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Publications by Christy Wilson-Mendenhall

Gauthier, P. E., Chungyalpa, D., Goldman, R. I., Davidson, R. J., & Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2025). Mother Earth Kinship: Centering Indigenous worldviews to address the Anthropocene and rethink the ethics of human-to-nature connectedness. Current Opinion in Psychology, 64: 102042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102042
Chungyalpa, D., Gauthier, P. E., Goldman, R. I., Vikas, M., & Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2024). A Framework for Deep Resilience in the Anthropocene. Humanistic Management Journal, 10, 49-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41463-024-00195-7
Kral, T. R. A., Kesebir, P., Redford, L., Dahl, C., Wilson-Mendenhal, C., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Tatar, R. (2024). Healthy Minds Index: A brief measure of the core dimensions of wellbeing. PLOS ONE, 19(5), e0299352. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299352. PMCID: PMC11086875.
Jiwani, Z., Tatar, R., Dahl, C., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. D., & Goldberg, S. B. (2023). Examining equity in access and utilization of a freely available meditation app. npj Mental Health Research, 2(5). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44184-023-00025-y PMCID: PMC10164442
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. & Holmes, K. J. (2023). Lab meets world: The case for use-inspired basic research in affective science. Affective Science, 4, 591-599. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00200-6 PMCID: PMC10514004
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2023). Visualizing Compassion: Episodic Simulation as Contemplative Practice. Mindfulness, 14(10), 2532–2548. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01842-6 PMCID: PMC10655951.
Fugate, J. M. B. & Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2022). Embodied emotion, emotional granularity, and mindfulness: Improved learning in the classroom. In S. Macrine & J. M. B. Fugate (Eds.), Movement matters: How embodied cognition informs teaching and learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13593.003.0027 PMCID: Policy Exempt.
Koslouski, J., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Parsafar, P., Goldberg, S. B., Martin, M. Y., & Chafouleas, S. M. (2022). Measuring emotional well-being through subjective report. A scoping review of reviews. BMJ Open, 12(12), e062120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062120 PMCID: PMC9806051
Wilscon-Mendenhall, C. D., Condon, P., Hasenkamp, W., MacKerron, G., Quigley, K. S., & Feldman Barrett, L. (2022). The Qwantify app dataset: A remote experience sampling study of desire, emotion, and well-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 105492. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1054292 PMCID: PMC9745310
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. & Dunne, J. D. (2021). Cultivating emotional granularity. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:703658. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.703658 PMCID: PMC8751584
Dahl, C. J., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2020). The plasticity of well-being: A training-based framework for the cultivation of human flourishing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(51), 32197-32206. doi:10.1073/pnas.2014859117 PMCID: PMC7768706
Goldberg, S. B., Imhoff-Smith, T., Bolt, D. M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dahl, C. J., Davidson, R. J., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2020). Testing the Efficacy of a Multicomponent, Self-Guided, Smartphone-Based Meditation App: Three-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Mental Health, 7(11), 23825. doi:10.2196/23825. PMCID: PMC7732708
Lebois, L. A. M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Simmons, W. K., Barrett, L. F., & Barsalou, L. W. (2020). Learning situated emotions. Neuropsychologia, 145, 106638. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.008 PMCID:PMC6037607
Condon, P., Dunne, J., & Wilson-Mendenhall, C. (2019). Wisdom and compassion: A new perspective on the science of relationships. Journal of Moral Education, 48(1), 98-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2018.1439828
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Henriques, A., Barsalou, L. W., & Barrett, L. F. (2019). Primary interoceptive cortex activity during simulated experiences of the body. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(2), 221-235. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01346 PMCID:PMC6540780
Wilson-Mendenhall, C., J. Dunne, & P. Condon. (2019). Achieving deep integration across disciplines: A process lens on investigating human flourishing. In N. Snow & D. Narvaez (Eds.), Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory: Self, Motivation, and Virtue Innovative Interdisciplinary Research. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2017). Constructing emotion through simulation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 189-194. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.015