Current Projects:
Unbelief Within Marginalized Communities (Dena Abbott)
Meaning in the Margins: Sources of Meaning and Values among Nonreligious Transgender Individuals (Paige Hespe)
Ath-she-ist: Social Safety and Threat Among Woman Nonbelievers (Millie Myers)
The Lived Experiences of Religious Trauma among Transgender and Gender Diverse People (Patrick Meyer)
Recently Published Books:
Recently Published Papers:
Brewster, M. E., Abbott, D. M., Velez, B., Kim, V., Meyer, P. T., & Culver, R. (In press). Unpacking the varieties of nonbelief within US-based marginalized populations. Secularism and Nonreligion. Advance online publication.
Velez, B. L., Brewster, M. E., Abbott, D. M., Wilson, T., Kim, V. (In press). Is it the doubt? Exploring differences in belief, minority stress, and mental health amongst demographically diverse agnostics and atheists. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. Advance online publication.
Abbott, D. M., Brewster, M. E., Meyer, P. T., & Kim, V. (2025). Nonbelief among Ex-Muslims in the United States: A critical grounded theory study. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online publication.
Abbott, D. M., & Santiago, H. (2023). Rural atheists in the United States: A critical grounded theory investigation. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000671
Abbott, D. M., & Anaya, E. J. (2022). “Breaking free”: A grounded theory study of atheist women in the United States. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 46(4), 501-517. https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843221115338
Abbott, D. M., Mollen, D., Boyles, J., & Anaya, E. J. (2021). Hidden in plain sight: Low-income and working-class atheists. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 69(1), 37-50. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000562
Abbott, D. M. (2021). Psychotherapy with the nonreligious: A relational cultural approach. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 52(5), 470-476. https://doi.org/10.1037/pro0000392