Publications

Articles authored or co-authored by Dr. Peters

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2021:

Girme, Y. U., Peters, B. J., Baker, L. R., Overall, N. C., Fletcher, G. J. O., Reis, H. T., Jamieson, J. P., & Sigal, M. J. (2021). Attachment anxiety and the curvilinear effects of expressive suppression on individuals’ and partners’ outcomes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121(3), 524–547. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000338

Manigault, A. W., Peters, B. J., & Zoccola, P. M. (2021). When enhanced awareness threatens: Interactive effects of domain-specific awareness and acceptance manipulations on cardiovascular indices of challenge and threat. Psychophysiology, 58(1), e13697. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13697

Gresham, A. M., Peters, B. J., Karantzas, G., Cameron, L. D., & Simpson, J. A. (2021). Examining associations between COVID-19 stressors, intimate partner violence, health, and health behaviors. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(8), 2291–2307. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211012098

Beltzer, M. L., Nock, M. K., Peters, B. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (2014). Rethinking butterflies: The affective, physiological, and performance effects of reappraising arousal during social evaluation. Emotion, 14(4), 761–768. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036326

Peters, B. J., Overall, N. C., & Jamieson, J. P. (2014). Physiological and cognitive consequences of suppressing and expressing emotion in dyadic interactions. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 94(1), 100–107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2014.07.015

2014:

2025:

Gresham, A. M., Peters, B. J., Karantzas, G. C., Cameron, L. D., & Simpson, J. A. (2025). Intimate partner violence victimization, habitual emotion regulation strategies, and health during COVID-19. Psychology of Violence. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000597

2024:

Peters, B. J., Overall, N. C., Gresham, A. M., Tudder, A., Chang, V. T., Reis, H. T., & Jamieson, J. P. (2024). Examining Dyadic Stress Appraisal Processes Within Romantic Relationships from a Challenge and Threat Perspective. Affective Science, 5(2), 69–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-024-00235-3

2015:

Roche, J. M., Peters, B., & Dale, R. (2015). “Your Tone Says It All”: The processing and interpretation of affective language. Speech Communication, 66, 47–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2014.07.004

DiGiovanni, A. M., Peters, B. J., Tudder, A., Gresham, A. M., & Bolger, N. (2024). Physiological synchrony in supportive discussions: An examination of co‐rumination, relationship type, and heterogeneity. Psychophysiology, 61(7), e14554. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14554

Peters, B. J., Hammond, M. D., Reis, H. T., & Jamieson, J. P. (2016). The consequences of having a dominant romantic partner on testosterone responses during a social interaction. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 74, 308–315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.09.024

Shimshock, C. J., Thorson, K. R., Peters, B. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (2025). Behavioral variability in physiological synchrony during future-based conversations between romantic partners. Emotion, 25(1), 186–197. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001437

Jamieson, J. P., Peters, B. J., Greenwood, E. J., & Altose, A. J. (2016). Reappraising Stress Arousal Improves Performance and Reduces Evaluation Anxiety in Classroom Exam Situations. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(6), 579–587. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616644656

Lang, J. C., Peters, B. J., Tudder, A., Gresham, A. M., Zoccola, P. M., & Allan, N. P. (2024). Conflicting patterns of cardiovascular reactivity, self-report, and behavior associated with social anxiety during a conversation with a close friend. Psychophysiology, 61(10), e14629. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14629

Peters, B. J., & Jamieson, J. P. (2016). The consequences of suppressing affective displays in romantic relationships: A challenge and threat perspective. Emotion, 16(7), 1050. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000202

Reis, H. T., De Jong, D. C., Lee, K. Y., O’keefe, S. D., & Peters, B. J. (2016). Promoting intimacy: Strategies suggested by the appetitive side. Positive approaches to optimal relationship development, 3-29.

2016:

2023:

Misiak, M., Behnke, M., Peters, B., Dziekan, M., Kosakowski, M., & Kaczmarek, Ł. D. (2023). Evil joy is hard to share: Negative affect attenuates interpersonal capitalizing on immoral deeds. Emotion, 23(1), 230–242. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001045

Peters, B. J., Reis, H. T., & Gable, S. L. (2018). Making the good even better: A review and theoretical model of interpersonal capitalization. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 12(7), e12407. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12407

Tudder, A., Wilkinson, M., Gresham, A. M., & Peters, B. J. (2023). The intrapersonal and interpersonal consequences of a new experimental manipulation of co-rumination. Emotion, 23(4), 1190–1201. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001151

Peters, B. J., Reis, H. T., & Jamieson, J. P. (2018). Cardiovascular indexes of threat impair responsiveness in situations of conflicting interests. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 123, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.12.005

Lin, L., Feldman, M. J., Tudder, A., Gresham, A. M., Peters, B. J., & Dodell-Feder, D. (2023). Friends in Sync? Examining the Relationship Between the Degree of Nonverbal Synchrony, Friendship Satisfaction and Support. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 47(3), 361–384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-023-00431-y

2018:

Gresham, A. M., Peters, B. J., Tudder, A., & Simpson, J. A. (2023). Sense of power and markers of challenge and threat during extra-dyadic problem discussions with romantic partners. Psychophysiology, 60(11), e14379. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14379

De Jong, D. C., Reis, H. T., Peters, B. J., DeHaan, C., & Birnbaum, G. E. (2019). The role of implicit sexual desire in romantic relationships. Personality and Individual Differences, 149, 46–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.05.042

Gresham, A. M., Peters, B. J., Karantzas, G. C., Cameron, L. D., Simpson, J. A., & DiGiovanni, A. M. (2023). Associations between power, stress, and dominance in romantic relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining curvilinear and within‐person effects. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(11), e12856. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12856

Peters, B. J., Overall, N. C., Girme, Y. U., & Jamieson, J. P. (2019). Partners’ attachment insecurity predicts greater physiological threat in anticipation of attachment-relevant interactions. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36(2), 469–489. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407517734655

2019:

Tudder, A., Lemay, E. P., & Peters, B. J. (2023). “Let’s go over it again”: Examining the intra- and interpersonal processes that perpetuate co-rumination in close relationships. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001297

Joel, S., Eastwick, P. W., Allison, C. J., Arriaga, X. B., Baker, Z. G., Bar-Kalifa, E., Bergeron, S., Birnbaum, G. E., Brock, R. L., Brumbaugh, C. C., Carmichael, C. L., Chen, S., Clarke, J., Cobb, R. J., Coolsen, M. K., Davis, J., de Jong, D. C., Debrot, A., DeHaas, E. C., … Wolf, S. (2020). Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(32), 19061–19071. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917036117

2022:

Tomlinson, J. M., Feeney, B. C., & Peters, B. J. (2020). Growing into retirement: Longitudinal evidence for the importance of partner support for self-expansion. Psychology and Aging, 35(7), 1041–1049. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000560

Tomlinson, J. M., Feeney, B. C., J. Peters, B., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Physiological correlates of support for self-expansion and links to goal pursuit in retirement. Psychophysiology, 59(9), e14061. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14061

Tudder, A., Gresham, A. M., Peters, B. J., Reis, H. T., & Jamieson, J. P. (2020). The effects of dispositional restrictiveness on physiological markers of challenge and threat during a hypothetical transitional period in romantic relationships. Psychophysiology, 57(10). https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13624

Overall, N. C., Clark, M. S., Fletcher, G. J. O., Peters, B. J., & Chang, V. T. (2020). Does expressing emotions enhance perceptual accuracy of negative emotions during relationship interactions? Emotion, 20(3), 353–367. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000653

Hayes, C. L., Peters, B. J., & Foster, J. A. (2020). Microbes and mental health: Can the microbiome help explain clinical heterogeneity in psychiatry? Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 58, 100849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2020.100849

Peters, B. J., & Overall, N. C. (2020). Perceptions of romantic partners’ emotional suppression are more biased than accurate. Emotion, 20(8), 1485–1489. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000679

Peters, B. J., Overall, N. C., Cameron, L. D., Hammond, M. D., Low, R. S., & Girme, Y. U. (2020). Do habitual emotional suppression measures predict response-focused situational suppression during social interactions? Emotion, 20(6), 1005.

2020:

DiGiovanni, A. M., Peters, B. J., Li, X., Tudder, A., & Gresham, A. M. (2025). It takes two to co-ruminate: Examining co-rumination as a dyadic and dynamic system. Emotion, 25(8), 1897–1911. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001542

Stuart, N. C., Peters, B. J., Zoccola, P. M., Tudder, A., & Jamieson, J. P. (2025). Interpersonal Conversations Are Characterized by Increases in Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia. Psychophysiology, 62(3), e70043. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70043

Jamieson, J. P., Valdesolo, P., & Peters, B. J. (2014). Sympathy for the devil? The physiological and psychological effects of being an agent (and target) of dissent during intragroup conflict. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 221–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.07.011

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