Publications
Reconciling self-protection with self-improvement.
Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection. 128,
(2011). Self-affirmation: Understanding the effects.
Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 7, 834–845.
(2013). 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). 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). The role of the self in responses to health communications: A cultural perspective.
Self and Identity. 10, 284–294.
(2011). Affirmed yet unaware: exploring the role of awareness in the process of self-affirmation..
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 97, 745.
(2009). 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). 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 challenges of military veterans in the workplace: A call for integrating basic and applied psychological science.
Perspectives on Psychological Science.
(2021). Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) is related to psychological resources.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108, 15118–15122.
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Culture, social support, and coping with bereavement for asians and asian americans.
Diversity Issues in Thanatology. 35(2), 7-8.
(2009). Self-affirmation and affective forecasting: Affirmation reduces the anticipated impact of negative events.
Motivation and Emotion. 40(5), 750-759.
(2016). Diagnostic uncertainty in patients, parents, and physicians: A compensatory control theory perspective.
Health Psychology Review.
(2022). Dispositional motivations and message framing: a test of the congruency hypothesis in college students.
Health Psychology. 23, 330.
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