Niall Bolger
Professor of Psychology

My Contact Info

402A Schermerhorn Hall (Office)
219 Schermerhorn Hall (Lab)

Office Hours

Thur. 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.?by?e-mail appointment



212 854 9034
[email protected]

Niall Bolger

Research Interests

Social Psychology
Statistics
Psychology of Close Relationships


Ph.D., Cornell University, 1987

General Area of Research

How do our close relationships affect how we cope with stressful events?

Current Research

Prof. Bolger has three areas of research. He studies adjustment processes in close relationships using intensive longitudinal research designs that include diary based reports and physiological measurements. He also studies personality processes as they are revealed in patterns of behavior, emotion, and physiology in daily life. Finally, he is interested in statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal and multilevel data.

Lab Website

The Couples Lab

Courses Taught

Spring 2017

Experimental Psychology: Social and Personality

4 pts, UN1455


Spring 2017

Experimental Psychology: Social and Personality (Lab)

0 pts, UN1456


Fall 2016

Analysis of Change

4 pts, GR6007


Fall 2016

Supervised Individual Research

0 pts, UN3950


Fall 2016

Supervised Individual Research

0 pts, GR6600

Selected Publications

Intensive longitudinal methods: An introduction to diary and experience sampling research

Niall Bolger, PhD
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau, PhD

Persons in Context: Developmental Processes

Niall Bolger
Avshalom Caspi
Geraldine Downey
Martha Moorehouse

Close Relationships and Health in Daily Life: A Review and Empirical Data on Intimacy and Somatic Symptoms

Stadler, Gertraud PhD
Snyder, Kenzie A. BA
Horn, Andrea B. PhD
Shrout, Patrick E. PhD
Bolger, Niall P. PhD

PubMed

Using diary methods in psychological research

Iida, M.
Shrout, P. E.
Laurenceau, J.-P.
Bolger, N.

Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter

Bartz, J. A.
Zaki, J.
Bolger, N.
Ochsner, K. N.

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Power analysis for diary and intensive longitudinal studies

Bolger, N.
Stadler, G.
Laurenceau, J.-P.

Analyzing diary and intensive longitudinal data from dyads

Laurenceau, J.-P.
Bolger, N.

Effects of oxytocin on recollections of maternal care and closeness

Bartz, J.
Zaki, J.
Ochsner, K, N.
Bolger, N.
Kolevzon, A.
Ludwig, N.
Lydon, J.

Brain mediators of predictive cue effects on perceived pain

Atlas, L. Y.
Bolger, N.
Lindquist, M. A.
Wager, T. D.

PubMed

Oxytocin selectively improves empathic accuracy

Bartz, J.,
Zaki, J.
Bolger, N.
Ochsner, K.

PubMed

The effects of daily support transactions during acute stress: Results from a daily diary study of bar exam preparation

Shrout, P. E.
Bolger, N.
Iida, M.
M. E. J.
Lane, S.

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Not so fast: the (not-quite-complete) dissociation between accuracy and confidence in thin-slice impressions.

Ames, D. R.
Kammrath, L. K.
Suppes, A.
Ames, D. R.
Kammrath, L. K.
Suppes, A.
Bolger, N.

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Grounding social psychology in behavior in daily life: The case of conflict and distress in couples

Bolger, N.
Stadler, G.
Paprocki, C.
DeLongis, A.

The neural bases of empathic accuracy

Zaki, J.
Weber, J.
Bolger, N.
Ochsner, K.

Positive valence bias and parent–child relationship security moderate the association between early institutional caregiving and internalizing symptoms

Michelle R. Vantieghem
Laurel Gabard-Durnam
Bonnie Goff
Jessica Flannery
Kathryn L. Humphreys
Eva H. Telzer
Christina Caldera
Jennifer Y. Louie
Mor Shapiro
Niall Bolger
Nim Tottenham

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