Rahrig, H.*, Lipsett, M.*, David, A. B.*, Richter, C. G.*, Chen Y.-Y.*, Adams, E. V.*, Wilson C, L., Mabry S. A., Lai V. D., Whitman K., Allison G. O., Xu E. P., Ostermiller L., De Leon Sautu S., Laubacher C, & Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2026). Embodying well-being in research: Key Principles and praxis. Frontiers in Education, 11:1836519. PDF
Kral, T., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Jacobucci, R., Davidson, R. J., & Tatar, R. (2026). Development and validation of single-item experience sampling measures of wellbeing in teens. Advanced online publication. PDF.
Hidalgo Julia, N, Lewis, R., Ferguson, C., Angulo Lopez, J., Jung, H., Picard, R., Goldberg, S., Tartar, R., Lau, W. S-Y., Swords, C., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Valdivia, G., Schaefer, M., & Davidson, R. (2026). Designing an affective probe to measure smile dynamics in depression. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 860, 1-12. PDF
Hidalgo Julia, N, Lewis, R., Ferguson, C., Goldberg, S., Lau, W. Swords, C., Valdivia, G., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Tartar, R., Picard, R., & Davidson, R. (2025). Identifying vocal and facial markers of depression in large-scale remote recordings: A multimodal study using mixed-effects modeling. Proc. Interspeech 2025, 5263-5267. PDF
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. PDF
Chungyalpa, D., Gauthier, P. E., Goldman, R. I., Vikas, M., & Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2025). A framework for deep resilience in the Anthropocene. Humanistic Management Journal, 10, 49-64. PDF.
Kral, T. R. A., Kesebir, P., Redford, L., Dahl, C., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Tatar, R. (2024). Healthy Minds Index: A brief measure of the core dimensions of well-being. PLoS ONE, 19(5): e0299352. PDF
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2023). Visualizing compassion: Episodic simulation as contemplative practice. Mindfulness, 14, 2532-2548. PDF
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. PDF
Jiwani, Z., Tatar, R., Dahl, C. J., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2023). Examining equity in access and utilization of a freely available meditation app. npj Mental Health Research, 2(1), 5. PDF
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: e062120. PDF
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Condon, P., Hasenkamp, W., MacKerron, G., Quigley, K. S., & Barrett, L. F. (2022). The Qwantify app dataset: A remote experience sampling study of desire, emotion, and well-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 105492. PDF
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. PDF
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Dunne, J. D. (2021). Cultivating emotional granularity. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 703658. PDF
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. PDF
Goldberg, S. B., Imhoff-Smith, T., Bolt, D. M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dahl, C., Davidson, R. J., & Rosenkranz, M. A. (2020). Awareness, connection, and insight: Testing a multi-component, self-guided, smartphone-based meditation app in a three-armed randomized controlled trial. JMIR Mental Health, 7(11), e23825. PDF
Lebois, L.A.M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Simmons, W. K., Barrett, L. F., & Barsalou, L. W. (2020). Learning situated emotions. Neuropsychologia, 145, 106637. PDF
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dunne, J., & Condon, P. (2019). Achieving deep integration across disciplines: A process lens on investigating human flourishing. In N. E. Snow & D. Narvaez (Eds.), Self, motivation, and virtue: New findings from philosophy and the human sciences (p. 109-126). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
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. PDF
Condon, P., Dunne, J., & Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2019). Wisdom and compassion: A new perspective on the science of relationships. Journal of Moral Education, 48(1), 98-108. PDF
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2017). Constructing emotion through simulation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 189-194. PDF
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Barsalou, L. W. (2016). A fundamental role for conceptual processing in emotion. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones, L. F. Barrett (Eds.), The handbook of emotion, 4th edition. New York: Guilford. PDF
Raz, G., Touroutoglou, T., Wilson-Mendenhall, C., Gilam, G. Lin, T., Gonen, T., Jacob, Y., Atzil, S., Admon, R., Bleich-Cohen, M., Maron-Katz, A., Hendler, T. and Barrett, L. F. (2016). Functional connectivity dynamics during film viewing reveal common networks for different emotional experiences. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 16(4), 709-723. PDF
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Barrett, L. F., & Barsalou, L. W. (2015). Variety in emotional life: Within-category typicality of emotional experiences is associated with neural activity in large-scale brain networks. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(1), 62-71. PDF
Lebois, L. A. M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Barsalou, L. W. (2015). Are automatic conceptual cores the gold standard of semantic processing? The context-dependence of spatial meaning in grounded congruency effects. Cognitive Science, 39, 1764-1801. PDF
Lebois, L. A. M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Barsalou, L. W. (2015). Putting everything in context. Cognitive Science, 39, 1987-1995. PDF
Oosterwijk, S., Mackey, S., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Winkielman, P., & Paulus, M. (2015). Concepts in context: Processing mental state concepts with internal or external focus involves different systems. Social neuroscience, 10(3), 294-307. PDF
Barrett, L. F., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Barsalou, L. W. (2015). The conceptual act theory: A road map. In L. F. Barrett and J. A. Russell (Eds.), The psychological construction of emotion (p. 83-110). New York: Guilford. PDF
Satpute, A. B., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Kleckner, I. R., & Barrett, L. F. (2015). Emotional Experience. In A. W. Toga (Ed.), Brain mapping: An encyclopedic reference. Oxford, UK: Elsevier. PDF
Barrett, L. F., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Barsalou, L. W. (2014). A psychological construction account of emotion regulation and dysregulation: The role of situated conceptualizations. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), The handbook of emotion regulation, 2nd Ed (p. 447-465). New York: Guilford. PDF
Condon, P., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Barrett, L. F. (2014). What is a positive emotion? The psychological construction of pleasant fear and unpleasant happiness. In M. Tugade, M. Shiota, & L. Kirby (Eds.), The handbook of positive emotion (p. 60-81). New York: Guilford.
Condon, P., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Barrett, L. F. (2014). The psychological construction of positive emotion as a window into well-being. In J. Gruber & J. T. Moskowitz (Eds.), Positive emotion: Integrating the light sides and dark sides (p. 11-33). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Barrett, L. F., & Barsalou, L. W. (2013). Situating emotional experience. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7:764. PDF
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Barrett, L. F., & Barsalou, L. W. (2013). Neural evidence that human emotions share core affective properties. Psychological Science, 24(6), 947-56. PDF
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Simmons, W.K., Martin, A., & Barsalou, L.W. (2013). Contextual processing of abstract concepts reveals neural representations of nonlinguistic content. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(6), 920-35. PDF
Hasenkamp, W., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Duncan, E., & Barsalou, L. W. (2012). Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: A fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states. Neuroimage, 59(1), 750-60. PDF
Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Barrett, L. F., Simmons, W. K., & Barsalou, L. W. (2011). Grounding emotion in situated conceptualization. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1105-1127. PDF
Barsalou, L. W., Wilson, C. D., & Hasenkamp, W. (2010). On the vices of nominalization and the virtues of contextualizing. In B. Mesquita, L. F. Barrett, & E. Smith (Eds.), The mind in context (p. 334-360). New York: Guilford Press. PDF
Barsalou, L. W., Santos, A., Simmons, W. K., & Wilson, C. D. (2008). Language and simulation in conceptual processing. In M. De Vega, A. M. Glenberg, & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Symbols, embodiment, and meaning (p. 245-283). Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF
Barsalou, L. W., Simmons, W. K., Barbey, A. K., & Wilson, C. D. (2003). Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(2), 84-91. PDF
Preprints
Bauer-Wu, S., Butler, A., Rajendra, J., Whitworth, R., Pagnoni, G., Hasenkamp, W., Wilson-Mendenhall, C.D., Lebois, L., Drucker, J., Simmons, K., Dunne, J., Ozawa-de Silva, B., Barrett, L.F., & Barsalou, L.W. (2017, August 9). Experienced meditators, cancer survivors, and matched controls assemble different neural resources to process emotion. Retrieved from https://osf.io/preprints/mindrxiv/v9hne.
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