My research looks at people’s reactions to stressful environments or circumstances, such as victimization, war, racial trauma, discrimination, bullying, mental illness and natural disasters. I also study post-traumatic healing methods for individuals, organizations, and governments.
Selected Publications
Musicaro, R. M., Parnes, M., Lowe, S., Clayton, S., Holder, C., Schwartz, S. (in press). The Climate and Racial Justice Scale: A preliminary examination among a sample of undergraduate and graduate students. Journal of Environmental Psychology
Holzhauer, C., Sherrill, A., Ellis, R. A. & Musicaro, R. M. The association between post traumatic stress disorder and depression severity with stress-induced alcohol craving is mediated by emotion dysregulation among women veterans, Journal of Misuse and Abuse
Musicaro, R. M., Valdespino-Hayden, Z., Martinez Lozano, M., Noboa Ramos, C., Joshipura, K. & Lowe, S. (in press). Relationships between pre-disaster depression and physical health conditions and post-disaster mental health among high-risk Puerto Rican adults, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
Musicaro, R. M., & Langer, D. (2022). Applying shared decision-making to screening for trauma and adversity in youth. Child Abuse and Neglect.
Musicaro, R. M., Yeguez, C. E., Rey, Y., Silverman, W. K., Pettit, J. W. (2022). Anxious bullies: Parent distress and youth anxiety interact to predict bullying perpetration, Child Psychiatry and Human Development.
Musicaro, R. M. & Silverman, W. K. (2022). What is anxiety? In Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health. Elsevier Ltd.
Musicaro, R. M., Bellet, B. & McNally, R. J. (2021). Is avoidance the only issue? A case study of "self-triggering" in combat PTSD, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy.
Suvak, M. K., Musicaro, R. M., & Hodgdon, H. (2020). Emotional granularity in PTSD. In M. T. Tull & N. A. Kimbrel (Eds.). Emotion and PTSD (pp. 377-406). Elsevier: Cambridge, MA.
Musicaro, R. M., Ford, J., Suvak, M. K., Sposato, & A., Andersen, S. L. (2019). Sluggish cognitive tempo and trauma in children, Anxiety, Stress & Coping.
Musicaro, R. M., Spinazzola, J., Arvidson, J., Swaroop, S. R., Goldblatt Grace, L, Yarrow, A. & Ford, J. (2017). The complexity of adaptation to childhood polyvictimization in youth and young adults: recommendations for multidisciplinary responders, Journal of Trauma, Violence and Abuse.
Price, M., Spinazzola, J., Musicaro, R., Turner, J., Suvak, M., Emerson, D., & van der Kolk, B. (2017). Effectiveness of an extended yoga treatment for women with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
van der Kolk, B., Gapen, M., Hodgdon, H., Musicaro, R., Suvak, M. & Spinazzola, J. (2016). A randomized controlled study of neurofeedback for chronic PTSD, PLOS one.
Addis, D.R., Pan, L., Musicaro, R., Schacter, D.L. (2016). Divergent thinking and constructing episodic simulations. Personality and Individuals Differences. (1):89-97 DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2014.985591.
Addis, D. R., Musicaro, R., Pan, L. & Schacter, D. L. (2010). Episodic simulation of past and future events in older adults: evidence from an experimental recombination task, Psychology and Aging, Vol. 25, No. 2, 369-376.