Kral, T. R. A., Kesebir, P., Redford, L., Dahl, C., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Hirshberg, M. J., Davidson, R. J., & Tatar, R. (in press). Healthy Minds Index: A brief measures of the core dimensions of well-being. PLOS ONE.
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Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Dunne, J. D., & Davidson, R. J. (2023). Visualizing compassion: Episodic simulation as contemplative practice. Mindfulness, 14, 2532-2548. PDF
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Dunne, J. D. (2021). Cultivating emotional granularity. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 703658. PDF
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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​
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Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D. (2017). Constructing emotion through simulation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 189-194. PDF
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lebois, L. A. M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Barsalou, L. W. (2015). Putting everything in context. Cognitive Science, 39, 1987-1995. PDF
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., Barrett, L. F., & Barsalou, L. W. (2013). Situating emotional experience. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7:764. PDF
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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
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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
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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
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Preprints
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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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