Selected Publications

Names of Ithaca College students or alumni are in bold font.

Vaughn, L. A., Childs, K. E., Maschinski, C., Niño, N. P., Ellsworth, R. (2010). Regulatory fit, processing fluency, and narrative persuasion. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 1181–1192.

Vaughn, L. A., Harkness, A. R., & Clark, E. K. (2010). The effect of incidental experiences of regulatory fit on trust. Personal Relationships, 17, 57-69.

Vaughn, L. A., Hesse, S. J., Petkova, Z., & Trudeau, L. (2009). “This story is right on”: The impact of regulatory fit on narrative engagement and persuasion. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 447-456.

Vaughn, L. A., Baumann, J., & Klemann, C. (2008). Openness to experience and regulatory focus: Evidence of motivation from fit. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 886-894.

Vaughn, L. A., Malik, J., Schwartz, S., Petkova, Z., & Trudeau, L. (2006). Regulatory fit as input for stop rules. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 601-611.

Vaughn, L. A., O'Rourke, T., Schwartz, S., Malik, J., Petkova, Z., & Trudeau, L. (2006). When two wrongs can make a right: Regulatory nonfit, bias, and correction of judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 654-661.

Weary, G., Vaughn, L. A., Stewart, B. L., & Edwards, J. E. (2006). Adjusting for the correspondence bias: Effects of causal uncertainty, cognitive busyness, and causal strength of situational information. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 87-94.

Vaughn, L. A., & Weary, G. (2003). Causal uncertainty and correction of judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 516-524.

Schwarz, N. & Vaughn, L. A. (2002). The availability heuristic revisited: Ease of recall and content of recall as distinct sources of information.  In T. Gilovich, D. Griffin, & D. Kahneman (Eds.), Current perspectives on judgment under uncertainty (2nd ed). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Vaughn, L. A., & Weary, G. (2002). Roles of the availability of explanations, feelings of difficulty, and dysphoria in judgments about the future. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 21, 686-704.

Vaughn, L. A. (1999).  Effects of uncertainty on use of the availability heuristic for self-efficacy judgments. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 407-410.