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(2022). Politicians polarize and experts depolarize public support for COVID-19 management policies across countries.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(2015). The politics of luck: Political ideology and the perceived relationship between luck and success.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 59, 40–46.
(2003). Portrait of the self-enhancer: well adjusted and well liked or maladjusted and friendless?.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 84, 165.
(2018). Psychological barriers to bipartisan public support for climate policy.
Perspectives on Psychological Sciences.
(2009). Psychological vulnerability and stress: the effects of self-affirmation on sympathetic nervous system responses to naturalistic stressors.
Health Psychology. 28, 554.
(2022). Psychology and the threat of contagion: How perceived vulnerability to disease moderates the link between xenophobic thoughts and support for xenophobic actions.
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin.
(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.
(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). 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.
(2017). Self-affirmation facilitates minority middle schoolers' progress along college trajectories.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114, 7594–7599.
(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.
(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.