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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Kirk Warren Brown is a researcher affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their primary field of study is psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and behavioral neuroscience. Their research extensively covers mindfulness and compassion interventions, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, COVID-19 and mental health, stress responses and cortisol, mind wandering and attention, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Their work has been published frequently in various academic venues, including:

  • Mindfulness
  • Scientific Reports
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Kirk Warren Brown has contributed to several papers in recent years, including:

  • "Meta-analytic evidence that mindfulness training alters resting state default mode network connectivity," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Self-Regulation Without Force: Can Awareness Leverage Reward to Drive Behavior Change?," 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "The (In)flexible self: Psychopathology, mindfulness, and neuroscience," 2023, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
  • "Mindfulness interventions improve momentary and trait measures of attentional control: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "The Self-Pattern and Buddhist Psychology," 2023, Mindfulness

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Kirk Warren Brown include:

  • J. David Creswell
  • Hadley Rahrig
  • Janine M. Dutcher
  • David R. Vago
  • Emily K. Lindsay

Their contributions to psychology span over 58 publications, with notable specialization in clinical psychology (34 publications), experimental and cognitive psychology (13), cognitive neuroscience (8), social psychology (8), and behavioral neuroscience (4). Their research topics emphasize mindfulness and compassion interventions prominently, reflected in 44 publications, while also addressing crucial mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and COVID-19 related mental health impacts.

In recognition of their work, Kirk Warren Brown was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • The Benefits of Being Present: Mindfulness and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being

    Kirk Warren Brown;Richard M. Ryan

  • Mindfulness: Theoretical Foundations and Evidence for its Salutary Effects

    Kirk Warren Brown;Richard M. Ryan;J. David Creswell

  • Teaching Self-Care to Caregivers: Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on the Mental Health of Therapists in Training

    Shauna L. Shapiro;Kirk Warren Brown;Gina M. Biegel

  • Are Psychological and Ecological Well-being Compatible? The Role of Values, Mindfulness, and Lifestyle

    Kirk Warren Brown;Tim Kasser

  • Contemplating Mindfulness at Work An Integrative Review

    Darren J. Good;Christopher J. Lyddy;Theresa M. Glomb;Joyce E. Bono

  • A multi-method examination of the effects of mindfulness on stress attribution, coping, and emotional well-being

    Netta Weinstein;Kirk W. Brown;Richard Michael Ryan

  • The role of mindfulness in romantic relationship satisfaction and responses to relationship stress.

    Sean Barnes;Kirk Warren Brown;Elizabeth Krusemark;W. Keith Campbell

  • Mindfulness-based stress reduction for the treatment of adolescent psychiatric outpatients: A randomized clinical trial.

    Gina M. Biegel;Kirk Warren Brown;Shauna L. Shapiro;Christine M. Schubert

  • Perils and Promise in Defining and Measuring Mindfulness: Observations From Experience

    Kirk Warren Brown;Richard M. Ryan

  • Validation of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale in a cancer population.

    Linda E. Carlson;Kirk Warren Brown

  • Vitalizing effects of being outdoors and in nature

    Richard M. Ryan;Netta Weinstein;Jessey Bernstein;Kirk Warren Brown

  • WeeKends, WorK, and Well-Being: PsyChologiCal need satisfaCtions and day of the WeeK effeCts on mood, vitality, and PhysiCal symPtoms

    Richard M. Ryan;Jessey H. Bernstein;Kirk Warren Brown

  • Assessing adolescent mindfulness: Validation of an Adapted Mindful Attention Awareness Scale in adolescent normative and psychiatric populations.

    Kirk Warren Brown;Angela Marie West;Tamara M. Loverich;Gina M. Biegel

  • The moderation of mindfulness-based stress reduction effects by trait mindfulness: Results from a randomized controlled trial

    Shauna L. Shapiro;Kirk Warren Brown;Carl Thoresen;Thomas G. Plante

  • Brief mindfulness meditation training alters psychological and neuroendocrine responses to social evaluative stress

    J. David Creswell;Laura E. Pacilio;Emily K. Lindsay;Kirk Warren Brown

  • Addressing fundamental questions about mindfulness.

    Kirk Warren Brown;Richard M. Ryan;J. David Creswell

  • Why We Don't Need Self-Esteem: On Fundamental Needs, Contingent Love, and Mindfulness

    Richard M. Ryan;Kirk Warren Brown

  • A Scale to Measure Nonattachment: A Buddhist Complement to Western Research on Attachment and Adaptive Functioning

    Baljinder Kaur Sahdra;Phillip R. Shaver;Kirk Warren Brown

  • TOWARD THE INTEGRATION OF MEDITATION INTO HIGHER EDUCATION: A REVIEW OF RESEARCH EVIDENCE

    Shauna L. Shapiro;Kirk Warren Brown;John A. Astin

  • Handbook of mindfulness : theory, research, and practice

    Kirk Warren Brown;J. David Creswell;Richard M. Ryan

  • Trait mindfulness modulates neuroendocrine and affective responses to social evaluative threat

    Kirk Warren Brown;Netta Weinstein;J. David Creswell

  • Short Communication Validation of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale in a cancer population

    Linda E. Carlson;Kirk Warren Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan Australian Catholic University
J. David Creswell
J. David Creswell Carnegie Mellon University
Joshua M. Smyth
Joshua M. Smyth Pennsylvania State University
Shauna L. Shapiro
Shauna L. Shapiro Santa Clara University
Anna L. Marsland
Anna L. Marsland University of Pittsburgh
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Mark R. Leary
Mark R. Leary Duke University
Netta Weinstein
Netta Weinstein University of Reading
Linda E. Carlson
Linda E. Carlson University of Calgary
Tim Kasser
Tim Kasser Knox College

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