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  1. The power of presence: Well-being and biopsychosocial effects of virtual versus in-person religious services.

    Article • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, July 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patty Van Cappellen

  2. Bodily awareness: Religious culture’s associations with interoceptive sensibility

    Article • PLOS One, December 2024, PLOS

    Patty Van Cappellen

  3. Shades of expansiveness: Postural expression of dominance, high-arousal positive affect, and warmth.

    Article • Emotion, September 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patty Van Cappellen

  4. Meaning behind the movement

    Article • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, March 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patty Van Cappellen

  5. Religion as an embodied practice: Documenting the various forms, meanings, and associated experience of Christian prayer postures.

    Article • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, April 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patty Van Cappellen

  6. A new micro-intervention to increase the enjoyment and continued practice of meditation.

    Article • Emotion, October 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Patty Van Cappellen