Razia Sahi, Ph.D.
Below you’ll find links to publications and pre-prints, including data and analytic code repositories and relevant blog posts or press articles that communicate this work for a broader audience.

Under Review

Sharing is believing: Saying or writing reframes of emotional experiences boosts cognitive emotion regulation

Under Review

Razia S. Sahi | Angela Challman | Erik Nook

Examining social emotion regulation in Spanish-English bilinguals

Under Review

Tiffany Cao | Razia S. Sahi | Chantal A. Valdivia-Moreno | Erik Nook

Large natural emotion vocabularies are linked with better mental health in psychotherapeutic conversations

Under Review

Razia S. Sahi | Thomas D. Hull | Vera Vine | Erik C. Nook

People regulate emotions during spontaneous thought using detectable linguistic signatures.

Under Review

Faustine E. Corbani | Razia S. Sahi | Erik Nook | Diana I. Tamir

From traits to moments: How emotion regulation repertoires shape daily affective experiences.

Under Review

João F. Guassi Moreira | Razia S. Sahi | Jennifer A. Silvers

In Press

Hand-holding reduces the long-term painfulness of social memories.

Emotion In Press

Celeste C. Crowder | Razia S. Sahi | Laura I. Hazlett | Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory | Naomi I. Eisenberger

2025

Vocal pitch as an acoustic marker of social support efficacy in women friendships

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2025)

Razia S. Sahi | Siyan Nussbaum | João F. Guassi Moreira | Elizabeth M. Gaines | Daniel Lee | Naomi I. Eisenbeger | Jennifer A. Silvers

Leveraging large language models to estimate clinically relevant psychological constructs from psychotherapy transcripts

Computational Psychiatry (2025)

Mostafa Abdou | Razia S. Sahi | Thomas D. Hull | Erik C. Nook | Nathaniel D. Daw

2024

A data-driven typology of emotion regulation profiles

Emotion (2024)

João F. Guassi Moreira | Razia S. Sahi | Maria D. Calderon Leon | Natalie Saragosa-Harris | Yael H. Waizman | Anna E. Sedykin | Emilia Ninova | Tara S. Peris | James Gross | Jennifer A. Silvers

2023

You changed my mind: Immediate and enduring impacts of social emotion regulation

Emotion (2023)

Razia S. Sahi | Elizabeth M. Gaines | Siyan Nussbaum | Daniel Lee | Matthew D. Lieberman | Naomi I. Eisenbeger | Jennifer A. Silvers

Peer facilitation of emotion regulation in adolescence

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2023)

Razia S. Sahi | Naomi I. Eisenbeger | Jennifer A. Silvers

2022

One size does not fit all: Decomposing the implementation and differential benefits of social emotion regulation strategies

Emotion (2022)

Razia S. Sahi | Zhouzhou He | Jennifer A. Silvers | Naomi I. Eisenbeger

2021

Having more virtual interaction partners during COVID-19 physical distancing measures may benefit mental health

Scientific Reports (2021)

Razia S. Sahi | Miriam Schwyck | Carolyn Parkinson | Naomi I. Eisenbeger

The comfort in touch: Immediate and lasting effects of handholding on emotional experiences

PLOS ONE (2021)

Razia S. Sahi | Macrina C. Dieffenbach | Siyan Gan | Maya Lee | Laura I. Hazlett | Shannon M. Burns | Matthew D. Lieberman | Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory | Naomi I. Eisenberger

2020

With a little help from my friends: Selective social potentiation of emotion regulation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2020)

Razia S. Sahi | Emilia Ninova | Jennifer A. Silvers

Why don’t you like me: The role of the mentalizing network in social rejection

The Neural Basis of Mentalizing - A Social-Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Perspective (M. Gilead & K.N. Ochsner) (2020)

Razia S. Sahi | Naomi I. Eisenberger

Performance and belief-based emotion regulation capacity and tendency: Mapping links with cognitive flexibility and perceived stress

Emotion (2020)

João F. Guassi Moreira | Razia S. Sahi | Emilia Ninova | Carolyn Parkinson | Jennifer A. Silvers

2019

It’s okay to be angry: A functionalist perspective of the dangers of over-regulating anger

Special issue on emotion regulation for Philosophical Topics (2019)

Razia S. Sahi