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Institution
Mount Sinai School of MedicineCurrent Position
Assistant Professor Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Experimental Social Psychology from McGill University, 2004
Research Interests
 | Close Relationships |
| Helping/Pro-Social Behavior |
| Interpersonal Processes |
| Social Cognition |
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Jennifer A. Bartz
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
One Gustave Levy Place, Box 1230
New York, New York 10029
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (212) 241-6051
Fax: (212) 241-5670
My primary interests lie in the area of attachment and close relationships. I have approached my research using tools from social psychology and social cognition, and more recently, from neuroscience. In particular, I have been interested in oxytocin, a neuropeptide implicated in social bonding, and its role in facilitating the building blocks of close relationships—that is, social motivation and prosocial/approach behavior, the processing of social stimuli and formation of social memories, and social attachment/bond formation. In addition to studying these processes in healthy individuals, I have been interested in applying the knowledge gained from preclinical work with animals in this area to better understand and, possibly, inform treatments for disorders marked by deficits in social functioning such as autism.
 Journal Articles:
- Bartz, J. A., & Hollander, E. (2006). The neuroscience of affiliation: Forging links between basic and clinical research on neuropeptides and social behavior. Hormones and Behavior, 50, 518-528.
- Bartz, J. A., & Lydon, J. E. (in press). Relationship-specific attachment, risk regulation, and communal norm adherence in close relationships. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Bartz, J. A., & Lydon, J. E. (2006). Navigating the interdependence dilemma: Attachment goals and the use of communal norms with potential close others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 77-96.
- Bartz, J. A., & Lydon, J. E. (2004). Close relationships and the working self-concept: Implicit and explicit effects of priming attachment on agency and communion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1389-1401.
- Gagné, F. M., Lydon, J. E., & Bartz, J. A. (2003). Effects of mindset on the predicative validity of relationship constructs. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 35, 292-304.
- Hollander, E., Bartz, J., Chaplin, W., Phillips, A., Sumner, J., Soorya, L., Anagnostou, E., & Wasserman, S. (2007). Oxytocin increases retention of social cognition in autism. Biological Psychiatry, 61, 498-503.
Other Publications:
- Bartz, J. A., & Hollander, E. (2007, August 28). Is Oxytocin the key to understanding? In Mind Matters, the Scientific American blog on science and mind.
- Bartz, J. A., Kaplan, A., & Hollander, E. (2007). Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. In W. O’Donohue and S. Lilienfeld (Eds.), Personality disorders: Toward the DSM-V. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Bartz, J. A., & McInnes, L. A. (in press). CD38 regulates oxytocin secretion and complex social behavior. BioEssays.
- Bartz, J., Young, L., Hollander, E., Buxbaum, J., & Ring, R. (in press). Preclinical animal models of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In R. A. McArthur & F. Borsini (Eds.), Animal and translational models of behavioral disorders (Vol. 1). Elsevier, Inc.
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