Zach J. Gray Source Confirmed

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Graduate student

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

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3 h-index 13 pubs 71 cited

Research Areas

Behavioral and Psychological Studies Mental Health Research Topics Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics Health disparities and outcomes Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies Stress Responses and Cortisol

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Zach J. Gray's research focuses on the intersection of stress, emotional processes, and cognitive functions. His work investigates how subjective stress severity and cumulative stressor exposure predict health outcomes, including affective changes in the menstrual cycle and suicidal ideation. Gray also examines the influence of acute stress on executive control, exploring distinct effects on affective and cognitive processes. His studies have delved into the relationship between stress, risky decision-making, and sex-based differences in these processes. Additionally, Gray has explored how writing about stressful experiences impacts memory semantic clustering, with findings varying by sex. He has also investigated neural and peripheral markers of reward in relation to depression symptom severity in adolescents. Gray has collaborated with researchers such as Grant S. Shields, Colton L. Hunter, Josiah K. Leong, and Jennifer C. Veilleux at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

  • h-index: 3
  • Publications: 13
  • Citations: 71

Selected Publications

  • Lifetime Stressor Exposure Profiles and Trait Risk for Substance Use in Young Adults (2026) DOI
  • To mask, or not to mask: An exploratory examination of factors that predict changes in mask wearing over the pandemic in College Students (2025) DOI
  • Acute stress differentially influences risky decision-making processes by sex: A hierarchical bayesian analysis (2024) DOI
  • Cumulative stressor exposure predicts menstrual cycle affective changes in a transdiagnostic outpatient sample with past-month suicidal ideation (2024) DOI
  • Acute stress influences the emotional foundations of executive control: Distinct effects on control-related affective and cognitive processes (2023) DOI
  • Testing the theory of stress as a cumulative prediction error (2023) DOI
  • Risky business: Effects of stress on risky decision making (2023) DOI
  • Writing about a stressful experience improves semantic clustering of memory in men, not women (2023) DOI
  • Lifetime stressor exposure, eating expectancy, and acute social stress-related eating behavior: A pre-registered study of the emotional eating cycle (2023) DOI
  • Neural and peripheral markers of reward during positive social evaluation are associated with less clinician-rated depression symptom severity in adolescence (2022) DOI
  • Why is subjective stress severity a stronger predictor of health than stressor exposure? A preregistered two‐study test of two hypotheses (2022) DOI

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Grant S. Shields University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 8 shared publications Colton L. Hunter University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 shared publications Josiah K. Leong University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 shared publications Jennifer C. Veilleux University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 shared publications Elleona V. Trudell University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Colton Hunger University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Elleona Trudell University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Phoebe K. Zalenski University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication

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