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2026
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Zach J. Gray
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Graduate student
Graduate Student Researcher
5 h-index
13 pubs
101 cited
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Biography and Research Information
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Zach J. Gray's research investigates the complex interplay between stress, emotion, and cognitive processes, with a particular focus on how these factors influence decision-making and behavior. His work has explored how subjective stress severity predicts health outcomes and how acute stress impacts executive control, differentiating between affective and cognitive components. Gray has also examined the relationship between cumulative stressor exposure and menstrual cycle changes in individuals with suicidal ideation, as well as the role of lifetime stressor exposure in the emotional eating cycle. His research extends to the influence of stress on risky decision-making, noting sex-specific differences, and the impact of writing about stressful experiences on memory consolidation. Additionally, his work has identified associations between neural and peripheral reward markers and reduced depressive symptom severity in adolescents.
Metrics
- h-index: 5
- Publications: 13
- Citations: 101
Selected Publications
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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
9 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
- Neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation are associated with less clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescence
- Writing about a stressful experience improves semantic clustering of memory in men, not women
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
George M. Slavich
Neurobehavioral Systems (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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