Current Projects

Recent projects include examinations of how social status markers (gender, race/ethnicity, socioecomic status) are associated with depressive symptomatology in adolescence; links between hostility and lung health during young and older adulthood; psychological mechanisms by which perceived social status becomes embodied; and associations between exposure to violence and sexual orientation.

Work in this lab has been supported in part by a career development grant from the William T. Grant Foundation to study psychobiology and health in social context, supplement to grant #2151 awarded to Dr. Elizabeth Goodman, at Tufts-New England Medical Center, and a grant from the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program (1 R13 MH075625).

Selected Jackson Publications

Articles

Jackson, B., Kubzansky, L. D., Cohen, S., Jacobs, D. R. & Wright, R. J. (2007). Does harboring hostility hurt? Associations between hostility and pulmonary function in the CARDIA Study. Health Psychology, 26(3), 333-340.

Jackson, B., Kubzansky, L., & Wright, R. J. (2006). Linking perceived unfairness to health: The Perceived Unfairness Model. Review of General Psychology, 10(1), 21-40.

Jackson, B., Kubzansky, L., Wright, R. J., Cohen, S., & Weiss, S. (2004). A matter of life and breath: Childhood socio-economic status is related to young adult pulmonary function in the CARDIA study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 33(2), 271-278.

Jackson, B., Cooper, M. L., Mintz, L., Albino, A. (2003). Motivations to eat: Scale development and validation. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(4), 297-318.

Fuhlbrigge, A. L., Jackson, B., & Wright, R. J. (2002). Gender and asthma. Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, 22(4), 753-789.

Jackson, B., Sellers, R., & Peterson, C. (2002). Pessimistic explanatory style moderates the effect of stress on physical illness. Personality & Individual Differences, 32(3), 567-573.

Nolen-Hoeksema, S. & Jackson, B. (2001). Mediators of the gender difference in rumination. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 25(1), 37-47.

Belli, R.F., Schuman, H., & Jackson, B. (1997). Autobiographical misremembering: John Dean is not alone. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 11(3), 187-209.

Editorials and Reviews

Jackson, B., Wright, R. J., Kubzansky, L. D., & Weiss, S. T. (2004). Examining the influence of early life socio-economic position on pulmonary function across the lifespan: Where do we go from here? Editorial. Thorax, 59, 186-188.

Jackson, B. (2002). [Review of the book Readings in the psychology of gender: Exploring our differences and commonalities]. Women’s Studies International Forum, 25(6), 703-704.