A Health Psychology Award fund was established in 2012 to provide an annual award for a Health Psychology research paper, authored by a graduate student, that exemplifies an outstanding contribution to the science of health psychology.
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Year |
Recipient |
Article Title |
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2026 |
Robin Blades |
Blades, R. B., Boyle, C. C., Eisenberger, N. I., Cole, S. W., Korecki, J. R. T., Fuligni, A. J., & Bower, J. E. (2026). Neural mechanisms of mindfulness: reduced neural reactivity to social-evaluative threat accounts for mindfulness intervention effects on inflammatory gene expression. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 133, 106284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2026.106284 |
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2025 |
Tyrus Korecki |
Korecki, J. R. T., Slavich, G. M., Ganz, P. A., Irwin, M. R., Cole, S., Crespi, C. M., & Bower, J. E. (2025). Depression and Inflammation in Women with Breast Cancer: Risk and Resilience Factors. Biopsychosocial science and medicine, 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001398. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000001398 |
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2024 |
Joni Brown |
Brown, J. A., Wilson, P. A., & Dunkel Schetter, C. (2024). Sexual socialization experiences and perceived effects on sexual and reproductive health in young African American women. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 90(1), 82–97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01435-0 |
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2023 |
Gabrielle Rinne |
Rinne, G. R., Somers, J. A., Ramos, I. F., Ross, K. M., Coussons-Read, M., & Dunkel Schetter, C. (2022). Increases in maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy and infant cortisol reactivity: Mediation by placental corticotropin-releasing hormone. Development and psychopathology, 1–14. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579422000621 |
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2022 |
Corinne Meinhausen |
Meinhausen, C., Prather, A. A., & Sumner, J. A. (2022). Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep, and cardiovascular disease risk: A mechanism-focused narrative review. Health psychology: official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 41(10), 663–673. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001143 |
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2021 |
Arielle Radin |
Radin, A., Ganz, P. A., Van Dyk, K., Stanton, A. L., & Bower, J. E. (2021). Executive Functioning and Depressive Symptoms After Cancer: The Mediating Role of Coping. Psychosomatic medicine, 83(3), 291–299. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000926 |
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2020 |
Daniel Rosenfeld |
Rosenfeld, D. L., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2020). Taste and health concerns trump anticipated stigma as barriers to vegetarianism. Appetite, 144, 104469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.104469 |
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2019 |
Isabel Ramos |
Ramos, I. F., Guardino, C. M., Mansolf, M., Glynn, L. M., Sandman, C. A., Hobel, C. J., & Dunkel Schetter, C. (2019). Pregnancy anxiety predicts shorter gestation in Latina and non-Latina white women: The role of placental corticotrophin-releasing hormone. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 99, 166–173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.09.008 |
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2018 |
Jenna R. Cummings |
Cummings, J. R., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2019). Food loves company: Risky eating with friends increases interpersonal closeness. Health in Context: New Perspectives on Healthy Thinking and Healthy Living, 81, 61–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.07.006 |
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2017 |
Sunhye Bai |
Bai, S., Robles, T. F., Reynolds, B. M., & Repetti, R. L. (2017). Children’s diurnal cortisol responses to negative events at school and home. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 83, 150–158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.05.027 |
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2016 |
Angela Rodriguez and Larissa Dooley |
Incollingo Rodriguez, A. C., Epel, E. S., White, M. L., Standen, E. C., Seckl, J. R., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2015). Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation and cortisol activity in obesity: A systematic review. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 62, 301–318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.08.014
Dooley, L. N., Ganz, P. A., Cole, S. W., Crespi, C. M., & Bower, J. E. (2016). Val66Met BDNF polymorphism as a vulnerability factor for inflammation-associated depressive symptoms in women with breast cancer. Journal of Affective Disorders, 197, 43–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.02.059 |
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2015 |
Chloe Boyle |
Boyle, C. C., Stanton, A. L., Ganz, P. A., & Bower, J. E. (2017). Posttraumatic growth in breast cancer survivors: does age matter?. Psycho-oncology, 26(6), 800–807. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4091 |
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2014 |
Alyssa Cheadle |
Cheadle, A. C., Dunkel Schetter, C., Gaines Lanzi, R., Reed Vance, M., Sahadeo, L. S., Shalowitz, M. U., & Community and Child Health Network (CCHN) (2015). Spiritual and Religious Resources in African American Women: Protection from Depressive Symptoms Following Birth. Clinical psychological science: a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 3(2), 283–291. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702614531581 |
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2013 |
Jessica Chang |
Chiang, J. J., Eisenberger, N. I., Seeman, T. E., & Taylor, S. E. (2012). Negative and competitive social interactions are related to heightened proinflammatory cytokine activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(6), 1878–1882. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120972109 |