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(2014). The psychology of change: Self-affirmation and social psychological intervention.
Annual Review of Psychology. 65, 333–371.
(2019). The Psychology of pro-environmental support: In search of global solutions for a global problem.
Current Directions in Psychological Science. 28, 490 - 495.
(2006). The psychology of self-defense: Self-affirmation theory.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. 38, 183–242.
(2014). Public policy and health: A self-affirmation perspective.
Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1, 222–230.
(2006). Pursuit of comfort and pursuit of harmony: Culture, relationships, and social support seeking.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 32, 1595–1607.
(2011). 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.
(2025). Republicans hold the key to depolarizing the climate issue.
The Hill.
(2011). The role of the self in responses to health communications: A cultural perspective.
Self and Identity. 10, 284–294.
(2021). Securing self-integrity over time: Self-affirmation disrupts a negative cycle between psychological threat and academic performance.
Journal of Social Issues.
(2010). 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.
(2016). Self-affirmation and affective forecasting: Affirmation reduces the anticipated impact of negative events.
Motivation and Emotion. 40(5), 750-759.
(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). Self-affirmation and prejudice reduction: When and why?.
Current Directions in Psychological Science.
(2023). 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.
(2017). Self-affirmation facilitates minority middle schoolers' progress along college trajectories.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114, 7594–7599.
(In Press). Self-affirmation for stress protection.
Activities for Teaching Positive Psychology. 2,
(2021). 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.
(2013). Self-affirmation: Understanding the effects.
Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 7, 834–845.
(2020). Self-affirmation: Understanding the effects.
(Aronson, J., & Aronson E., Ed.).Readings about the Social Animal. 94 - 113.
(2008). Self-enhancement and self-affirmation.
Handbook of Motivation Science. 57.
(2018). Social class, control, and action: Socioeconomic status differences in antecedents of support for pro-environmental action.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology .
(2022). Social norms explain prioritization of climate policy.
Climatic Change.