Publications
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). Self-affirmation and prejudice reduction: When and why?.
Current Directions in Psychological Science.
(2019). Self-affirmation and motivational interviewing: integrating perspectives to reduce resistance and increase efficacy of alcohol interventions.
Health Psychology Review. 9(1), 83–102.
(2015). Self-affirmation and affective forecasting: Affirmation reduces the anticipated impact of negative events.
Motivation and Emotion. 40(5), 750-759.
(2016). Seeing the Other Side: Reducing Political Partisanship via Self-Affirmation in the 2008 Presidential Election.
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 10, 276–292.
(2010).
(2021). The role of the self in responses to health communications: A cultural perspective.
Self and Identity. 10, 284–294.
(2011). Reducing defensive distancing: Self-affirmation and risk regulation in response to relationship threats.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47, 264–268.
(2011). Reconciling self-protection with self-improvement.
Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection. 128,
(2011). Pursuit of comfort and pursuit of harmony: Culture, relationships, and social support seeking.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 32, 1595–1607.
(2006). Public policy and health: A self-affirmation perspective.
Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1, 222–230.
(2014). The psychology of self-defense: Self-affirmation theory.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. 38, 183–242.
(2006). The Psychology of pro-environmental support: In search of global solutions for a global problem.
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 28, 490 - 495.
(2019). The psychology of change: Self-affirmation and social psychological intervention.
Annual Review of Psychology. 65, 333–371.
(2014). Psychology and the threat of contagion: How perceived vulnerability to disease moderates the link between xenophobic thoughts and support for xenophobic actions.
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin.
(2022). Psychological vulnerability and stress: the effects of self-affirmation on sympathetic nervous system responses to naturalistic stressors.
Health Psychology. 28, 554.
(2009). The psychological predicament of women on welfare.
Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict . 393-428.
(1999). Psychological barriers to bipartisan public support for climate policy.
Perspectives on Psychological Sciences.
(2018). Positive psychology and health psychology: A fruitful liaison.
Positive Psychology in Practice. 305–319.
(2004). Portrait of the self-enhancer: well adjusted and well liked or maladjusted and friendless?.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 84, 165.
(2003). The politics of luck: Political ideology and the perceived relationship between luck and success.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 59, 40–46.
(2015). Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(2022). Political polarization projection: social projection of partisan attitude extremity and attitudinal processes.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 103, 84.
(2012). Pluralistic ignorance and occupational choice: The impact of communicating norms on graduate students’ career aspirations.
Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
(2024). Perceived polarization: Reconciling ingroup and intergroup perceptions under uncertainty.
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 12, 95–109.
(2009).