Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, preprints, and my dissertation, newest first. My name is bolded throughout. Where a free copy exists, it is linked at the end of the reference.

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2026

Cheng, T. W., Mair, P., Curtis, M. T., Baum, G. L., Flournoy, J. C., Wang, S., Glasser, M. F., Barch, D. M., & Somerville, L. H. (2026). Longitudinal changes in T1w/T2w estimates of cortical myelin with age and pubertal timing. Cerebral Cortex, 36(2), bhag004. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhag004 [Free full text]

Curtis, M., Yendiki, A., Cheng, T., Omary, A., Flournoy, J. C., Kandala, S., Sanders, A. F. P., Harms, M. P., Somerville, L. H., & Barch, D. M. (2026). Disentangling the unique associations of age, pubertal stage, and pubertal hormones with white matter microstructure in childhood and adolescence. Imaging Neuroscience, 4, IMAG.a.1270. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1270 [Free full text]

2025

Chen, Y. Y., Rosenbaum, G. M., Fan, H., Flournoy, J. C., Li, T., Cegarra, L., Youssoufian, D. A., Grad-Freilich, M. J., Kordyban, L. E., Mair, P., & Somerville, L. H. (2025). Social Contexts Requiring Adjudication between Self- and Peer-Interest Differentially Alter Risk Preferences Across Adolescence. Open Mind, 9, 540–558. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00201 [PDF]

Flournoy, J. C., Lee, C. S., Wu, M., & Hicks, C. M. (2025). No silver bullets: Why understanding software cycle time is messy, not magic. Empirical Software Engineering, 30(6), 174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-025-10735-w [PDF · Project page · Code]

Guazzelli Williamson, V., Barendse, M. E. A., Chavez, S. J., Flournoy, J. C., Cheng, T. W., Cosme, D., Byrne, M. L., Allen, N. B., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2025). A longitudinal neuroimaging study of adolescent girls’ mentalizing and perspective-taking tendencies. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 72, 101526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101526 [PDF]

Rakesh, D., Flournoy, J. C., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2025). Associations between socioeconomic status and mental health trajectories during early adolescence: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. JCPP Advances, 5(4), e70001. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.70001 [PDF]

2024

Chen, Y. Y., Rosenbaum, G. M., Fan, H., Li, T., Flournoy, J., Mair, P., & Somerville, L. (2024). How beliefs around peers’ risk preferences get incorporated into adolescents’ decision making. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46(0). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6c42379z

Curtis, M., Flournoy, J. C., Kandala, S., Sanders, A. F. P., Harms, M. P., Omary, A., Somerville, L. H., & Barch, D. M. (2024). Disentangling the unique contributions of age, pubertal stage, and pubertal hormones to brain structure in childhood and adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 70, 101473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101473 [Free full text]

Flournoy, J. C., Bryce, N. V., Dennison, M. J., Rodman, A. M., McNeilly, E. A., Lurie, L. A., Bitran, D., Reid-Russell, A., Vidal Bustamante, C. M., Madhyastha, T., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2024). A precision neuroscience approach to estimating reliability of neural responses during emotion processing: Implications for task-fMRI. NeuroImage, 285, 120503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120503 [PDF]

Heffer, T., Flournoy, J. C., Baum, G. L., & Somerville, L. H. (2024). Examining the Association between Punishment and Reward Sensitivity and Response Inhibition to Previously-Incentivized Cues across Development. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 53(6), 1341–1354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-01966-z

Rith-Najarian, L. R., Gong-Guy, E., Flournoy, J. C., & Chavira, D. A. (2024). Randomized controlled trial of a web-based program for preventing anxiety and depression in university students. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 92(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000843

Xu, B., Dall’Aglio, L., Flournoy, J., Bortsova, G., Tervo-Clemmens, B., Collins, P., de Bruijne, M., Luciana, M., Marquand, A., Wang, H., Tiemeier, H., & Muetzel, R. L. (2024). Limited generalizability of multivariate brain-based dimensions of child psychiatric symptoms. Communications Psychology, 2(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00063-y [PDF]

2023

Byrne, M. L., Vijayakumar, N., Chavez, S. J., Flournoy, J. C., Cheng, T. W., Mills, K. L., Barendse, M. E. A., Mobasser, A., Flannery, J. E., Nelson, B. W., Wang, W., Shirtcliff, E. A., Allen, N. B., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2023). Associations between multi-method latent factors of puberty and brain structure in adolescent girls. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101228 [PDF]

Grisanzio, K. A., Flournoy, J. C., Mair, P., & Somerville, L. H. (2023). Shifting qualities of negative affective experience through adolescence: Age-related change and associations with functional outcomes. Emotion, 23(1), 278–288. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001079 [Free full text]

McCormick, E. M., Byrne, M. L., Flournoy, J. C., Mills, K. L., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2023). The Hitchhiker’s guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 63, 101281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101281 [PDF]

McLaughlin, K. A., Weissman, D. G., & Flournoy, J. (2023). Challenges with Latent Variable Approaches to Operationalizing Dimensions of Childhood adversity – a Commentary on Sisitsky et al. (2023). Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 51(12), 1809–1811. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01114-4

2022

Barendse, M. E. A., Byrne, M. L., Flournoy, J. C., McNeilly, E. A., Guazzelli Williamson, V., Barrett, A.-M. Y., Chavez, S. J., Shirtcliff, E. A., Allen, N. B., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2022). Multimethod assessment of pubertal timing and associations with internalizing psychopathology in early adolescent girls. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 131(1), 14–25. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000721 [Free full text]

Baum, G. L., Flournoy, J. C., Glasser, M. F., Harms, M. P., Mair, P., Sanders, A. F. P., Barch, D. M., Buckner, R. L., Bookheimer, S., Dapretto, M., Smith, S., Thomas, K. M., Yacoub, E., Essen, D. C. V., & Somerville, L. H. (2022). Graded Variation in T1w/T2w Ratio during Adolescence: Measurement, Caveats, and Implications for Development of Cortical Myelin. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(29), 5681–5694. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2380-21.2022 [PDF]

Byrne, M., Allen, N. B., Barendse, M. E. A., Barrett, A.-M., Chavez, S. J., Cheng, T., Flournoy, J. C., McNeilly, E. A., Shirtcliff, E. A., Vijayakumar, N., Williamson, V. G., & Pfeifer, J. (2022). Pubertal Hormones as a Measurement Method of Pubertal Stage and Timing Related to Internalizing Psychopathology in Adolescent Girls. Biological Psychiatry, 91(9), S64–S65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.180

Cosme, D., Flournoy, J. C., Livingston, J. L., Lieberman, M. D., Dapretto, M., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2022). Testing the adolescent social reorientation model during self and other evaluation using hierarchical growth curve modeling with parcellated fMRI data. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54, 101089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101089 [PDF]

Nelson, B. W., Flannery, J. E., Flournoy, J., Duell, N., Prinstein, M. J., & Telzer, E. (2022). Concurrent and prospective associations between fitbit wearable-derived RDoC arousal and regulatory constructs and adolescent internalizing symptoms. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63(3), 282–295. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13471

Romeo, R. R., Flournoy, J. C., McLaughlin, K. A., & Lengua, L. J. (2022). Language development as a mechanism linking socioeconomic status to executive functioning development in preschool. Developmental Science, 25(5), e13227. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13227 [Free full text]

Vijayakumar, N., Cheng, T. W., Flannery, J. E., Flournoy, J. C., Ross, G., Mobasser, A., Op de Macks, Z., Fisher, P. A., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2022). Differential neural sensitivity to social inclusion and exclusion in adolescents in foster care. NeuroImage: Clinical, 34, 102986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.102986 [PDF]

2021

Bryce, N. V., Flournoy, J. C., Guassi Moreira, J. F., Rosen, M. L., Sambook, K. A., Mair, P., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2021). Brain parcellation selection: An overlooked decision point with meaningful effects on individual differences in resting-state functional connectivity. NeuroImage, 243, 118487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118487 [PDF]

Gau, R., Noble, S., Heuer, K., Bottenhorn, K. L., Bilgin, I. P., Yang, Y.-F., Huntenburg, J. M., Bayer, J. M. M., Bethlehem, R. A. I., Rhoads, S. A., Vogelbacher, C., Borghesani, V., Levitis, E., Wang, H.-T., Van Den Bossche, S., Kobeleva, X., Legarreta, J. H., Guay, S., Atay, S. M., … Zuo, X.-N. (2021). Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience. Neuron. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.04.001 [PDF]

Hughes, B. T., Flournoy, J. C., & Srivastava, S. (2021). Is perceived similarity more than assumed similarity? An interpersonal path to seeing similarity between self and others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121(1), 184–200. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000369

López-Vicente, M., Agcaoglu, O., Pérez-Crespo, L., Estévez-López, F., Heredia-Genestar, J. M., Mulder, R. H., Flournoy, J. C., van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., Güroğlu, B., White, T., Calhoun, V., Tiemeier, H., & Muetzel, R. L. (2021). Developmental Changes in Dynamic Functional Connectivity From Childhood Into Adolescence. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2021.724805 [PDF]

Nook, E. C., Flournoy, J. C., Rodman, A. M., Mair, P., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2021). High Emotion Differentiation Buffers Against Internalizing Symptoms Following Exposure to Stressful Life Events in Adolescence: An Intensive Longitudinal Study. Clinical Psychological Science, 2167702620979786. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620979786 [Free full text]

Rodman, A. M., Vidal Bustamante, C. M., Dennison, M. J., Flournoy, J. C., Coppersmith, D. D. L., Nook, E. C., Worthington, S., Mair, P., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2021). A Year in the Social Life of a Teenager: Within-Persons Fluctuations in Stress, Phone Communication, and Anxiety and Depression. Clinical Psychological Science, 2167702621991804. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702621991804 [Free full text]

Flournoy, J. (2021, September 16). A comment on Ellwood-Lowe et al. (2020/2021): Presentation and discussion of results should take the lead from the preregistration. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/23qsw [PDF]

2020

Andrews, J. L., Mills, K. L., Flournoy, J. C., Flannery, J. E., Mobasser, A., Ross, G., Durnin, M., Peake, S., Fisher, P. A., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2020). Expectations of Social Consequences Impact Anticipated Involvement in Health-Risk Behavior During Adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence: The Official Journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 30(4), 1008–1024. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12576 [Free full text]

Barendse, M. E. A., Cosme, D., Flournoy, J. C., Vijayakumar, N., Cheng, T. W., Allen, N. B., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2020). Neural correlates of self-evaluation in relation to age and pubertal development in early adolescent girls. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 44, 100799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100799 [PDF]

Barendse, M. E. A., Vijayakumar, N., Byrne, M. L., Flannery, J. E., Cheng, T. W., Flournoy, J. C., Nelson, B. W., Cosme, D., Mobasser, A., Chavez, S. J., Hval, L., Brady, B., Nadel, H., Helzer, A., Shirtcliff, E. A., Allen, N. B., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2020). Study Protocol: Transitions in Adolescent Girls (TAG). Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.01018 [PDF]

Cheng, T. W., Vijayakumar, N., Flournoy, J. C., Op de Macks, Z., Peake, S. J., Flannery, J. E., Mobasser, A., Alberti, S. L., Fisher, P. A., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2020). Feeling left out or just surprised? Neural correlates of social exclusion and overinclusion in adolescence. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 20(2), 340–355. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00772-x [PDF]

Flournoy, J. C., Vijayakumar, N., Cheng, T. W., Cosme, D., Flannery, J. E., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2020). Improving practices and inferences in developmental cognitive neuroscience. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 45, 100807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100807 [PDF]

Vidal Bustamante, C. M., Rodman, A. M., Dennison, M. J., Flournoy, J. C., Mair, P., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2020). Within-person fluctuations in stressful life events, sleep, and anxiety and depression symptoms during adolescence: A multiwave prospective study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61(10), 1116–1125. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13234 [Free full text]

Vijayakumar, N., Flournoy, J. C., Mills, K. L., Cheng, T. W., Mobasser, A., Flannery, J. E., Allen, N. B., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2020). Getting to know me better: An fMRI study of intimate and superficial self-disclosure to friends during adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(5), 885–899. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000182 [Free full text]

2019

Byrne, M. L., Chavez, S., Vijayakumar, N., Cheng, T. W., Flournoy, J., Barendse, M., Shirtcliff, E. A., Allen, N., & Pfeifer, J. (2019). Multi-method confirmatory factor analyses of puberty in early adolescent girls. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pue6f

Flournoy, J. (2019). Adolescent Social Motives: Measurement and Implications. https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/24216

Ludwig, R. M., Flournoy, J. C., & Berkman, E. T. (2019). Inequality in personality and temporal discounting across socioeconomic status? Assessing the evidence. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 79–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.05.003 [PDF]

Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., Flournoy, J. C., & Srivastava, S. (2019). Ethics-Relevant Values as Antecedents of Personality Change: Longitudinal Findings from the Life and Time Study. Collabra: Psychology, 5(52). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.244 [PDF]

Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., Srivastava, S., Flournoy, J. C., & Costello, C. K. (2019). Ethics-relevant values in adulthood: Longitudinal findings from the life and time study. Journal of Personality, 87(6), 1119–1135. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12462 [PDF]

Vijayakumar, N., Pfeifer, J. H., Flournoy, J. C., Hernandez, L. M., & Dapretto, M. (2019). Affective reactivity during adolescence: Associations with age, puberty and testosterone. Cortex, 117, 336–350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.04.024 [Free full text]

Vijayakumar, N., Shirtcliff, E. A., Byrne, M. L., Mills, K., Cheng, T. W., Mobasser, A., Flannery, J., Nelson, B., Flournoy, J., Wang, W., Allen, N., & Pfeifer, J. (2019). Pubertal hormones and brain structure: Exploring the value of hair assays. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/btf4y [Free full text]

2018

King, K. M., Littlefield, A. K., McCabe, C. J., Mills, K. L., Flournoy, J., & Chassin, L. (2018). Longitudinal modeling in developmental neuroimaging research: Common challenges, and solutions from developmental psychology. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 33, 54–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.11.009 [Free full text]

Madhyastha, T., Peverill, M., Koh, N., McCabe, C., Flournoy, J., Mills, K., King, K., Pfeifer, J., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2018). Current methods and limitations for longitudinal fMRI analysis across development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 33, 118–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.11.006 [Free full text]

Matta, T. H., Flournoy, J. C., & Byrne, M. L. (2018). Making an unknown unknown a known unknown: Missing data in longitudinal neuroimaging studies. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 33, 83–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.10.001 [Free full text]

Op de Macks, Z. A., Flannery, J. E., Peake, S. J., Flournoy, J. C., Mobasser, A., Alberti, S. L., Fisher, P. A., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2018). Novel insights from the Yellow Light Game: Safe and risky decisions differentially impact adolescent outcome-related brain function. NeuroImage, 181, 568–581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.058

2017

Flannery, J. E., Giuliani, N. R., Flournoy, J. C., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2017). Neurodevelopmental changes across adolescence in viewing and labeling dynamic peer emotions. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 113–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.02.003 [Free full text]

Giuliani, N. R., Flournoy, J. C., Ivie, E. J., Hippel, A. V., & Pfeifer, J. H. (2017). Presentation and validation of the DuckEES child and adolescent dynamic facial expressions stimulus set. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 26(1), e1553. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1553

Leonard, J., Flournoy, J. C., Angeles, C. P. L. los, & Whitaker, K. (2017). How much motion is too much motion? Determining motion thresholds by sample size for reproducibility in developmental resting-state MRI. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 3, e12569. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.3.e12569 [PDF]

2016

Flournoy, J. C., Pfeifer, J. H., Moore, W. E., Tackman, A. M., Masten, C. L., Mazziotta, J. C., Iacoboni, M., & Dapretto, M. (2016). Neural Reactivity to Emotional Faces May Mediate the Relationship Between Childhood Empathy and Adolescent Prosocial Behavior. Child Development, 87(6), 1691–1702. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12630 [Free full text]

2015

Goodkind, M. S., Gallagher-Thompson, D., Thompson, L. W., Kesler, S. R., Anker, L., Flournoy, J. C., Berman, M. P., Holland, J. M., & O’Hara, R. M. (2015). The impact of executive function on response to cognitive behavioral therapy in late-life depression. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, n/a–n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4325 [Free full text]

2012

O’Hara, R., Marcus, P., Thompson, W. K., Flournoy, J. C., Vahia, I., Lin, X., Hallmayer, J., Depp, C., & Jeste, D. V. (2012). 5-HTTLPR Short Allele, Resilience, and Successful Aging in Older Adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psych, 20(5), 452. https://doi.org/10.1097/JGP.0b013e31823e2d03 [Free full text]