PUBLICATIONS
* denotes student
Please feel free to email Dr. Goldstein if you are unable to access any of these publications. (tgoldste [at] gmu [dot] edu)
Coming July 26, 2024:
Goldstein, T.R. (2024). Why Theatre Education Matters: Understanding its Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Benefits. New York: Teacher’s College Press. ISBN: 9780807769980. See thaliagoldstein.com for more information.
2024 and in press
Goldstein, T. R. (in press). Review of An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse [An uneasy guest in the schoolhouse, by E. Winner]. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000528
Goldstein, T.R., *Caruso, A.S., *Stapleton, D., & *Fatty, L. (Under contract). Imagination, Creativity, and Child Development. in Kind, A., & Langkau, J. (eds). Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity.
*Cannon, J., Goldstein, T.R., Zacarro, S. (in press). “I Want to be the Line Leader!” Cognitive and Social Processes in Early Leader Development Journal of Leadership Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101757
Holochwost, S. J., Goldstein, T. R., & Wolf, D. P. (in press). More light about each other: Theater education as a context for developing social awareness and relationship skills. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000479
*Stutesman, M., & Goldstein, T.R. (2024). Mechanisms for Affect Communication from Dance: A Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Creative Behavior, 58, 28-46. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.622
*Young, D.L., & Goldstein, T.R. (2024). Racial-Ethnic Minority Participants in the Marching Arts: Intergroup Experiences, Perceptions of Inclusion, and Well-Being. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 18, 74-82. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000614
2023
McRae, K., & Goldstein, T.R. (2023). Emotion Regulation and Art. Handbook of Emotion Regulation, Third Edition, (eds) James J. Gross and Brett Q. Ford.
Mills, C., Goldstein, T. R., *Kanumuru, P., *Monroe, A. J., & *Quintero, N. B. (2023). Debunking the Santa Myth: The Process and Aftermath of Becoming Skeptical about Santa. Developmental Psychology, 60, 1-16. DOI: 10.1037/dev0001662 *Editor’s Choice article.
*Stutesman, M., & Goldstein, T.R. (2023). Developing Emotion Abilities Through Engagement with the Arts. In Ivceciv, Z., Hoffmann, J., & Kaufman, J.C. (eds) Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotions.
*Young, D.L., Rosenthal, L., & Goldstein, T.R. (2023). Psychosocial Change Across a Drum Corps Season. Psychology of Music, 51(2), 481-494. doi/10.1177/03057356221097781
2022
Troxler, R., Goldstein, T.R., Holochwost, S., Beekman, C., McKeel, S., & Shami, M. (2022) Deeper engagement with live theater increases middle school students’ empathy and social perspective taking. Applied Developmental Science, 352-372, DOI: 10.1080/10888691.2022.2096610
*Norman, K., & Goldstein, T.R. (2022). Why Imaginary Worlds? The Psychological Foundations and Cultural Evolution of Fictions with Imaginary Worlds. Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e276.
Goldstein, T.R., *Stutesman, M. & *Thompson, B. (2022). Moving with Puppets: Preschool Children’s Gesture with Puppets During Pretense. Cognitive Development, 63, 101198, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101198
*Thompson, B. & Goldstein, T.R. (2022). Observing the Developmental Progression of Pretend Play Across the Preschool years. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23, (4), 482-502. DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2022.2058508
Kapitany, R., Hampejs, T., & Goldstein, T. R. (2022). Pretensive Shared Reality: From Childhood Pretense to Adult Imaginative Play. Frontiers in Psychology. 13:774085. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774085
*Stutesman, M., Havens, J., & Goldstein, T.R. (2022). Developing Creativity and Other 21st Century Skills through Theatre Classes. Translational Issues in Psychological Science 8(1), 24–46. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000288
Goldstein, T.R., *Thompson, B.N., & *Kanumuru, P. (2022). Do Embodiment and Fictionality Impact Young Children’s Learning? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 213, 105275
2021
Maskell, S., McCarron, G.P., *Cannon, J., *Zhou, S., Zacarro, S.J., & Goldstein, T.R. (2021). The Leadership Stories Our Youth Are Told: Characterizations of Leadership Behaviors and Orientations in Popular Youth TV Shows. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01502-3
Holochwost, S.J., Goldstein, T.R., & Wolf, D.P. (2021). Delineating the Benefits of Arts Education for Children’s Socioemotional Development. Frontiers in Psychology. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.624712/full
2020
*Chlebuch, N., Goldstein, T. R., & Weisberg, D. S. (2020). Fact or fiction? Clarifying the relationship between reading and the improvement of social skills. Scientific Study of Literature, 10(2), 167-192.
McDonald, B., Goldstein T.R., & Kanske, P. (2020) Could Acting Training Improve Social Cognition and Emotional Control? Frontiers in Psychology.
Kapitany, R., Nelson, N. & Goldstein, T. R., & Burdett, E. (2020). The Child’s Pantheon: Children’s Rational Belief Structure in Real and Fictional Characters. PLoS One. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/WURXY
*Kou, X., Konrath, S. & Goldstein, T.R. (2020). The Relationship among Different Types of Arts Engagement, Empathy, and Prosocial behavior. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000269
*DeBettingnes, B. & Goldstein, T. R. (2020). Improvisational Theatre Classes Improve Children’s Self-Concept. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000260
*Celume, M.-P., Goldstein, T.R., Besançon, M., & Zenasni, F. (2020) Developing Children’s socio-emotional competencies through Drama Pedagogy Training. An experimental study on Theory of Mind and Collaborative Behavior. Europe’s Journal of Psychology. https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/2054
Goldstein, T. R., & *Alperson, K. (2020). Dancing Bears and Talking Toasters: A Content Analysis of Supernatural Elements in Children’s Media. Psychology of Popular Media, 9(2), 214–223. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000222
Goldstein, T.R., *Young D.L. & *Thompson, B. (2020) It’s All Critical: Acting Teachers’ Beliefs about Theatre Classes. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 775. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00775
2019
*Thompson, B., & Goldstein, T.R. (2019). Disentangling Pretend Play Measurement: Defining the Essential Elements and Developmental Progression of Pretense. Developmental Review, 52, 24-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2019.100867
*Thompson, B., & Goldstein, T.R. (2019). Children Learn From Both Embodied and Passive Pretense: A Replication and Extension. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13309
Goldstein, T.R. Lerner, M.D., Paterson, S., *Jaggi, L., Toub, T.S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M. (2019). Stakeholder Perceptions of the Effects of a Public School-Based Theatre Program for Children with ASD. Journal of Learning Through the Arts. https://doi.org/10.21977/D915136948
Kapstein, A. & Goldstein, T.R. (2019). Developing Wonder: Teaching Theatre for the Very Young through Collaboration with Developmental Psychology. Youth Theatre Journal, 33, 52-69. Doi 10.1080/08929092.2019.1580648
Arora, P. G., *Levine, J. L., & Goldstein, T. R. (2019). School psychologists’ interprofessional collaboration with medical providers: An initial examination of training, preparedness, and current practices. Psychology in the Schools, 56,4, 554-568. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22208
*Sawyer, J. & Goldstein, T.R. (2019). Can Guided Play and Storybook Reading Promote Children’s Drawing Development? Empirical Studies in the Arts, 37, 32-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276237418777946
2018
Goldstein, T.R. (2018). The Development of a Dramatic Pretend Play Game Intervention. American Journal of Play, 10, 290-308.
Goldstein, T.R. & Lerner, M. (2018). Dramatic Pretend Play Games Uniquely Improve Emotional Control in Young Children. Developmental Science, 21(4). Doi 10.1111/desc.12603
2017
Goldstein, T. R., Lerner, M., D., & Winner, E. (2017). The Arts as a Venue for Developmental Science: Realizing a Latent Opportunity. Child Development, 88, 1505-1512. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12884
Goldstein, T. R. & *Filipe, A. (2017). The Interpreted Mind: Understanding Acting. Review of General Psychology, 22, 220-229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000116
Goldstein, T.R. (2017). Live Theatre as Exception and Test Case for Experiencing Negative Emotions in Art. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, e362. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17001704
*Ershadi, M., Goldstein, T.R., Pochedly, J., & Russell, J.A. (2017). Facial expressions as Performances in Mime. Cognition and Emotion. 1-10. DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2017.1317236
*Panero, M.E. Weisberg, D.S, *Black, J., Goldstein, T.R., Barnes, J., Winner, E., Brownell, H. (2017). No Support for the Claim that Literary Fiction Uniquely and Immediately Improves Theory of Mind: A Reply to Kidd and Castano’s Commentary on Panero, Weisberg, Black, Goldstein, Barnes, Brownell, & Winner (2016). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112, e5-e8. DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000079
2016
*Panero, M.E. Weisberg, D.S, *Black, J., Goldstein, T.R., Barnes, J., Winner, E., Brownell, H. (2016). Does Reading a Single Passage of Literary Fiction Really Improve Theory of Mind? An Attempt at Replication. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 111(5), e46-e54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000064
Goldstein, T.R. & Woolley, J. (2016). Ho! Ho! Who? Parent promotion of belief in and live encounters with Santa Claus. Cognitive Development 39, 113-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2016.04.002
Arora, P., *Kelly, J, & Goldstein, T.R. (2016). Current and Future School Psychologists’ Preparedness to Work with LGBT Students: Role of Education and Gay-Straight Alliances. Psychology in the Schools, 53, 722-735. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.21942
*Panero, M.E., Goldstein, T.R., Rosenberg, R., *Hughes, H., & Winner, E. (2016). Do Actors Posses Traits Associated with High Hypnotizability? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 10, 233-239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000044
2015
Feldman, D., Ward, E., Handley, S. & Goldstein, T. R. (2015). Evaluating drama therapy in school settings: A case study of the ENACT program. Drama Therapy Review, 1, 127-145. https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr.1.2.127_1
Goldstein, T.R. (2015). Predictors of Engagement In and Transfer from Acting Training. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 9, 266-273. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039106
Goldstein, T.R. & Bloom, P. (2015). Is it Oscar-worthy? Children’s Metarepresentational Understanding of Acting. PLOS One 10(3). E0119604, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119604
Goldstein, T.R. & Bloom, P. (2015). Characterizing Characters: How Children Make Sense of Realistic Acting. Cognitive Development, Special Issue: Cognizing the Unreal, 34, 39-50. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2014.12.001
2013
Goldstein, T.R., Tamir, M., & Winner, E. (2013). Expressive Suppression and Acting. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 7, 191-196. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030209
2012
Goldstein, T.R., & Winner, E. (2012). Enhancing Empathy and Theory of Mind. Journal of Cognition and Development, 13, 19-37. DOI:10.1080/15248372.2011.573514
Goldstein, T.R. & Winner. E. (2012). Sympathy for a Character’s Plight: Sex differences in Response to Theatre. Empirical Studies in the Arts, 30, 129-141. https://doi.org/10.2190/EM.30.2.b
2011
Goldstein, T.R. & Bloom, P. (2011). The Mind Onstage: Why Cognitive Scientists Should Study Acting. Trends in Cognitive Science, 15, 141-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2011.02.003
Goldstein, T.R. (2011). Correlations Among Social-Cognitive Skills in Adolescents Involved in Acting (vs. Arts) Classes. Mind, Brain and Education, 5, 97-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-228X.2011.01115.x
2010
Goldstein, T.R. & Winner, E. (2010). Engagement in Role Play, Pretense and Acting Classes Predict Advanced Theory of Mind Skill in Middle Childhood. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 30, 249-258. https://doi.org/10.2190/IC.30.3.c
2009
Goldstein, T.R. (2009). The Pleasure of Pure Unadulterated Sadness: Experiencing Sorrow in Fiction, Nonfiction and In Our Own Lives. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 3, 232-237. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015343
Goldstein, T.R. & Winner, E. (2009). Living in Alternative and Inner Worlds: Early Signs of Acting Talent. Creativity Research Journal, 21, 117-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400410802633749
Goldstein, T.R. (2009). Psychological Perspectives on Acting. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 3, 6-9. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014644
Goldstein, T.R., *Wu, K. & Winner, E. (2009) Actors are Experts in Theory of Mind but Not Empathy. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 29, 115-133. https://doi.org/10.2190/IC.29.2.c
2008
*Dalebroux, A., Goldstein, T.R., & Winner, E. (2008). Short-term Mood Repair Through Art- Making: Attention Redeployment is More Effective than Venting. Motivation and Emotion, 32(4), 288-295.
