Publications
The psychology of change: Self-affirmation and social psychological intervention.
Annual Review of Psychology. 65, 333–371.
(2014). 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 self-defense: Self-affirmation theory.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. 38, 183–242.
(2006). Public policy and health: A self-affirmation perspective.
Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1, 222–230.
(2014). Pursuit of comfort and pursuit of harmony: Culture, relationships, and social support seeking.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 32, 1595–1607.
(2006). Reconciling self-protection with self-improvement.
Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection. 128,
(2011). Reducing defensive distancing: Self-affirmation and risk regulation in response to relationship threats.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 47, 264–268.
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(2025). The role of the self in responses to health communications: A cultural perspective.
Self and Identity. 10, 284–294.
(2011). Securing self-integrity over time: Self-affirmation disrupts a negative cycle between psychological threat and academic performance.
Journal of Social Issues.
(2021). 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). Self-affirmation and affective forecasting: Affirmation reduces the anticipated impact of negative events.
Motivation and Emotion. 40(5), 750-759.
(2016). 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 prejudice reduction: When and why?.
Current Directions in Psychological Science.
(2019). 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 facilitates minority middle schoolers' progress along college trajectories.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114, 7594–7599.
(2017). Self-affirmation for stress protection.
Activities for Teaching Positive Psychology. 2,
(In Press). Self-affirmation interventions.
Handbook of Wise Interventions: How Social Psychology Can Help People Change.
(2021). Self-affirmation theory in educational contexts.
Journal of Social Issues.
(2021). Self-affirmation: Understanding the effects.
Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 7, 834–845.
(2013). Self-affirmation: Understanding the effects.
(Aronson, J., & Aronson E., Ed.).Readings about the Social Animal. 94 - 113.
(2020). Self-enhancement and self-affirmation.
Handbook of Motivation Science. 57.
(2008). Social class, control, and action: Socioeconomic status differences in antecedents of support for pro-environmental action.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology .
(2018). Social norms explain prioritization of climate policy.
Climatic Change.
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