Elyse Thulin, Behavioral & Applied Computational Scientist
I am an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Michigan.
I have several active areas of work:
1. Unpacking how anonymous/confidential reporting systems function and are used by youth.
2. Adolescent and emerging adult cyber violence exposure (e.g., cyber dating violence).
3. Mental health, relationships and substances use in adolescents and emerging adults.
Selected Awards:
NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral Social Science Early-Stage Investigator Paper Award | Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health | 2024
NIMH Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services Fellow | National Institute of Mental Health Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institutes of Health | 2025
Best Rapid-fire Presentation by a Trainee | Promoting Research in Social Media and Health Symposium (PRISM), University of California San Francisco | 2023
Best Trainee Poster Award | Promoting Research in Social Media and Health Symposium (PRISM), University of California San Francisco | 2022
Over 25 publications.
Select publications (for full list, please see CV, Google Scholar, or PubMed). *denotes trainee.
- Ananthasubramaniam*, A., Thulin, E.J., Kalesnikava, V., Falde*, J., Kertawidjaja*, J., Johns, L., Rodríguez-Putnam, A., Spring*, E., Zivin, K, & Mezuk, B. (In Press). Characterizing Online Activities Contributing to Suicide Mortality Among Youth. AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026).
- Thulin, E.J., Stilwell, S., Bitar, M.E., & Heinze, J. (2025). Landscape and design considerations for statewide technology-facilitated anonymous or confidential reporting systems in schools to mitigate youth firearm harms. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management.
- Thulin, E.J., & Heinze, J.E. (2025). Gaslighting in teen dating violence: Links to anxiety and depression. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi-org/10.1177/08862605251331
- Esposti, M.D., Hans*, Z., Thulin, E.J., Hibbs, E.L., Sokol, R.L. (2025). The US media should rethink coverage of firearm violence. Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02095-0
- Thulin, E.J., Florimbio, A.R., Rusch*, A., Zhou, S., & Coughlin, L.N. (2024). Binge drinking in American Indian Alaskan Native college attending students. Ethnicity & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2024.2422827
- Thulin, E.J., Bonar, E., & Walton, M., Fernandez, A. (2024). An online community for cannabis use change: Popularity, content, and intersections with SAMHSA’s definition of recovery in a non-clinical space. JMIR. https://doi.org/10.2196/47357
- Thulin, E.J., French, A., Messman, L., Masi, R., Heinze, J.E. (2024). Firearm-related tips in a statewide school anonymous reporting system. Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2023-063861
- Thulin, E.J., Kusunoki, Y., Kernsmith, P., Smith-Darden, J., Grogan-Kaylor, A., Zimmerman, M.A., & Heinze, J.E. (2023). Longitudinal effects of electronic dating violence on depressive symptoms and delinquent behaviors in adolescence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231221281. *Awarded 2024 Matilda White Riley Behavioral Social Science Early-Stage Investigator Award.
- Thulin, E.J., Florimbio, A.R., Walton, M., & Bonar, E. (2023). Measuring electronically shared rape myths: Scale creation and correlates. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231197140
- Thulin, E. J., Lipson, S. K., Heinze, J. E., & Zhou, S. (2023). Suicidal ideation in American Indian and Alaskan Native college-attending students. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 65(2), 307–312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2023.02.031
- Thulin, E. J., Kernsmith, P., Fleming, P. J., Heinze, J. E., Temple, J., & Smith-Darden, J. (2023). Coercive-sexting: Predicting adolescent initial exposure to electronic coercive sexual dating violence. Computers in Human Behavior, 107641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107641
- Thulin, E.J., Lee, D.B., Eisman, A.B., Reischl, T.M., Hutchison, P., Franzen, S., & Zimmerman, M.A. (2022). Longitudinal effects of Youth Empowerment Solutions: Preventing youth aggression and increasing prosocial behaviour.
- Thulin, E.J., Heinze, J.E, & Zimmerman, M.A. (2021). Community norms and intimate partner violence beliefs across 51 countries. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
- Thulin, E.J., Zimmerman, M.A., Kusunoki, Y., Kernsmith, P.D., Smith-Darden, J., & Heinze, J.E. (2021). Electronic Teen Dating Violence Curves by Age. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
- Thulin, E.J., Lustig, A., Perrotte, V., Lwabanya, M., & Evans, T. (2o21). Community perceptions of sexual and gender-based violence in South Kivu, eastern DRC. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
- Heinze, J.E., Hsieh, H.F., Thulin, E.J., Howe, K., Miller, A., & Zimmerman, M.A. (2021). Adolescent exposure to violence and adult intimate-partner violence mediated by mental distress. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
- Thulin, E.J., Heinze, J.E., & Zimmerman, M.A. (2021). Adverse adolescent experiences (A-ACES) and risk of adult intimate partner violence. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
- Thulin, E.J., Fleming, P., Kernsmith, P., Smith-Darden, J., & Heinze, J.E. (2020). Adolescent Risk of Dating Violence and Electronic Dating Abuse: A Latent Class Analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.