Publications: Belief Updating & Behavior Change


Action planning interventions to promote individual and collective climate action


Kirsten Lydic, Alyssa H. Sinclair, Danielle Cosme, José Carreras-Tartak, Emily B. Falk

PsyArXiv


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


Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Dani Cosme, Kirsten Lydic, Diego A. Reinero, José Carreras-Tartak, Michael E. Mann, Emily B. Falk

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 122(20), 2025, pp. e2426768122


Reply to Dablander et al.: Identifying interventions that change intentions lays a valuable foundation for behavior change.


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Dani Cosme, Kirsten Lydic, Diego A. Reinero, Michael E. Mann, Emily B Falk

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 122(8), 2025, pp. e2513159122

Memory and belief updating following complete and partial reminders of fake news


Paige L. Kemp, Alyssa H. Sinclair, R. Alison Adcock, Christopher N. Wahlheim

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, vol. 9(28), 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, pp. e0290708


Imagining a personalized scenario selectively increases perceived risk of viral transmission for older adults


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Matthew L. Stanley, Shabnam Hakimi, Roberto Cabeza, R. Alison Adcock, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin

Nature Aging, vol. 1, 2021, pp. 677-683


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, pp. e2100970118


Closed-minded cognition: Right-wing authoritarianism is negatively related to belief updating following prediction error


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Matthew L. Stanley, Paul Seli

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 27, 2020, pp. 1348-1361


Intellectual Humility and Perceptions of Political Opponents


Matthew L. Stanley, Alyssa H. Sinclair, Paul Seli

Journal of Personality, vol. 88, 2020, pp. 1196-1216


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