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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
    • ​​APS Observer Column: Tips for using our paper to teach emotion & methods
  • 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
  • Westgate, E.C. & Wilson, T.D. (2018). Boring Thoughts and Bored Minds: The MAC Model of Boredom and Cognitive Engagement. Psychological Review. Data | Supplemental | Preprin
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. 
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IMPLICIT & ANTI-LGBTQ+ BIAS

​​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
  • Inbar, Y., Westgate, E.C., Nosek, B.A., & Pizarro, D. (2016). Can a Naturally-Occurring Pathogen Threat Change Social Attitudes? Evaluations of Gay Men and Lesbians During the 2014 Ebola Epidemic. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 420-427. Data | Preregistration 
2015
  • Westgate, E.C., Riskind, R. G., & Nosek, B. (2015). Implicit preferences for straight people over lesbian and gay people decreased from 2006-2013. Collabra Open Access, 1, Art.1. Data | Supplemental
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. 
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SOCIAL MEDIA & ALCOHOL

​2016
  • Westgate, E.C. & Holliday, J. (2016). Identity, Influence, and Intervention: The Roles of Social Media in Alcohol Use. Current Opinion in Psychology, 9. Preprint​
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
  • Westgate, E. C., Neighbors, C., Heppner, H., Jahn, S., & Lindgren, K.P. (2014). “I’ll Take a Shot for Every Like I Get on This Status”: Posting Alcohol- related Facebook Content Predicts Drinking Outcomes. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75, 390-398. Data | Preprint
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.
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