My research explores how stress, trauma, and emotion shape our decisions, our relationships, our conflicts, and our capacity to recover—in individuals, organizations, and societies. Below you’ll find my published articles, book chapters, and reports, grouped by theme. Full-text journal articles are available on ResearchGate.
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Stress, Trauma, & Resilience
How stress, trauma, and emotion shape behavior in conflict zones, the military, and law enforcement. Includes controlled studies of MMFT® that use brain imaging and biological markers to examine how interoception, our sensing of the body’s internal signals, influences stress, trauma, resilience, and recovery.
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Leadership & Decision-Making
How stress arousal and emotion shape leaders’ decisions in politics, war, and crisis, including research on leaders’ windows of tolerance during COVID-19.
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Research about MMFT®
Published studies and chapters on how MMFT affects attention, working memory, stress physiology, and brain activity in high-demand groups. New to the research? Start with the overview of what we’ve found, then explore the articles and abstracts themselves here.
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Technology & Security
Early work on military technology and national security, including the digitization of the U.S. Army and international perceptions of U.S. nuclear policy.
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Health & Readiness in the Armed Forces
How emotion regulation, childhood adversity, and military service relate to the health, wellness, suicide risk, and operational performance of service-members and law enforcement officers. Also, early work on mind fitness and building resilience to strengthen miliitary effectiveness.
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War & Ending War
How wars end, and how stress, trauma, and emotion shape decisions during and after conflict. Includes quantitative research on the multiple pathways to ending war and case study research on the domestic politics that impede peace or make it possible. Also explores what stress and trauma mean for international peacekeeping.
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