Publications

2025

Griffin, J.W. & Willis, H., Dommer, K., Naples, A., Dawson, G., Jeste, S., Faja, S., Bernier, R., Kleinhans, N., Levin, A., Hellemann, G., Senturk, D., Dziura, J., Sugar, C., Webb, S., McPartland, J.C., Shic, F., and the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (in press). Reduced social prioritization: An underlying mechanism driving slower latency to look at faces in autism. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.

Griffin, J.W., Naples, A., Bernier, R., Chawarska, K., Dawson, G., Dziura, J., Faja, S., Jeste, S., Kleinhans, N., Sugar, C., Webb, S., Shic, F., & McPartland, J.C., for the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials. (2025). Spatiotemporal eye movement dynamics reveal altered face prioritization in early visual processing among autistic children. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

2024

Griffin, J.W. (2024). Eyes are windows to the brain: Capturing eye movements to better understand face processing in autism. Science, 386, 632-632.

Griffin, J.W., Webb, S.J., Keehn, B., Dawson, G., & McPartland, J.C. (2024). Autistic individuals do not alter visual processing strategy during encoding versus recognition of faces: A hidden Markov modeling approach. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Dai, J., Griffin, J.W., & Scherf, K.S. (2024). How is race perceived during adolescence? A Meta-analysis of the own-race bias. Developmental Psychology, 60(4), 649-664.

Scherf, K.S., Griffin, J.W., Geier, C.G., & Smyth, J.M. (2024). Social visual attention as a treatment outcome: evaluating the social games for autistic adolescents (SAGA) intervention. Scientific Reports, 14, 619.

Gerber, A.H., Griffin, J.W., Keifer, C.M., Lerner, M.D., & McPartland, J.C. (2024). Social anhedonia is a stronger predictor of internalizing symptoms than autism symptoms in autistic and non-autistic youth. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Oswald, F., Griffin, J.W., Weisbuch, M., & Adams, R.B. (in press). People watching: Social perception and the ensemble coding of bodies. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 47(4), 545-568.

2023

Griffin, J.W., Azu, M.A., Cramer-Benjamin, S., Franke, C., Herman, N., Iqbal, R., Keifer, C.M., Rosenthal, L., & McPartland, J.C. (2023). Investigating the face inversion effect in autism across behavioral and neural measures of face processing: A Bayesian multilevel meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 80(10), 1026–1036.

Gerver, C.R., Griffin, J.W., Dennis, N.A., & Beaty, R.E. (2023). Memory and creativity: A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between memory systems and creative cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

2022

Griffin, J.W., Bauer, R., & Gavett, B.E. (2022). The episodic memory profile in autism spectrum disorder: A Bayesian meta-analysis. Neuropsychology Review, 32(2), 316–351.

Griffin, J.W., & Oswald, F. (2022). A multilevel Bayesian meta-analysis of the body inversion effect: Evaluating controversies over headless and sexualized bodies. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(5), 1558–1593.

Laskowitz, S., Griffin, J.W., Geier, C.F., & Scherf, K.S. (2022). Cracking the code of live human social interactions in autism: A review of the eye-tracking literature. Understanding Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 173, 242-264.

2021

Cuijpers, P., Griffin, J.W., & Furukawa, T.A. (2021). The lack of statistical power of subgroup analyses in meta-analyses: A cautionary note. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 30, e78, 1-3.

Griffin, J.W., Geier, C.F., Smyth, J.M., & Scherf, K.S. (2021). Improving sensitivity to eye gaze cues in autistic adolescents using serious game technology: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology Advances, 1(3), e12041.

Griffin, J.W. (2021). Calculating statistical power for meta-analysis using metapower. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 17(1), 24-39.

Griffin, J.W., Bauer, R., & Scherf, K.S. (2021). A quantitative meta-analysis of face recognition deficits in autism: 40 years of research. Psychological Bulletin, 147(3), 268-292.

2020

Griffin, J.W., & Scherf, K.S. (2020). Does decreased visual attention to faces underlie difficulties interpreting eye gaze cues in autism? Molecular Autism, 11(1), 60.

Bill, G., Whyte, E.M., Griffin, J.W., & Scherf, K.S. (2020). Measuring sensitivity to eye gaze cues in naturalistic scenes: Presenting the eye gaze FoCuS database. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, e1833.

Griffin, J.W., & Motta-Mena, N.V. (2020). Face Recall. In: Shackelford, T. & Weekes-Shacklelford, V.A. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham.

Griffin, J.W. (2020). Quantifying the face inversion effect in nonhuman primates: a phylogenetic meta-analysis. Animal Cognition, 23, 237–249.