Shook, R.P., Lim, S.L., Bruce, A.S., Philips, T., Halpin, K., Davis, A., Donnelly, J.E., Blundell, J., & Thyfault, J.P. (in press). A pilot study of physical activity, adiposity, appetite, and metabolic health in adolescent males. British Journal of Nutrition.
Hallisky, K., Baney, B., Ramesh, S., Wilson, S.J., Masterson, T., Rose, E.J., Hillary, F.G., Bruce, A.S., Garavan, H., Lim, S.L., & Keller, K.L. (2025). Children’s satiety responsiveness moderates the association between food reinforcement and eating in the absence of hunger. Physiology & Behavior. 302, 115092. link.
Crombie K.M., Cisler J.M., Aguiar E.J., MacDonald H.V., Lim S.L., Greenwood B.N., & Hillard C.J. Physical activity is positively associated with model-based decision making in pursuit of reward in trauma-exposed adults. (2025). Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 57, 10, 2108-2118. link.
Overholtzer, L.N., Luo, S., Lim, S.L., Pickering T.A., Fraga, N.R., Kim, E., Herting, M.M., Veeraya, K., Tanawattanacharoen, V.K., Mitchell, E., Geffner, M.E., & Kim, M.S. (2025, online ahead of print). Impaired dietary decision-making in adolescents with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Hormone Research in Pediatrics. link.
Sotos, J.J., Lim, S.L., Bruce, J.M., & Ha, O.R. (2025). Healthy eating information and its impacts on food decisions among college students. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 37, 349-357. link.
Lepping, R.J., Hoffart, C.M., Bruce, A.S., Taylor, J.M., Mardis, N.J., Lim, S.L., & Wallace, D.P. (2024). Pediatric neural changes to physical and emotional pain after intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment - A pilot study. Clinical Journal of Pain, 40(11), 665-672. link.
Kim, H., Lee, D., Lim, S.L., & Kim, M. (2024). An analysis of pretrained language model in understanding of Korean somatosensory figurative expressions. Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, 28, 787-794. link.
Bailey, C.* & Lim, S.L. (2024). Investigating psychological mechanisms of self-controlled decisions for food and leisure activity. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 47, 458-470. link
Ha, O.R. & Lim, S.L. (2023). The role of emotion in eating behavior and decisions. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1265074. link
Lim, S.L., Bruce, A.S., & Shook, R.P. (2023). Neurocomputational mechanisms of food and physical activity decision-making in male adolescents. Scientific Reports, 13: 6145. link
Wiese, A.D., Lim, S.L., Filion, D.L., & Kang, S.S. (2023). Intolerance of uncertainty and neural measures of anticipation and reactivity for affective stimuli. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 183, 138-147. link
Ha, O.R., Lim, S.L., Bruce, A.S., Masterson, T.D., & Luo, S. (2022). Editorial: Eating behavior and food decision making in children and adolescents. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:818078. link
Rees, L., Safi, R., & Lim, S.L. (2022). How much will you share? Exploring attitudinal and behavioral nudges in online private information sharing in organizations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 28(4), 775-793. link
Lee, J.S., Lim, S.L., & Lee, D. (2022). Sharing joy increases joy: Group membership modulates emotional perception of facial expressions. Emotion. 22, 153-166. link
Ha, O.R., Bruce, A.S., Killian, H., Davis, A.M., & Lim, S.L. (2021). Shared dynamics of food decision-making in mother-child dyads. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 695388. link
Killian, H.J., Lim, S.L., Bruce, J.M., & Ha, O.R. (2021). Social rejection influences prosocial sharing decision-making in inequity contexts. Current Psychology, 235. link
Serrano-Gonzalez, M., Herting, M., Lim, S.L., Sullivan, N., Kim, R., Espinoza, J., Koppin, C.M., Javier, J.R., Kim, M., & Luo, S. (2021). Developmental changes in food perception and preference. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 6564200. link
Ha, O.R., Killian, H.J., Davis, A., Lim, S.L., Bruce, J.M., Sotos, J., Nelson, S., & Bruce, A.S. (2020). Promoting resilience to food commercials decreases susceptibility to unhealthy food decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:599663. link
Lim, S.L., Martin, L.E., & Catley, D. (2020). Trial-by-trial fluctuations in brain responses to stress predict subsequent smoking decisions that occur several second later. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 5, 1019-1027. link
Ha, O.R., Lim, S.L.+, & Bruce, A.S. (2020). Neural mechanisms of food decision-making in children. Current Nutrition Reports, 9, 236-250. (+ Co-first author). link
Ha, O.R., Lim, S.L., Bruce, J.M., & Bruce, A.S. (2019). Unhealthy foods taste better in children with lower self-control. Appetite, 139, 84-89. link
Bruce, J.M., Bruce, A.S., Lynch, S., Thelen, J.M., Lim, S.L., Smith, J., Catley, D., & Jarmolowicz, D.P. (2018). Probability discounting of treatment decisions in multiple sclerosis: Associations with disease knowledge, neuropsychiatric status, and adherence. Psychopharmacology, 235, 3303-3313. link
Ha, O.R., Kilian H., Bruce, J.M., Lim, S.L., & Bruce, A.S. (2018). Food advertising literacy training reduces the importance of taste in children’s food decision-making – A pilot study. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1293. link
Bruce, J.M., Jarmolowicz, D.P., Lynch, S., Thelen, J.M., Lim, S.L., Smith, J., Catley, D., & Bruce, A.S. (2018). How patients with multiple sclerosis weight treatment risks and benefits. Health Psychology, 37, 680-690. link
Abidi, M., Bruce, J.M., Le Blanche, A., Bruce, A.S., Jarmolowicz, D.P., Csillik A., Thai, J., Lim, S.L., & de Marco, G. (2018). Neural mechanisms associated with treatment decision making: An fMRI study. Behavioral Brain Research, 349, 54-62. link
Lim, S.L., Penrod, M.T.*, Ha, O.R., Bruce, J.M., & Bruce, A.S. (2018). Calorie labeling promotes dietary self-control by shifting the temporal dynamics of health and taste attribute integration in overweight individuals. Psychological Science, 29(3), 447-462. link
Jarmolowicz, D., Bruce, A.S., Glusman, M., Lim, S.L., Lynch, S., Thelen, J.M., Catley, D., Zeiber, N.R., Reed, D.D., & Bruce, J.M. (2017). On how patients with multiple sclerosis weigh side effect severity and treatment efficacy when making treatment decisions. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 25(6), 479-484. link
Hass, N.C.* & Lim, S.L. (2017). Negative mood impacts the relationship between explicit and implicit age-related attitudes. North American Journal of Psychology, 19(2), 339-358. link, PDF
Oh, Y.*, Hass, N.C.*, & Lim, S.L. (2016). Body weight can change how your emotions are perceived. PLoS ONE, 11: e0166753. link
Jarmolowicz, D.P., Reed, D.D., Bruce, A.S., Catley, D., Lynch, S., Goggin, K., Lim, S.L., Strober, L., Glusman, M., Ness, A.R., & Bruce, J.M. (2016). Using EP50 to forecast treatment adherence in individuals with multiple sclerosis. Behavioral Processes, 132, 94-99. link
Bruce, A.S., Pruitt, S.W., Ha, O.R., Smith, T.R., Cherry, J.B.C., Bruce, J.M, & Lim, S.L. (2016). The influence of televised food commercials on children’s food choices: Evidence from the ventromedial prefrontal cortex activations. Journal of Pediatrics, 177, 27-32. link
Harris, A. & Lim, S.L. (2016). Temporal dynamics of sensorimotor networks in effort-based cost-benefit valuation: Early emergence and late net value integration. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(27), 7167-7183. link
Ha, O.R., Bruce, A.S., Pruitt, S.W., Smith, R., Burkart, D., Cherry, J.B.C., Bruce, J.M., & Lim, S.L. (2016). Healthy-eating decisions require efficient dietary self-control in children: A mouse-tracking food decision study. Appetite, 105, 575-581. link
Choi, K.M.*, Scott, D.T.*, & Lim, S.L. (2016). The modulating effects of brain stimulation on emotion regulation and decision-making. Neuropsychiatric Electrophysiology, 2:4. link
Lim, S.L., Cherry, J.B.C., Davis, A.M., Balakrishnan, S.N., Ha, O.R., Bruce, J.M., & Bruce, A.S. (2016). The child brain computes and utilizes internalized maternal choices. Nature Communications, 7:11700. link
Hass, N.C.*, Weston, T.D.*, & Lim, S.L. (2016). Be happy not sad for your youth: The effects of facial expression on age perception. PLoS One, 11(3): e0152093. link
Bruce, J.M., Bruce, A.S., Catley, D., Lynch, S., Goggin, K., Reed, D., Lim, S.L., Strober, L., Glusman, M., Ness, A.B., & Jarmolowicz, D. (2016). Being kind to your future self: Probability discounting of health decision-making. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 50(2), 297-309. link
Francisco, A.J., Bruce, A.S., Crespi, J.M., Lusk, J.L., McFadden, B., Bruce, J.M., Aupperle, R.L., & Lim, S.L. (2015). Are consumers as constrained as hens are confined? Brain activations and behavioral choices after informational influence. Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 13, 113-119. link
Hass, N.C.*, Schneider, E.J.*, & Lim, S.L. (2015). Emotional expressions of old faces are perceived as more positive and less negative than young faces in young adults. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:1276. link
Bruce, A.S., Cherry, J.B.C., Lim, S.L., Black, W.R., Davis, A.M., & Bruce, J.M. (2015). Apples or candy? Internal and external influences on children’s food choices. Appetite. 93:31-34 link
Cherry, J.B.C., Bruce, J.M., Lusk, J.L., Crespi, J.M., Lim, S.L., & Bruce, A.S. (2015) Neurofunctional correlates of ethical, food-related decision-making. PLoS One, 10(4): e0120541. link
Weston, T.D.*, Hass, N.C.*, & Lim, S.L. (2015). The effect of sad facial expressions on weight judgment. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:417. link
Lim, S.L., & Bruce, A.S. (2015). Prospect theory and body mass: Characterizing psychological parameters for weight-related risk attitudes and weight-gain aversion. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:330. link
Lim, S.L., & Bruce, A.S. (2015). Can't wait to lose weight? Characterizing temporal discounting parameters for weight-loss. Appetite, 85, 8-13. link
Lim, S.L., Bruce, A.S., & Aupperle, R.L. (2014). The influence of a working memory task on affective perception of facial expressions. PLoS One 9(10): e111074. link
Lim, S.L, O’Doherty, J. P., & Rangel, A. (2013). Stimulus value signals in vmPFC reflect the integration of attribute signals computed in fusiform gyrus and posterior superior temporal gyrus. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(30), 8729-8741. link
Lim, S.L., O’Doherty, J. P., & Rangel, A. (2011). The decision value computations in the vmPFC and striatum utilize a relative value code that is guided by visual attention. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(37), 13214-13223. link
Padmala, S., Lim, S.L., & Pessoa, L. (2010). Pulvinar and affective significance: Responses track moment -to-moment stimulus visibility. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4: 64. link
Lim, S.L., Padmala, S., & Pessoa, L. (2009). Segregating the significant from the mundane on a moment-to-moment basis: Direct and indirect shaping of perceptual experience by the amygdala. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(39), 16841-16846. link
Lee, T.H, Lim S.L., Lee, K.Y., & Choi, J.S. (2009). Facilitation of visual processing by masked presentation of a conditioned facial stimulus. NeuroReport, 20(8), 750-754. link
Lee, T.H, Lim S.L.+, Lee, K., Kim, H.T., & Choi, J.S. (2009). Conditioning-induced attentional bias for face stimuli measured with the emotional Stroop task. Emotion, 9(1), 134-139. (+ Co-first author) link
Lim, S.L., Padmala, S., & Pessoa, L. (2008). Affective learning modulates spatial competition during low-load attentional conditions, Neuropsychologia, 46(5), 1267-1278. link
Lim, S.L. & Pessoa, L. (2008). Affective learning increases sensitivity to graded emotional faces. Emotion, 8(1), 96-103. link
Hahm, J, Lee, K, Lim, S.L., Kim, S.Y., Kim, H.T., & Lee, J.H. (2007). Effects of active navigation on object recognition in virtual environments. Cyber Psychology & Behavior, 10 (2), 305-308. link
Lim, S.L. & Kim, J.H. (2005). Cognitive processing for emotional information in depression, panic, and somatoform disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114 (1), 50-61. link
Chi, S.E., Park, C.B., Lim, S.L., Park, E.H., Chung, M.S., Lee, J.Y., Lee, Y.H., & Kim, H.T. (2005). Evaluation of Eysenck’s PEN model: A reconsideration based on the Robinson’s view on brain oscillatory systems. Personality and Individual Differences, 39(3), 669-681. link
Lee, S.Y., Lim, S.L., Hong, S.H., Lee, D.S., & Kim, J.H. (2003). Dysfunctional beliefs of tinnitus patients who suffer from depression. Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 22 (4), 709-723.
Kim, J.H., Lee, S.Y., Kim, C.H., Lim, S.L., Shin, J., Chung, W.H., Yu, B.H., & Hong, S.H. (2002). Reliability and validity of a Korean adaptation of the tinnitus handicap inventory. Korean Journal of Otolaryngology, 45, 328-334. link
Lim, S.L. & Kim, J.H. (2002). Evaluation of catastrophizing and its clinical application: A standardization study of Korean anxious thoughts and tendencies scale. Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 21(1), 189-206.
Lim, S.L. & Kim, J.H. (2002). SOM Model (states of mind) of cognitive balance between positive and negative thoughts: In a normal adult sample. Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 21(1), 125-146.
Lim, S.L. & Kim, J.H. (2002). SOM Model (states of mind) for emotional judgments: Asymmetry between positive and negative information. Korean Journal of Science of Emotion and Sensibility, 4 (2), 69-77.
Kim, J.H., Lim, S.L., & Lee, D.S. (2001). Personality and job stress: Focusing on the comparison between autonomy and sociotropy. Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatry, 40(5), 813-823.
Lim, S.L., Kim, J.H., Lee, D.S., & Kim, E. (2000). Women’s job stress, coping resources and mental health: In the sample of female office workers in a general hospital. Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatry, 39(6), 999-1009.
Lim, S.L. & Kwon, J.H. (1998). The effect of depressive symptoms on marital communication. Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 17(2), 17-31.
* L.L.ANN student/postdoc authors
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