Publications and Preprints

Diverse FACES- a database of facial expressions in young, middle-aged, and older individuals from underrepresented racial populations

October 2024

Sera M. Gonzalez, Kendra Leigh Seaman.


Age- Related Differences in Generalization of Social Learning

August 2024

Lauren H. Lilly, Jessica A. Cooper, Brittany S. Cassidy, Kendra Leigh Seaman.


The Positivity Effect as a Mediator for Age-related Positive-skew Bias: An Unsuccessful Study

July 2024

Colleen C Frank, Kendra Leigh Seaman


Overconfidence and Financial Risk Tolerance in Older Age

June 2024

Colleen C Frank, Gary Mottola, Melanie Meiru Chen, Lei Yu, Patricia Boyle, Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Kendra Leigh Seaman


Decision Making in the Aging Brain: An Update of the Evidence Base for the ‘Affect-Integration-Motivation’ Framework

June 2024

Loreen Tisdall, Kendra Leigh Seaman


Selective Engagement of Cognitive Resources Fail to Account for Age-Related Positive-Skew Bias

April 2024

Colleen C. Frank, Christopher Garza, Kendra Leigh Seaman


The Absence of Positive-Skew Bias for Non-Monetary Realized Risky Decisions

April 2024

Colleen C. Frank, Galston Wong, Sharada Pillai, Kendra Leigh Seaman


Boundary Conditions for the Positive Skew Bias

February 2024

Colleen C. Frank, Sade J. Abiodun, Kendra Leigh Seaman
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making


Adult Age Differences in Susceptibility to Social Conformity Pressures in Self-control Over Daily Desires

December 2023

Jamie J. Castrellon, David Zald, Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Kendra Leigh Seaman
Psychology and Aging


Adult Age Differences in Evoked Emotional Responses to Dynamic Facial Expressions

September 26, 2023

Sade J. Abiodun, Joanna M. Salerno, Galen A. McAllister, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Kendra Leigh Seaman
The Journal of Gerontology: Series B


Multivariate Associations Between Dopamine Receptor Availability and Risky Investment Decision-making Across Adulthood

May 15, 2023

Mikella A. Green, Jennifer L. Crawford, Camelia M. Kuhnen, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Kendra Leigh Seaman
Cerebral Cortex Communications


Age Differences in the Social Associative Learning of Trust Information

January 24, 2023

Kendra Leigh Seaman, Alexander P. Christensen, Katherine Senn, Jessica Cooper, Brittany Shane Cassidy
Neurobiology of Aging


Aging, Uncertainty, and Decision Making–A Review

January 8, 2023

Colleen Frank, Kendra Leigh Seaman
Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience


Temporal Discounting Across Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

February 2022

Kendra Leigh Seaman, Sade Abiodun, Zöe Fenn, Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Rui Mata
Psychology and Aging


The Effect of Delay Duration on Delay Discounting across Adulthood

October 23, 2021

Shelby Leverett, Christopher Garza, Kendra Leigh Seaman
Journals of Gerontology: Series B


Decision making across adulthood during physical distancing

August 9, 2021

Kendra Leigh Seaman, Eric Juarez, Addison Troutman, Joanna Salerno, Silvia Samanez-Larkin, Gregory Samanez-Larkin
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition


Development and Validation of Social Motivation Questionnaire

November 16, 2019

Xianmin Gong, Kendra L Seaman, Helene H Fung, Corinna Loeckenhoff, Frieder R Lang
The Gerontologist


Reproducibility of the correlative triad among aging, dopamine receptor availability, and cognition.

November 10, 2019

Eric J Juarez, Jaime J Castrellon, Mikella A Green, Jennifer L Crawford, Kendra L Seaman, Christopher T Smith, Linh C Dang, David Matuskey, Evan D Morris, Ronald L Cowan, David H Zald, Gregory R Samanez-Larkin
Psychology and aging


Partial-volume correction increases estimated dopamine D2-like receptor binding potential and reduces adult age differences

May 1, 2019

Christopher T Smith, Jennifer L Crawford, Linh C Dang, Kendra L Seaman, M Danica San Juan, Aishwarya Vijay, Daniel T Katz, David Matuskey, Ronald L Cowan, Evan D Morris, David H Zald, Gregory R Samanez-Larkin
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism


Differential regional decline in dopamine receptor availability across adulthood: Linear and nonlinear effects of age

April 1, 2019

Kendra L Seaman, Christopher T Smith, Eric J Juarez, Linh C Dang, Jaime J Castrellon, Leah L Burgess, M. Danica San Juan, Paul M Kundzicz, Ronald L Cowan, David H Zald, Gregory R Samanez-Larkin
Human Brain Mapping


Individual differences in dopamine are associated with reward discounting in clinical groups but not in healthy adults

January 9, 2019

Jaime J Castrellon, Kendra L Seaman, Jennifer L Crawford, Jacob S Young, Christopher T Smith, Linh C Dang, Ming Hsu, Ronald L Cowan, David H Zald, Gregory R Samanez-Larkin
Journal of Neuroscience


Individual differences in loss aversion and preferences for skewed risks across adulthood.

June 1, 2018

Kendra L Seaman, Mikella A Green, Stephen Shu, Gregory R Samanez-Larkin
Psychology and Aging


Subjective value representations during effort, probability and time discounting across adulthood

May 1, 2018

Kendra L Seaman, Nickolas Brooks, Teresa M Karrer, Jaime J Castrellon, Scott F Perkins, Linh C Dang, Ming Hsu, David H Zald, Gregory R Samanez-Larkin
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience


Individual differences in skewed financial risk-taking across the adult life span

December 1, 2017

Kendra L Seaman, Josiah K Leong, Charlene C Wu, Brian Knutson, Gregory R Samanez-Larkin
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience


Adult age differences in decision making across domains: Increased discounting of social and health-related rewards.

November 6, 2016

Kendra L Seaman, Marissa A Gorlick, Kruti M Vekaria, Ming Hsu, David H Zald, Gregory R Samanez-Larkin
Psychology and Aging


Task-related functional connectivity of the caudate mediates the association between trait mindfulness and implicit learning in older adults

August 1, 2016

Chelsea M Stillman, Xiaozhen You, Kendra L Seaman, Chandan J Vaidya, James H Howard, Darlene V Howard
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience


Risky decision-making is associated with residential choice in healthy older adults

August 10, 2015

Kendra L Seaman, Chelsea Stillman, Darlene V Howard, James H Howard Jr
Frontiers in psychology


Adult age differences in subjective and objective measures of strategy use on a sequentially cued prediction task

March 4, 2015

Kendra L Seaman, Darlene V Howard, James H Howard Jr
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition


“Adult age differences in subjective and objective measures of strategy use on a sequentially cued prediction task”: Corrigendum.

March 1, 2015

Kendra L Seaman, Darlene V Howard, James H Howard Jr
Taylor & Francis


Event simultaneity does not eliminate age deficits in implicit probabilistic sequence learning

October 10, 2014

Alissa B Forman-Alberti, Kendra L Seaman, Darlene V Howard, James H Howard Jr
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development


Adult age differences in learning on a sequentially cued prediction task

September 1, 2014

Kendra L Seaman, Darlene V Howard, James H Howard Jr
Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences