Eric C. Fields
Boston College
26 Papers
93 Citations
Eric C. Fields is an academic researcher from Boston College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 18 publications. Previous affiliations of Eric C. Fields include Tufts University & Chestnut Hill College.
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Papers
It's All About You: an ERP study of emotion and self-relevance in discourse.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the assessment of emotion and self-relevance are not independent, but rather that they interactively influence one another during word-by-word language comprehension.
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Having your cake and eating it too: Flexibility and power with mass univariate statistics for ERP data
TL;DR: It is argued that mass univariate approaches are preferable to traditional spatiotemporal averaging analysis approaches for many ERP studies when strong a priori time windows and spatial regions are used.
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Loving yourself more than your neighbor: ERPs reveal online effects of a self-positivity bias
Eric C. Fields,Gina R. Kuperberg +1 more
TL;DR: This study used event-related potentials to address the question of whether the self-positivity bias influences the processing of incoming information as it unfolds in real time, and found that comprehenders were more likely to expect positive information when a scenario referred to themselves.
Dynamic Effects of Self-Relevance and Task on the Neural Processing of Emotional Words in Context
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the LPC reflects a dynamic interaction between specific task demands, the emotional properties of a stimulus, and contextual self-relevance, which is similar to a functional theory of the emotional LPC.
Comparing the Impact of COVID-19-Related Social Distancing on Mood and Psychiatric Indicators in Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) and Non-SGM Individuals
Craig Rodriguez-Seijas,Eric C. Fields,Ryan Bottary,Sarah M. Kark,Michael Goldstein,Elizabeth A. Kensinger,Jessica D. Payne,Tony J. Cunningham +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the extent to which potential changes in mental health outcomes (depressive symptoms, worry, perceived stress, positive and negative affect) throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic were related to differences in perceptions of social support and engagement in virtual social activity, as a function of SGM status.