Social Self Threat Publications

Dickerson, S.S., Gruenewald, T. L., & Kemeny, M. E. (2004). When the social self is threatened:  Shame, physiology and health. Journal of Personality72(6), 1191-1216. 

Dickerson, S.S., Gruenewald, T.L., & Kemeny, M.E (2011).  Physiological effects of social threat:  Implications for health.  In J.T. Cacioppo & J. Decety (Eds.) Handbook of Social Neuroscience (pp. 787-803).  New York, NY:  Oxford University Press. 

Dickerson, S.S., Gruenewald, T.L., & Kemeny, M.E. (2009).  Psychobiological response to social self threat: Functional or detrimental? Self and Identity8(2): 270-285. 

Gruenewald, T.L., Dickerson, S.S., & Kemeny, M.E. (2007). A social function for shame: The Social Self-Preservation Theory.  In J.L. Tracy, R.W. Robins, & J. Tangney (Eds.) The Self-Conscious Emotions, New York: The Guilford Press, pp. 68-87. 

Gruenewald, T.L., Kemeny, M.E., & Aziz, A. (2006).  Subjective social status as a moderator of cortisol responses to social threat.  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity,20(4), 410-419. 

Gruenewald, T.L., Kemeny, M.E., Aziz, N., & Fahey, J.L. (2004).  Acute threat to the social self: Shame, social self-esteem and cortisol activity.  Psychosomatic Medicine, 66(6), 915-924. 

Kemeny, M.E., Gruenewald, T.L., & Dickerson, S.S. (2004). Shame as the emotional response to threat to the social self:  Implications for behavior, physiology, and health.  Psychological Inquiry15(2), 153-160.