Research Articles

• Pandey, Poonam, Stefano Sbalchiero, Cesare Silla, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2025. “Indifferent, Dogmatic or Pragmatic: A Multi-Country Analysis of How Scientists View the Public and Public Engagement.” Sociologica (forthcoming).
• Johnson, David R., and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2025. "Is Bias the Problem? Scientists’ Perceptions of Bias in Hiring in the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, and India." Innovative Higher Education (2025): 1-24. https://http://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-025-09788-y
• Ivanova, Milena, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2024. “Surprise in Science: A Qualitative Study.” Erkenntnis.
• Vaidyanathan, Brandon. 2024. “Introduction to the Special Issue: The Catholic Priesthood in Times of Change.” Review of Religious Research.  
• Upenieks, Laura, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2024. “Prone to Wellness? Dispositional Awe, Religion/Spirituality, and Well-Being among Academic Scientists.” Social Science Research.
• Johnson, David R., and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2024. Open to talent? How scientists assess merit and diversity in hiring. Higher Education.
• Nicoli, Benedetta, Stefano Sbalchiero, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2024. The Enchantment of Science: Aesthetics and Spirituality in Scientific Work. Sociology of Religion. 
• Ivanova, Milena, Bridget Ritz, Marcela Duque, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2024. Beauty in Experiment: A Qualitative Analysis of Aesthetic Experiences in Scientific Practice. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 
• Ritz, Bridget, Di Di, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2024. Evoking, Grounding, and Defining: How Contemporary Scientists Connect Religion, Spirituality, and Aesthetics. Religions.
• Jacobi, Christopher J., Zohaib Jessani, Peter Varga, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2023. Individual Differences in Scientists' Aesthetic Disposition, Aesthetic Experiences, and Aesthetic Sensitivity in Scientific Work. Frontiers in Psychology. 
• Di, Di, Stephen Cranney, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Caitlin Anne Fitzgerald. 2023. Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health Among Scientists During the Pandemic: A Four-Country Study. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. 
• Vaidyanathan, Brandon, Bailey Haraburda, and Christopher Jacobi. 2023. Beauty in Biology: An Empirical Assessment. Journal of Biosciences. 
• Jacobi, Christopher, Peter Varga, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2022. Aesthetic Experiences and Flourishing in Science: A Four-Country Study. Frontiers in Psychology.
• Jacobi, Christopher Justin, Maria Andronicou, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2022. Looking beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: Congregants’ Expectations of Future Online Religious Service Attendance. Religions.
• Jacobi, Christopher, Jennifer Charles, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Emma Frankham, and Bailey Haraburda. 2022. Effects of familiarity and causal attributions on stigma towards mental illness and substance use disorders in faith communities. Stigma & Health. 
• Jacobi, Christopher, Richard G. Cowden, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2022. Associations of Changes in Religiosity with Flourishing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Faith Communities in the U.S. Frontiers in Psychology.
• Jacobi, Christopher Justin, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Maria Andronicou. 2022. Mental Health Correlates of Sharing Personal Problems in Congregations during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
• Jacobi, Christopher Justin, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2021. Racial differences in anticipated COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among religious populations in the US. Vaccine.
• Frankham, Emma, Christopher Jacobi, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2021. Race, trust in police, and mental illness crisis support, Contexts.
• DeAngelis, Reed T., Gabriel A. Acevedo, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and Christopher G. Ellison. 2021. Coping with an Evil World: Contextualizing the Stress‐Buffering Role of Scripture Reading. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 
• Kirstin R. W. Matthews, Erin Yang, Steven W. Lewis, Brandon R. Vaidyanathan & Monica Gorman. 2020. International scientific collaborative activities and barriers to them in eight societies, Accountability in Research. 
• Vaidyanathan, Brandon. 2020. “How minority religion can shape corporate capitalism: An emergentist account and empirical illustration.” Business and Society.

Reports

• Mental Health in Congregations Study: Report of Key Findings. Research Report, May 2021. 
• Work and Well-Being in Science: Summary of Findings. Research Report, December 2021.
• The Role of Aesthetics in Science. Research Report, March 2022.
• Well-being, Trust, and Policy in a Time of Crisis: Highlights from the National Study of Catholic Priests. Research Report, October 2022.  

Other

• Ritz, Bridget and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2023. The Beauty of Understanding: Scientific Understanding as Aesthetic Experience. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.
• Vaidyanathan, Brandon. 2023. How Beauty Fuels Hope. Virtues & Vocations.
• Vaidyanathan, Brandon. 2022. Resisting a Culture of Incoherence: Understanding the Forces that Fragment our Sense of Self. Comment, 40(2). Spring 2022. 
• Vaidyanathan, Brandon. Systemic Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System Is Not a Myth. Public Discourse June 29, 2020. 

Media

• There is Beauty in Science: Short video summarizing the results of the Work and Well-Being in Science study
• Beauty at Work Podcast: Fortnightly podcast interviewing experts from diverse fields on how beauty shapes our lives and the work we do
• Hope, Human Flourishing, and the Common Good: Panel discussion with Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns, 2023
• Organizational Culture: Podcast interview with Acton Line, 2023
• Beauty in Science: An Empirical Assessment: Presentation at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India, 2022.
• Education for Flourishing - Beauty at Work: Conversation with Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns, 2022
• Curbing the Culture Wars - Conversation with the Trinity Forum, 2022