PUBLICATIONS

BOREDOM, THINKING, & THE GOOD LIFE

2022

Oishi, S., & Westgate, E.C. (2022). A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning. Psychological Review.
Westgate, E.C., Buttrick, N.B., Lin, Y., El Helou, G., Psycorona…, & Leander, P. (in press). Pandemic boredom: Little evidence that lockdown-related boredom affects public health behaviors. Emotion.
Buttrick, N.B., Westgate, E.C., & Oishi, S. (2022). Building the Liberal Imagination: Reading literary fiction is associated with a more complex worldview. Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin.
Kvam, P.D., Baldwin, M., & Westgate, E.C. (2022). Cognitive mechanisms underlying
subjective value of past and future events: Modeling systematic reversals of temporal
value asymmetry. Decision.
Raza, S. Westgate, E.C., Buttrick, N.B., Heintzelman, S., Furrer, R.+, Gilbert, D.T., Libby, L.K., & Wilson, T.D. (2022). A Trade-Off Model of Intentional Thinking for Pleasure. Emotion.

2021

Westgate, E.C., Wilson, T.D., Buttrick, N.R., Furrer, R., & Gilbert, D.T. (2021). What makes thinking for pleasure pleasurable? Emotion.
Lin, Y., & Westgate, E.C. (2021). The origins of boredom. In L. Al-Shawif & T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. Oxford University Press.
Pfattheicher, S, Lazarević, L.B., Westgate, E.C., & Schindler, S. (2020). On the relation of boredom and sadistic aggression. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology.
Yucel, M., & Westgate, E.C. (2021). From electric shocks to the electoral college: How boredom steers moral behavior. In A. Elpidorou (Ed.), The Moral Psychology of Boredom. London: Rowman & Littlefield

2020

Westgate, E.C. (2020). Why Boredom is Interesting. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Preprint
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Westgate, E.C., & Steidle, B. (2020). Lost by definition: Why boredom matters for psychology and society. Social & Personality Psychology Compass.
Westgate, E.C., & Oishi, S. (in press). Art, music, and literature: Do the humanities make our lives happier, richer, and more meaningful? In J.Pawelski & L. Tay (Ed.), Handbook of Positive Psychology on the Arts and Humanities: Theory and Research. Oxford University Press.
Oishi, S., Choi, H., Galinha, I., Ishii, K., Komiya, A., Koo, M., Luhmann, M., Scollon, C., Shin, J., Suh, E., Vittersø, J., Heintzelman, S., Kushlev, K., Westgate, E.C., Buttrick, N., Tucker, J., Ebersole, C.R., Axt, J., Gilbert, E., Ng, B.W., Kurtz, J., & Besser, L.L. (2020). Happiness, Meaning, and Psychological Richness. Affective Science.

2019

Wilson, T.D., Westgate, E.C., Buttrick, N.B., & Gilbert, D.T. (2019). The Mind is Its Own Place: The Difficulties and Benefits of Thinking for Pleasure . In J.M. Olson (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Data | Supplemental | Preprint
Oishi, S., Choi, H., Buttrick, N., Heintzelman, S., Kushlev, K., Westgate, E.C., Tucker, J., Ebersole, C., Axt, J., Gilbert, E., Ng, B.W., & Besser, L.L. (2019. The Psychologically Rich Life Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality.

2018

2017

Westgate, E. C., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. (2017). With a Little Help for Our Thoughts: Making It Easier to Think for Pleasure. Emotion, 17, 828-839. Data | Supplemental
Alahmadi, S., Buttrick, N., Gilbert, D.T., Hardin, A., Westgate, E.C.,. & Wilson, T.D.* (2017). You Can Do It If You Really Try: The Effects of Motivation on Enjoying One’s Own Thoughts. Motivation and Emotion, 41, 545-561. Supplemental * Authors in alphabetical order

2016

Westgate, E. C., Wormington, S.V., Oleson, K.,C. & Lindgren, K.P. (2016). Productive Procrastination: Academic Procrastination Style Predicts Academic and Alcohol Outcomes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47, 124-135. Data | Preprint

2015

Oishi, S., Westgate, E., Tucker, J., & Komiya, A. (2015). Desire and Happiness: Aristotelian, Puritan, and Buddhist Approaches. In W. Hofmann & L. Nordgren (Ed.), The Psychology of Desire.

2014

Wilson, T.D., Reinhard, D., Westgate, E.C., Gilbert, D., Ellerbeck, N., Hahn, C., Brown, C., & Shaked, A. (2014). Just Think: The Challenges of the Disengaged Mind. Science, 345, 75-77. Data | Supplemental
Wilson, T.D., Gilbert, D., Reinhard, D., Westgate, E.C., & Brown, C. (2014). Would You Fund This Movie? A Reply to Fox et al. (2014). Frontiers in Psychology, 5.

2020

Axt, J.A., Conway, M.A., Westgate, E.C., & Buttrick, N.B. (2020). Implicit transgender attitudes independently predict gender and transgender-related beliefs. Personality and
Social Psychology Bulletin.

2016

2015

2014

Lindgren, K.P., Neighbors, C., Westgate, E.C., & Salemink, E. (2014) Self-control moderates the association between implicit drinking identity and alcohol consumption. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75, 290-298.

2013

Lindgren, K.P., Foster, D. W., Westgate, E. C., & Neighbors, C. (2013). Implicit Drinking Identity: Drinker + Me Associations Predict College Student Drinking Consistently. Addictive Behaviors, 38, 2163-2166.

2012

Lindgren, K.P., Westgate, E., Kilmer, J., Kaysen, D., & Teachman, B.A. (2012). Pick Your Poison: Stimuli Selection in Implicit Measures. Addictive Behaviors, 37, 990-993.
Lindgren, K. P., Neighbors, C., Teachman, B., Wiers, R., Westgate, E., & Greenwald, A. G. (2012). I Drink, Therefore I am: Validating Alcohol-related Implicit Association Tests. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27, 1-13.

2016

2015

Lindgren, K.P. Weirs, R., Teachman, B., Gasser, M., Westgate, E.C., Cousijn, J., Enkema, M., & Neighbors, C. (2015). Attempted Training of Alcohol Approach and Drinking Identity Associations in US Undergraduate Drinkers: Null Results from Two Studies. PLOS ONE, 10. Data

2014

2012

Lindgren, K. P., Neighbors, C., Kaysen, D., Zvorsky, I., & Westgate, E. (2011). Experimental and cross-sectional examinations of the relations among implicit alcohol cognitions, stress, and drinking. Alcohol, 45, 276.
Lindgren, K. P., Jacques-Tiura, A. J., & Westgate, E. (2012). Sexual intent perceptions: A primer on methods, theories, and applications. In M. Paludi (Ed.), The Psychology of Love. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.