Representative Publications

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• Grisham, E. L., Dashtgard, P., Relihan, D. P., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2025). They saw a hearing: Democrats’ and Republicans’ perceptions of and responses to the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 51(5), 730-741. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231185605
• Estes, K. D., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2024). Consuming hurricane-related media: The protective role of perceived trust. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001802
• Holman, E. A., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2024). It matters what you see: Graphic media images of war and terror may amplify distress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 121(29), e2318465121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318465121
• Garfin, D. R., Jones, N. M., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2024). Finding benefits during collective stress: A study of health behaviors in a longitudinal representative U.S. sample during the COVID-19 era. Health Psychology, 43(10), 705-717. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001394
• Lim, D., Poulin, M. J., Shaffer-Morrison, C. D., Ministero, L. M., & Silver, R. C. (2025).  Investigating the role of adversity and benevolence beliefs in predicting prosociality. Journal of Personality, 93(3), 670-682. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12960
• Thompson, R. R., Jones, N. M., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2024). Contrasting objective and perceived risk: Predicting COVID-19 health behaviors in a nationally representative U.S. sample. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 58(4), 242-252. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaad055
• Frolova, N., & Silver, R. C. (2024). A sudden but prolonged collective trauma: The Ukrainian experience. PLOS Mental Health, 1(1): e0000056. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000056
• Chang, H. A., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2025). Betrayal trauma and somatic symptoms among patients in a medically underserved primary care clinic. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 17(1), 97-104. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001689
• Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2025). Psychosocial aspects of pandemics. In T. W. Smith & N. B. Anderson (Eds.), APA handbook of health psychology (Vol. 1): Foundations and context of health psychology (pp. 707-724). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000394-032
• De Roche, M., & Silver, R. C. (2024). Ethical issues in research with human subjects. In K. R. Monroe (Ed.), How science engages with ethics and why it should: An interdisciplinary approach (pp. 61-77). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111142463-005
• Relihan, D. P., Jones, N. M., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2023). Shared social identity and media transmission of trauma. Scientific Reports, 13, 11609. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33898-2
• Jones, N. M., Thompson, R. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2023). Idiosyncratic media exposures during a pandemic and their link to well-being, cognition, and behavior over time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 120 (26), e2304550120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2304550120
• Relihan, D. R., Holman, E. A., Garfin, D. R., Ditto, P. H., & Silver, R. C. (2023). Politicization of a pathogen: A prospective longitudinal study of COVID-19 responses in a nationally representative U.S. sample. Political Psychology, 44(6), 1193-1213. doi: 10.1111/pops.12894
• Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2023). Addressing mental health aftershocks from the Turkey–Syria earthquake: A call to action. Nature Mental Health, 1, 238-239. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00052-w
• Grisham, E. L., Jones, N. M., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2023). Do past events sow future fears?  Temporal disintegration, distress, and fear of the future following collective trauma. Clinical Psychological Science, 11(6), 1064-1074 (published ahead of print December 8, 2022).  https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221119477
• Holman, E.A., Jones, N. M., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2023). Distortions in time perception during collective trauma: Insights from a national longitudinal study during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 15(5), 800–807. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0001326
• Thompson, R. R., Jones, N. M., Freeman, A. M., Holman, E. A., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2022). Psychological responses to U.S. statewide restrictions and COVID-19 exposures: A longitudinal study. Health Psychology, 41(11), 817-825. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001233
• Garfin, D. R., Thompson, R. R., Holman, E. A., Wong-Parodi, G., & Silver, R. C. (2022). Association between repeated exposure to hurricanes and mental health in a representative sample of Florida residents. JAMA Network Open, 5(6), e2217251. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.17251
• Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., Fischhoff, B., Wong-Parodi, G., & Silver, R. C. (2022). Media exposure, risk perceptions, and fear: Americans’ behavioral responses to the Ebola public health crisis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 77, 103059. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103059
• Garfin, D. R., Djokovic, L., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2022). Acute stress, worry, and impairment in health care and non-health care essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 14(8), 1304–1313. DOI: 10.1037/tra0001224
• Garfin, D. R., Fischhoff, B., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2021). Risk perceptions and health behaviors as COVID-19 emerged in the United States: Results from a probability-based nationally representative sample. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(4), 584-598. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000374
• Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., & Garfin, D. R. (2021). Coping with cascading collective traumas in the United States. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 4-6 (published ahead of print October 26, 2020). doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-00981-x
• Jose, R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2021). How Americans feel about guns after mass shootings: The case of the 2016 Orlando Nightclub massacre. Psychology of Violence, 11(4), 354-363 (published ahead of print September 8, 2020). doi.org/10.1037/vio0000346
• Wayment, H. A., & Silver, R. C. (2021). Grief and solidarity reactions 1 week after an on-campus shooting. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(5-6), NP2423-NP2442 (published ahead of print March 28, 2018). DOI: 10.1177/0886260518766431
• Silver, R. C. (2020). Surviving the trauma of COVID-19. Science, 369, 11. DOI: 10.1126/science.abd5396
• Holman, E. A., Thompson, R. R., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2020). The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic: A probability-based, nationally representative study of mental health in the United States Science Advances, 6, eabd5390. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd5390
• Jones, N. M., & Silver, R. C. (2020). This is not a drill: Anxiety on Twitter following the 2018 Hawaii false missile alert. American Psychologist, 75, 683-693. DOI: 10.1037/amp0000495
• Garfin, D. R., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2020). The novel Coronavirus (COVID-2019) outbreak: Amplification of public health consequences by media exposure. Health Psychology, 39, 355-357. doi.org/10.1037/hea0000875
• Poulin, M. J., & Silver, R. C. (2020). What might have been: Near-miss experiences and adjustment to a terrorist attack. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11, 168-175 (published ahead of print April 24, 2019). DOI: 10.1177/1948550619829064
• Sweeting, J. A., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2020). Associations between exposure to childhood bullying and abuse and adulthood outcomes in a representative national U.S. sample. Child Abuse & Neglect, 101, 104048.
• Thompson, R. R., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2020). National opinions on death penalty punishment for the Boston Marathon bomber before versus after sentencing. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 26, 455-462 (published ahead of print Sept. 3, 2020). doi.org/10.1037/law0000244
• Thompson, R. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2020). Worst life events and media exposure to terrorism in a nationally representative U.S. sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33, 984-993 (published ahead of print April 20, 2020). DOI:10.1002/jts.22534
• Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2020). Exposure to prior negative life events and responses to the Boston Marathon bombings. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12, 320-329 (published ahead of print September 26, 2019). DOI: 10.1037/tra0000486
• Holman, E. A., Garfin, D. R., Lubens, P., & Silver, R. C. (2020). Media exposure to collective trauma, mental health, and functioning: Does it matter what you see? Clinical Psychological Science, 8, 111-124 (published ahead of print October 8, 2019). doi.org/10.1177/2167702619858300
• Jones, N. M., Brymer, M., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Using big data to study the impact of mass violence: Opportunities for the traumatic stress field. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 32, 653-663 (published ahead of print October 8, 2019). DOI:10.1002/jts.22434
• Poulin, M. J., & Silver, R. C. (2019). When are assumptions shaken? A prospective, longitudinal investigation of negative life events and worldviews in a national sample. Journal of Research in Personality, 83, 103866 (published ahead of print September 4, 2019). doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.103866
• Thompson, R. R., Jones, N. M., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Media exposure to mass violence events can fuel a cycle of distress. Science Advances, 5(4), eaav3502. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav3502
• Redmond, S., Jones, N. M., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Who watches an ISIS beheading — and why. American Psychologist, 74, 555-568 (published ahead of print February 25, 2019). doi.org/10.1037/amp0000438
• Thompson, R. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Media coverage, forecasted posttraumatic stress symptoms, and psychological responses before and after an approaching hurricane. JAMA Network Open, 2(1):e186228. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.6228
• Lubens, P., & Silver, R. C. (2019). U.S. combat veterans’ responses to suicide and combat deaths: A mixed-methods study. Social Science & Medicine, 236, 112341 (published ahead of print May 28, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.046
• Lubens, P., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Grief in veterans: An unexplored consequence of war. American Journal of Public Health, 109, 394-395. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304924
• Jose, R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2019). Community organizations and mental health after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Social Science & Medicine, 222, 367-376 (published ahead of print September 17, 2018). doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.019
• Kay, J. S., Juth, V., Silver, R. C., & Sender, L. S. (2019). Support and conflict in relationships and psychological health in adolescents and young adults with cancer. Journal of Health Psychology, 24, 502-517 (published ahead of print December 26, 2016). DOI: 10.1177/1359105316676629
• Garfin, D. R., Poulin, M. J., Blum, S., & Silver, R. C. (2018). Aftermath of terror: A nationwide longitudinal study of posttraumatic stress and worry across the decade following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31, 146-156. DOI: 10.1002/jts.22262
• Fischhoff, B., Wong-Parodi, G., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2018). Public understanding of Ebola risks: Mastering an unfamiliar threat. Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 38, 71-83 (published ahead of print June 8, 2017). DOI: 10.1111/risa.12794
• Jones, N. M., Thompson, R. R., Dunkel Schetter, C., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Distress and rumor exposure on social media during a campus lockdown. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 114, 11663-11668 (published ahead of print October 17, 2017). www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1708518114
• Jose, R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2017). The importance of the neighborhood in the 2014 Ebola outbreak in the United States: Distress, worry, and functioning. Health Psychology, 36, 1181-1185. DOI: 10.1037/hea0000518
• Thompson, R. R., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Distress, worry, and functioning following a global health crisis: A national study of Americans’ responses to Ebola. Clinical Psychological Science, 5, 513-521 (published ahead of print April 26, 2017). DOI: 10.1177/2167702617692030
• Randles, D., Heine, S. J., Poulin, M., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Experienced adversity in life is associated with polarized and affirmed political attitudes. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 652-659 (published ahead of print January 19, 2017). DOI: 10.1177/1948550616675668
• Thompson, R. R., Garfin, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Evacuation from natural disasters: A systematic review of the literature. Risk Analysis: An International Journal, 37, 812-839 (published ahead of print December 21, 2016). DOI: 10.1111/risa.12654
• Peterson, J. K., & Silver, R. C. (2017). Developing an understanding of victims and violent offenders: The impact of fostering empathy. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 32, 399-422 (published ahead of print July 3, 2015). DOI: 10.1177/0886260515586361
• Jones, N. M., Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2016). Media use and exposure to graphic content in the week following the Boston Marathon bombings. American Journal of Community Psychology, 58, 47-59.
• Jones, N. M., Wojcik, S. P., Sweeting, J., & Silver, R. C. (2016). Tweeting negative emotion: An investigation of Twitter data in the aftermath of violence on college campuses. Psychological Methods, 21, 526-541. doi: 10.1037/med0000099
• Holman, E. A., Silver, R. C., Mogle, J. A., & Scott, S. B. (2016). Adversity, time, and well-being: A longitudinal analysis of time perspective in adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 31, 640-651.
• Silver, R. C., & Garfin, D. R. (2016). Coping with disasters. In J. C. Norcross, G. R. VandenBos, & D. K. Freedheim (Editors-in-Chief), APA handbook of clinical psychology: Vol. 4. Psychopathology and health (pp. 597-611). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Garfin, D. R., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2015). Cumulative exposure to prior collective trauma and acute stress responses to the Boston Marathon bombings. Psychological Science, 26, 675-683. doi:10.1177/0956797614561043
• Juth, V., Silver, R. C., & Sender, L. (2015). The shared experience of adolescent and young adult cancer patients and their caregivers. Psycho-Oncology, 24, 1746-1753. DOI: 10.1002/pon.3785
• Juth, V., Silver, R. C., Seyle, D. C., Widyatmoko, C. S., & Tan, E. T. (2015). Post-disaster mental health among parent-child dyads after a major earthquake in Indonesia. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 1309-1318. DOI 10.1007/s10802-015-0009-8
• Garfin, D. R., Silver, R. C., Gil-Rivas, V., Guzman, J., Murphy, J. M., Cova, F., Rincon, P. P., Squicciarini, A. M., George, M., & Guzmán, M. P. (2014). Children’s reactions to the 2010 Chilean earthquake: The role of trauma exposure, family context and school-based mental health programming. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 6, 563-573.
• Garfin, D. R., Juth, V., Silver, R. C., Ugalde, F. J., Linn, H., & Inostroza, M. (2014). A national study of healthcare service utilization and substance use after the 2010 Chilean earthquake. Psychiatric Services, 65,1392-1395. doi:10.1176/appi/ps.201300500.
• Garfin, D. R., Silver, R. C., Ugalde, F. J., Linn, H., & Inostroza, M. (2014). Exposure to rapid succession disasters: A study of residents at the epicenter of the Chilean Bio-Bio earthquake. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123, 545-556.
• Blum, S., Silver, R. C., & Poulin, M. J. (2014). Perceiving risk in a dangerous world: Associations between life experiences and risk perceptions. Social Cognition, 32, 297-314.
• Holman, E. A., Garfin, E. R., & Silver, R. C. (2014). Media’s role in broadcasting acute stress following the Boston Marathon bombings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 111, 93-98 (published ahead of print December 9, 2013).
• Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., Andersen, J. P., Poulin, M., McIntosh, D. N., & Gil-Rivas, V. (2013). Mental- and physical-health effects of acute exposure to media images of the September 11, 2001, attacks and the Iraq War. Psychological Science, 24, 1623-1634.
• Andersen, J. P., Silver, R. C., Stewart, B., Koperwas, B., & Kirschbaum, C. (2013). Psychological and physiological responses following repeated peer death. PLoS ONE, 8(9): e75881. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075881
• Scott, S. B., Poulin, M. J., & Silver, R. C. (2013). A lifespan perspective on terrorism: Age differences in trajectories of response to 9/11. Developmental Psychology. 49, 986-998.
• Seyle, D. C., Widyatmoko, C. S., & Silver, R. C. (2013). Coping with natural disasters in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A study of elementary school teachers. School Psychology International, 34, 387-404.
• Silver, R. C., & Updegraff, J. A. (2013). Searching for and finding meaning following personal and collective traumas. In K. D. Markman, T. Proulx, & M. J. Lindberg (Eds.), The psychology of meaning (pp. 237-255). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Gelkopf, M., Berger, R., Bleich, A., & Silver, R. C. (2012). Protective factors and predictors of vulnerability to chronic stress: A comparative study of 4 communities after 7 years of continuous rocket fire. Social Science & Medicine, 74, 757-766.
• Blum, S., Brow, M., & Silver, R. C. (2012). Coping. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of human behavior, 2nd Edition (pp. 596-601). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
• Silver, R. C. (Guest Editor) (2011). An introduction to 9/11: Ten years later. American Psychologist, 66, 427-428.
• Silver, R. C., & Fischhoff, B. (2011). What should we expect after the next attack? American Psychologist, 66, 567-572.
• Eisenberg, N., & Silver, R. C. (2011). Growing up in the shadow of terrorism: Youth in America after 9/11.American Psychologist, 66, 468-481.
• Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2011). Health status and health care utilization following collective trauma: A 3-year national study of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Social Science and Medicine, 73, 483-490.
• Andersen, J., Prause, J., & Silver, R. C. (2011). A step-by-step guide to using secondary data for psychological research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(1), 56-75.
• McIntosh, D. N., Poulin, M. J., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2011). The distinct roles of spirituality and religiosity in physical and mental health after collective trauma:  A national longitudinal study of responses to the 9/11 attacks. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 34, 497-507.
• Westmaas, J. L., Gil-Rivas, V., & Silver, R. C. (2011). Designing and conducting interventions to enhance physical and mental health outcomes.  In H. S. Friedman (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of health psychology (pp. 73-94). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Widyatmoko, C. S., Tan, E. T., Seyle, D. C., Mayawati, E. H., & Silver, R. C. (2011). Coping with natural disasters in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: The psychological state of elementary school children as assessed by their teachers. School Psychology International, 32, 484-497.
• Seery, M. D., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2010). Whatever does not kill us: Cumulative lifetime adversity, vulnerability, and resilience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 1025-1041.
• Seery, M. D., Leo, R. J., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2010). Lifetime exposure to adversity predicts functional impairment and healthcare utilization among individuals with chronic back pain. Pain, 150, 507-515.
• Shambaugh, G., Matthew, R., Silver, R. C., McDonald, B., Poulin, M., & Blum, S. (2010). Public perceptions of traumatic events and policy preferences during the George W. Bush administration: A portrait of America in turbulent times. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 33, 55-91.
• Poulin, M. J., Silver, R. C., Gil-Rivas, V., Holman, A. E., & McIntosh, D. N. (2009).  Finding social benefits after a collective trauma:  Perceiving societal changes and well-being following 9/11. Journal of Traumatic Stress,22, 81-90.
• Wicke, T., & Silver, R. C. (2009). A community responds to collective trauma:  An ecological analysis of the James Byrd murder in Jasper, Texas. American Journal of Community Psychology, 44, 233-248.
• Blum, S., & Silver, R. C. (2008). Coping. In W. A. Darity, Jr. (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social sciences, 2nd Edition (Vol. 2, pp. 128-130).  Detroit: Macmillan Reference.
• Holman, E. A., Silver, R. C., Poulin, M., Andersen, J., Gil-Rivas, V., & McIntosh, D. N. (2008).  Terrorism, acute stress, and cardiovascular health: A 3-year national study following the September 11th attacks.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 65, 73-80.
• Poulin, M., & Silver, R. C. (2008). World benevolence beliefs and well-being across the lifespan.  Psychology and Aging, 23, 13-23.
• Seery, M. D., Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., Ence, W. A., & Chu, T. Q. (2008). Expressing thoughts and feelings following a collective trauma: Immediate responses to 9/11 predict negative outcomes in a national sample. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 657-667.
• Silver, R. C., & Matthew, R. (2008). Terrorism. In V. N. Parrillo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of social problems (Vol. 2, pp. 926-929). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Suvak, M., Maguen, S., Litz, B. T., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2008).  Indirect exposure to the September 11 terrorist attacks:  Does symptom structure resemble PTSD?  Journal of Traumatic Stress, 21, 30-39.
• Updegraff, J. A., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2008).  Searching for and finding meaning in collective trauma: Results from a national longitudinal study of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 709-722.
• Gil-Rivas, V., Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., McIntosh, D. N., & Poulin, M. (2007). Parental response and adolescent adjustment to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 20, 1063-1068.
• Silver, R. C., & Wortman, C. B. (2007). The stage theory of grief. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 297, 2692.
• Westmaas, J. L., Gil-Rivas, V., & Silver, R. C. (2007). Designing and implementing interventions to promote health and prevent illness. In H. S. Friedman & R. C. Silver (Eds.), Foundations of health psychology (pp. 52-70). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Chu, T.Q., Seery, M. D., Ence, W. A., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2006). Ethnicity and gender in the face of a terrorist attack: A national longitudinal study of immediate responses and outcomes two years after September 11. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 291-301.
• Pizarro, J., Silver, R. C., & Prause, J. (2006). Physical and mental health costs of traumatic war experiences among Civil War veterans. Archives of General Psychiatry, 63, 193-200.
• Schlenger, W. E., & Silver, R. C. (2006). Web-based methods in terrorism and disaster research. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 19, 185-193.
• Silver, R. C. (2006). Attacking the myths. Science & Spirit, 17 (5), 26-29.
• Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., McIntosh, D. N., Poulin, M., Gil-Rivas, V., & Pizarro, J. (2006). Coping with a national trauma: A nationwide longitudinal study of responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11. In Y. Neria, R. Gross, R. Marshall, & E. Susser (Eds.), 9/11: Mental health in the wake of terrorist attacks (pp. 45-70). NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Westmaas, J. L., & Silver, R. C. (2006). The role of perceived similarity in supportive responses to victims of negative life events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1537-1546.
• Holman, E. A., & Silver R. C. (2005). Future-oriented thinking and adjustment in a nationwide longitudinal study following the September 11th terrorist attacks. Motivation and Emotion, 29, 389-410.
• Gil-Rivas, V., Holman, E. A., & Silver, R. C. (2004). Adolescent vulnerability following the September 11th terrorist attacks: A study of parents and their children. Applied Developmental Science, 8, 130-142.
• Hawkins, N. A., McIntosh, D. N., Silver, R. C., & Holman, E. A. (2004). Early responses to school violence: A qualitative analysis of students’ and parents’ immediate reactions to the shootings at Columbine High School. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 4, 197-223.
• Silver, R. C. (2004). Conducting research after the 9/11 terrorist attacks: Challenges and results. Families, Systems & Health, 22, 47-51.
• Silver, R. C. (2004). The myths of healing. Families, Systems & Health, 22, 61-63.
• Silver, R. C., Poulin, M., Holman, E. A., McIntosh, D. N., Gil-Rivas, V., & Pizarro, J. (2004). Exploring the myths of coping with a national trauma:  A longitudinal study of responses to the September 11th terrorist attacks.  Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 9, 129-141.
• Silver, R. C., Holman, E. A., McIntosh, D. N., Poulin, M., & Gil-Rivas, V. (2002). Nationwide longitudinal study of psychological responses to September 11. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 288, 1235-1244.
• Allen, L. A., Gara, M. A., Escobar, J. I., Waitzkin, H., Silver, R. C. (2001). Somatization: A debilitating syndrome in primary care. Psychosomatics, 42, 63-67.
• Elderkin-Thompson, V., Silver, R. C., & Waitzkin, H. (2001). When nurses double as interpreters: A study of Spanish-speaking patients in a U.S. primary care setting. Social Science and Medicine, 52, 1343-1358.
• Westmaas, J. L., & Silver, R. C. (2001). The role of attachment in responses to victims of life crises. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 425-438.
• Wortman, C. B., & Silver, R. C. (2001). The myths of coping with loss revisited. In M. S. Stroebe, R. O. Hansson, W. Stroebe, & H. Schut (Eds.), Handbook of bereavement research: Consequences, coping and care (pp. 405-429). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Davis, C. G., Wortman, C. B., Lehman, D. R., & Silver, R. C. (2000).  Searching for meaning in loss:  Are clinical assumptions correct?  Death Studies, 24, 497-540.
• Holman, E. A., Silver, R. C., & Waitzkin, H. (2000). Traumatic life events in primary care patients: A study in an ethnically-diverse sample. Archives of Family Medicine, 9, 802-810.
• Rivadeneyra, R., Elderkin-Thompson, V., Silver, R. C., & Waitzkin, H. (2000). Patient centeredness in medical encounters requiring an interpreter. The American Journal of Medicine, 108, 470-474.
• Elderkin-Thompson, V., Silver, R. C., & Waitzkin, H. (1998). Narratives of somatizing and nonsomatizing patients in a primary care setting. Journal of Health Psychology, 3, 407-428.
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• Davis, C. G., Lehman, D. R., Silver, R. C., Wortman, C. B., & Ellard, J. H. (1996). Self-blame following a traumatic event: The role of perceived avoidability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 557-567.
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• Davis, C. G., Lehman, D. R., Wortman, C. B., Silver, R. C., & Thompson, S. C. (1995). The undoing of traumatic life events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 109-124.
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• Klar, Y., Mendola, R., Fisher, J. D., Silver, R. C., Chinsky, J. M., & Goff, B. (1990). Characteristics of participants in a large group awareness training. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 58, 99-108.
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• Fisher, J. D., Silver, R. C., Chinsky, J. M., Goff, B., Klar, Y., & Zagieboylo, C. (1989). Psychological effects of participation in a large group awareness training. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 57, 747-755.
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