Benjamin Hives, PhD Student

Ben (he, him, his) is an alumni of the Fitness Aging and Stress Lab currently completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Carleton University and at the FAST Lab. His research interest includes cardiovascular stress responses to stress and statistical method evaluation. He has been a Teaching Assistant (TA) for the School of Kinesiology’s Introduction to Statistics, Research Methods, and Sport’s Nutrition courses. Ben also has a keen interest in statistical methods, baseball, and programming in R.

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Hives, B. A., Hadwen, B., McHegg, L., Beauchamp, M. R., Zumbo, B. D., & Puterman, E. (2025). Examining the Between- and Within-Person Associations Between Psychological Stress and Physical Activity: A Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model. Stress and Health, 41(5), e70114.

Hives, B. A., Beauchamp, M. R., Liu, Y., Weiss, J., & Puterman, E. (2025). Multidimensional correlates of psychological stress: Insights from traditional statistical approaches and machine learning using a nationally representative Canadian sample. PLoS One, 20(5), e0323197.

Hives, BA, Zumbo, BD, Beauchamp, MR, Liu, Y, Puterman, E. (2025) Bidirectional week-to-week relationships between weekly psychological stress across multiple life domains and engagement with an exercise intervention: secondary analysis of data from a randomized trial. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 59(1).

Waldhauser, K. J., Hives, B. A., Liu, Y., Puterman, E., Sharifian, N., Castañeda, S. F., … & Millennium Cohort Study Team. (2025). Military Veterans’ Psychological Health and Physical Activity Following Separation from Service. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Hives, B. A., Haight, B. L., Beauchamp, M. R., Liu, Y., Webster, J., Injege, B., … & Puterman, E. (2025). Effects of a 6-week at-home exercise intervention on psychological and physical indicators of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Secondary analysis of a pragmatic randomized trial. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 100675.

Haight, B. L., Peddie, L., Crosswell, A. D., Hives, B. A., Almeida, D. M., & Puterman, E. (2023). Combined effects of cumulative stress and daily stressors on daily health. Health Psychology, 42(5), 325.