Constance Bainbridge
Biography
Connie focuses on researching emotional expressivity and intrapersonal communication, or how we use communication-like behaviors to influence the self, actively process our perceptual experiences, and curate our qualia as part of the complex human consciousness system. These behaviors may be inclusive of many modalities, including inner monologues, journaling, imagining interactions, visualizations, and other mentalizations. Her ongoing dissertation work focuses primarily on streams-of-consciousness reported through typed and spoken language, analyzed through computational linguistic and temporal dynamics methods.
Research
Intrapersonal communication; emotional expressivity; music psychology; evolutionary psychology
Selected Publications
Bainbridge, C. M., Bryant, G. A., & Dale, R. (2026). Reconsidering intrapersonal communication through an interdisciplinary lens. Frontiers in Psychology 16, 1569493
Bainbridge, C. M. & Dale, R. (2023). Thinking about life in COVID-19: Exploratory analysis of the influence of temporal framing on streams of consciousness. PLOS ONE, 18(4): e0285200.
Hilton, C. B., Moser, C. J., Bertolo, M., Lee-Rubin, H., Amir, D., Bainbridge, C. M., …, Mehr, S. A. (2022). Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures. Nature Human Behavior, 6 (11), 1545-1556.
Bainbridge, C. M., Bertolo, M., Youngers, J., Atwood, S., Yurdum, L., Simson, J., Lopez, K., Xing, F., Martin, A., Mehr, S. A. (2021). Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies. Nature Human Behavior, 5 (2), 256-264
Mehr, S. A., Singh, M., Knox, D., Ketter, D. M., Pickens-Jones, D., Atwood, S., Lucas, C., Egner, A., Jacoby, N., Hopkins, E. J., Howard, R. M., Hartshorne, J. K., Jennings, M. V., Simson, J., Bainbridge, C. M., Pinker, S., O’Donnell, T. J., Krasnow, M. M., & Glowacki, L. (2019). Universality and diversity in human song. Science, 366 (6468), eaax0868
Bainbridge, C. M., Bainbridge, W. A., Oliva, A. (2015). Quadri-stability of a spatially ambiguous auditory illusion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:1060. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.01060
