Attachment A Selected Readings

Selected Readings on Self-Affirmation

Armitage, C. J., Harris, P. R., Hepton, G., & Napper, L. (2008). Self-affirmation increases acceptance of health-risk information among UK adult smokers with low socioeconomic status. Psychology of Addictive Behavior, 22, 88-95.

Crocker, J., Niiya, Y., & Mischkowski, D. (2008). Why Does Writing About Important Values Reduce Defensiveness? Self-Affirmation and the Role of Positive Other-Directed Feelings. Psychological Science, 19, 740-747.

Croyle, R. T., Sun, Y., & Louie, D. (1993). Psychological minimization of cholesterol test results: Moderators of appraisal in college students and community residents. Health Psychology, 12, 503-507.

Epton, T., & Harris, P. R. (2008). Self-affirmation promotes health behavior change. Health Psychology, 27, 746-752.

Ferrer, R. A., Shmueli, D., Bergman, H. E., Harris, P. R., & Klein, W. M. P. (2011). Effects of Self-Affirmation on Implementation Intentions and the Moderating Role of Affect. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 300-307.

Harris, P. R., Mayle, M. K., Mabbott, L., & Napper, L. (2007). Self-affirmation reduces smokers' defensiveness to graphic on-pack cigarette warning labels. Health Psychology, 26, 437-466.

Harris, P. R., & Napper, L. (2005). Self-affirmation and the biased processing of threatening health-risk information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1250-1263.

Jemmott, J. B., Ditto, P., & Croyle, R. T. (1986). Judging health status: Effects of perceived prevalence and personal relevance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 899-905.

Klein, W. M. P., & Harris, P. R. (2009). Self-affirmation enhances attentional bias toward threatening components of a persuasive message. Psychological Science, 20, 1463-1467.

Klein, W. M., Harris, P. R., Ferrer, R. A., & Zajac, L. E. (2011). Feelings of vulnerability in response to threatening messages: Effects of self-affirmation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47(6), 1237-1242.

Logel, C., & Cohen, G. L. (2012). The Role of the Self in Physical Health Testing the Effect of a Values-Affirmation Intervention on Weight Loss. Psychological Science, 23, 53-55.

Schmeichel, B. J., & Vohs, K. D. (2009). Self-affirmation and self-control: Affirming core values counteracts ego depletion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 770-782.

Sherman, D. K., Nelson, L. D., & Steele, C. M. (2000). Do messages about health risk threaten the self? Increasing the acceptance of threatening health messages via self-affirmation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1046-1058.

Steele, C. M. (1988). The psychology of self-affirmation: Sustaining the integrity of the self. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 21, pp. 261-302). New York: Academic Press.

Empirical validation for scales used in questionnaires

Ferrer, R. A., Hall, K. L., Portnoy, D. B., Ling, B. S., Han, P. K. J., & Klein, W. M. P. (2011). Relationships among health perceptions vary depending on stage of readiness for colorectal cancer screening. Health Psychology, 30(5), 525-535.

Ferrer, R. A., Portnoy, D. B., & Klein, W. M. P. (2013). Higher cancer-related worry and risk perceptions are related to lower exercise and fruit and vegetable consumption: Results from the Health Information National Trends Survey. Journal of Health Communication.

Janssen, E., van Osch, L., Lechner, L., Candel, M., & de Vries, H. (2012). Thinking versus feeling: Differentiating between cognitive and affective components of perceived cancer risk. Psychology & Health, ePub ahead of print.

Janssen, E., van Osch, L., de Vries, H., & Lechner, L. (2011). Measuring risk perceptions of skin cancer: Reliability and validity of different operationalizations. British Journal of Health Psychology, 16, 92-112.

Janssen, E., Waters, E. A., van Osch, L., Lechner, L., & de Vries, H. (2012). The importance of affectively-laden beliefs about health risks: the case of tobacco use and sun protection. Journal of behavioral medicine, 1-11.

Klein, W. M. P., Zajac, L. E., & Monin, M. M. (2009). Worry as a moderator of the association between risk perceptions and quitting intentions in young adult and adult smokers. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 38, 256-261.

Lipkus, I. M., Klein, W. M. P., Skinner, C. S., & Rimer, B. K. (2005). Breast cancer risk perceptions and breast cancer worry: what predicts what? Journal of Risk research, 8(5), 439-452.

Psychological Bulletin, 127, 267-286.

Rippetoe, P. A., & Rogers, R. W. (1987). Effects of components of protection-motivation theory on adaptive and maladaptive coping with a health threat.Journal of personality and social psychology, 52(3), 596.

Sinclair, M., Ashkanasy, N. M., & Chattopadhyay, P. (2010). Affective antecedents of intuitive decision making. Journal of Management and Organization, 16(3), 382-398.

Weinstein, N. D., Kwitel, A., McCaul, K. D., Magnan, R. E., Gerrard, M., & Gibbons, F. X. (2007). Risk perceptions: Assessment and relationship to influenza vaccination. Health Psychology, 26, 146-151.

Justification for Incentives (and best practices for mTurk)

Buhrmester, M., Kwang, T., & Gosling, S. D. (2011). Amazon's Mechanical Turk a new source of inexpensive, yet high-quality, data?. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(1), 3-5.

Goodman, J. K., Cryder, C. E., & Cheema, A. (2013). Data collection in a flat world: The strengths and weaknesses of Mechanical Turk samples. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26(3), 213-224.

Mason, W., & Suri, S. (2012). Conducting behavioral research on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Behavior research methods, 44(1), 1-23.

Singer, E. (2002). The use of incentives to reduce nonresponse in household surveys. Survey nonresponse, 163-177.