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Feldman*, J.L., & Freitas, A. L. (2021). The Generality of Effects of Emotional Experience on Emotion-Regulation Choice.
Emotion. download (.pdf)
Araiza, A.M., Freitas, A. L., & Klein, D.N. (2020). Social-Experience and Temperamental Predictors of Rejection Sensitivity: A Prospective Study.
Social and Personality Psychological Science. download (.pdf)
Araiza, A.M., & Freitas, A. L. (2019). Self-Esteem Relates to Expecting Others to See Us How We See Ourselves.
Social Psychological Bulletin. download (.pdf)
Sweeney*, A. M., & Freitas, A. L. (2019). When Do Intended Performance Standards Predict Goal-Related Affect? A Motivated-Reasoning Perspective.
Social Psychological and Personality Science. download (.pdf)
Feldman, J. L., & Freitas, A. L. (2018). An analysis of N2 event-related-potential correlates of sequential and response-facilitation effects in cognitive control.
Journal of Psychophysiology. download (.pdf)
Sweeney, A. M., & Freitas, A. L. (2018). Construing action abstractly and experiencing autonomy: Implications for physical activity and diet. .
Motivation and Emotion, 42, 161-177 download (.pdf)
Culcea, I. C., & Freitas, A. L. (2017). Subjective importance as a cue for self-reference.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 1100-1111. download (.pdf)
Feldman, J.L., & Freitas, A. L. (2016). An investigation of the reliability and self-regulatory correlates of conflict adaptation
Experimental Psychology. download (.pdf)
Sweeney, A. M., & Freitas, A. L. (2016). Self-affirmation impacts behavioral intentions but not preferences for delayed outcomes
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. download (.pdf)
Sweeney, A. M., & Freitas, A. L. (2016). Mistakes pertaining to undesired (relative to Desired) self-standards elicit immediate enhanced electrocortical signals of error processing.
Motivation and Emotion.download (.pdf)
Feldman, J.L., Clark, S. L., & Freitas, A. L. (2015). Conflict Adaptation within but not across NoGo Decision Criteria: Event-related-potential evidence of specificity in the contextual modulation of cognitive control.
Biological Psychology 1-10.
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Freitas, A. L., & Clark*, S. L. (2015). Generality and specificity in cognitive control: Conflict adaptation within and across selective-attention tasks but not across selective-attention and Simon tasks.
Psychological Research, 79, 143-162.
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Sweeney*, A. M., & Freitas, A. L. (2014). Relating action to abstract goals increases physical activity reported a week later.
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 15, 364-373.
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Clark, S.L., & Freitas, A.L. (2013). Construing action abstractly and perceiving consonance among goal pursuits: Implications for activity Substitutability and for the accessibility of activity-goal links.
Motivation and Emotion, 37, 537-549.
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Levy, S.R., Freitas, A.L., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Kugelmaas, H., & Rosenthal, L. (2010). When Sociopolitical Events Strike Cultural Beliefs: Divergent Impact of Hurricane Katrina on African Americans' and European Americans' Endorsement of the Protestant Work Ethic.
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 32, 1-10.
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Freitas, A.L., Banai, R., & Clark, S.L. (2009). When cognitive control is calibrated: Event-related potential correlates of adapting to information-processing conflict despite erroneous response preparation.
Psychophysiology.download (.pdf)
Freitas, A.L., Clark, S.L, Kim, J.Y, & Levy, S.R. (2009). Action-construal levels and perceived conflict among ongoing goals: Implications for positive affect.
Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 938-941.
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Freitas, A.L., Langsam, K.L., Clark, C.L, & Moeller, S.J. (2008). Seeing oneself in one's choices: Construal level and self-pertinence of electoral and consumer decisions.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1174 - 1179.
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Azizian, A., Freitas, A.L., & Squires, N.K. (2008). Varieties of action control: Event-related brain potentials to symbolically congruent and incongruent cues.
Physiology and Behavior, 93, 905 - 911.
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Freitas, A.L., Katz, A., Azizian, A., & Squires, N.K. (2008). When affective cues broaden thought: Evidence from event-related potentials associated with identifying emotionally expressive faces.
Cognition and Emotion, 22, 1499 – 1512.
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Freitas, A.L., Bahar, M., Yang, S., & Banai, R. (2007). Contextual adjustments in cognitive control across tasks.
Psychological Science, 18, 1040 - 1043.
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Freitas, A.L., Azizian, A., Leung, H.-C., & Squires, N.K. (2007). Resisting recently acted-upon cues: Compatibility of Go/No-Go responses to response history modulates (anterior P3) event-related potentials.
Psychophysiology, 44, 2 - 10.
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Azizian, A., Freitas, A.L., Watson, T.D., & Squires, N. (2006). Electrophysiological Correlates of Categorization: P300 Amplitude as Index of Target Similarity.
Biological Psychology , 71, 278 - 288.
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Azizian, A., Freitas, A.L., Parvaz, M., & Squires, N. (2006). Beware misleading cues: Perceptual overlap modulates the N2/P3 complex.
Psychophysiology, 43, 253 - 260.
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Freitas, A.L., Azizian, A., Travers, S., & Berry, S.A. (2005). The evaluative connotation of processing fluency: Inherently positive or moderated by motivational context?
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 636-644.
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Freitas, A.L., Gollwitzer, P., & Trope, Y. (2004). The Influence of Abstract and Concrete Mindsets on Anticipating and Guiding Others' Self-Regulatory Efforts.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 739-752.
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Higgins, E.T., Idson, L. C., Freitas, A.L., Spiegel, S., & Molden, D.C. (2003). Transfer of value from fit.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1140-1153.
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Freitas, A.L., & Higgins, E.T. (2002). Enjoying goal-directed action: The role of regulatory fit.
Psychological Science, 13, 1 -6.
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Levy, S.R., Freitas, A.L., & Salovey, P. (2002). Construing Action Abstractly and Blurring Social Distinctions: Implications for Perceiving Homogeneity among, but also Empathizing with and Helping, Others.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1224-1238.
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Freitas, A.L., Liberman, N., & Higgins, E.T. (2002). Regulatory fit and resisting temptation during goal pursuit.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 291-298.
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Freitas, A.L., Liberman, N., Salovey, P., & Higgins, E.T. (2001). When to begin? Regulatory focus and action initiation.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 121-130.
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Freitas, A.L., Salovey, P., & Liberman, N. (2001). Abstract and concrete self-evaluative goals.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 410-424.
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Freitas, A.L., & Salovey, P. (2000). Regulating emotion in the long and short term.
Psychological Inquiry, 11, 178-179.
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Freitas, A.L., & Downey, G. (1998). Resilience: A dynamic perspective.
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 22, 263-285.
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Downey, G., Freitas, A.L., Michaelis, B., & Khouri, J. (1998). The self-fulfilling prophecy in close relationships.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 545-560.
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