Geers, Andrew

Andrew Geers
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Professor
SABBATICAL LEAVE: Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
GEERS WORKLOAD PERCENTAGES: Research 55%; Teaching 35%; Service 10%, Psychology , College of Arts and Letters

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andrew.geers@utoledo.edu

selected publications

Article (Faculty180)
- 2022
  
  A brief value-based randomized intervention to promote physical activity in patients attending cardiac rehabilitation.. American Journal of Health Education. 54:10-19.
- 2019
  
  A test of psychological and electrodermal changes immediately after the delivery of 3 analgesic treatment messages. Pain Reports. 4:e693.
- 2019
  
  An Analysis of the Basic Processes of Formation and Change of Placebo Expectations. Review of General Psychology. 23:211.
- 2019
  
  Assessing the Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Evaluations of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption by Cancer Survivors. International journal of behavioral medicine. 1.
- 2019
  
  Can positive framing reduce nocebo side effects? Current evidence and recommendation for future research. Frontiers in pharmacology. 10:167.
- 2019
  
  Merely possessing a placebo analgesic reduced pain intensity: Preliminary findings from a randomized design. Current Psychology. 38:194.
- 2019
  
  Too picky for my taste? The effect of the gluten-free dietary restriction on impressions of romantic partners. Appetite. 132:55.
- 2018
  
  An Analogue Study Examining Attitude Change Theory and Its Implications for Dissemination and Implementation of Empirically Supported Treatments. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies. 18:77.
- 2018
  
  Choice and perceptions of exercise: A test of three moderating variables. Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 38:47.
- 2018
  
  Exploring the role of sedentary behavior and physical activity in depression and anxiety symptom severity among patients with substance use disorders. Mental health and physical activity. 14:98.
- 2018
  
  Implications of placebo and nocebo effects for clinical practice: expert consensus. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics. 87:204.
- 2018
  
  Neurobiology of the placebo effect—Part I. International review of neurobiology. 138.
- 2018
  
  The influence of side effect information framing on nocebo effects. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 53:621.
- 2017
  
  Affective associations as predictors of health behavior in urban minority youth.. Health Psychology. 36:996.
- 2017
  
  Does trait masculinity relate to expressing toughness? The effects of masculinity threat and self-affirmation in college men.. Psychology of Men & Masculinity. 18:176.
- 2017
  
  Effect type but not attribute framing alters nocebo headaches in an experimental paradigm.. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. 4:259.
- 2017
  
  Positive Affective Associations as Predictors of Health Behavior in Urban Minority Youth. Health Psychology. 36:996-1005.
- 2016
  
  Identifying when choice helps: clarifying the relationships between choice making, self-construal, and pain. Journal of behavioral medicine. 39:527.
- 2016
  
  Jacob Fox, Shane R. Close, Jason P. Rose. J Behav Med. 39:527.
- 2016
  
  Racial/ethnic disparities, body weight, and psychosocial antecedents that predict women’s failure to meet Pap test screening national recommendations. Translational Cancer Research. 5:S983-S992.
- 2016
  
  Racial/ethnic disparities, body weight, and psychosocial antecedents that predict women’s failure to meet Pap test screening national recommendations. mental illness. 24:28.
- 2016
  
  Racial/ethnic disparities, body weight, and psychosocial antecedents that predict women’s failure to meet Pap test screening national recommendations. Translational Cancer Research. 5:S983-S992.
- 2016
  
  Social cognitive correlates of attitudes toward empirically supported treatments.. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. 47:215.
- 2015
  
  Affective associations and reported intake of fruit, vegetables, and grains in university students. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 47:S58.
- 2015
  
  Choosing across cultures: The effect of choice complexity on treatment outcomes. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 28:515.
- 2015
  
  Dispositional and comparative optimism interact to predict avoidance of a looming health threat. Psychology & health. 30:456.
- 2015
  
  Patient involvement in treatment decision making can help or hinder placebo analgesia. Zeitschrift f"ur Psychologie.
- 2015
  
  Prior experience with a pain stimulus as a predictor of placebo analgesia. Journal of behavioral medicine. 38:136.
- 2015
  
  Subjective social status and well-being: The role of referent abstraction. The Journal of social psychology. 155:356.
- 2014
  
  Affect and exercise: positive affective expectations can increase post-exercise mood and exercise intentions. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 49:269.
- 2014
  
  Aligning research and practice: Implications of patient-centered care for placebo effects. The Patient-Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. 7:1.
- 2014
  
  Choice-making, expectations, and treatment positivity: How and when choosing shapes aversive experiences. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 27:1.
- 2014
  
  Norm perception and communication for vasovagal symptoms in blood donation. Transfusion. 54:2258.
- 2014
  
  Relations between PTSD and distress dimensions in an Indian child/adolescent sample following the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. Journal of abnormal child psychology. 42:925.
- 2014
  
  Understanding and translating the knowledge about placebo effects: the contribution of psychology. Current opinion in psychiatry. 27:326.
- 2013
  
  Beliefs about expectations moderate the influence of expectations on pain perception. International journal of behavioral medicine. 20:52.
- 2013
  
  Choice as a moderator of placebo expectation effects: Additional support from two experiments. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 35:436.
- 2013
  
  Comparative and dispositional optimism as separate and interactive predictors. Psychology & Health. 28:30.
- 2013
  
  Optimistic expectations in early marriage: A resource or vulnerability for adaptive relationship functioning?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 105:38.
- 2013
  
  Why does choice enhance treatment effectiveness? Using placebo treatments to demonstrate the role of personal control.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 105:549.
- 2013
  
  “I Guess What He Said Wasn’t That Bad” Dissonance in Nonconfronting Targets of Prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 39:856.
- 2012
  
  Choice and placebo expectation effects in the context of pain analgesia. Journal of behavioral medicine. 35:462.
- 2011
  
  Concept priming and pain: an experimental approach to understanding gender roles in sex-related pain differences. Journal of behavioral medicine. 34:139.
- 2011
  
  Getting to know you: Face-to-face versus online interactions. Computers in human behavior. 27:153.
- 2011
  
  Placebo expectations and the detection of somatic information. Journal of behavioral medicine. 34:208.
- 2011
  
  The influence of nondiagnostic information and victim stereotypes on perceptions of guilt. Western Criminology Review. 12:90.
- 2011
  
  Treatment choice and placebo expectation effects. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 5:734.
- 2010
  
  Dispositional optimism predicts placebo analgesia. The Journal of Pain. 11:1165.
- 2010
  
  Dispositional optimism, goals, and engagement in health treatment programs. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 33:123.
- 2010
  
  Top-down influences on the perception of ongoing behavior. The social psychology of visual perception. 225.
- 2009
  
  Dispositional optimism and engagement: the moderating influence of goal prioritization.. Journal of personality and social psychology. 96:913.
- 2009
  
  Expectations
- 2009
  
  Giving off a rosy glow: The manipulation of an optimistic orientation. The Journal of Social Psychology. 149:349.
- 2009
  
  Rebel without a (conscious) cause: Priming a nonconscious goal for psychological reactance. Basic and applied social psychology. 31:9.
- 2009
  
  The effect of victim information on causality judgments in a rape trial scenario. The Journal of social psychology. 149:495.
- 2009
  
  The effects of inaccurate expectations on experiences with psychotherapy. Cognitive therapy and research. 33:139.
- 2009
  
  The egalitarian optimist and the confrontation of prejudice. The journal of positive psychology. 4:389.
- 2008
  
  Dispositional optimism and thoughts of well-being determine sensitivity to an experimental pain task. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 36:304.
- 2008
  
  Mixed-handed persons are more easily persuaded and are more gullible: Interhemispheric interaction and belief updating. Laterality. 13:403.
- 2007
  
  Further evidence for individual differences in placebo responding: an interactionist perspective. Journal of psychosomatic research. 62:563.
- 2006
  
  Expectations and placebo response: a laboratory investigation into the role of somatic focus. Journal of behavioral medicine. 29:171.
- 2005
  
  Affective assimilation and contrast: Effects of expectations and prior stimulus exposure. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 27:143.
- 2005
  
  Are ambiguous figures actually ambivalent?. Individual Differences Research. 3.
- 2005
  
  Attributional complexity and the camera perspective bias in videotaped confessions. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 27:27.
- 2005
  
  Convergence and predictive validity in measures of optimism and pessimism: Sequential studies. Current Psychology. 24:43.
- 2005
  
  Goal activation, expectations, and the placebo effect.. Journal of personality and social psychology. 89:143.
- 2005
  
  Reconsidering the role of personality in placebo effects: dispositional optimism, situational expectations, and the placebo response. Journal of psychosomatic research. 58:121.
- 2004
  
  Evaluation of confession evidence: Effects of presentation format. Interrogations, confessions, and entrapment. 197.
- 2003
  
  Discerning the role of optimism in persuasion: the valence-enhancement hypothesis.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 85:554.
- 2003
  
  Need for cognition and expectations as determinants of affective experience. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 25:313.
- 2002
  
  Communication set and the perception of ongoing behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 28:158.
- 2002
  
  Effects of affective expectations on affective experience: The moderating role of optimism-pessimism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 28:1026.
- 2002
  
  Further evidence of a robust point-of-view bias in videotaped confessions. Current Psychology. 21:265.
- 2002
  
  Illusory causation: Why it occurs. Psychological Science. 13:299.
- 2002
  
  Videotaped interrogations and confessions: A simple change in camera perspective alters verdicts in simulated trials.. Journal of Applied Psychology. 87:867.
- 2001
  
  A Peer-Reviewed Electronic Journal
- 2001
  
  Accountability and the camera perspective bias in videotaped confessions. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 1:53.
- 2001
  
  Criminal confessions on videotape: Does camera perspective bias their perceived veracity. Current Research in Social Psychology. 7.
- 2000
  
  Examining the relationship between specific expectations and optimism and pessimism.. Representative Research in Social Psychology.
- 2000
  
  Observational goals and behavior unitization: A reexamination. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 36:649.
- 1999
  
  Affective expectations and information gain: Evidence for assimilation and contrast effects in affective experience. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 35:394.
- 1998
  
  Optimism, pessimism, and friendship. Current Psychology. 17:3.
Article (Web of Science)
- 2021
  
  Development of a Measure of Fearful Implicit Associations with Dental Stimuli in Youth. CHILD PSYCHIATRY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10578-021-01269-5 PMID: 34724135
- 2021
  
  Underpredicting pain: an experimental investigation into the benefits and risks. PAIN. 162:2024-2035.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002199 PMID: 33470747
- 2021
  
  Handwashing Message Type Predicts Behavioral Intentions in the United States at the Beginning of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic. FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 9.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.583491 PMID: 34026698
- 2021
  
  Prior Pain Exposure and Mere Possession of a Placebo Analgesic Predict Placebo Analgesia: Findings From a Randomized, Double-Blinded, Controlled Trial. JOURNAL OF PAIN. 22:415-431.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2020.10.004 PMID: 33127585
- 2021
  
  The Role of Attitudes, Affect, and Income in Predicting COVID-19 Behavioral Intentions. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 11.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.567397 PMID: 33488444
- 2020
  
  What Should Clinicians Tell Patients about Placebo and Nocebo Effects? Practical Considerations Based on Expert Consensus. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS. 90:49-56.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1159/000510738 PMID: 33075796
- 2020
  
  Affect and emotions in placebo and nocebo effects: What do we know so far?. SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY COMPASS.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12575
- 2020
  
  Determinants of safety-focused product purchasing in the United States at the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic. SAFETY SCIENCE. 130.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104894 PMID: 32834513
- 2020
  
  Examination of the relationship between affect, values, and physical activity among cancer survivors. JOURNAL OF CONTEXTUAL BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE. 18:68-74.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jcbs.2020.08.010
- 2020
  
  European Headache Federation recommendations for placebo and nocebo terminology. JOURNAL OF HEADACHE AND PAIN. 21.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1186/s10194-020-01178-3 PMID: 32977761
- 2020
  
  Merely Possessing a Placebo Analgesic Improves Analgesia Similar to Using the Placebo Analgesic. ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 54:637-652.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaaa007 PMID: 32227161
- 2020
  
  Choice, Expectations, and the Placebo Effect for Sleep Difficulty. ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 54:94-107.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaz030 PMID: 31504091
- 2020
  
  Rethinking intergroup contact across cultures: Predicting outgroup evaluations using different types of contact, group status, and perceived sociopolitical contexts. JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY. 14.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/prp.2020.9
- 2019
  
  Instrumental Control Enhances Placebo Analgesia. JOURNAL OF PAIN. 20:1486-1497.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2019.05.013 PMID: 31150780
- 2019
  
  A Positive Mood Induction for Reducing the Formation of Nocebo Effects from Side Effect Information. ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 53:999-1008.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaz005 PMID: 30855691
- 2019
  
  Testing a positive-affect induction to reduce verbally induced nocebo hyperalgesia in an experimental pain paradigm. PAIN. 160:2290-2297.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001618 PMID: 31107412
- 2019
  
  Affective determinants of physical activity in cancer survivors. PSYCHOLOGY & HEALTH. 35:593-612.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2019.1658761 PMID: 31657226
- 2019
  
  Assessing the Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Evaluations of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption by Cancer Survivors. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 26:365-371.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12529-019-09792-5 PMID: 31161591
- 2019
  
  The Influence of Side Effect Information Framing on Nocebo Effects. ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 53:621-629.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/abm/kay071 PMID: 30204841
- 2019
  
  An Analysis of the Basic Processes of Formation and Change of Placebo Expectations. REVIEW OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY. 23:211-229.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/gpr0000171
- 2019
  
  Merely Possessing a Placebo Analgesic Reduced Pain Intensity: Preliminary Findings from a Randomized Design. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY. 38:194-203.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12144-017-9601-0
- 2019
  
  Too picky for my taste? The effect of the gluten-free dietary restriction on impressions of romantic partners. APPETITE. 132:55-66.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.09.012
- 2019
  
  A test of psychological and electrodermal changes immediately after the delivery of 3 analgesic treatment messages. PAIN Reports. 4:e693.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/pr9.0000000000000693
- 2018
  
  Choice and perceptions of exercise: A test of three moderating variables. PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT AND EXERCISE. 38:47-55.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.05.012
- 2018
  
  Exploring the role of sedentary behavior and physical activity in depression and anxiety symptom severity among patients with substance use disorders. MENTAL HEALTH AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. 14:98-102.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.mhpa.2018.03.001
- 2018
  
  Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS. 87:204-210.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1159/000490354
- 2018
  
  "An analogue study examining Attitude Change Theory and its implications for dissemination and implementation of empirically supported treatments". JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOTHERAPIES. 18:77-95.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.24193/jebp.2018.2.15
- 2017
  
  Affective Associations as Predictors of Health Behavior in Urban Minority Youth. HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY. 36:996-1005.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/hea0000546
- 2017
  
  Does Trait Masculinity Relate to Expressing Toughness? The Effects of Masculinity Threat and Self-Affirmation in College Men. PSYCHOLOGY OF MEN & MASCULINITIES. 18:176-186.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/men0000053
- 2016
  
  Racial/ethnic disparities, body weight, and psychosocial antecedents that predict women's failure to meet Pap test screening national recommendations. TRANSLATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH. 5:S983-S992.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.21037/tcr.2016.10.76
- 2016
  
  Identifying when choice helps: clarifying the relationships between choice making, self-construal, and pain. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 39:527-536.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10865-015-9708-4
- 2016
  
  Social Cognitive Correlates of Attitudes Toward Empirically Supported Treatments. PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY-RESEARCH AND PRACTICE. 47:215-223.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/pro0000068
- 2015
  
  Choosing Across Cultures: The Effect of Choice Complexity on Treatment Outcomes. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING. 28:515-528.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1868
- 2015
  
  Subjective Social Status and Well-Being: The Role of Referent Abstraction. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 155:356-369.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2015.1015476
- 2015
  
  Dispositional and comparative optimism interact to predict avoidance of a looming health threat. PSYCHOLOGY & HEALTH. 30:456-474.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2014.977282
- 2015
  
  Affect and Exercise: Positive Affective Expectations Can Increase Post-Exercise Mood and Exercise Intentions. ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 49:269-279.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12160-014-9656-1
- 2015
  
  Prior experience with a pain stimulus as a predictor of placebo analgesia. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 38:136-142.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10865-014-9586-1
- 2014
  
  Norm perception and communication for vasovagal symptoms in blood donation. TRANSFUSION. 54:2258-2266.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/trf.12625
- 2014
  
  Relations Between PTSD and Distress Dimensions in an Indian Child/Adolescent Sample Following the 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attacks. JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 42:925-935.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10802-013-9846-5
- 2014
  
  Choice-making, Expectations, and Treatment Positivity: How and When Choosing Shapes Aversive Experiences. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING. 27:1-10.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1775
- 2014
  
  Patient Involvement in Treatment Decision Making Can Help or Hinder Placebo Analgesia The Moderating Role of Prior Experience. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE-JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY. 222:165-170.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000179
- 2013
  
  Why Does Choice Enhance Treatment Effectiveness? Using Placebo Treatments to Demonstrate the Role of Personal Control. JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 105:549-566.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0034005
- 2013
  
  Choice as a Moderator of Placebo Expectation Effects: Additional Support From Two Experiments. BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 35:436-444.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2013.803968
- 2013
  
  "I Guess What He Said Wasn't That Bad": Dissonance in Nonconfronting Targets of Prejudice. PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN. 39:856-869.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/0146167213484769
- 2013
  
  Optimistic Expectations in Early Marriage: A Resource or Vulnerability for Adaptive Relationship Functioning?. JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 105:38-60.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0032600
- 2013
  
  Beliefs About Expectations Moderate the Influence of Expectations on Pain Perception. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 20:52-58.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12529-011-9203-4
- 2013
  
  Comparative and dispositional optimism as separate and interactive predictors. PSYCHOLOGY & HEALTH. 28:30-48.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2012.707200
- 2012
  
  Choice and placebo expectation effects in the context of pain analgesia. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 35:462-470.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10865-011-9374-0
- 2011
  
  Placebo expectations and the detection of somatic information. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 34:208-217.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10865-010-9301-9
- 2011
  
  Concept priming and pain: an experimental approach to understanding gender roles in sex-related pain differences. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 34:139-147.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10865-010-9291-7
- 2011
  
  Getting to know you: Face-to-face versus online interactions. COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR. 27:153-159.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.07.017
- 2011
  
  Treatment Choice and Placebo Expectation Effects. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 5:734-750.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00385.x
- 2010
  
  Dispositional Optimism Predicts Placebo Analgesia. JOURNAL OF PAIN. 11:1165-1171.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2010.02.014
- 2010
  
  Dispositional optimism, goals, and engagement in health treatment programs. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 33:123-134.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10865-009-9238-z
- 2009
  
  Dispositional optimism and Engagement: The Moderating Influence of Goal Prioritization. JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 96:913-932.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0014830
- 2009
  
  The Effects of Inaccurate Expectations on Experiences with Psychotherapy. COGNITIVE THERAPY AND RESEARCH. 33:139-149.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10608-007-9174-6
- 2009
  
  Giving Off a Rosy Glow: The Manipulation of an Optimistic Orientation. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 149:349-363.
- 2009
  
  Rebel Without a (Conscious) Cause: Priming a Nonconscious Goal for Psychological Reactance. BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 31:9-16.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/01973530802659711
- 2009
  
  The Effect of Victim Information on Causality Judgments in a Rape Trial Scenario. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 149:495-512.
- 2009
  
  The egalitarian optimist and the confrontation of prejudice. JOURNAL OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. 4:389-395.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/17439760902992449
- 2009
  
  Giving Off a Rosy Glow: The Manipulation of an Optimistic Orientation. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 149:349-364.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3200/socp.149.3.349-364
- 2009
  
  The Effect of Victim Information on Causality Judgments in a Rape Trial Scenario. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 149:495-512.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3200/socp.149.4.495-512
- 2008
  
  Dispositional Optimism and Thoughts of Well-Being Determine Sensitivity to an Experimental Pain Task. ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 36:304-313.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12160-008-9073-4
- 2007
  
  Further evidence for individual differences in placebo responding: An interactionist perspective. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH. 62:563-570.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2006.12.005
- 2006
  
  Expectations and placebo response: A laboratory investigation into the role of somatic focus. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 29:171-178.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10865-005-9040-5
- 2005
  
  Affective assimilation and contrast: Effects of expectations and prior stimulus exposure. BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 27:143-154.
- 2005
  
  Attributional complexity and the camera perspective bias in videotaped confessions. BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 27:27-35.
- 2005
  
  Convergence and predictive validity in measures of optimism and pessimism sequential studies. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY. 24:43-59.
- 2005
  
  Reconsidering the role of personality in placebo effects: Dispositional optimism, situational expectations, and the placebo response. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH. 58:121-127.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2004.08.011
- 2005
  
  Affective Assimilation and Contrast: Effects of Expectations and Prior Stimulus Exposure. BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 27:143-154.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/s15324834basp2702_5
- 2005
  
  Attributional Complexity and the Camera Perspective Bias in Videotaped Confessions. BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 27:27-35.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/s15324834basp2701_3
- 2005
  
  Convergence and predictive validity in measures of optimism and pessimism: Sequential studies. Current Psychology. 24:43-59.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12144-005-1003-z
- 2003
  
  Discerning the Role of Optimism in Persuasion: The Valence-Enhancement Hypothesis.. JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 85:554-565.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.85.3.554
- 2003
  
  Need for Cognition and Expectations as Determinants of Affective Experience. BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 25:313-325.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/s15324834basp2504_5
- 2002
  
  Communication Set and the Perception of Ongoing Behavior. PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN. 28:158-171.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/0146167202282003
- 2002
  
  Effects of Affective Expectations on Affective Experience: The Moderating Role of Optimism-Pessimism. PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN. 28:1026-1039.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/01461672022811002
- 2002
  
  Further evidence of a robust point-of-view bias in videotaped confessions. Current Psychology. 21:265-288.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12144-002-1018-7
- 2002
  
  Videotaped interrogations and confessions: A simple change in camera perspective alters verdicts in simulated trials.. Journal of Applied Psychology. 87:867-874.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.87.5.867
- 2000
  
  Observational Goals and Behavior Unitization: A Reexamination. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 36:649-659.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1006/jesp.2000.1428
- 1999
  
  Affective Expectations and Information Gain: Evidence for Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Affective Experience. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 35:394-413.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1006/jesp.1999.1377
- 1998
  
  Optimism, Pessimism, and Friendship. Current Psychology. 17:3-19.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12144-998-1017-4
Book Chapter (Web of Science)
- 2018
  
  The Application of Persuasion Theory to Placebo Effects. NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE PLACEBO EFFECT, PT I. 113-136.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/bs.irn.2018.01.004
- 2001
  
  Videotaped confessions: Is guilt in the eye of the camera?. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology Volume 33. 189-254.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2601(01)80006-x
Chapter (Faculty180)
- 2018
  
  The application of persuasion theory to placebo effects. International review of neurobiology. Academic Press. 113.
- 2004
  
  Bias and accuracy in the evaluation of confession evidence. Interrogations, confessions, and entrapment. Springer, Boston, MA. 197.
- 2001
  
  Videotaped confessions: Is guilt in the eye of the camera?. Advances in experimental social psychology. Academic Press. 189.
Conference Poster (Faculty180)
Correction (Web of Science)
- 2021
  
  Merely Possessing a Placebo Analgesic Improves Analgesia Similar to Using the Placebo Analgesic (vol 54, pg 637, 2020). ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 932-932.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaaa035 PMID: 32621737
- 2012
  
  Choice and placebo expectation effects in the context of pain analgesia (vol 35, pg 462, 2012). JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. 674-674.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10865-012-9459-4
Early Access (Web of Science)
- 2021
  
  Psychosocial Factors Predict COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1159/000519853 PMID: 34736267
- 2021
  
  "Consensus on Placebo and Nocebo Effects Connects Science with Practice:" Reply to "Questioning the Consensus on Placebo and Nocebo Effects". PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1159/000514435 PMID: 33631769
Editorial Material (Web of Science)
- 2019
  
  Experimental Assessment of Nocebo Effects and Nocebo Side Effects: Definitions, Study Design, and Implications for Psychiatry and Beyond. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00396 PMID: 31258492
- 2014
  
  Aligning Research and Practice: Implications of Patient-Centered Care for Placebo Effects (R). PATIENT-PATIENT CENTERED OUTCOMES RESEARCH. 1-3.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s40271-013-0040-1
Meeting Abstract (Web of Science)
- 2018
  
  SIDE EFFECT INFORMATION FRAMING AND THE NOCEBO EFFECT. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. S148-S148.
- 2018
  
  TESTING THE ABILITY OF TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF MESSAGE INSTRUCTIONS TO REDUCE NOCEBO HEADACHES IN AN EXPERIMENTAL PARADIGM. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. S147-S147.
- 2017
  
  Assessment of the Psychological Factors Related to Menopause. MENOPAUSE-THE JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MENOPAUSE SOCIETY. 1459-1459.
- 2017
  
  Affective Associations as Predictors of Physical Activity in Cancer Survivors. MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS & EXERCISE. 555-556.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000518438.10556.1a
- 2016
  
  SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: HOW TO IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES VIA THE PLACEBO EFFECT. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. S130-S131.
- 2016
  
  WHEN DO PLACEBO EFFECTS ENDURE OVER TIME? TESTING THE ROLE OF COGNITIVE ELABORATION. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. S131-S131.
- 2016
  
  WORK RESPONSIBILITIES AS BARRIERS TO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: HOW DO WE EVALUATE THE EXERCISER?. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. S27-S27.
- 2016
  
  Feeling Measures and Cognitive Beliefs as Predictors of Physical Activity. MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS & EXERCISE. 691-691.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000487076.41172.a7
- 2015
  
  PATIENT KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES TOWARD PLACEBO TREATMENTS. ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. S195-S195.
- 2013
  
  YOU'RE GETTING SLEEPY: THE EFFECT OF TREATMENT CHOICE ON SLEEP QUALITY IN A PLACEBO TREATMENT PARADIGM. ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. S234-S234.
- 2012
  
  AFFECTIVE EXPECTATIONS INCREASE POSITIVE MOOD, EXERCISE INTENTIONS, AND EXERCISE DURATION. ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. S283-S283.
- 2012
  
  WHEN DO PLACEBO ANALGESICS HELP?: MODERATING EFFECTS OF TREATMENT CHOICE AND PRIOR EXPERIENCE. ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE. S278-S278.
Presentation (Faculty180)
Proceedings (Faculty180)
- 2017
  
  Assessment of the Psychological Factors Related to Menopause
- 2012
  
  AFFECTIVE EXPECTATIONS INCREASE POSITIVE MOOD, EXERCISE INTENTIONS, AND EXERCISE DURATION
Review Article (Web of Science)
- 2019
  
  Can Positive Framing Reduce Nocebo Side Effects? Current Evidence and Recommendation for Future Research. FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00167
- 2014
  
  Understanding and translating the knowledge about placebo effects: the contribution of psychology. CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHIATRY. 326-331.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000082
- 2014
  
  Understanding and translating the knowledge about placebo effects. CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHIATRY. 326-331.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1097/yco.0000000000000082
- 2008
  
  Mixed-handed persons are more easily persuaded and are more gullible: Interhemispheric interaction and belief updating. LATERALITY. 403-426.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/13576500802079646
- 2005
  
  Goal activation, expectations, and the placebo effect. JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 143-159.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.89.2.143

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