Zach J. Gray Data-verified

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Graduate student

University of Arkansas

Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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4 h-index 13 pubs 85 cited

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Zach J. Gray's research investigates the multifaceted relationship between stress, cognition, and behavior. His work has explored how subjective stress severity and cumulative stressor exposure predict health outcomes and influence affective changes, particularly in relation to menstrual cycles. Gray has examined the impact of acute stress on executive control, including its effects on affective and cognitive processes. His publications also address how stress influences decision-making, specifically risky decision-making, with analyses noting sex-based differences. Additionally, his research has touched upon the effects of stress on memory, with findings suggesting differential impacts on semantic clustering of memory in men versus women. Gray has also investigated the neural and peripheral markers associated with reward during social evaluation and their connection to depression symptom severity in adolescents.

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h-index: 4
Publications: 13
Citations: 85

Selected Publications

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)

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