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2020). Worst life events and media exposure to terrorism in a nationally representative U.S. sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33, 984-993 (published ahead of print April 20, 2020). DOI:10.1002/jts.22534
• Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Exposure to prior negative life events and responses to the Boston Marathon bombings. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12, 320-329 (published ahead of print September 26, 2019). DOI: 10.1037/tra0000486
• Holman, E. A., Garfin, D. R., Lubens, P., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Media exposure to collective trauma, mental health, and functioning: Does it matter what you see? Clinical Psychological Science, 8, 111-124 (published ahead of print October 8, 2019). doi:10.1177/2167702619858300
• Redmond, S., Jones, N. M., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Who watches an ISIS beheading — and why. American Psychologist, 74, 555-568 (published ahead of print February 25, 2019). doi.org/10.1037/amp0000438
• Thompson, R. R., Jones, N. M., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Media exposure to mass violence events can fuel a cycle of distress. Science Advances, 5(4), eaav3502. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav3502
• Jose, R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Community organizations and mental health after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Social Science & Medicine, 222, 367-376 (published ahead of print September 17, 2018). doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.019
• Garfin, D. R., Poulin, M. J., Blum, S., & Silver, R. C. (2018). Aftermath of terror: A nationwide longitudinal study of posttraumatic stress and worry across the decade following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31, 146-156. DOI: 10.1002/jts.22262
• Wayment, H. A., & Silver, R. C. (2018). Grief and solidarity reactions 1 week after an on-campus shooting. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 36(5-6), NP2423-NP2442 (published ahead of print March 28, 2018). DOI: 10.1177/0886260518766431
• Jones, N. M., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2016). Media use and exposure to graphic content in the week following the Boston Marathon bombings. American Journal of Community Psychology, 58, 47-59.
• Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2015). Cumulative exposure to prior collective trauma and acute stress responses to the Boston Marathon bombings. Psychological Science, 26, 675-683. doi:10.1177/0956797614561043
• Holman, E. A., Garfin, E. R., & Silver, R. C. (2014). Media’s role in broadcasting acute stress following the Boston Marathon bombings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 111, 93-98 (published ahead of print December 9, 2013). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1316265110
• Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., Andersen, J. P., Poulin, M., McIntosh, D. N., & Gil-Rivas, V. (2013). Mental- and physical-health effects of acute exposure to media images of the September 11, 2001, attacks and the Iraq War. Psychological Science, 24, 1623-1634.
• Scott, S. B., Poulin, M. J., & Silver, R. C. (2013). A lifespan perspective on terrorism: Age differences in trajectories of response to 9/11. Developmental Psychology. 49, 986-998.

Collective Traumas (Natural Disasters)

• Estes, K. D., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2024). Consuming hurricane-related media: The protective role of perceived trust. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001802
• Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2023). Addressing mental health aftershocks from the Turkey–Syria earthquake: A call to action. Nature Mental Health, 1, 238-239. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00052-w
• Garfin, D. R., Thompson, R. R., Holman, E. A., Wong-Parodi, G., & Silver, R. C. (2022). Association between repeated exposure to hurricanes and mental health in a representative sample of Florida residents. JAMA Network Open, 5(6), e2217251. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.17251
• Thompson, R. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Media coverage, forecasted posttraumatic stress symptoms, and psychological responses before and after an approaching hurricane. JAMA Network Open, 2(1):e186228. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.6228
• Thompson, R. R., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Evacuation from natural disasters: A systematic review of the literature. Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 37, 812-839 (published ahead of print December 21, 2016). DOI: 10.1111/risa.12654
• Juth, V., Silver, R. C., Seyle, D. C., Widyatmoko, C. S., & Tan, E. T. (2015). Post-disaster mental health among parent-child dyads after a major earthquake in Indonesia. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 1309-1318. DOI 10.1007/s10802-015-0009-8
• Garfin, D. R., Silver, R. C., Ugalde, F. J., Linn, H., & Inostroza, M. (2014). Exposure to rapid succession disasters: A study of residents at the epicenter of the Chilean Bio-Bio earthquake. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123, 545-556.
• Garfin, D. R., Silver, R. C., Gil-Rivas, V., Guzman, J., Murphy, J. M., Cova, F., Rincon, P. P., Squicciarini, A. M., George, M., & Guzmán, M. P. (2014). Children’s reactions to the 2010 Chilean earthquake: The role of trauma exposure, family context and school-based mental health programming. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 6, 563-573.
• Garfin, D. R., Juth, V., Silver, R. C., Ugalde, F. J., Linn, H., & Inostroza, M. (2014). A national study of healthcare service utilization and substance use after the 2010 Chilean earthquake. Psychiatric Services, 65,1392-1395. doi:10.1176/appi/ps.201300500
• Seyle, D. C., Widyatmoko, C. S., & Silver, R. C. (2013). Coping with natural disasters in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A study of elementary school teachers. School Psychology International, 34, 387-404.

Using Social Media to Study Collective Traumas

• Jones, N. M., & Silver, R. C. (2020). This is not a drill: Anxiety on Twitter following the 2018 Hawaii false missile alert. American Psychologist, 75, 683-693 (published ahead of print July 25, 2019). DOI: 10.1037/amp0000495
• Jones, N. M., Brymer, M., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Using big data to study the impact of mass violence: Opportunities for the traumatic stress field. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 32, 653-663 (published ahead of print October 8, 2019). DOI:10.1002/jts.22434
• Jones, N. M., Thompson, R. R., Dunkel Schetter, C., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Distress and rumor exposure on social media during a campus lockdown. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 114, 11663-11668 (published ahead of print October 17, 2017). www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1708518114
• Jones, N. M., Wojcik, S. P., Sweeting, J., & Silver, R. C. (2016). Tweeting negative emotion: An investigation of Twitter data in the aftermath of violence on college campuses. Psychological Methods, 21, 526-541. doi: 10.1037/med0000099

Coping with Loss and Illness

• Lubens, P., & Silver, R. C. (2019). U.S. combat veterans’ responses to suicide and combat deaths: A mixed-methods study. Social Science & Medicine, 236, 112341 (published ahead of print May 28, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.046
• Lubens, P., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Grief in veterans: An unexplored consequence of war. American Journal of Public Health, 109, 394-395. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304924
• Kay, J. S., Juth, V., Silver, R. C., & Sender, L. S. (2019). Support and conflict in relationships and psychological health in adolescents and young adults with cancer. Journal of Health Psychology, 24, 502-517 (published ahead of print December 26, 2016). DOI: 10.1177/1359105316676629
• Juth, V., Silver, R. C., & Sender, L. (2015). The shared experience of adolescent and young adult cancer patients and their caregivers. Psycho-Oncology, 24, 1746-1753. DOI: 10.1002/pon.3785
• Andersen, J. P., Silver, R. C., Stewart, B., Koperwas, B., & Kirschbaum, C. (2013). Psychological and physiological responses following repeated peer death. PLoS ONE, 8(9): e75881. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075881

Other Projects

• Lim, D., Poulin, M. J., Shaffer-Morrison, C. D., Ministero, L. M., & Silver, R. C. (2024). Investigating the role of adversity and benevolence beliefs in predicting prosociality. Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12960
• Chang, H. A., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2024). Betrayal trauma and somatic symptoms among patients in a medically underserved primary care clinic.  Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001689
• Grisham, E. L., Dashtgard, P., Relihan, D. P., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2023). They saw a hearing: Democrats’ and Republicans’ perceptions of and responses to the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231185605
• Thompson, R. R., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2020). National opinions on death penalty punishment for the Boston Marathon bomber before versus after sentencing. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 26, 455-462 (published ahead of print Sept. 3, 2020). doi.org/10.1037/law0000244
• Poulin, M. J., & Silver, R. C. (2019). When are assumptions shaken? A prospective, longitudinal investigation of negative life events and worldviews in a national sample. Journal of Research in Personality, 83, 103866 (published ahead of print September 4, 2019). doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103866
• Peterson, J. K., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Developing an understanding of victims and violent offenders: The impact of fostering empathy. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 32, 399-422 (published ahead of print July 3, 2015). DOI: 10.1177/0886260515586361
• Randles, D., Heine, S. J., Poulin, M., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Experienced adversity in life is associated with polarized and affirmed political attitudes. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 652-659 (published ahead of print January 19, 2017). DOI: 10.1177/1948550616675668
• Holman, E. A., Silver, R. C., Mogle, J. A., & Scott, S. B. (2016). Adversity, time, and well-being: A longitudinal analysis of time perspective in adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 31, 640-651.
• Blum, S., Silver, R. C., & Poulin, M. J. (2014). Perceiving risk in a dangerous world: Associations between life experiences and risk perceptions. Social Cognition, 32, 297-314.

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