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Arla Good

Arla Good

Toronto Metropolitan University
EducationPhD, Toronto Metropolitan University
Areas of ExpertiseMusic for health, psychosocial wellbeing, hormones and behaviour, community building, social prescribing, social justice, advocacy

 

Arla Good is a research associate in the Psychology department at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the chief researcher and co-director of The SingWell Project, an international research study supported by SSHRC exploring group singing as one potential strategy to address psychosocial well-being, communication, and health issues in older adulthood. Much of her work over the last decade has sought to identify and optimise singing-based interventions that can contribute to psychological and social wellbeing in a variety of different populations.

Recent Publications

Good, A., Peets, K. F, Choma, B. L, & Russo, F. A. (2022) Singing foreign songs promotes shared common humanity in elementary school children. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 52(12), 1158-1171.

Good, A. & Russo, F. A. (2022). Changes in mood, oxytocin, and cortisol following group and individual singing: A pilot study. Psychology of Music, 50(4), 1340-1347

Good, A., Sims, L., Clarke, K., & Russo, F. A. (2020). Indigenous youth reconnect with culture: The evaluation of a community and school-based traditional song and dance program. Journal of Community Psychology. 49(2), 588-604.