Associate Professor

Faculty Psychology Department

Faculty Developmental and Biological Psychology

bhfriedm@vt.edu

540-231-9611
Psychology
221 Williams Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Office Hours:
M 9:30-12:0
Other times by appointment

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Background

1992 Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
1989 M.S. in Experimental Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
1985 B.A. in Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Research/Professional Interests

Psychophysiology of anxiety, emotion, and personality
Analysis of heart rate variability and autonomic nervous system activity

Recent Courses Taught

6954 - Emotion, Stress, & Health
6954 - Polyvagal theory
5294 - Psychophysiology
4064 - Physiological Psychology
4014 - History and Systems in Psychology
2064 - Nervous Systems and Behavior
2054 - Psychology of Personality

Publications

Vella, E.J., & Friedman, B.H. (2009). Hostility and anger-in: Cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to mental arithmetic stress. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 72, 253-259.

Wan, L., Friedman, B.H., Boutros, N.N., & Crawford, H.J. (2008). Sensory gating and attentional performance. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 67, 91-100.

Wan, L., Friedman, B.H., Boutros, N.N., & Crawford, H.J. (2008). The influences of gender and smoking behavior on schizotypal personality and cognitive failure. Personality and Individual Differences., 44, 425-435.

Knepp, M.M., & Friedman, B.H. (2008). Cardiovascular activity during laboratory tasks in women with high and low worry. Biological Psychology, 79, 287-293.

Friedman, B.H. (2007). An autonomic flexibility-neurovisceral integration model of anxiety and cardiac vagal tone. Biological Psychology, 74, 185-199.

Vella, E.J., & Friedman, B.H. (2007). Autonomic characteristics of defensive hostility: Reactivity and recovery to active and passive stressors. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 66, 95-101.

Wilhelm, F.H., Schneider, S. & Friedman, B.H. (2005). Psychophysiological assessment. In M. Hersen (Eds.), Clinician's handbook of child behavioral assessment (pp. 201- 231). Burlington, MA: Elsevier.

Christie, I.C., & Friedman, B.H. (2004). Autonomic specificity of discrete emotion and dimensions of affective space: A multivariate approach. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 51, 143-153.

Friedman, B.H., Christie, I.C., Sargent, S.L, & Weaver, J.B. (2004). Self-reported sensitivity to continuous non-invasive blood pressure monitoring via the radial artery. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 57, 119-121.

Friedman, B.H. (in press). Feelings and the body: The Jamesian perspective on autonomic specificity of emotion. Biological Psychology.