Elyse Thulin, Behavioral & Applied Computational Scientist

I am an Assistant Research Professor at the Institue for Firearm Injury Prevention.


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I have several active areas of work:

1. Unpacking how Anonymous Reporting Systems function and are used by youth.
2. Adolescent and emerging adult interpersonal violence exposure (e.g., cyber dating violence)
3. Mental health, relationships and substances used in collegiant populations

Select publications (for full list, please see CV):

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. *Dissertation Paper 1
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.

Recent presentations (for full list, please see CV):

Thulin, E.J., Weigard, A., & Fernandez, A. 2022. Public Discussions of Recovery: Applying Natural Language Processing to #sober Tweets. Poster presentation at the 32nd Annual Albert J. Silverman Research Conference in the Department of Psychiatry, Michigan Medicine.
Thulin, E.J., Heinze, J.E., & Hicks, B. 2022. Ghosting, Gaslighting and Cyber Dating Violence: Associations with Substance Use and Mental Health Problems in Adolescent and Emerging Adult Daters. Poster presentation at the 32nd Annual Albert J. Silverman Research Conference in the Department of Psychiatry, Michigan Medicine.
Thulin, E.J. 2020. Chronic Illness, Travel and Adventure: Individuals, Companies and Industry. Invited presenter at the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education Annual Conference.
Thulin, E.J., Heinze, J.E., & Zimmerman, M.A. 2020. Evaluating micro-, meso-, and macro-level factors associated with intimate partner violence acceptability across 51 countries: building datasets to answer complex questions. 25th San Diego International Summit on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) Across the Lifespan, Virtual Poster Presentation.