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(1995). A new look at motivated inference: Are self-serving theories of success a product of motivational forces?.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 69, 58.
(2021). Self-affirmation theory in educational contexts.
Journal of Social Issues.
(2018). Partisan barriers to bipartisanship: Understanding climate policy.
Social Psychological and Personality Science.
(2018). Integrating self-affirmation and implementation intentions: Effects on college student drinking.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
(2017). Support for environmental protection: An integration of ideological-consistency and information-deficit models.
Environmental Politics. 26(2), 253-277.
(2014). Public policy and health: A self-affirmation perspective.
Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1, 222–230.
(2015). Self-affirmation and motivational interviewing: integrating perspectives to reduce resistance and increase efficacy of alcohol interventions.
Health Psychology Review. 9(1), 83–102.
(2019). The Psychology of pro-environmental support: In search of global solutions for a global problem.
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 28, 490 - 495.
(2018). Social class, control, and action: Socioeconomic status differences in antecedents of support for pro-environmental action.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology .
(2016). Cultural variability in the link between environmental concern and support for environmental action.
Psychological Science. 27(10), 1-9.
(2012). Train in vain: The role of the self in claimed self-handicapping strategies.
Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 34, 600.
(2022). Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(2011). Embodied cognition and skilled health behaviour.
Psychology & Health. 26, 1006–1017.
(2025). Structure in transition: The role of structure in facilitating workplace efficacy and belonging for military veterans and civilians.
PLOS ONE. 20, 1-24.
(2023). Who needs control? A cultural perspective on the process of compensatory control.
Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
(2017). Self-affirmation facilitates minority middle schoolers' progress along college trajectories.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114, 7594–7599.
(2024). Ideological diversity of media consumption predicts COVID-19 vaccination.
Scientific Reports. 14(28948),
(2021). When election expectations fail: Polarized perceptions of election legitimacy increase with accumulating evidence of election outcomes and with polarized media.
PLoSONE.
(2015). The politics of luck: Political ideology and the perceived relationship between luck and success.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 59, 40–46.
(2012). Gradual escalation: The role of continuous commitments in perceptions of guilt.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 48, 1279–1290.
(2007). Uncertainty, entitativity, and group identification.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 43, 135–142.
(2011). Reducing defensive distancing: Self-affirmation and risk regulation in response to relationship threats.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47, 264–268.
(2009). Culture, serotonin receptor polymorphism and locus of attention.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 5(2-3), 212-218.
(2025). The most difficult thing in the world: a sociocultural perspective on putting pro-environmental thoughts into action.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 61(101465),
(2011). Gene–culture interaction oxytocin receptor polymorphism (OXTR) and emotion regulation.
Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2, 665–672.