Selected Publications:

In Preparation

• How can we use a novel social exchange task to characterize social learning and generosity sensitivity in young people with and without depression? [preregistration]

• How does eight weeks of social dance (in the form of salsa dancing, versus a waitlist control) impact symptoms of depression, social learning, and social and emotional processing? [preregistration]

2024

• What do we already know about the mental health benefits of social dance and movement, and what further research should be conducted?

  • Social dance and movement for mental health: A narrative review

• How might incorporating anti-racist, social justice-oriented instruction within the teaching of creative arts-based social movement activities influence students’ empathy?

  • Unfolding into each other: Examining the effects of capoeira with specifically anti-racist, social justice-oriented instruction on students’ empathy

• How did changes in physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic influence depression vulnerability, and what are the implications for public health strategies to ensure equitable access to physical activity?

  • Physical activity as a tool for preventing and treating depression: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

2023

• How might using different support strategies help decrease the cumulative burden of support provision to support providers (such as mental healthcare workers or peer supporters)?

  • Sustainable Supporting: Investigating Effects of Support Strategy on Supporters’ Emotional Exhaustion

2017

• How might a single session of a cooperative movement art (capoeira) influence practitioners’ state anxiety, feelings of self-efficacy, and prosocial behavior tendencies?

  • Capoeira: The Relationship of an Afro-Brazilian Cooperative Movement Art to State Anxiety, State Self-Efficacy, and Prosocial Behavior Tendencies