Affective framing of environmental news headlines influences engagement, donations, and memory
Alyssa H. Sinclair, Danielle Cosme, José Carreras-Tartak, Emily B. Falk
PsyArXiv, 2025 Jul 8
Pausing to reflect during news consumption counteracts negativity biases in memory
Alyssa H. Sinclair, Abigail Hsiung, Rachael Wright, Shabnam Hakimi, R. Alison Adcock
OSF Preprints, 2024
Instructed motivational states bias reinforcement learning and memory formation
Alyssa H. Sinclair*, Yuxi C. Wang*, R. Alison Adcock
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 120(31), 2023 Aug 1, pp. e2304881120
First impressions or good endings? Preferences depend on when you ask
Alyssa H. Sinclair, Yuxi C. Wang, R. Alison Adcock
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 153(10), 2024 Sep 9, pp. 2588-2604
Personalized feedback about immunity corrects risk misestimation and motivates vaccination
Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan Taylor, Stephen J. Beckett, Aroon T. Chande, Joshua S. Weitz, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin
PsyArXiv, 2024
Communicating COVID-19 exposure risk with an interactive website counteracts risk misestimation
Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan K. Taylor, Freyja Brandel-Tanis, Audra Davidson, Aroon Chande, Lavanya Rishishwar, Clio Andris, R. Alison Adcock, Joshua S. Weitz, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Stephen J. Beckett
PLoS ONE, vol. 18(10), 2023 Oct 5, pp. e0290708
Scenario-Based Messages on Social Media Motivate COVID-19 Information Seeking
Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan K. Taylor, Audra Davidson, Joshua S. Weitz, Stephen Beckett, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, vol. 13(1), 2023 Apr 27, pp. 124-135
Reasons for Receiving or Not Receiving Bivalent COVID-19 Booster Vaccinations Among Adults
Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan K. Taylor, Joshua S. Weitz, Stephen Beckett, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, vol. 72(3), 2023 Jan 20, pp. 73-75
Pairing facts with imagined consequences improves pandemic-related risk perception
Alyssa H. Sinclair, Shabnam Hakimi, Matthew L. Stanley, R. Alison Adcock, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 118(32), 2021 Aug 10, pp. e2100970118
Alyssa H. Sinclair, Matthew L. Stanley, Shabnam Hakimi, Roberto Cabeza, R. Alison Adcock, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin
Nature Aging, vol. 1, 2021 Aug 5, pp. 677-683