Wendy Heller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Heller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Heller |
| SIGNATURE | HELLER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6854-558X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Co‐Regulation Within Adolescent Friendships
Friendships assume an increasingly important role in socialization during adolescence, with the potential to help shape how youth cope with negative emotions and stressors. Extending theory and research on co‐rumination among friends, this study sought to examine an alternative novel socialization process within friendships—co‐reappraisal—that is hypothesized to promote healthier socioemotional adjustment in adolescents. Adolescents ( N = 330; M …
Staging Euridice: Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence
Cultivating emotional resilience in adolescent girls: Effects of a growth emotion mindset lesson
To address the widespread mental health crisis facing adolescent girls, this study examined whether a growth emotion mindset lesson can enhance emotional competence. During 2018–2022, adolescent girls (M age = 15.68 years; 66.3% White) were randomized to a growth mindset (E-MIND; N = 81) or brain education (control; N = 82) lesson, completed the Trier Social Stressor Test, and reported on various aspects of emotional competence. Compared with the…
A virtual reality investigation of factors influencing landscape preferences: Natural elements, emotions, and media creation
Pandemic Onset, Individual Differences, and Dimensional Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Among Emerging Adults
Background: Growing research indicates complex relationships among dimensions of depression and anxiety. Vulnerability to depression and anxiety in emerging adults, due to individual difference factors, may be intensified by disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Undergraduates ( n=653, mean age=19.8, range 18–23) completed questionnaires that assessed distinct dimensions of depression (motivational anhedonia: MA, low positiv…
The Future of Women in Psychological Science
There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus of discussion or systematic review, despite our field’s investment in questions of equity, status, well-being, gender bias, and gender disparities. In the present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women’s career advancement in psychological science. We focus on issu…
The costs of anticipating and perseverating about racism: Mechanisms of the associations between racial discrimination, anxious arousal, and low positive affect
Racial discrimination is indirectly associated with anxious arousal and low positive affect through the effects of anticipatory race-related fear and race-related rumination, respectively. Implications for etiology and treatment of anxious arousal and low positive affect are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Emotion mindsets and depressive symptoms in adolescence: The role of emotion regulation competence
Recent theories posit that emotion mindsets (i.e., the extent to which individuals believe emotions are malleable or fixed) play a crucial role in experiences of emotion and influence emotion regulation (ER) processes. Drawing from mindset theory, this study examined the hypothesis that fixed emotion mindsets (FEMs) would predict depressive symptoms via compromised ER competence in adolescence, a period when many first episodes of depression occu…
Phaedra’s Handmaiden
Time course of processing emotional stimuli as a function of perceived emotional intelligence, anxiety, and depression
An individual's self-reported abilities to attend to, understand, and reinterpret emotional situations or events have been associated with anxiety and depression, but it is unclear how these abilities affect the processing of emotional stimuli, especially in individuals with these symptoms. The present study recorded event-related brain potentials while individuals reporting features of anxiety and depression completed an emotion-word Stroop task…
Dancing Statues and the Myth of Venice: Ancient Sculpture on the Opera Stage
Anger style, psychopathology, and regional brain activity
Depression and anxiety often involve high levels of trait anger and disturbances in anger expression. Reported anger experience and outward anger expression have recently been associated with left-biased asymmetry of frontal cortical activity, assumed to reflect approach motivation. However, different styles of anger expression could presumably involve different brain mechanisms and/or interact with psychopathology to produce various patterns of …
Poppea's Legacy: The Julio-Claudians on the Venetian Stage
In a context already established by Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and other Venetian treatments of the Julio-Claudians, Giovanni A. Boretti and Aurelio Aureli's opera Claudio Cesare bears the heavy influence of the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus. Aureli took extraordinary care to incorporate specific details from Book 12 of Tacitus' Annals into his libretto, deftly blending fact with fanciful supposition in a manner that echoe…
Emotion-Modulated Performance and Activity in Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Functional MRI (fMRI) was used to examine the relationship between processing of pleasant and unpleasant stimuli and activity in prefrontal cortex. Twenty volunteers identified the colors in which pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant words were printed. Pleasant words prompted more activity bilaterally in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) than did unpleasant words. In addition, pleasant words prompted more activity in left than in right DLPFC. …
Neuropsychological evidence for dimensional schizotypy: Implications for creativity and psychopathology
Women Living with Traumatic Brain Injury: Social Isolation, Emotional Functioning and Implications for Psychotherapy
Women living with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) typically experience social and emotional sequelae that can be effectively addressed in the context of a psychotherapeutic relationship. Traumatic Brain Injuries can affect the full range of human functioning, from activities of daily living to experiencing a coherent sense of self. In this article, we focus on two issues, social isolation and emotional functioning, that encompass a number of key cha…
A Present for the Ladies: Ovid, Montaigne, and the Redemption of Purcell's Dido
The influence of Ovid and Montaigne on the creation of Purcell's Dido and Aeneasis reconsidered in the context of A Present for the Ladies, a ‘historical vindication of the female sex’ by the librettist Nahum Tate (1692), and its literary sources. I propose that Tate's Dido can be understood as an elaborate defence of his heroine, one that is indebted far more to Ovid than to Virgil, endowing the heroine with the neo‐Stoic virtue and resolve asso…
Busenello [Businello], Giovanni [Gian] Francesco
Neuropsychological evidence for dimensional schizotypy: Implications for creativity and psychopathology
The costs of anticipating and perseverating about racism: Mechanisms of the associations between racial discrimination, anxious arousal, and low positive affect
Racial discrimination is indirectly associated with anxious arousal and low positive affect through the effects of anticipatory race-related fear and race-related rumination, respectively. Implications for etiology and treatment of anxious arousal and low positive affect are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Women Living with Traumatic Brain Injury: Social Isolation, Emotional Functioning and Implications for Psychotherapy
Women living with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) typically experience social and emotional sequelae that can be effectively addressed in the context of a psychotherapeutic relationship. Traumatic Brain Injuries can affect the full range of human functioning, from activities of daily living to experiencing a coherent sense of self. In this article, we focus on two issues, social isolation and emotional functioning, that encompass a number of key cha…
Cultivating emotional resilience in adolescent girls: Effects of a growth emotion mindset lesson
To address the widespread mental health crisis facing adolescent girls, this study examined whether a growth emotion mindset lesson can enhance emotional competence. During 2018–2022, adolescent girls (M age = 15.68 years; 66.3% White) were randomized to a growth mindset (E-MIND; N = 81) or brain education (control; N = 82) lesson, completed the Trier Social Stressor Test, and reported on various aspects of emotional competence. Compared with the…
Busenello [Businello], Giovanni [Gian] Francesco
Women Living with Traumatic Brain Injury: Social Isolation, Emotional Functioning and Implications for Psychotherapy
Women living with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) typically experience social and emotional sequelae that can be effectively addressed in the context of a psychotherapeutic relationship. Traumatic Brain Injuries can affect the full range of human functioning, from activities of daily living to experiencing a coherent sense of self. In this article, we focus on two issues, social isolation and emotional functioning, that encompass a number of key cha…
A Present for the Ladies: Ovid, Montaigne, and the Redemption of Purcell's Dido
The influence of Ovid and Montaigne on the creation of Purcell's Dido and Aeneasis reconsidered in the context of A Present for the Ladies, a ‘historical vindication of the female sex’ by the librettist Nahum Tate (1692), and its literary sources. I propose that Tate's Dido can be understood as an elaborate defence of his heroine, one that is indebted far more to Ovid than to Virgil, endowing the heroine with the neo‐Stoic virtue and resolve asso…
Neuropsychological evidence for dimensional schizotypy: Implications for creativity and psychopathology
Emotion-Modulated Performance and Activity in Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
Functional MRI (fMRI) was used to examine the relationship between processing of pleasant and unpleasant stimuli and activity in prefrontal cortex. Twenty volunteers identified the colors in which pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant words were printed. Pleasant words prompted more activity bilaterally in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) than did unpleasant words. In addition, pleasant words prompted more activity in left than in right DLPFC. …
Poppea's Legacy: The Julio-Claudians on the Venetian Stage
In a context already established by Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and other Venetian treatments of the Julio-Claudians, Giovanni A. Boretti and Aurelio Aureli's opera Claudio Cesare bears the heavy influence of the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus. Aureli took extraordinary care to incorporate specific details from Book 12 of Tacitus' Annals into his libretto, deftly blending fact with fanciful supposition in a manner that echoe…
Anger style, psychopathology, and regional brain activity
Depression and anxiety often involve high levels of trait anger and disturbances in anger expression. Reported anger experience and outward anger expression have recently been associated with left-biased asymmetry of frontal cortical activity, assumed to reflect approach motivation. However, different styles of anger expression could presumably involve different brain mechanisms and/or interact with psychopathology to produce various patterns of …
Phaedra’s Handmaiden
Time course of processing emotional stimuli as a function of perceived emotional intelligence, anxiety, and depression
An individual's self-reported abilities to attend to, understand, and reinterpret emotional situations or events have been associated with anxiety and depression, but it is unclear how these abilities affect the processing of emotional stimuli, especially in individuals with these symptoms. The present study recorded event-related brain potentials while individuals reporting features of anxiety and depression completed an emotion-word Stroop task…
Dancing Statues and the Myth of Venice: Ancient Sculpture on the Opera Stage
Emotion mindsets and depressive symptoms in adolescence: The role of emotion regulation competence
Recent theories posit that emotion mindsets (i.e., the extent to which individuals believe emotions are malleable or fixed) play a crucial role in experiences of emotion and influence emotion regulation (ER) processes. Drawing from mindset theory, this study examined the hypothesis that fixed emotion mindsets (FEMs) would predict depressive symptoms via compromised ER competence in adolescence, a period when many first episodes of depression occu…
The Future of Women in Psychological Science
There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus of discussion or systematic review, despite our field’s investment in questions of equity, status, well-being, gender bias, and gender disparities. In the present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women’s career advancement in psychological science. We focus on issu…
The costs of anticipating and perseverating about racism: Mechanisms of the associations between racial discrimination, anxious arousal, and low positive affect
Racial discrimination is indirectly associated with anxious arousal and low positive affect through the effects of anticipatory race-related fear and race-related rumination, respectively. Implications for etiology and treatment of anxious arousal and low positive affect are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Pandemic Onset, Individual Differences, and Dimensional Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Among Emerging Adults
Background: Growing research indicates complex relationships among dimensions of depression and anxiety. Vulnerability to depression and anxiety in emerging adults, due to individual difference factors, may be intensified by disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Undergraduates ( n=653, mean age=19.8, range 18–23) completed questionnaires that assessed distinct dimensions of depression (motivational anhedonia: MA, low positiv…
A virtual reality investigation of factors influencing landscape preferences: Natural elements, emotions, and media creation
Staging Euridice: Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence
Cultivating emotional resilience in adolescent girls: Effects of a growth emotion mindset lesson
To address the widespread mental health crisis facing adolescent girls, this study examined whether a growth emotion mindset lesson can enhance emotional competence. During 2018–2022, adolescent girls (M age = 15.68 years; 66.3% White) were randomized to a growth mindset (E-MIND; N = 81) or brain education (control; N = 82) lesson, completed the Trier Social Stressor Test, and reported on various aspects of emotional competence. Compared with the…
Co‐Regulation Within Adolescent Friendships
Friendships assume an increasingly important role in socialization during adolescence, with the potential to help shape how youth cope with negative emotions and stressors. Extending theory and research on co‐rumination among friends, this study sought to examine an alternative novel socialization process within friendships—co‐reappraisal—that is hypothesized to promote healthier socioemotional adjustment in adolescents. Adolescents ( N = 330; M …
Psychology (10 works) · Cognition (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Anxiety (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (4 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works)