Publications

Chilton, P. D., Magrath, P., Grilli, M., Pfeifer, V., Sullivan, D., & Mehl, M. (2024). A Spectrum of Aging: Introduction of a Reflected Experience Model of Aging Well. Innovation in Aging, 8(Supplement_1), 1284–1285.

Pfeifer, V. A., Weihs, K. L., & Lai, V. T. (2024). Narratives about cancer: What metaphors can tell us about depressive symptoms in breast cancer patients. Health Communication, 39(9), 1888–1898.

Pfeifer, V. A., & Pexman, P. M. (2024). When it pays to be insincere: On the benefits of verbal irony. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33(1), 43–50.

Cay, G., Pfeifer, V. A., Lee, M., Rouzi, M. D., Nunes, A. S., El-Refaei, N., Momin, A. S., Atique, M. M. U., Mehl, M. R., Vaziri, A., & . (2024). Harnessing speech-derived digital biomarkers to detect and quantify cognitive decline severity in older adults. Gerontology, 70(4), 429–438.

Pfeifer, V. A., Chilton, T. D., Grilli, M. D., & Mehl, M. R. (2024). How ready is speech-to-text for psychological language research? Evaluating the validity of AI-generated English transcripts for analyzing free-spoken responses in younger and older adults. Behavior Research Methods, 56(7), 7621–7631.

Pfeifer, V. A., Mehl, M. R., & Lai, V. T. (2024). That was clever of you! Perspectives and verbal irony. Psychology of Language and Communication, 28(1), 389–414.

Pyarelal, A., Duong, E., Shibu, C., Soares, P., Boyd, S., Khosla, P., Pfeifer, V. A., Zhang, D., Andrews, E., Champlin, R., & . (2023). The tomcat dataset. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36, 40872–40923.

Pfeifer, V. A., & Pexman, P. M. (2023). Mixed and ambiguous emotions can be studied with verbal irony. Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(2), 65–67.

Lai, V. T., Hubbard, R., Ku, L.-C., & Pfeifer, V. (2023). Electrophysiology of non-literal language. Language Electrified: Principles, Methods, and Future Perspectives of Investigation, 613–646.

Sendek, K., Herzmann, G., Pfeifer, V., & Lai, V. T. (2022). Social acquisition context matters: Increased neural responses for native but not nonnative taboo words. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 22(2), 362–382.