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Qamar, P., Lentz, J., Pine, D. S., & Kirk, P. A. (Under Review). Evaluating data-driven methods to capture Anxious Arousal with Movie fMRI. Preprint DOI: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/tjbvx_v2 

Kirk, P. A., Qamar, P., Zugman, A., Abend, R., Kircanski, K., & Pine, D. S. (Preprint). Pediatric Anxiety and Movie-Evoked Brain-Heart Communication. Preprint DOI: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2mypc 

Qamar, P., Diaz, D., Benson, B., Pine, D. S., Kirk, P. A.*, and Michalska, K.* (2026). Children’s Pre-Scanning State Anxiety and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Salience and Default Mode Networks: A Cross-Site Study. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-34410-8 

Qamar, P., Lebowitz, L., Abend, R., Pine, D. S., Kirk, P. A. (2025). Assessing Behavioral Threat Avoidance in Pediatric Anxiety with Naturalistic Games. Mental Health Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/mhs2.70036

Lukow, P. B.,... Kirk, P. A., Robinson, O. J. (2025). Brain activation and connectivity after 2–3 weeks of escitalopram administration in anxiety disorders: A randomised trial. Journal of Affective Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.120682

Kirk, P. A., Qamar, P., Lentz, J., Zugman, A., Abend, R., Kircanski, K., & Pine, D. S. (2025). Linking Subjective Experience of Anxiety to Brain Function using Natural Language Processing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf099

Kirk, P. A., Qamar, P., Zugman, A., Abend, R., Frank, S., Ringlein, G., Jett, L., DeLap, G., Harrewijn, A., Pine, D., & Kircanski, K. (2025). The Relations Among Anxiety, Movie-Watching, and In-Scanner Motion. Human Brain Mapping. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70163

Kirk, P. A., Pine, D. S., & Kircanski, K. (2025). Extending insights from LeDoux: Using movies to study subjective, clinically meaningful experiences in neuroscience. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae422

Lukow P. B.,… Kirk, P. A., Robinson, O. J. (2024). Amygdala activity after subchronic escitalopram administration in healthy volunteers: A pharmaco-functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Psychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811241286773

Buehler, S. K., Lowther, M., Lukow, P. B., Kirk, P. A.,… Robinson, O. J. (2024). Independent replications reveal anterior and posterior cingulate cortex activation underlying state anxiety-attenuated face encoding. Communications Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00128-y

Kirk, P. A., & Robinson, O. J. (2024). Neuroanatomical Subtyping of Phobias: Implications for Function and Development. American Journal of Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240502

Kirk, P. A., & Robinson, O. J. (2024). Preliminary evidence for altered brain-heart coherence during anxiogenic movies. Imaging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00156

Kirk, P. A., Holmes, A. J., & Robinson, O. J. (2023). Anxiety Shapes Amygdala-Prefrontal Dynamics During Movie-Watching. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2022.03.009

Kirk, P. A., Foret-Bruno, P., Lowther, M., Garfinkel, S., Skipper, J. I., & Robinson, O. J. (Preprint). Anxiety symptomatology and subjective-cardiac responding to a suspenseful movie clip. Preprint DOI: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dqhnx

Richie-Halford, A.,... The Fibr Community Science Consortium, Satterthwaite, T. D., & Rokem A. (2022). An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. Scientific Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01695-7

Kirk, P. A., Holmes, A. J., & Robinson, O. J. (2022). Threat Vigilance and Intrinsic Amygdala Connectivity. Human Brain Mapping. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25851

Kirk, P. A., Garfinkel, S. N., & Robinson, O. J. (2022). RapidHRV: an open-source toolbox for extracting heart rate and heart rate variability. PeerJ. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13147

Kirk, P. A., Robinson, O. J., & Skipper, J. I. (2022). Anxiety and Amygdala Connectivity During Movie-watching. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108194

de Groot, J. H*. B., Kirk, P. A.*, & Gottfried, J. A. (2021). Titrating the smell of fear: Initial evidence for dose-invariant behavioral, physiological, and neural responses. Psychological Science.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620970548

Kirk, P. A., Robinson, O. J., & Gilbert, S. J. (2021). Trait anxiety does not correlate with metacognitive confidence or reminder usage in a delayed intentions task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820970156

Sarigiannidis. I., Kirk, P. A., Roiser, J. P., & Robinson, O. J. (2020). Does overloading cognitive resources mimic the impact of anxiety on temporal cognition? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000845

de Groot, J. H. B., Kirk, P. A., & Gottfried, J. A. (2020). Encoding fear intensity in human sweat. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0271

Kirk, P. A., Cohen, A. O., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. & Harris, L. T. (Preprint). Rehumanizing the homeless: Altered BOLD response following contact with an extreme outgroup. Preprint DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/46267