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Selected Publications from the Last Decade
Selected Publications: Publications
Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J. (2026). Culture and language processing. In H.-G. Wolf and F. Polzenhagen (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of language and culture (2nd ed.) (pp. 353-368). New York: Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003363354-27
Altarriba, J., & Hall, B. C. (2026). Special issue on cognitive processing in bilinguals (30 years later): The representation of translation equivalents in bilingual memory. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 79, 1-16.
Refki, D., (Kyu Yon) Kim, E., Ahmed, R., Altarriba, J., & Park, K. H. (2026). Understanding social cohesion: The case of a demographically changing community in the United States. Social Cohesion and Development, 19(2), 5-30.
Bąk, H., & Altarriba, J. (2025). Similar, not universal: The cognitive dimensions of conceptual prototypes of basic emotions in English and in Polish. Cognition and Emotion, 39(2), 261-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2406347
Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J. (2025). Language and religion. In Shackelford, T. K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of religious psychology and behavior. New York: Springer. Language and Religion | SpringerLink
Hall, B. C., & Altarriba, J. (2025). Social groups and religion. In Shackelford, T. K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of religious psychology and behavior. New York: Springer.
Jones, S. N., & Altarriba, J. (2025). Emotions. In Shackelford, T. K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of religious psychology and behavior. New York: Springer.
Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J., & Amoretti, F. S. (2025). Multilingualism and memory. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Rodriguez, M., & Altarriba, J. (in press, 2025). Contributions of religious studies to Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science. In Shackelford, T. K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of religious psychology and behavior. New York: Springer.
Altarriba, J., Erickson, W. B., Otgaar, H., & Toglia, M. P. (2024). Adaptive memory: Perspectives, conclusions, and future directions. In M. Toglia, H. Otgaar, J. Altarriba, B. Erickson (Eds.), Interdisciplinary perspectives and advances in understanding adaptive memory (pp. 427-446). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Eady, A., Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2024). Hey Siri, what’s that sound? The influence of emotional audio on memory. The Undergraduate Research Journal of Psychology at UCLA, 11, 86-96.
El-Dakhs, D. A. S., Ahmed, M. M., Altarriba, J., & Sonbul, S. (2024). Differential emotional expression in autobiographical narratives: The case of Arabic-English bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(5), 962-979. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069231201173
Pacheco, M. B., & Altarriba, J. (2024). The evolutionary foundations of self-explanations and social narratives. In Shackelford, T. K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of religious psychology and behavior. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38971-9_1480-1
Toglia, M., Erickson, W. B., Altarriba, J., & Otgaar, H. (2024). Advances in the integrative study of survival memory. In M. Toglia, H. Otgaar, J. Altarriba, B. Erickson (Eds.), Interdisciplinary perspectives and advances in understanding adaptive memory (p. 3-7). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2024). Do tests of implicit memory challenge survival processing accounts? In M. Toglia, H. Otgaar, J. Altarriba, W. B. Erickson (Eds.), Interdisciplinary perspectives and advances in understanding adaptive memory (pp. 80-99). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ahmed, R., Refki, D., Altarriba, J., Sa, E., Avery, M. C., & Abdelkarim, S. (2023). Exploring the role of information sources in vaccine decision-making among four culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the U.S. In M. Gattinger (Ed.), Democratizing risk governance—Bridging science, expertise, deliberation, and public values (pp. 343-383). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24271-7_13
Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J. (2023). Social-cultural socializations of emotion. In B. Halpern-Felsher (Ed.), Encyclopedia of child and adolescent health (Volume 3, pp. 514-524). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818872-9.00159-X
El-Dakhs, D. A. S., & Altarriba, J. (2023). Pragmatics and emotions in social contexts. In G. L. Schiewer, J. Altarriba, & B. C. Ng (Eds.), Language and emotion: An international handbook (pp. 589-605). Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
El-Dakhs, D. A. S., Sonbul, S., & Altarriba, J. (2023). How do foreign language learners process L2 emotion words in silent reading? An eye-tracking study. Languages, 8, 125. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020125
Feeney, T., Corbett, C., Sayahi, L., & Altarriba, J. (2023). Gender assignment to English noun insertions in New York Dominican Spanish. Ampersand, 11, 100130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2023.100130
Refki, D., Ahmed, R., Altarriba, J., & Khurana, P. (2023). Addressing differential impacts of Covid-19 in NYS: Towards a framework for addressing immigrants’ social determinants of health. SUNY Open Access Repository. New York: SUNY Press. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/10325
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2023). Emotion words in monolingual and bilingual cognitive psycholinguistic research. In G. L. Schiewer, J. Altarriba, & B. C. Ng (Eds.), Language and emotion: An international handbook (pp. 1238-1257). Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2023). Processing accented speech in foreign language learning: Support for exemplar-based memory models in spoken language processing. In A. B. Canales, & S. M. Leralta (Eds.), Emotion and identity in foreign language learning (pp. 167-191). New York: Peter Lang.
Altarriba, J., & Basnight-Brown, D. M. (2022). The psychology of communication: The interplay between language and culture through time. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53, 860-874. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221221114046
Basnight-Brown, D. M., Ayoob, A., & Altarriba, J. (2022). Emotion processing in a highly proficient multilingual sub-Saharan African population: A quantitative and qualitative investigation. Languages, 7, 280. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040280
Kazanas, S. A., Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2022). Adaptive memory: Greater memory advantages in bilinguals’ first language. International Journal of Bilingualism, 26, 49-64. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069211022856
Wilck, A. M., Copertino, E. R., & Altarriba, J. (2022). Multiple producible cues do not aid face-name memory: A reverse production effect. Acta Psychologica, 224, 103531. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103531
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2021). Diversity of bilingual circumstances and implications for language and cognition. In W. Francis (Ed.) Bilingualism Across the Lifespan (pp. 69-87). Routledge. PDF
Vitrano, D., Altarriba, J., & Leblebici-Başar, D. (in press, 2021). Revisiting Mednick’s (1962) theory of creativity with a composite measure of creativity: The effect of stimulus type on word association production. Journal of Creative Behavior. doi: 10.1002/jocb.498. PDF
Kazanas, S. A., Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (in press, 2021). Adaptive memory: Greater memory advantages in bilinguals’ first language. International Journal of Bilingualism. doi: 10.1177/13670069211022856. PDF
Refki, D., Ahmed, R., Altarriba, J., Abdelkarim, S., Sa, E., & Avery, M. C. (2021). Health messaging on YouTube for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities: Here’s what we found (Infographic). https://healthcommforcovid19.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/infographic_final.pdf
Ahmed, R., Refki, D., Altarriba, J., Abdelkarim, S., Sa, E., & Avery, M. C. (2021). Trust & disease prevention: Communicating health messages within culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities (Policy brief). https://www.albany.edu/womeningov/New%20Policy%20Brief%20June21.pdf
Altarriba, J., & Avery, M. C. (2021). Divergent thinking in survival processing: Did our ancestors benefit from creative thinking? Evolutionary Psychology, 19, 1-6. doi: 10.1177/1474704921994028. PDF
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (in press, 2021). Emotion words in monolingual and bilingual cognitive psycholinguistic research. In G. Schiewer, J. Altarriba, & N. B. Chin (Eds.), Handbook on language and emotion. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Altarriba, J., & Wilck, A. M. (2021). Evolutionary cognitive psychology. In T. K. Shackelford (Ed.), The SAGE handbook of evolutionary psychology: Integration of evolutionary psychology with other disciplines (pp. 28-50). London: SAGE Publishing. PDF
Martin, J. M., Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2020). Is it possible to predict which bilingual speakers have switched language dominance? A discriminant analysis. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 41(3), 206-218. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2019.1603236. PDF
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2020). Recall of cheaters. In T. K. Shackelford, & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. PDF
Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2019). Animacy and mortality salience: New directions for the adaptive memory literature. In T. K. Shackelford & Zeigler-Hill, V. (Eds.), Evolutionary perspectives on death (pp. 63-76). New York: Springer Nature. PDF
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2019). An investigation of sex differences, implicit memory, and perceptual identification in the survival memory paradigm. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 5(3), 369-380. PDF
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2019). Attention and perception. In T. K. Shackelford, & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. Advanced online publication. doi : 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_637-1. PDF
Basnight-Brown, D. M., Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2018). Translation ambiguity in Mandarin-English bilinguals: Production effects across concrete, abstract, and emotion words. In Linguistic approaches to bilingualism. PDF
El-Dakhs, D. A. S., & Altarriba, J. (2018). The distinctiveness of emotion words: Does it hold for foreign language learners? The case of Arab EFL learners. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. PDF
Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba. (2018). Predators as attention-grabbing. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. PDF
Kazanas, S. A., McLean, J. S., & Altarriba, J. (2018). Emotion and emotion concepts: Processing and use in monolingual and bilingual speakers. In J. W. Schwieter (Ed.), The handbook of the neuroscience of multilingualism. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. PDF
Knickerbocker, H., Johnson, R. L., Starr, E. L., Hall, A. M., Preti, D. M., Slate, S. R., & Altarriba, J. (2018). The time course of processing emotion-laden words during sentence reading: Evidence from eye movements. Acta Psychologica. PDF
Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2018). Selective attunement to adaptive problems. In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. New York, NY: Springer. PDF
Wilck, A. M., Altarriba, J., Heredia, R. R., & Schwieter, J. W. (2018). Learning and memory in the bilingual mind and brain. In J. W. Schwieter (Ed.), The handbook of the neuroscience of multilingualism. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. PDF
Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2018). The cost of being bilingual: The example of verbal fluency and switching. In A. Ardila, A. B. Cieslicka, R. R. Heredia, & M. Rosselli (Eds.), Psychology of bilingualism: The cognitive and emotional world of bilinguals (pp. 119-136). New York: Springer Nature. PDF
Altarriba, J., & Heredia, R. R. (2018). Introduction. In J. Altarriba & R. R. Heredia (Eds.), An introduction to bilingualism: Principles and processes (2nd ed.) (pp. 3-11). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. PDF
Basnight-Brown, D. M., & Altarriba, J. (2018). The influence of emotion and culture on language representation and processing. In C. Faucher, T. Nishida, & L. C. Jain (Eds.), Advances in culturally-aware intelligent systems and in cross-cultural psychological studies (pp. 415-432). New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. PDF
Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2017). Emotions and expressions across cultures. In Y. Y. Kim & K. McKay-Semmler (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of intercultural communication (IE-ICC). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. PDF
Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2017). Neurorehabilitation with Hispanic/Latino populations: Clinical perspectives on interprofessional communication. SIG 2 Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, 2, 132-141. PDF
Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2017). Effects of valence on hemispheric specialization for emotion word processing. Language and speech, 60(4), 597-613. PDF
Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2017). Did our ancestors fear the unknown? The role of predation in the survival advantage. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 11(1), 83-91. PDF
Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2016). An interdisciplinary approach to foreign language learning: Myths and strategies for success. [Review of the book Being fluent: How cognitive science can help adults learn a foreign language, by R. Roberts & R. Kreuz (Eds.)]. PsycCRITIQUES, 61(3). PDF
Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2016). Emotion word processing: Effects of word type and valence in Spanish-English bilinguals. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45(2), 395-406. PDF
Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2016). Emotion word type and affective valence priming at a long stimulus onset asynchrony. Language and Speech, 59(3), 339-352. PDF
Please send questions or comments to: jaltarriba@albany.edu
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