* =Equal Contribution; # = Undergraduate or post-bac Mentee
In prep & Under Review
Orvell, A., Schertz, K.E., Baldwin, C., Derosiers, K., Duckworth, A., Jonides, J., Katz, B., Willingham, D., Kross, E. (in preparation). Teaching Self-Control Promotes Positive Shifts in High School Students’ Self-Control Knowledge, Self-Control Behavior, and Academic Achievement.
Dhaliwal, T., Orvell, A., Kross, E., Gelman, S.A. (under review). When does “you” mean “everyone”? A cross-linguistic analysis of generic person markers.
Orvell, A. & Luo, J.# (under revision) Expanding our view of emotion regulation choice: when and why people “outsource” reappraisal.
Published
Reid, G., Yigit, S., Orvell, A., Foster‐Hanson, E., & Lei, R. F. (2025). A Developmental Perspective on the Racial Socialization of White Children: Linguistic and Social‐ Cognitive Considerations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 19(10), e70095.
Schertz, K. E.*, Orvell, A.*, Chandhok, S., Vickers, B. D., Moser, J. S., Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2025). The frequency, form, and function of self-talk in everyday life. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 38883.
Lopez, R., Kulkarni, P., Goodson, P., Orvell, A., Reis, D., Friese, M., & Denny, B. (2025). Emotion regulation strategy use in response to daily stressors among college students: An experience sampling study. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000479
*Orvell, A., *Simmons, E., Umscheid, V., Elli, G., Gelman, S.A. (2025). From “me” to “we”: How perspective shifts in language can shape children’s judgments about kindness, caring, and inclusivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
*Baldwin, C., *Schertz, K., *Orvell, A., Costello, C., Takahashi, S., Moser, J., Ayduk, O., Kross, E. (2025). Managing emotions in everyday life: Why a toolbox of strategies matters. Emotion.
Niu, M., Gelman, S.A., Jurgens, D., Kross, E., Provost, E.M., Orvell, A. (2025). The persuasive role of generic-you in online interactions. Scientific Reports. 15(1), 1347.
Orvell, A. (2024) Applying social psychology to the self and beyond. In C.A Sanderson & R. Totton (Eds.), Teaching Social Psychology. Elgar.
#Lebrón-Cruz, A. & Orvell, A. (2023). I am what I am: The role of essentialist beliefs and neurodivergent identification on individuals’ self-efficacy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001457
Orvell, A., Elli, G., Umscheid, V., Simmons, E., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. A. (2022). Learning the rules of the game: The role of generic “you” and “we” in shaping children's interpretations of norms. Child Development, 00, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13846
Orvell, A., Gelman, S. A., & Kross, E. (2022). What “you” and “we” say about me: How small shifts in language reveal and empower fundamental shifts in perspective. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(5), e12665. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12665
*Salvador, C.E., *Orvell, A., Kross, E., Gelman, S.A. (2022). How Spanish speakers express norms using generic person markers. Scientific Reports 12(5016). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08675-2
*Orvell, A.,*Bruehlman-Senecal, E., Vickers, B., Kross, E., & Ayduk, O. (2022). From laboratory to daily life: Self-distancing training buffers against daily rumination and depression over time. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, advance online publication. 9(1), 68-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cns0000323
Orvell, A., Vickers, B., Drake, B., Ayduk, O., Moser, J., Verduyn, P., & Kross, E. (2021). Does distanced self-talk facilitate emotion regulation across a range of emotionally intense experiences? Clinical Psychological Science. 9(1), 68-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620951539
Orvell, A., Kross, E., Gelman, A. (2020) “You” speaks to me: Effects of generic-you in creating resonance between people and ideas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(49), 31038-31045. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010939117
Fujita, K., Orvell, A., & Kross, E. (2020). Smarter, not harder: A toolbox approach to enhancing self-control. Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 7(2), 149- 156. https://doi.org/10.1177/2372732220941242
Orvell, A., Ayduk, O., Moser, J., Gelman, S.A., & Kross, E. (2019). Linguistic shifts: A relatively effortless route to emotion regulation? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(6), 567-573. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214198614
Orvell, A., Kross, E., Gelman, S.A. (2019). “You” and “I” in a foreign land: The persuasive force of generic-you. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103869
Orvell, A., & Kross, E. (2019). How self-talk promotes self-regulation: Implications for coping with emotional pain. In S. Rudert, R. Greifender, & K. Williams (Eds.) Current Directions in Ostracism, Social Exclusion and Rejection Research.
Lee, D., Orvell, A., Briskin, J., Shrapnell, T., Gelman, S., Ayduk, O., Ybarra, O., & Kross, E. (2019).When chatting about negative experiences helps—and when it hurts: Distinguishing adaptive vs. maladaptive social support in computer-mediated communication. Emotion. 20(3), 368–375. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000555
Orvell, A., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. A. (2019). Lessons learned: Young children’s use of generic-you to make meaning from negative experiences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(1), 184 -191. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000445
Orvell, A., Kross, E., & Gelman, S.A. (2018). That’s how you do it: Generic “you” expresses norms in early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165, 183-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.04.015
Orvell, A., Kross, E., & Gelman, S.A. (2017). How “you” makes meaning. Science, 355(6331), 1299-1302. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaj2014
- Featured in Science Podcast and BBC Radio’s All in the Mind.
Featured in The Smithsonian, The Washington Post, The Cut, Psychology - Today, Thrive Global.
Kross, E., *Vickers, B, *Orvell, A., *Gainsburg, I., Jonides, J., Moser, J., & Ayduk, O. (2017) Third-person self-talk reduces Ebola worry and risk perception by enhancing rational thinking. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being, 9(3), 387-409. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12103
Verduyn, P., Lee, D. S., Park, J., Shablack, H., Orvell, A., Bayer, J., Ybarra, O., Jonides, J., & Kross, E. (2015). Passive Facebook usage undermines affective well-being: Experimental and longitudinal evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(2), 480- 488. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000057
- Commentary: Bohannon, J. (2014). Will Facebook make you sad? Depends how you use it, Science.
- Featured in the New York Times and Good Morning America.
