Publications

2025

Li, K., Nash, K., & Zheng, Y. (2025). Blunted P300 Prospectively Bridges Cognitive Reappraisal and Depressive Symptoms. Psychophysiology, 62(12). https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70196

Schütze, T., Nash, K., Gehrke, B., & Wichardt, P. C. (2025). Influenced by others: Trusting behaviour and social influence. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 116, 102370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2025.102370

Tamari Shalamberidze, Nash, K., & Caplan, J. B. (2025). Rhythmic activity in resting state EEG predicts trait anxiety. Imaging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag.a.44

2024

Kleinert, T., Koenig, T., Nash, K., & Wascher, E. (2023). On the Reliability of the EEG Microstate Approach. Brain Topography. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-023-00982-9

Kleinert, T., Nash, K., Koenig, T., & Wascher, E. (2023). Normative Intercorrelations Between EEG Microstate Characteristics. Brain Topography, 37(2), 265–269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-023-00988-3

Kleinert, T., & Nash, K. (2022). Trait Aggression is Reflected by a Lower Temporal Stability of EEG Resting Networks. Brain Topography. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-022-00929-6

Schiller, B., Matthias F.J. Sperl, Kleinert, T., Nash, K., & Lorena. (2023). EEG Microstates in Social and Affective Neuroscience. Brain Topography. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-023-00987-4

Nagabhushan Kalburgi, S., Kleinert, T., Aryan, D., Nash, K., Schiller, B., & Koenig, T. (2023). MICROSTATELAB: The EEGLAB Toolbox for Resting-State Microstate Analysis. Brain Topography. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-023-01003-5

Simpson, D., & Nash, K. (2024). Applying process dissociation to self-sacrificial moral dilemmas: Extending the dual-process model. Cognition, 250, 105873–105873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105873

Leota, J., Faulkner, P., Mazidi, S., Simpson, D., & Nash, K. (2024). Neural rhythms of narcissism: Facets of narcissism are associated with different neural sources in resting‐state EEG. European Journal of Neuroscience, 60(5), 4907–4921. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16479

Wang, M.-J., Yogeeswaran, K., Nash, K., & Sivaram, S. (2024). Morality and partisan social media engagement: a natural language examination of moral political messaging and engagement during the 2018 US midterm elections. Journal of Computational Social Science, 7(2), 1699–1726. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-024-00288-1

2023

Leota, J., Nash, K., & McGregor, I. (2021). Reactive Risk-Taking: Anxiety Regulation Via Approach Motivation Increases Risk-Taking Behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(1), 014616722110596. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211059689

Leota, J., Simpson, D., Mazidi, D., & Nash, K. (2022). Purity, politics, and polarization: Political ideology moderates threat‐induced shifts in moral purity beliefs. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12596

Nash, K., Leota, J., Kleinert, T., & Hayward, D. A. (2022). Anxiety disrupts performance monitoring: integrating behavioral, event-related potential, EEG microstate, and sLORETA evidence. Cerebral Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac307

2022

Kleinert, T., Nash, K., Leota, J., Koenig, T., Heinrichs, M., & Schiller, B. (2022). A Self-Controlled Mind Is Reflected by Stable Mental Processing. Psychological Science, 33(12), 2123–2137. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221110136

Leota, J., Hoffman, D., Mascaro, L., Czeisler, M. É., Nash, K., Drummond, S. P. A., Anderson, C., Rajaratnam, S. M., & Facer-Childs, E. (2021). Home is where the hustle is: The influence of crowds on effort and home advantage in the National Basketball Association. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3898283

Nash, K., Kleinert, T., Leota, J., Scott, A., & Schimel, J. (2022). Resting-state networks of believers and non-believers: An EEG microstate study. Biological Psychology, 169, 108283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108283

Nash, K., & Leota, J. (2021). Political Orientation as Psychological Defense or Basic Disposition? A Social Neuroscience Examination. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 22. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00965-y

Yogeeswaran, K., Nash, K., Jia, H., Adelman, L., & Verkuyten, M. (2021). Intolerant of being tolerant? Examining the impact of intergroup toleration on relative left frontal activity and outgroup attitudes. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-01290-2

2021

Wang, M.-J., Yogeeswaran, K., Sivaram, S., & Nash, K. (2021). Examining spread of emotional political content among Democratic and Republican candidates during the 2018 US mid-term elections. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00987-4

Nash, K., Leota, J., Tran, A. (2021). Neural processes in antecedent anxiety modulate risk-taking behavior. Scientific Reports, 2637(11).

Leota, J., Kleinert, T., Tran, A., & Nash, K. (2021). Neural signatures of heterogeneity in risk-taking and strategic consistency. European Journal of Neuroscience.

Nash, K., & Leota, J. (2021). Political orientation as psychological defense or basic disposition? A social neuroscience examination. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00965-y

2020

Andrews, N.P., Yogeeswaran, K., Wang, M.J., Nash, K., Hawi, D.R., & Sibley, C.G. (2020). Is social media use changing who we are? Examining the bidirectional relationship between personality and social media use. Cyberpsychology, Behaviour, and Social Networking, 23(11), 752-760.

Nash, K., Tran, A., Leota, J., Scott, A. (2020). Economic threat heightens conflict detection: sLORETA evidence. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(9), 981-990.

2019

Sainudiin, R., Yogeeswaran, K., Nash, K., & Sahioun, R. (2019). Characterizing the Twitter network of prominent politicians and SPLC-defined hate groups in the 2016 US presidential election. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 9.

Nash, K., Johansson, A., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2019) Social Media Approval Reduces Emotional Arousal for People High in Narcissism: Electrophysiological Evidence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 292

Struthers, C. W., Khoury, C. H., Phills, C., E., van Monsjou, E., Guilfoyle, J. R., Nash, K., Golenitski, V., & Summers, C. (2019). The effects of social power and apology on victims’ posttransgression responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25(1), 100-116.

2015

Baumgartner, T.,* Nash, K.,* Hill, C., & Knoch, D. (2015). Neuroanatomy of intergroup bias: A white matter microstructure study of individual differences. Neuroimage, 122, 345-354. *Shared first authorship

Knoch, D., & Nash, K. (2015). Self-control in social decision-making: A neurobiological perspective. In G.H.E. Gendolla, S. Koole, M. Tops (Eds.), Handbook of Biobehavioral Foundations of Self-Regulation. New York: Springer

Nash, K., Gianotti, L. R., R., & Knoch, D. (2015). A neural trait approach to exploring individual differences in social preferences. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 458.

2014

Jonas, E., McGregor, I., Klackl, J., Agroskin, D., Fritsche, I., Holdbrook, C., Nash, K., Proulx, T., & Quirin, M. (2014). Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach. In M. P. Zanna & J. Oleson (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Nash, K., Prentice, M., Hirsh, J., McGregor, I. & Inzlicht, M. (2014). Muted neural response to distress among securely attached people. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 1239-1245. doi:10.1093/scan/nst099

Schumann, K., McGregor, I., Nash, K., & Ross, M. (2014). The transformative effects of religion: Religion primes elicit more compassionate reactions to threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 432-453.

Struthers, C. W., Santelli, A. G., Khoury, C., Pang, M., Young, R. E., Kashefi, Y., ... Nash, K., & Vasquez, N. A. (2014). The role of victim embarrassment in explaining why apologies affect reported (but not actual) forgiveness. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 33, 517-525.

2013

McGregor, I., Prentice, M., & Nash, K. (2013). Anxious uncertainty and reactive approach motivation (RAM) for religious, idealistic, and lifestyle extremes. Journal of Social Issues. 69, 537-563.

Nash, K., Schiller, B., Gianotti, L. R., R., Baumgartner, T., & Knoch, D. (2013). Integrating executive function and social decision-making; Response-inhibition predicts self-control in a social context. PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079462

Schiller, B., Gianotti, L. R. R., Nash, K., & Knoch, D. (2013). Individual differences in inhibitory control—Relationship between baseline activation in lateral PFC and an electrophysiological index of response inhibition. Cerebral Cortex. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht095

Tullet, A. M., Prentice, M., Teper, R., Nash, K., Inzlicht, M., & McGregor, I. (2013). Neural foundations of meaning threat. In K. Markman, T. Proulx, & M. Linberg (Eds.), The Psychology of Meaning. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

2012

McGregor, I., Prentice, M., & Nash, K. (2012). Approaching relief: Compensatory ideals relieve threat-induced anxiety by promoting approach-motivated states. Social Cognition, 30, 689-714.

Nash, K., Inzlicht, M., & McGregor, I. (2012). Approach-related left prefrontal EEG asymmetry predicts muted error-related negativity. Biological Psychology, 91, 96-102.

McGregor, I., Nash, K., & Prentice, M. (2011). Religious zeal after goal frustration. In M. A. Hogg & D. L. Blaylock (Eds.). Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

2011

Nash, K., McGregor, I., & Prentice, M. (2011). Threat and defense as goal regulation: From implicit goal conflict to anxious uncertainty, reactive approach motivation (RAM), and ideological extremism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 1291-130.

2010

McGregor, I., Nash, K. A., Mann, N., & Phills, C. (2010). Anxious uncertainty and reactive approach motivation (RAM). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 133-147.

McGregor, I., Nash, K. A., & Prentice, M. (2010). Reactive approach motivation (RAM) for religion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 148-161.

Nash, K., McGregor, I., & Inzlicht, M. (2010). Line bisection as a neural marker of approach motivation. Psychophysiology, 47, 979-983.

Randles, D., Flett, G. L., Nash, K. A., McGregor, I., & Hewitt, P. L. (2010). Dimensions of perfectionism, behavioral inhibition, and rumination. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 83-87.

2009

Inzlicht, M., McGregor, I., Hirsh, J. B., & Nash, K. (2009). Neural markers of religious conviction. Psychological Science, 20, 385-392.

McGregor, I., Nash, K. A., & Inzlicht, M. (2009). Threat, high self-esteem, and reactive approach motivation: Electroencephalographic evidence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1003-1007.

McGregor, I., Prentice, M., & Nash, K. A. (2009). Personal uncertainty management by reactive approach motivation. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 225-229.

2008

Greenglass, E. R., & Nash, K. (2008). Coping and Emotional Labor: Theoretical Considerations. Chapter in P. Buchwald, T. Ringeisen, & M. Eysenck (Eds.) Stress and Anxiety: Application to Life Span Development and Health Promotion.

McGregor, I., Haji, R., Nash, K. A., & Teper, R. (2008). Religious zeal and the uncertain self. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 30, 183-188.

2007

McGregor, I., Gailliot, M. T., Vasquez, N., & Nash, K. A. (2007). Ideological and personal zeal reactions to mortality salience among people with high self-esteem: Motivated promotion focus. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1587-1599.