Research Interests

• Existential Psychology
• Meaning in Life
• Authenticity and True Self

Recent Publications, Presentations, and Awards

Awards & Honors:

• Completed Texas A&M Graduate Mentoring Academy (08/2022)
• Completed G.R.A.D. Aggies Intermediate Level Training (06/2022)
• Avilles-Johnson Diversity Fellowship Awardee at Texas A&M (09/2021)

Gause, C.,* Maffly-Kipp, J.*, Hicks, J. (2022). Agentic meaning-making: Free will beliefs, sense-making, and psychological distress experienced following collective traumas. (under review)

Maffly-Kipp, J., Gause, C., Kim, J., Hicks, J., & Vess, M. (2022). When meaning in life protects against fear of death: The moderating role of self-alienation (under review)

Guthrie, D., Maffly-Kipp, J., Gause, C., Martela, F., Hicks, J. (2021). The role of interpersonal mattering in the experience of meaning in life.