Niall Bolger

Research Interests

Social Psychology, Statistics, Psychology of Close Relationships

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987

General Area of Research

How do our close relationships affect how we cope with stressful events?

Current Research

Prof. Bolger has three areas of research. He studies adjustment processes in close relationships using intensive longitudinal research designs that include diary based reports and physiological measurements. He also studies personality processes as they are revealed in patterns of behavior, emotion, and physiology in daily life. Finally, he is interested in statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal and multilevel data.

Lab Website

The Couples Lab

Courses Taught

Selected Publications

Close Relationships and Health in Daily Life: A Review and Empirical Data on Intimacy and Somatic Symptoms

Stadler, Gertraud PhD
Snyder, Kenzie A. BA
Horn, Andrea B. PhD
Shrout, Patrick E. PhD
Bolger, Niall P. PhD
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Using diary methods in psychological research

Iida, M.
Shrout, P. E.
Laurenceau, J.-P.
Bolger, N.

Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter

Bartz, J. A.
Zaki, J.
Bolger, N.
Ochsner, K. N.
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Power analysis for diary and intensive longitudinal studies

Bolger, N.
Stadler, G.
Laurenceau, J.-P.

Analyzing diary and intensive longitudinal data from dyads

Laurenceau, J.-P.
Bolger, N.

Brain mediators of predictive cue effects on perceived pain

Atlas, L. Y.
Bolger, N.
Lindquist, M. A.
Wager, T. D.
PubMed

Oxytocin selectively improves empathic accuracy

Bartz, J.,
Zaki, J.
Bolger, N.
Ochsner, K.
PubMed

Not so fast: the (not-quite-complete) dissociation between accuracy and confidence in thin-slice impressions.

Ames, D. R.
Kammrath, L. K.
Suppes, A.
Ames, D. R.
Kammrath, L. K.
Suppes, A.
Bolger, N.
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Positive valence bias and parent–child relationship security moderate the association between early institutional caregiving and internalizing symptoms

Michelle R. Vantieghem
Laurel Gabard-Durnam
Bonnie Goff
Jessica Flannery
Kathryn L. Humphreys
Eva H. Telzer
Christina Caldera
Jennifer Y. Louie
Mor Shapiro
Niall Bolger
Nim Tottenham
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