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2026
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Zach J. Gray
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Graduate student
5 h-index
15 pubs
108 cited
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Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Zach J. Gray's research investigates the intricate relationship between stress, emotions, and cognitive processes, with a particular focus on individual differences and health outcomes. His work has explored how subjective stress severity predicts health, examining distinct effects of acute stress on affective and cognitive components of executive control. Gray has also studied the influence of cumulative stressor exposure on mood fluctuations during the menstrual cycle in specific patient populations and investigated the link between lifetime stressor exposure, eating expectancies, and acute social stress-related eating behavior.
Further research by Gray has examined how acute stress impacts risky decision-making processes, noting potential sex differences. His studies have also explored the effects of writing about stressful experiences on memory, finding differential impacts based on sex. Additionally, he has investigated the association between neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation and clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescents.
Metrics
- h-index: 5
- Publications: 15
- Citations: 108
Positions
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Graduate student 2021–presentUniversity of Arkansas at Fayetteville Psychological Science ORCID
Selected Publications
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Think Fast, Vote Wrong: The Effects of Acute Stress on Voting Behaviors (2026)Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science OpenAlex
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Lifetime Stressor Exposure Profiles and Trait Risk for Substance Use in Young Adults (2026)
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To mask, or not to mask: An exploratory examination of factors that predict changes in mask wearing over the pandemic in College Students (2025)
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Acute stress differentially influences risky decision-making processes by sex: A hierarchical bayesian analysis (2024)
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Cumulative stressor exposure predicts menstrual cycle affective changes in a transdiagnostic outpatient sample with past-month suicidal ideation (2024)
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Acute stress influences the emotional foundations of executive control: Distinct effects on control-related affective and cognitive processes (2023)
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Testing the theory of stress as a cumulative prediction error (2023)
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Risky business: Effects of stress on risky decision making (2023)
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Writing about a stressful experience improves semantic clustering of memory in men, not women (2023)
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Lifetime stressor exposure, eating expectancy, and acute social stress-related eating behavior: A pre-registered study of the emotional eating cycle (2023)
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Neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation are associated with less clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescence (2022)
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Why is subjective stress severity a stronger predictor of health than stressor exposure? A preregistered two‐study test of two hypotheses (2022)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Grant S. Shields
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
10 shared publications
In database
- Why is subjective stress severity a stronger predictor of health than stressor exposure? A preregistered two‐study test of two hypotheses
- Acute stress influences the emotional foundations of executive control: Distinct effects on control-related affective and cognitive processes
- Cumulative stressor exposure predicts menstrual cycle affective changes in a transdiagnostic outpatient sample with past-month suicidal ideation
- Acute stress differentially influences risky decision-making processes by sex: A hierarchical bayesian analysis
- Neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation are associated with less clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescence
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
George M. Slavich
University of California, Los Angeles (US)
4 shared publications
- Why is subjective stress severity a stronger predictor of health than stressor exposure? A preregistered two‐study test of two hypotheses
- Cumulative stressor exposure predicts menstrual cycle affective changes in a transdiagnostic outpatient sample with past-month suicidal ideation
- Lifetime stressor exposure, eating expectancy, and acute social stress-related eating behavior: A pre-registered study of the emotional eating cycle
- Neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation are associated with less clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescence
Colton L. Hunter
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
3 shared publications
In database
- Acute stress influences the emotional foundations of executive control: Distinct effects on control-related affective and cognitive processes
- Writing about a stressful experience improves semantic clustering of memory in men, not women
- Testing the theory of stress as a cumulative prediction error
Elleona V. Trudell
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
2 shared publications
In database
- Acute stress influences the emotional foundations of executive control: Distinct effects on control-related affective and cognitive processes
- Writing about a stressful experience improves semantic clustering of memory in men, not women
Emily J Patterson
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
2 shared publications
- Risky business: Effects of stress on risky decision making
- Testing the theory of stress as a cumulative prediction error
Alyssa N. Fassett-Carman
Brandeis University (US)
1 shared publication
- Why is subjective stress severity a stronger predictor of health than stressor exposure? A preregistered two‐study test of two hypotheses
Joseph E. Gonzales
University of Massachusetts Lowell (US)
1 shared publication
- Why is subjective stress severity a stronger predictor of health than stressor exposure? A preregistered two‐study test of two hypotheses
Hannah R. Snyder
Brandeis University (US)
1 shared publication
- Why is subjective stress severity a stronger predictor of health than stressor exposure? A preregistered two‐study test of two hypotheses
Stassja Sichko
University of California, Los Angeles (US)
1 shared publication
- Neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation are associated with less clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescence
Theresa Q. Bui
Tulane University (US)
1 shared publication
- Neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation are associated with less clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescence
Meghan Vinograd
University of California San Diego (US)
1 shared publication
- Neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation are associated with less clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescence
Hector A. Olvera‐Alvarez
Oregon Health & Science University (US)
1 shared publication
- Neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation are associated with less clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescence
Rebecca R. Klatzkin
Rhodes College (US)
1 shared publication
- Lifetime stressor exposure, eating expectancy, and acute social stress-related eating behavior: A pre-registered study of the emotional eating cycle
Tzvi Nadel
Rhodes College (US)
1 shared publication
- Lifetime stressor exposure, eating expectancy, and acute social stress-related eating behavior: A pre-registered study of the emotional eating cycle
Laura L. Wilkinson
Swansea University (GB)
1 shared publication
- Lifetime stressor exposure, eating expectancy, and acute social stress-related eating behavior: A pre-registered study of the emotional eating cycle
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