Publications

Borofsky, L. A., Baucom, B., Kellerman, I., Oliver, P., & Margolin, G. (2013). Community violence exposure and adolescents’ school engagement and academic achievement over time. Psychology of Violence, 3(4), 381-395.

Kellerman, I., Margolin, G., Borofsky, L. A., Baucom, B., & Iturralde, E. (2013). Electronic aggression among emerging adults: Contextual and motivational factors. Emerging Adulthood.

Saxbe, D., Yang, X.-F., Borofsky, L. A., & Immordino-Yang, M. H. (2013). The embodiment of emotion: Language use during the feeling of social emotions predicts cortical somatosensory activity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(7), 806-812.

Masten, C. L., Eisenberger, N. I., Borofsky, L. A., Pfeifer, J. H., McNealy, K., & Dapretto, M. (2011). Subgenual anterior cingulated response to peer rejection: A marker for adolescents’ risk for depression. Development and Psychopathology, 23(1), 283-292.

Borofsky, L. A., McNealy, K., Siddartha, P., Wu, K., Dapretto, M.,  & Caplan, R. (2010). Syntactic and semantic processing and thought disorder in childhood schizophrenia: Insights from fMRI. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 23(3), 204-222.

Masten, C. L., Eisenberger, N. I., Borofsky, L. A., Pfeifer, J. H., McNealy, K., Mazziotta, J. C. & Dapretto, M. (2009). Neural correlates of social exclusion during adolescence: Understanding the distress of peer rejection. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 4(2), 143-157.

Pfeifer, J. H., Masten, C. L., Borofsky, L. A., Dapretto, M., Fuligni, A. J., & Lieberman, M. D. (2009). Neural correlates of direct and reflected self-appraisals in adolescents and adults: When social perspective-taking informs self-perception. Child Development, 80(4), 1016-1038.

Invited Talks and Presentations

“Applying evidence-based treatments in an urban Latino school setting,” Clinical Psychology Area Brown Bag.
(2013) Invited talk, University of Southern California

“I just can’t stop feeling upset: Family aggression and emotion regulation in adolescence,” USC Leibovitz Conference.
(2012) Research talk, University of Southern California

“Growing up scared: Consequences of family violence in adolescence,” Psychology 336, Developmental Psychology.
(2012) Invited talk, University of Southern California

“Therapeutic approaches and modifications in treatment of a youth with language disorder and high emotional distress,” Clinical Psychology Area Brown Bag.
(2012) Invited talk, University of Southern California

“Clinical psychology case presentation,” Psychology 545, Advanced Psychopathology (Social Work Department).
(2012) Invited talk, California State University, Fullerton

“Designing a novel task: Benefits and challenges,” Psychology 314, Research Methods.
(2011) Invited talk, University of Southern California

“Designing a novel task: Benefits and challenges,” Psychology 200, Methods in Psychological Science.
(2011) Invited talk, Occidental College

Select Poster Presentations

Borofsky, L. A., Saxbe, D., Wong, J., Madrigal, J., Gilman, A., & Margolin, G. (2013, April). Family violence and emotion regulation. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA.

Borofsky, L. A., Saxbe, D., Kaplan, J., Yang, X.-F., & Margolin, G. (2012, March). Re-envisioning emotional reappraisal: A novel task for exploring cognitive control of emotion. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference, Chicago, IL.

Borofsky, L. A., Saxbe, D., Elmgren, S., Ramos, M. C., Yang, X., & Margolin, G. (2012, March). I just can’t stop feeling upset: Parent to child aggression and emotion regulation in adolescence. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver, BC.

Borofsky, L. A., Oliver, P. H., & Margolin, G. (2012, March). Community violence, school attitudes, and academic performance. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver, BC.

Borofsky, L. A., Saxbe, D., Spies, L., Guran, E., Maxwell, A., & Margolin, G. (2011, May). Adolescent violence exposure and cortisol output as predictors of cognitive functioning in young adulthood. Poster presented at the 23^rd annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Borofsky, L. A., Oliver, P. H., & Margolin, G. (2011, May). Childhood emotional distress and academic performance during high school. Poster presented at the International Association of Psychology & Psychiatry for Adults & Children conference, Athens, Greece.

Borofsky, L. A., Cohen, S., Oliver, P. H., & Margolin, G. (2011, April). Exploring the relationship between exposure to community violence and academic performance: A longitudinal investigation. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, QC.