Publications
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+ Denotes equal contribution
Murray, K.*, & Koopmann-Holm, B. (2024). Facing discomfort: Avoided negative affect shapes the acknowledgment of systemic racism. Emotion. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001364
Larco, S. S.*, Romo, M. G., Garcés, M. S., & Koopmann-Holm, B. (2024). People in Ecuador and the United States conceptualize compassion differently: The role of avoided negative affect. Emotion. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001356
Richter, M.*, Koopmann-Holm, B., & Chen, L. (2022). Verbal labels affect holistic and analytic thinking styles in native English speakers. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/255154gt
Koopmann-Holm, B., Bruchmann, K., Fuchs, M.*, & Pearson, M.* (2021). What constitutes a compassionate response? The important role of culture. Emotion, 21(8), 1610-1624. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001007
Kevane, M.Co, & Koopmann-Holm, B.Co (2021). Improving reverse correlation analysis of faces: Diagnostics of order effects, runs, rater agreement, and image pairs. Behavior Research Methods, 53(4), 1609-1647. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01499-w
Koopmann-Holm, B., Bartel, K.*+, Bin Meshar, M.*+, & Yang, H. E.*+ (2020). Seeing the whole picture? Avoided negative affect and processing of others’ suffering. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(9), 1363-1377. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220903905
Koopmann-Holm, B., Sze, J., Jinpa, T., & Tsai, J. L. (2020). Compassion meditation increases optimism towards a transgressor. Cognition and Emotion, 34(5), 1028-1035. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1703648
Bruchmann, K., Koopmann-Holm, B., & Scherer, A. (2018). Seeing beyond political affiliations: The mediating role of perceived moral foundations on the partisan similarity-liking effect. PLOS ONE, 13(8), e0202101. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202101
Sims, T., Koopmann-Holm, B., Young, H. R., Jiang, D., Fung, H., & Tsai, J. L. (2018). Asian Americans respond less favorably to excitement (vs. calm)-focused physicians compared to European Americans. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000171
Koopmann-Holm, B., & Tsai, J. L. (2017). The cultural shaping of compassion. In E. M. Seppälä, E. Simon-Thomas, S. L. Brown, M. C. Worline, C. D. Cameron, & J. R. Doty (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of compassion science (pp. 273-285). Oxford University Press. 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464684.001.0001
Koopmann-Holm, B., & O’Connor, A. J. (2017). An analysis of Alan D. Baddeley and Graham Hitch’s working memory. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781912282418
Ford, B. Q., Dmitrieva, J. O., Heller, D., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Grossmann, I., Tamir, M., Uchida, Y., Koopmann-Holm, B., Floerke, V. A., Uhrig, M., Bokhan, T., & Mauss, I. B. (2015). Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(6), 1053-1062. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000108
Koopmann-Holm, B., & Tsai, J. L. (2014). Focusing on the negative: Cultural differences in expressions of sympathy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(6), 1092-1115. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037684
Sims, T., Tsai, J. L., Koopmann-Holm, B., Thomas, E. A. C., & Goldstein, M. K. (2014). Choosing a physician depends on how you want to feel: The role of ideal affect in health-related decision making. Emotion, 14(1), 187-192. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034372
Koopmann-Holm, B., Sze, J., Ochs, C., & Tsai, J. L. (2013). Buddhist-inspired meditation increases the value of calm. Emotion, 13(3), 497-505. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031070
Tsai, J. L., Koopmann-Holm, B., Miyazaki, M., & Ochs, C. (2013). The religious shaping of feeling: Implications of affect valuation theory. In R. F. Paloutzian & C. L. Park (Eds.), Handbook of the psychology of religion and spirituality (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.
Koopmann-Holm, B., & Matsumoto, D. (2011). Values and display rules for specific emotions. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(3), 355-371. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022110362753
Matsumoto, D., Nezlek, J. B., & Koopmann, B. (2007). Evidence for universality in phenomenological emotion response system coherence. Emotion, 7(1), 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.7.1.57
Amelang, M., Koopmann, B., & Schmidt-Rathjens, C. (2004). Gesundheitsbezogene Konstrukte [Health-related constructs]. In K. Pawlik (Ed.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Themenbereich C: Theorie und Forschung, Serie VIII: Differentielle Psychologie und Persönlichkeitsforschung [Encyclopedia of psychology, subject area C: Theory and research, series VIII: Differential psychology and research in personality] (Vol. 5, pp. 619-684). Hogrefe.