Publications
Trub, L., Ahokas, R., Hubert, Z.M., & Starks, T.J. (2025). Enhancing Constructive Communication in the
Digital Age through "Textual Healing," a Mindfulness App. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 42(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241293824
Trub, L. (2024). The Elephant in the Zoom: Will Psychoanalysis Survive the Screen? The American Journal
of Psychoanalysis, 84(2). https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-024-09457-7
Trub, L. (2024). To the Screen, and beyond. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 26(1-2).
https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2024.2312300
Didia, P.*, Hassinger-Das, B, & Trub, L. (2024). Stuck in the DMs: The Association Between
Introversion/Extraversion and Self-Confidence through Text-Based Communication. Psychology of Popular Media, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000527
Eltahawy, L.*, Essig, T., Myszkowski, N., & Trub, L. (2024). Can Robots Do Therapy? Examining the Efficacy
of a CBT Bot in Comparison with Other Behavioral Intervention Technologies in Alleviating Mental Health Symptoms. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2023.100035
Trub, L. Stewart, J.,* Oberndorf, M.*, Parker, V.* & Starks, T. (2023). The compounding effects of income
loss and change in living arrangement on emerging adult women’s mental health during COVID’s onset. Women and Health, 63(9). https://doi.org/10.1080/03630242.2023.2262620
Trub, L. Stewart, J.,*Lomidze, A.*, Lopez, E.* & Starks, T. (2023). Young adult women and sexual awareness
in the digital age Examining pathways linking online dating debut and mindfulness with sexual and mental health. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52(7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02725-0
Trub, L. (2023). Imagination Foreclosed: Searching for Each Other in the Digital Age. Psychoanalytic
Perspectives, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2023.2188026
Berler, M., Trub, L., & Magaldi, D., (2023). The Therapist's Evolving Public Self in a Digitally Disrupted
Marketplace. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 33(3). https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/int0000295
Trub, L. & Magaldi, D. (2022). The Phone in the Room: How technology is reshaping analytic space
Psychoanalytic Psychology, 39(3). https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000402
Trub, L. Doyle, K.,* Parker, V.* & Starks, T. (2021). Drunk Texting: When the phone becomes a vehicle for
emotional dysregulation and problematic alcohol use Substance Use and Misuse. Substance Use & Misuse, 56(12). https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2021.1954027
Trub, L., Berler, M.*, & Magaldi, D. (2021). Collisions and Collusions with New Norms: Renegotiating
Therapeutic Boundaries in the Digital Age. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000272
Trub, L. (2021). Playing and Digital Reality: Treating Kids and Adolescents in a Pandemic. Psychoanalytic
Perspectives, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2021.1896308
Bermingham, L.*, Meehan, K., Wong, P. & Trub, L. (2021). Attachment Anxiety and Solitude in the Age of
Smartphones. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 38(4). https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000372
Trub, L. & Magaldi, D. (2021). Secret Powers: Acts of Googling in the Therapeutic Relationship. Journal of
Clinical Psychology, 77(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23107
Trub, L. & Barbot, B. (2020). Great Escape or Path to Self-Expression?: Development and Validation of the
Messaging Motivations for Text Messaging. Questionnaire Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 53(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2019.1667244
Trub, L. & Magaldi, D. (2019). Digital Dialectics: Navigating technology’s paradoxes in online treatment. In A.
Rolnick & H. Weinberg (Eds.), Theory and Practice of Online Therapy: Internet-delivered Interventions for Individuals, Groups, Families and Organizations (pp.137-153). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315545530-12
Essig, T., Magaldi, D. & Trub, L. (2018). Technology, Intimacy and the Simulation of Intimacy. In G. Kanwal &
S. Akhtar (Eds.), Intimacy: Clinical, Cultural, Digital and Developmental Perspectives (pp.123-139). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429023217-9
O’Hadi, J.*, Brown, B.*, Trub, L., & Rosenthal, L. (2018). I Just Text to Say I Love You: Partner Similarity in
Texting and Relationship Satisfaction. Computers in Human Behavior, 78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.08.048
Trub, L. & Starks, T. (2017). Textual Healing: Proof of Concept Study Examining the Impact of a Mindfulness
Intervention on Smartphone Behavior. Mindfulness, 8(5). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0697-y
Trub, L. & Starks, T. (2017). Insecure Attachments: Attachment, emotional regulation, sexting and
condomless sex in couples. Computers in Human Behavior, 71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.01.052
Trub, L. & Starks, T. (2016). Texting Under the Influence: Emotional Regulation as a Moderator of the
Association Between Binge Drinking and Drunk Texting. Cyberpsychology, Social Networking, and Behavior, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2016.0468
Trub, L. (2016). A Portrait of the Self in the Digital Age: Attachment, Splitting, and Self-Concealment in
Online and Offline Self-Presentation. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 34(1). https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000123
Trub, L. & Barbot, B. (2016). The paradox of phone attachment: Development and validation of the Young
Adult Attachment to Phone Scale (YAPS). Computers in Human Behavior, 64. https://doi.org/
Lup, K.*, Trub, L., & Rosenthal, R. (2015). Instagram #Instasad?: Exploring the Association of Instagram Use
with Depressive Symptoms, Mediation by Negative Social Comparison, and Moderation by Strangers Followed. Cyberpsychology, Social Networking, and Behavior 18(5). https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2014.0560
Trub, L., Revenson, T., & Salbod, S. (2014). Getting Close from Far Away: Mediators of the Relation between
Adult Attachment and Blogging Behavior. Computers in Human Behavior, 41. https://doi.org/: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.08.003