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Wang, K., Rees, V. W., Dorison, C. A., Kawachi, I., & Lerner, J. S. (2024). The role of positive emotion in harmful health behavior: Implications for theory and public health campaigns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(28), e2320750121.

Jacoby, R. J., Szkutak, A., Shin, J., Lerner, J., & Wilhelm, S. (2023). Feeling uncertain despite knowing the risk: Patients with OCD (but not controls) experience known and unknown probabilistic decisions as similarly distressing and uncertain. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 100842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocrd.2023.100842

Lerner, J. S., Dorison, C., & Kim, J. (2023). How Do Emotions Affect Decision Making? Forthcoming in A. Scarantino (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xbsza

Dorison, C. A., Umphres, C. K., & Lerner, J. S. (2022). Staying the course: Decision makers who escalate commitment are trusted and trustworthy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(4), 960–965. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001101

Dorison, C. A., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H., Rothman, A. J., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., … & Pantazi, M. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective science, 3(3), 577-602. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C.A. et al. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x

Dukes, D., Abrams, K., Adolphs, R., Ahmed, M.E., Beatty, A., Berridge, K.C., et al. (2021). The rise of affectivism. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(7), 816-820. doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01130-8

Ferrer, R. A., Taber, J. M., Sheeran, P., Bryan, A. D., Cameron, L. D., Peters, E., Lerner, J. S., Grenen, E., & Klein, W. M. P. (2020). The role of incidental affective states in appetitive risk behavior: A meta-analysis. Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 39(12), 1109–1124. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001019

DeWees, B.R., Lerner, J.S. (2020). Uncertainty Avoidance. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_806

Dorison, C. A., Klusowski, J., Han, S., & Lerner, J. S. (2020). Emotion in organizational judgment and decision making. Organizational Dynamics, 49(1). doi: 10.1016/j.orgdyn.2019.02.004

Dorison, C.A., Wang, K., Rees, V.W., Kawachi, I., Ericson, K.M.M., & Lerner, J.S. (2020). Sadness, but not all negative emotions, heightens addictive substance use. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.190888116

Ellis, E. M., Barnato, A. E., Chapman, G. B., Dionne-Odom, J. N., Lerner, J. S., Peters, E., Nelson, W. L., Padgett, L., Suls, J., & Ferrer, R. A. (2019). Towards a conceptual model of affective predictions in palliative care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 57(6), 1151-1165. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.02.008

Lerner, J.S. (2019). Decision science meets national security: A personal perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(1), 96-100. doi: 10.1177/1745691618815822

Garg, N., Williams, L. A., & Lerner, J.S. (2018).  The Misery-is-Not-Miserly Effect Revisited:  Replication Despite Opportunities for Compensatory Consumption.  PloS one, 13(6). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199433

Friedman, J.A., Lerner, J.S., & Zeckhauser, R. (2017). Behavioral consequences of probabilistic precision: Experimental evidence from national security professionals. International Organization. 1-24. doi: 10.1017/S0020818317000352

Ferrer, R. A., Maclay, A., Litvak, P. M., & Lerner, J. S. (2017). Revisiting the Effects of Anger on Risk‐Taking: Empirical and Meta‐Analytic Evidence for Differences Between Males and Females. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30(2), 516-526. doi: 10.1002/bdm.1971

Lerner, J.S. (2017). Psychologists in schools of public policy. In R.J. Sternberg (Ed.), Career paths in psychology (103-118). Washington, DC: APA Press. doi: 10.1037/15960-000

Ma-Kellams, C., Lai, L., Taylor, S.E., & Lerner, J.S. (2016). The contribution of trait negative affect and stress to recall for bodily states. Physiology and Behavior, 167, 274-281. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.09.024

Gill, B.P., Lerner, J.S., & Meosky, P. (2016). Re-imagining accountability in K-12 education: A behavioral science perspective. Behavioral Science and Policy, 2(1), 57-70.

Ma-Kellams, C. & Lerner, J.S. (2016). Trust your gut or think carefully? Examining whether an intuitive, versus a systematic, mode of thought produces greater empathic accuracy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(5), 674-685. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000063

Sherman, G.D., Lerner, J.S., Josephs, R., Renshon, J., & Gross, J.J. (2016). The interaction of testosterone and cortisol is associated with attained status in male executives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(6), 921-929. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000063

Ferrer, R., Klein, W., Lerner, J.S., Reyna, V.F., & Keltner, D. (2015). Emotions and health decision-making: Extending the Appraisal Tendency Framework to improve health and healthcare. In C. Roberto & I. Kawachi (Eds.), Behavioral economics and public health (101-131). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/med/9780199398331.003.0004

Sherman, G.D., Lerner, J.S., Renshon, J., Ma-Kellams, C., & Joel, S. (2015). Perceiving others’ feelings: The importance of personality and social structure. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(5), 559-569. doi: 10.1177/1948550614567358

Lerner J.S., Li Y., Valdesolo P., & Kassam K. (2015). Emotion and decision making. Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 799-823. doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115043.

DeSteno, D., Li, Y., Dickens, L., & Lerner, J.S. (2014). Gratitude: A tool for reducing economic impatience. Psychological Science, 25(6), 1262-1267. doi: 10.1177/0956797614529979

Garg, N. and Lerner, J.S. (2013). Sadness and consumption. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 23(1), 106-113. doi: 10.1016/j.jcps.2012.05.009

Lerner, J.S., Li, Y., & Weber, E.U. (2013). The financial costs of sadness. Psychological Science, 24(1), 72-79. doi: 10.1177/0956797612450302

Sherman, G.D., Lee, J.J., Cuddy, A.J., Renshon, J., Oveis, C., Gross, J.J., & *Lerner, J.S. (2012). Leadership is associated with lower levels of stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(44), 17903-17907. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1207042109. *In this case, last author signifies 2nd largest contribution to the paper.

Renshon, J.B. & Lerner, J.S. (2012). Decision-Making, the Role of Emotions in Foreign Policy. In D. J. Christie and C. Montiel (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology. NJ: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 313-317. *Corrected Table 2

Han, S., Lerner, J.S. & Zeckhauser, R. (2012). The disgust-promotes-disposal effect. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 44(2), 101-113. doi: 10.1007/s11166-012-9139-3

Carnevale, J., Inbar, Y., & Lerner, J.S. (2011). Individual differences in need for cognition and decision making competence among leaders. Personality Assessment and Individual Differences, 51(3), 274-278. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.002

Winterich, K., Han S., & Lerner, J.S. (2010). Now that I’m sad, it’s hard to be mad: The role of cognitive appraisals in emotional blunting. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(11), 1467-1483. doi: 10.1177/0146167210384710

Lerner, J.S. & Shonk, K. (2010). How anger poisons decision making. Harvard Business Review, 88(9), 26.

Keltner, D. & Lerner, J.S. (2010). Emotion. In S.T. Fiske, D.T. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), The handbook of social psychology (pp.317-352). New York: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9780470561119.socpsy001009

Litvak, P., Lerner, J.S., Tiedens, L.Z., & Shonk, K. (2010). Fuel in the fire: How anger impacts judgment and decision making. In M. Potegal, G. Stemmler, & C. Spielberger (Eds.), International handbook of anger Vol. 19 (pp.287-311). New York: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-89676-2_17

Litvak, P. & Lerner, J.S. (2009). Cognitive bias. In D. Sander & K. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (90). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1108/09504121011077110

Cryder, C. & Lerner, J.S. (2009). Uncertainty. In D. Sander & K. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (395). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1108/09504121011077110

Han, S., & Lerner, J.S. (2009). Decision making. In D. Sander & K. Scherer (Eds.), The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences (111-113). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1108/09504121011077110

Han, S., & Lerner, J.S. (2009). Accountability. In M. Kattan (Ed.), The encyclopedia of medical decision making (Vol. 1, pp. 7-9). Washington, D.C.: SAGE.

Cryder, C.E., Lerner, J.S., Gross, J.J., & Dahl, R.E. (2008). Misery is not miserly: Sad and Self-focused Individuals Spend More. Psychological Science, 19(6), 525-530. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02118.x

Small, D.A. & Lerner, J.S. (2008). Emotional policy: Personal sadness and anger shape judgments about a welfare case. Political Psychology, 29(2), 149-168. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00621.x

Lerner, J.S., Han, S., & Keltner, D. (2007). Feelings and consumer decision making: Extending the appraisal-tendency framework. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 17(3), 184-187. doi: 10.1016/s1057-7408(07)70027-x

Han, S., Lerner, J.S., & Keltner, D. (2007). Feelings and consumer decision making: The appraisal-tendency framework. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 17(3), 158-168. doi: 10.1016/s1057-7408(07)70023-2

Lerner, J.S., Dahl, R.E., Hariri, A.R., & Taylor, S.E., (2007). Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responses. Biological Psychiatry, 61(15), 253-260. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.08.016 [A secondary report of these findings appears in Science, 310 (5752), 1274.]

Lerner, J.S. & Tiedens, L.Z. (2006). Portrait of the angry decision maker: How appraisal tendencies shape anger’s influence on cognition. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (Special Issue on Emotion and Decision Making), 19(2), 115-137. doi: 10.1002/bdm.515

Small, D.A., Lerner, J.S., & Fischhoff, B. (2006). Emotion priming and attributions for terrorism: Americans’ reactions in a national field experiment. Political Psychology, 27(2), 289-298. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00007.x

Lerner, J.S. & Shonk, K. (2006). Create accountability, improve negotiations. Negotiation, 9(6), 1-4.

Lerner, J.S. (2005). Negotiating under the influence: Emotional hangovers distort your judgment and lead to bad decisions. Negotiation, 8(6), 1-3.

Fischhoff, B., Gonzalez, R.M., Lerner, J.S., & Small, D.A. (2005). Evolving judgments of terror risks: Foresight, hindsight, and emotion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 11(2), 124-139. doi: 10.1037/1076-898x.11.2.124 *Corrected in Fischhoff, B., Gonzalez, R.M., Lerner, J.S., & Small, D.A. (2012) Evolving judgments of terror risks: Foresight, Hindsight, and Emotion: A Reanalysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 18(2), e1-e16. doi: 10.1037/a0027959

Taylor, S.E., Lerner, J.S., Sage, R.M., Lehman, B., & Seeman, T. (2004). Early environment, emotions, responses to stress and health. Journal of Personality, 72(6), 1365-1394. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2004.00300.x

Lerner, J.S., Small, D.A., & Loewenstein, G. (2004). Heart strings and purse strings: Carryover effects of emotions on economic decisions. Psychological Science, 15(5), 337-341. doi: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00679.x

Fischhoff, B., Gonzalez, R.M., Small, D.A., & Lerner, J.S. (2003). Evaluating the success of terror risk communications. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, 1(4), 255-258. doi: 10.1089/153871303771861450

Taylor, S.E., Lerner, J.S., Sherman, D.K., Sage, R.M. & McDowell, N.K. (2003). Are self-enhancing cognitions associated with healthy or unhealthy biological profiles? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(4), 605-615. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.4.605

Mitchell, G., Tetlock, P.E., Newman, D., & Lerner, J.S. (2003). Experiments behind the veil: Structural influences on judgments of social justice. Political Psychology, 24(3), 519-547. doi: 10.1111/0162-895x.00339

Helgeson, V., Janicki, D., Lerner, J.S., & Barbarin, O. (2003). Brief report: Adjustment to juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: A family systems perspective. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 28(5), 347-353. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsg024

Fischhoff, B., Gonzalez, R.M., Small, D.A., & Lerner, J.S. (2003). Judged terror risk and proximity to the World Trade Center. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 26(2-3), 137-151. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4757-6787-2_3

Lerner, J.S. & Tetlock, P.E. (2003). Bridging individual, interpersonal, and institutional approaches to judgment and decision making: The impact of accountability on cognitive bias. In S. Schneider & J. Shanteau (Eds.), Emerging perspectives on judgment and decision research (pp.431-457). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/cbo9780511609978.015

Lerner, J.S., Gonzalez, R.M., Small, D.A., & Fischhoff, B. (2003). Effects of fear and anger on perceived risks of terrorism: A national field experiment. Psychological Science, 14(2), 144-150. doi: 10.1111/1467-9280.01433

Taylor, S.E., Lerner, J.S., Sage, R.M., Sherman, D.K., & McDowell, N.K. (2003). Portrait of the self-enhancer: Well-adjusted and well-liked or maladjusted and friendless? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(1), 165-176. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.84.1.165

Loewenstein, G. & Lerner, J.S. (2003). The role of affect in decision making. In R. Davidson, K. Scherer, & H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of affective sciences (pp.619-642). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1017/s0033291703231871

Lerner, J.S., & Small, D.A. (2002). Do positive and negative emotions have opposing influences on hope? Psychological Inquiry, 13(4), 299-302.

Lerner, J.S., & Keltner, D. (2001). Fear, anger, and risk. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81(1), 146-159. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.81.1.146

Lerner, J.S. & Keltner, D. (2000). Beyond valence: Toward a model of emotion-specific influences on judgment and choice. Cognition and Emotion, 14(4), 473-493. doi: 10.1080/026999300402763

Tetlock, P.E., Kristel, O., Elson, B., Green, M., & Lerner, J.S. (2000). The psychology of the unthinkable: Taboo trade-offs, forbidden base rates and heretical counterfactuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(5), 853-870. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.78.5.853

Lerner, J.S. (2000). Review of the book Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions, by J. Elster. The Journal of Economic Literature, 38(1). 122-124.

Goldberg, J.H., Lerner, J.S., & Tetlock, P.E. (1999). Rage and reason: The psychology of the intuitive prosecutor. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 781-785. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199908/09)29:5/6<781::aid-ejsp960>3.0.co;2-3

Lerner, J.S., & Tetlock, P.E. (1999). Accounting for the effects of accountability. Psychological Bulletin, 125(2), 255-275. doi: 10.1037//0033-2909.125.2.255

Tetlock, P.E. & Lerner, J.S. (1999). The social contingency model: Identifying empirical and normative boundary conditions on the error-and-bias portrait of human nature. In S. Chaiken & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual-process theories in social psychology (pp.571-585). New York: Guilford.

Lerner, J.S., Goldberg, J.H. & Tetlock, P.E. (1998). Sober second thought: The effects of accountability, anger, and authoritarianism on attributions of responsibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24(6), 563-574. doi: 10.1177/0146167298246001

Nagda, B.A., Gregerman, S.R., Jonides, J., von Hippel, W., & Lerner, J.S. (1998). Undergraduate student-faculty research partnerships affect student retention. The Review of Higher Education, 22(1), 55-72. doi: 10.1353/rhe.1998.0016

Tetlock, P.E., Lerner, J.S., & Boettger, R. (1996). The dilution effect: Judgmental bias, conversational convention, or a bit of both? European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 915-934. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199611)26:6<915::aid-ejsp797>3.0.co;2-w

Tetlock, P.E., Peterson, R.S., & Lerner, J.S. (1996). Revising the value of pluralism model: Incorporating social content and context postulates. In C. Seligman, J. Olson, & M. Zanna (Eds.), The Psychology of Values: The Ontario Symposium, Volume 8, (pp.25-51). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lerner, J.S., & Tetlock, P.E. (1994). Accountability and social cognition. In V.S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of human behavior (Vol. 1, pp.1-10). San Diego: Academic Press.Jacoby, R. J., Szkutak, A., Shin, J., Lerner, J., & Wilhelm, S. (2023). Feeling uncertain despite knowing the risk: Patients with OCD (but not controls) experience known and unknown probabilistic decisions as similarly distressing and uncertain. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 100842.