Publications
Accepting threatening information: Self–Affirmation and the reduction of defensive biases.
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 11, 119–123.
(2002). Affective perseverance: The resistance of affect to cognitive invalidation.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 28, 224–237.
(2002). Are self-enhancing cognitions associated with healthy or unhealthy biological profiles?.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 85, 605.
(2003). Naive Realism and Affirmative Action: Adversaries are More Similar Than They Think.
Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 25, 275–289.
(2003). Portrait of the self-enhancer: well adjusted and well liked or maladjusted and friendless?.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 84, 165.
(2003). Culture and social support: who seeks it and why?.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 87, 354.
(2004). Positive psychology and health psychology: A fruitful liaison.
Positive Psychology in Practice. 305–319.
(2004). Affirmation of personal values buffers neuroendocrine and psychological stress responses.
Psychological Science. 16, 846–851.
(2005).
(2005). Is there an" I" in" team"? The role of the self in group-serving judgments..
Journal of personality and social psychology. 88, 108.
(2005). Approach/avoidance motivation, message framing, and health behavior: Understanding the congruency effect.
Motivation and Emotion. 30, 164–168.
(2006). The psychology of self-defense: Self-affirmation theory.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. 38, 183–242.
(2006). Pursuit of comfort and pursuit of harmony: Culture, relationships, and social support seeking.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 32, 1595–1607.
(2006). Cultural differences in the impact of social support on psychological and biological stress responses.
Psychological Science. 18, 831–837.
(2007). Does self-affirmation, cognitive processing, or discovery of meaning explain cancer-related health benefits of expressive writing?.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 33, 238–250.
(2007). The effects of message quality and congruency on perceptions of tailored health communications.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 43, 249–257.
(2007). " Express yourself": culture and the effect of self-expression on choice.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 92, 1.
(2007). 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). Uncertainty, entitativity, and group identification.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 43, 135–142.
(2007). Culture and social support.
American Psychologist. 63, 518.
(2008). Improving oral health behavior: A social psychological approach.
The Journal of the American Dental Association. 139, 1382–1387.
(2008). Self-enhancement and self-affirmation.
Handbook of Motivation Science. 57.
(2008). What do we see in a tilted square? A validation of the Figure Independence Scale.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 34, 47–60.
(2008). Affirmed yet unaware: exploring the role of awareness in the process of self-affirmation..
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 97, 745.
(2009). 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.
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