Publications: Overview

Research is a collaborative endeavour. I am deeply grateful for the wonderful mentorship I have received, and to my brilliant colleagues with whom I have the good fortune to work with—established researchers, as well as junior collaborators (graduate and undergraduate students in my Nature—Meaning in Life (NMIL) Research Lab).

My publications reflect my work and interests as a wellbeing researcher. This includes:

• empirical studies examining the impact of everyday nature and nature connectedness on various aspects of our wellbeing (e.g., positive emotions; satisfaction with life; meaning in life; transcendent connectedness—a general sense of connection to other people, nature, and life in general; elevation—a composite emotion which includes feeling elevated, profoundly touched, deeply appreciative, morally uplifted;
• development and validation of practical nature-based wellbeing inteventions;
• theoretical frameworks regarding how relating to nature contributes to our wellbeing, and the flipside of this, eco-anxiety regarding worry about the degradation of the beyond-human natural environment;
• and studies testing interventions for wellbeing inculding focusing on: boredom, play, word choices, and character strengths.