Publications
Accepting threatening information: Self–Affirmation and the reduction of defensive biases.
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 11, 119–123.
(2002). Approach/avoidance motivation, message framing, and health behavior: Understanding the congruency effect.
Motivation and Emotion. 30, 164–168.
(2006). Is there an" I" in" team"? The role of the self in group-serving judgments..
Journal of personality and social psychology. 88, 108.
(2005). The group as a resource: Reducing biased attributions for group success and failure via group affirmation.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 33, 1100–1112.
(2007). Affirmed yet unaware: exploring the role of awareness in the process of self-affirmation..
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 97, 745.
(2009). Psychological vulnerability and stress: the effects of self-affirmation on sympathetic nervous system responses to naturalistic stressors.
Health Psychology. 28, 554.
(2009). Naive Realism and Affirmative Action: Adversaries are More Similar Than They Think.
Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 25, 275–289.
(2003). Affective perseverance: The resistance of affect to cognitive invalidation.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 28, 224–237.
(2002). Improving oral health behavior: A social psychological approach.
The Journal of the American Dental Association. 139, 1382–1387.
(2008). Perceived polarization: Reconciling ingroup and intergroup perceptions under uncertainty.
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 12, 95–109.
(2009). Culture and social support: Neural bases and biological impact.
Progress in Brain Research. 178, 227–237.
(2009). Embodied cognition and health persuasion: Facilitating intention–behavior consistency via motor manipulations.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 46, 461–464.
(2010). The role of the self in responses to health communications: A cultural perspective.
Self and Identity. 10, 284–294.
(2011). Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: how self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 104, 591.
(2013). Self-affirmation: Understanding the effects.
Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 7, 834–845.
(2013). Reconciling self-protection with self-improvement.
Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection. 128,
(2011). The psychology of self-defense: Self-affirmation theory.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. 38, 183–242.
(2006). The changing landscape of doctoral education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: PhD students, faculty advisors, and preferences for varied career options.
Frontiers in Psychology.
(2021). Self-affirmation and the reduction of intergroup biases: Changing the narrative and the potential for conflict reduction.
Psychological Intergroup Interventions: Where We Are and Where Do We Go From Here.
(2023).