Publications
Neural reward responsiveness moderates the effect of a brief positive emotion-focused training on perceived stress in college students
Yao, D., Carlton, C., Long, Y., Venanzi, L., Pegg, S., Bean, C. A. L., & Kujawa, A. (in press). Biological Psychology.
Neighborhood disadvantage as a moderator of children’s response to a dyadic positive affect intervention for children of mothers with depressive symptoms
Yerger, J., Cárdenas, E. F., Granros, M., Feurer, C., Patel, K. R., Moon, G., Stibor, A., Kujawa, A., & Burkhouse, K. L. (2026). Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.
Associations between birth-related stressors, social reward responsiveness, and postpartum internalizing symptoms
Cárdenas, E.F., Jackson, M., Garon-Bissonnette, J., Harkness, K. L., Humphreys, K. L., & Kujawa, A. (in press). Anxiety, Stress, & Coping.
Social reward responsiveness moderates the association between perceived social competence and depressive symptoms in adolescents
Patel, K. R., Carlton, C. N. Venanzi, L., Pegg, S. & Kujawa, A. (2026). Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 54, 7.
Low reward responsiveness as a moderator of chronic stress effects on depressive symptoms in adolescents: An examination of monetary and social rewards
Pegg, S., Faivre, M., Moon, G., & Kujawa, A. (2026). Journal of Affective Disorders, 405, 121534.
Interpersonal contributors to depression in sexual minority adolescents: An examination of exposure to acute stressors and neural reactivity to interpersonal emotional images
Long, Y., Carlton, C. N.., Pegg, S., Venanzi, L., Woronko, S., Clark, K. A., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Developmental Psychobiology, 68, e70092.
A pilot randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention targeting positive valence systems function to prevent internalizing symptoms in college students
Long, Y., Bean, C. A. L., Venanzi, L., Boldwyn, E., Dao, A., Dickey, L., Jackson, M., Mueller, R., Pegg, S., Winglass, M., Weis, V., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 93, 281-292.
Associations between maternal birth complications and postpartum depressive symptoms: A systematic narrative review and meta-analysis
Cárdenas, E. F., Yu, E., Jackson, M., Humphreys, K.L., & Kujawa, A. (2025). Women’s Health, 21.
Opioid exposure in gestation, postnatal adversity, and preschool age cognitive functioning
Ravi, S., Molnar, A. E., Cárdenas, E. F., Kujawa, A., & Humphreys, K. L. (2025). International Journal of Behavioral Development, 49, 101-108.
Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in sexual minority adolescents: An examination of social reward responsiveness and support as moderators
Long, Y., Pegg, S., Kittleson, A., Clark, K., & Kujawa, A. (2024). Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, 8, 100090.
Reduced reward responsiveness and depression vulnerability: Consideration of social contexts and implications for intervention
Kujawa, A. (2024). Psychophysiology, 61, e14528.
The effects of stress on reward responsiveness: A systematic review and preliminary meta-analysis of the event-related potential literature
Pegg, S., & Kujawa, A. (2024). Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 24, 42-59.
Interpersonal trauma effects on adolescent depression: The moderating role of neurophysiological responses to positive interpersonal images
Long, Y., Dickey, L., Pegg, S., Argiros, A., Venanzi, L., Dao, A., & Kujawa, A. (2024). Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 52, 195-206.
Neural markers of emotion regulation difficulties moderate effects of COVID-19 stressors on adolescent depression
Gupta, R. S., Dickey, L., & Kujawa, A. (2022). Depression and Anxiety, 39, 515-523.
Longitudinal predictors of depression, anxiety, and alcohol use following COVID-19-related stress
Venanzi, L., Dickey, L., Green, H., Pegg, S., Benningfield, M. M., Bettis, A. H., Blackford, J. U., & Kujawa, A. (2022). Stress and Health, 38, 679-691.
#Socialdistancing: Social media use and online social support moderate the effect of pandemic-related stress on internalizing symptoms in emerging adults
Politte-Corn, Nick, E., Dickey, L., Pegg, S., Cole, D. C., & Kujawa, A. (2022). Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 4, 30-53.
Understanding trajectories to anxiety and depression: Neural responses to errors and reward as indices of susceptibility to stressful life events
Weinberg, A., Kujawa, A., & Riesel, A. (2022). Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31, 115-123.
Performance monitoring and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clarifying pathways to internalizing psychopathology
Kujawa, A. (2021). Invited commentary in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 1, 249-251
Neurophysiological responses to interpersonal emotional images prospectively predict the impact of COVID-19 pandemic-related stress on internalizing symptoms
Dickey, L., West, M., Pegg, S. Green, H., & Kujawa, A. (2021). Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 6, 887-897.
Neurophysiological responses to interpersonal emotional images: Associations with symptoms of depression and anxiety
Dickey, L., Pegg, S., & Kujawa, A. (2021). Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 21, 1306-1318.
Exposure to COVID-19 pandemic stress: Associations with depression and anxiety in emerging adults in the U.S.
Kujawa, A., Green, H., Compas, B. E., Dickey, L., & Pegg, S. (2020). Depression and Anxiety, 37, 1280-1288.
Developmental trajectories to reduced activation of positive valence systems: A review of biological and environmental contributions
Kujawa, A., Klein, D. N., Pegg, S., & Weinberg, A. (2020). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 43, 100791.
Effects of maternal depression and mother-child relationship quality in early childhood on neural reactivity to rejection and peer stress in adolescence: A 9-year longitudinal study
Kujawa, A., Arfer, K. B., Finsaas, M., Kessel, E. M., Mumper, E., & Klein, D. N. (2020). Clinical Psychological Science, 8, 657-672.
Stressful life events moderate the effect of neural reward responsiveness in childhood on depressive symptoms in adolescence
Goldstein, B. L., Kessel, E. M., Kujawa, A., Finsaas, M. C., Davila, J., Hajcak, G., & Klein, D. N. (2020). Psychological Medicine, 50, 1548-1555.
Blunted social reward responsiveness moderates the effects of social stress on dysphoric symptoms in emerging adults
Pegg, S., Ethridge, P., Shields, G. S., Slavich, G. M., Weinberg, A., & Kujawa, A. (2019). Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 178.
Peer victimization and dysfunctional reward processing: ERP and behavioral responses to social and monetary rewards
Rappaport, B. I., Hennefield, L., Kujawa, A., Arfer, K. B., Kelly, D., Kappenman, E., Luby, J. L., & Barch, D. M. (2019). Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 120.
Hurricane Sandy exposure alters the development of neural reactivity to negative stimuli in children
Kessel, E. M., Nelson, B. D., Kujawa, A., Hajcak, G., Kotov, R., Carlson, G. A., Bromet, E. J., & Klein, D. N. (2018). Child Development, 89, 339-348.
Neural reactivity to emotional stimuli prospectively predicts the impact of a natural disaster on psychiatric symptoms in children
Kujawa, A., Hajcak, G., Danzig, A. P., Black, S. R., Bromet, E. J., Carlson, G. A., Kotov, R., & Klein. D. N. (2016). Biological Psychiatry, 80, 381-389.