Dr. Brittany Rice, PhD
Extended Academic CV & Presentation History
This page includes selected academic presentations, scholarly work, teaching experience, and ongoing areas of professional and interdisciplinary development related to psychology, nervous system regulation, embodiment, emotional wellbeing, and human development.
Rice, B. E., Rouse, R. & Oakes-Mueller, R. (2010). Attachment Style and Risky Sexual Behaviors: Mediating Role of Self-Esteem. APA 90th Annual Convention, Cancun, Mexico, April 24, 2010.
Rice, B. E. (2015). Factors Associated with Humility in Worship Leaders: Commitment to Spiritual Growth and God-Centered Leadership. Travis Research Institute, Research Colloquium, Pasadena, California, April, 2015.
Rice, B. E. (2026). Gendered Medicine, Felt Safety and Nervous System Harm in Reproductive Care. Poster session to be presented at APA Convention, Washington, D.C. August 8, 2026.
Rice, B. E. (2026). Somatic–Autonomic Integration Model: Autonomic Flexibility in Fertility. Poster session to be presented at APA Convention, Washington, D.C. August 7, 2026.
Abernethy, A.D., Rice, B. E., Black, M., Uh, M., & Rold, L. (2011). Contrasting Worship Experiences, Emotion, and Forgiveness. Travis Research Institute Poster Session, Pasadena, California, April 26, 2011.
Abernethy, A. D., vanOyen Witvliet, C., Brown, S., Kurian, K. R., Uh, M., Rice, B., and Rold, L. (2012). Understanding Spiritual Transformation, Forgiveness, and Emotions. Travis Research Institute Poster Session, Pasadena, California, April, 2012.
Abernethy, A.D., Kurian, K.R., Uh, M., Rice, B., & Rold, L. (2013). Worship Experiences and Forgiveness: The Role of Benefits, Costs, and Emotions. Travis Research Institute Poster Session, Pasadena, California, April, 2013.
Rice, B. E., Abernethy, A. D., Kurian, K., Grannum, G., & Jones, H. (2016). Humility, Spiritual Growth, and Worship. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC.
Kurian, K. R., Abernethy, A. D., Rice, B. E., & Kurian, A. G. (2016, May). Improving Musical and Worship Expression in Sacred Settings. Poster session presented at the meeting of the University of Texas Health and Science Center of San Antonio Department of Psychiatry's 4th Annual Resident Research and Quality Improvement Day, San Antonio, TX.
Abernethy, A. D., Kurian, K., Rice, B. E., Grannum, G., Rold, L., & Jones, H. (2015). Corporate worship and spiritual formation: Insights from worship leaders. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 34, 266–279.
Abernethy, A. D., Witvliet, C. V. O., Kurian, K. R., Brown, S., Uh, M., Rice, B. E., & Rold, L. (2016). Varieties of spiritual experience: A study of closeness to God, struggle, transformation, and confession-forgiveness in communal worship. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 35(1), 9–21.
Unpublished Manuscripts
Abernethy, A. D., vanOyen-Witvliet, C., Kurian, K., Uh, M., Rice, B. E., Rold, L., Brown, S. (2012). Forgiveness, contrasting worship experiences, and emotions.
Abernethy, A.D., Kurian, K., Rice, B. E., Grannum, G., Rold, L., Jones, H. (2014). Understanding how corporate worship contributes to spiritual formation: Insights for worship leaders.
Rice, B. E. (2016). Re-examination of psychological ethics: A response to psychologist involvement in U.S. interrogations and detention centers.
Research involvement and program evaluation experience related to psychological wellbeing, child and family systems, community mental health, and worship and spiritual formation studies at Travis Research Institute.
Additional research details to be added.
Undergraduate psychology teaching experience, with an emphasis on accessible, emotionally intelligent instruction connecting psychological theory to lived human experience.
Additional teaching appointments and course details to be added.
American Psychological Association (APA).
Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS).
Polyvagal Institute.
Ongoing scholarly development across nervous system regulation, autonomic flexibility, reproductive and maternal wellbeing, embodiment, stress physiology, ADHD and overwhelm, highly sensitive nervous systems, co-regulation, and emotionally sustainable models of care.
Expanded scholarly papers and written publications corresponding to the 2026 APA Convention presentations are in development.
Forthcoming and in-press books include Piano for Your Child's Neurodivergent Mind and Embodied Motherhood.