Peter J. Gianaros, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Psychology

Graduate Student Advisees:​

  • Maya Martinko 
  • Abby Shell
  • Chrystal Spencer

Education & Training

  • PhD, Penn State University

Research Interest Summary

Neurobiology of Stress; Socioeconomic Status; Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Research Interests

Representative Publications

  • Bo K, Kraynak TE, Kwon M, Sun M, Gianaros PJ, Wager TD (2024). A systems identification approach using Bayes factors to deconstruct the brain bases of emotion regulation. Nat Neurosci, 27, 975-987.
  • Sentis AI, Rasero J, Gianaros PJ, Verstynen TD (2024). Cortical and subcortical brain networks predict prevailing heart rate. Psychophysiology, e14641.
  • Gianaros PJ, Miller PL, Manuck SB, Kuan DC, Rosso AL, Votruba-Drzal EE, Marsland AL (2023). Beyond neighborhood disadvantage: Local resources, green space, pollution, and crime as residential community correlates of cardiovascular risk and brain morphology in midlife adults. Psychosom Med, 85, 378-388.
  • Gianaros PJ, Rasero J, DuPont CM, Kraynak TE, Gross JJ, McRae K, Wright AGC, Verstynen TD, Barinas-Mitchell E (2022). Multivariate brain activity while viewing and reappraising affective scenes does not predict the multiyear progression of preclinical atherosclerosis in otherwise healthy midlife adults. Affect Sci, 3, 406-424.

Accepting Graduate Students

No

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