Publications
Political polarization projection: social projection of partisan attitude extremity and attitudinal processes.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 103, 84.
(2012). Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences.
(2021). Psychological barriers to bipartisan public support for climate policy.
Perspectives on Psychological Sciences.
(2018). Towards surmounting the psychological barriers to climate policy: Appreciating contexts and acknowledging challenges (comment on Weber, 2018).
Perspectives on Psychological Sciences.
(2018). It depends: Partisan evaluation of conditional probability importance.
Cognition. 188, 51 - 63.
(2019). The cultural congruency effect: Culture, regulatory focus, and the effectiveness of gain-vs. loss-framed health messages.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45, 535–541.
(2009). Message framing for health: Moderation by perceived susceptibility and motivational orientation in a diverse sample of Americans.
Health Psychology. 34(1), 20.
(2015). The effects of message quality and congruency on perceptions of tailored health communications.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 43, 249–257.
(2007). Portrait of the self-enhancer: well adjusted and well liked or maladjusted and friendless?.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 84, 165.
(2003). Self-enhancement and self-affirmation.
Handbook of Motivation Science. 57.
(2008). Positive psychology and health psychology: A fruitful liaison.
Positive Psychology in Practice. 305–319.
(2004). Cultural differences in the impact of social support on psychological and biological stress responses.
Psychological Science. 18, 831–837.
(2007). Are self-enhancing cognitions associated with healthy or unhealthy biological profiles?.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 85, 605.
(2003). Culture and social support: who seeks it and why?.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 87, 354.
(2004). The psychological predicament of women on welfare.
Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict . 393-428.
(1999). 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). The connections—and misconnections—between the public and politicians over climate policy: A social psychological perspective.
Social Issues and Policy Review.
(2024). The role of the self in responses to health communications: A cultural perspective.
Self and Identity. 10, 284–294.
(2011). Do messages about health risks threaten the self? Increasing the acceptance of threatening health messages via self-affirmation.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 26, 1046–1058.
(2000). 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). Beliefs and social norms as precursors of environmental support: The joint influence of collectivism and socioeconomic status.
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin.
(2022). Editorial.
Personality & Social Psychology Review. 22, 99-100.
(2018). Intergroup conflict and barriers to common ground: A self-affirmation perspective.
Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
(2017).