PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
- Sanna,
L. J., &
Chang, E.
C. (Eds.).
(2006). Judgments
over time:
The interplay of thoughts,
feelings,
and behaviors. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Chang, E. C., D’Zurilla, T. J.,
& Sanna,
L. J. (Eds.). (2004). Social
problem
solving:
Theory, research, and training. Washington, DC: American
Psychological
Association.
- Chang, E. C., & Sanna, L. J.
(Eds.).
(2003). Virtue, vice, and personality: The
complexity
of behavior. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
- Parks, C. D., & Sanna, L. J.
(1999). Group
performance and interaction. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
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- Sanna, L. J. (in press). Debiasing. In H.
Pashler, T. Crane, M. Kinsbourne, F. Ferreira, & R. Zemel (Eds.), Encyclopedia
of the mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Sanna, L. J., Panter, A. T., Cohen
T.
R., & Kennedy, L. A. (in press). Planning
the future and assessing the past: Temporal biases and debiasing in
program evaluation. In M. M. Mark, S. I. Donaldson & B.
Campbell (Eds.), Social psychology
and evaluation: The
past, the present, and possible futures. New York: Guilford
Press.
- Chang, E. C., Sanna, L. J., Srivastava,
K.,
& Kim, J. (in press). Optimistic and pessimistic bias in European
Americans and
Asian Americans: A preliminary look at distinguishing between
predictions for
physical and psychological health outcomes. Journal
of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
- Chang, E. C., Chang, R., & Sanna, L. J.
(in press). Optimism, pessimism, and motivation: Relations to
adjustment. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
- Sanna, L. J., Kennedy, L. A., Chang,
E. C., & MIceli, P. M. (in press). When thoughts don’t feel like
they used to: Changing feelings of subjective ease in judgments of the
past. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology.
- Chang, E. C.,
D’Zurilla, T. J.,
& Sanna,
L. J. (2009). Social
problem
solving as a mediator of the link between stress and psychological
well-being in middle-adulthood. Cognitive Therapy and Research,
33, 33-49.
- Sanna, L. J., Schwarz, N., & Kennedy,
L. A. (2009). It’s hard to imagine: Mental
simulation,
metacognitive
experiences, and
the success of debiasing. In K. D. Markman,
W. M. P. Klein, & J. A. Suhr (Eds.), Handbook of
imagination and mental simulation (pp. 197-210). New York:
Psychology Press.
- Carter,
S. E., & Sanna,
L. J. (2008). It’s not just what you say but
when you say it:
Self-presentation and temporal construal. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,
44, 1339-1345.
- Zumberg, K. M., Chang, E. C., & Sanna,
L. J. (2008). Does problem orientation involve
more than
generalized self-efficacy? Predicting psychological and physical
functioning in college students. Personality and Individual
Differences, 45, 328-332.
- Penn, D. L., Sanna, L. J., & Roberts,
D. L. (2008). Social cognition in schizophrenia:
An overview. Schizophrenia
Bulletin, 34, 408-411.
- Chang, E. C., Sanna, L. J., Chang, R.,
& Bodem, M. R. (2008). A preliminary look
at loneliness
as a moderator of the link between perfectionism and depressive and
anxious symptoms in college students: Does being lonely make
perfectionistic strivings more distressing? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46,
877-886.
- Chang,
R., Chang, E. C.,
Sanna, L.
J., & Hatcher, R. L. (2008). Optimism
and pessimism as personality
variables linked to adjustment. In G. J. Boyle, G. Matthews,
& D. H. Saklofske (Eds.), Handbook
of personality theory and
testing (Vol. 1, pp. 470-485). London: Sage Publications.
- Chang, E. C.,
Chang, R., Sanna,
L.
J., & Kade, A. M. (2008). Self-criticism and self-enhancement:
From complexities of the present to a complex future. In E. C. Chang
(Ed.), Self-criticism
and self-enhancement: Theory, research, and clinical implications
(pp. 247-265). Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association.
- Sanna, L. J.
(2007). When
imagination is difficult: Metacognitive experiences at the fault lines
of reality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 464-465.
- Chang, E. C., & Sanna, L. J. (2007). Affectivity and psychological adjustment
across two adult
generations: Does pessimistic explanatory style still matter? Personality
and Individual Differences, 43, 1149-1159.
- Sanna,
L. J.,
& Schwarz, N.
(2007). Metacognitive experiences and hindsight
bias:
It’s not just
the
thought (content) that counts! Social
Cognition, 25, 185-202.
- Chang, E. C.,
Zumberg, K. M., Sanna, L. J.,
Girz,
L. P., Kade, A. M., Shair, S. R., Hermann, N. B., & Srivastava, K.
(2007). Relationship between perfectionism
and domains of worry in
a college student population: Considering the role of BIS/BAS motives.
Personality
and Individual Differences, 43, 925-936.
- Schwarz, N.,
Sanna, L. J.,
Skurnik, I., & Yoon, C. (2007). Metacognitive
experiences and the
intricacies of setting people
straight: Implications for debiasing and public information campaigns.
Advances in Experimental Social
Psychology, 39,
127-161.
- Chang, E. C.,
Sanna, L. J., Riley, M. M., Thornburg, A. M., Zumberg, K. M., &
Edwards, M. C. (2007). Relations between
problem-solving styles and
psychological outcomes in young adults: Is stress a mediating
variable? Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 135-144.
- Sanna,
L. J. (2007). Debiasing. In R.
F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social
psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 218-220). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications.
- Sanna, L. J.,
& Schwarz, N.
(2006). Metacognitive experiences and human
judgment:
The case of hindsight
bias and its debiasing. Current
Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 172-176.
- Sanna, L. J.,
Chang, E. C.,
Carter, S. E.,
& Small, E. M. (2006). The future is now:
Prospective temporal
self-appraisals among defensive pessimists and optimists. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 727-739.
- Carter,
S. E.,
& Sanna, L. J. (2006). Are we as good as we
think? Observers’
perceptions of indirect self-presentation as a social influence tactic.
Social Influence, 1, 185-207.
- Sanna, L. J.,
Carter, S.
E.,
& Small,
E. M. (2006). The road not taken:
Counterfactual thinking over
time.
In L. J. Sanna & E. C. Chang (Eds.), Judgments
over time: The interplay of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (pp.
163-181). New
York: Oxford University Press.
- Sanna, L. J., & Chang, E. C. (2006).
Past
as prologue: An introduction to judgments over time. In L. J.
Sanna & E. C. Chang (Eds.), Judgments over time: The
interplay
of
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (pp. 3-10). New York: Oxford
University
Press.
- Sanna, L. J., & Chang, E.
C. (2006). Future
as epilogue: Some conclusions on judgments over time. In L.
J.
Sanna & E. C. Chang (Eds.), Judgments over time: The interplay
of
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (pp. 291-297). New York: Oxford
University
Press.
- Sanna, L. J., Parks, C. D., Chang, E. C.,
& Carter, S. E. (2005). The hourglass is
half full or half
empty: Temporal framing and the group planning fallacy. Group Dynamics, 9, 173-188.
- Sanna, L. J., Carter, S. E.,
& Burkley,
E. (2005). Yesterday, today, and
tomorrow: Counterfactual thinking
and beyond. In A. J. Strathman & J. A. Joireman (Eds.), Understanding
behavior in the context of time: Theory, research, and application
(pp. 165-185). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Roese, N. J., Sanna, L. J.,
&
Galinsky,
A. D. (2005). The mechanics of imagination:
Automaticity and
control in counterfactual
thinking. In R. R. Hassan, J. S. Uleman, & J. A. Bargh (Eds.), The
new unconscious (pp. 138-170). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Sanna, L. J., Chang, E. C.,
&
Carter,
S. E. (2004). All our troubles seem so far
away: Temporal pattern to
accessible
alternatives and retrospective team appraisals. Personality and
Social
Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1359-1371.
- Sanna, L. J., & Schwarz,
N.
(2004). Integrating temporal biases: The
interplay of
focal thoughts and
accessibility
experiences. Psychological Science, 15, 474-481.
- Steel, J. L., Sanna, L. J.,
Hammond,
B., Whipple, J. H., & Cross, H. (2004). Psychological
sequelae of
childhood
sexual abuse: Abuse-related characteristics, coping strategies, and
attributional
style. Child Abuse & Neglect, 28, 785-801.
- Sanna, L. J., Small, E. M.,
&
Cook,
L. M. (2004). Social problem solving and
mental simulation: Heuristics
and biases on the route to effective decision making. In E. C.
Chang,
T.
J. D’Zurilla, & L. J. Sanna (Eds.), Social problem solving:
Theory,
research, and training (pp. 135-149). Washington, DC: American
Psychological
Association.
- Chang, E. C., D’Zurilla, T. J.,
& Sanna,
L. J. (2004). Introduction: Social problem solving for the real
world.
In E. C. Chang, T. J. D’Zurilla, & L. J. Sanna (Eds.), Social
problem
solving: Theory, research, and training (pp. 3-7). Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association.
- D’Zurilla, T. J., Chang, E. C.,
& Sanna,
L. J. (2004). Social problem solving: Current status and future
trends.
In E. C. Chang, T. J. D’Zurilla, & L. J. Sanna (Eds.), Social
problem
solving: Theory, research, and training (pp. 241-253). Washington,
DC: American Psychological Association.
- Sanna, L. J., & Small, E.
M.
(2004).
Defensive pessimism. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemerhoff (Eds.), The
concise Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science
(3rd
ed., pp. 266-267). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
- D’Zurilla, T. J., Chang, E. C.,
& Sanna,
L. J. (2003). Self-esteem and social problem
solving as predictors
of aggression in college students. Journal of Social and
Clinical
Psychology, 22,
424-440.
- Sanna, L. J., & Chang, E.
C.
(2003). The past is not what it used to be:
Optimists’ use of retroactive
pessimism
to diminish the sting of failure. Journal of Research in
Personality, 37,
388-404.
- Chang, E. C., Sanna, L. J.,
& Yang,
K.-M. (2003). Optimism, pessimism,
affectivity, and psychological
adjustment
in US and Korea: A test of a mediation model. Personality and
Individual
Differences, 34, 1195-1208.
- Sanna, L. J., Parks, C. D.,
&
Chang,
E. C. (2003). Mixed-motive conflict in social
dilemmas: Mood as input
to
competitive and cooperative goals. Group Dynamics, 7,
26-40.
- Parks, C. D., Sanna, L. J.,
& Posey,
D. C. (2003). Retrospection in social
dilemmas: How thinking about the
past affects future cooperation. Journal of Personality and
Social
Psychology, 84,
988-996.
- Sanna, L. J., & Schwarz,
N.
(2003). Debiasing the hindsight bias: The role
of
accessibility experiences and
(mis)attributions. Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology, 39,
287-295.
- Chang, E. C., & Sanna, L. J.
(2003). Experience of life hassles and
psychological adjustment among
adolescents:
Does it make a difference if one is optimistic or pessimistic? Personality
and Individual Differences, 34, 867-879.
- Sanna, L. J., Parks, C. D.,
Meier, S.,
Chang, E. C., Kassin, B. R., Lechter, J. L., Turley-Ames, K. J., &
Miyake, T. M. (2003). A game of inches:
Spontaneous use of
counterfactuals
by broadcasters during Major League Baseball playoffs. Journal
of
Applied
Social Psychology, 33, 455-475.
- Chang, E. C., & Sanna, L. J.
(2003). Optimism, accumulated life stress, and
psychological and physical
adjustment:
Is it always adaptive to expect the best? Journal of Social and
Clinical
Psychology, 22, 96-114.
- Sanna, L. J., Stocker, S. L.,
& Clarke,
J. A. (2003). Rumination, imagination, and
personality: Specters of the
past and future in the present. In E. C. Chang & L. J. Sanna
(Eds.), Virtue,
vice, and personality: The complexity of behavior (pp. 105-124).
Washington,
DC: American Psychological Association.
- Chang, E. C., & Sanna, L. J.
(2003).
Beyond virtue and vice in personality: Classical themes and current
trends.
In E. C. Chang & L. J. Sanna (Eds.), Virtue, vice, and
personality:
The complexity of behavior (pp. xix-xxvi). Washington, DC:
American
Psychological Association.
- Sanna, L. J., & Chang, E.
C.
(2003).
Beyond virtue and vice in personality: Some final thoughts. In E. C.
Chang
& L. J. Sanna (Eds.), Virtue, vice, and personality: The
complexity
of behavior (pp. 177-179). Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association.
- Sanna, L. J., Schwarz, N.,
&
Small,
E. M. (2002). Accessibility experiences and the
hindsight bias: I knew
it all along versus it could never have happened. Memory &
Cognition, 30,
1288-1296.
- Sanna, L. J., Schwarz, N.,
&
Stocker,
S. L. (2002). When debiasing backfires:
Accessible content and
accessibility
experiences in debiasing hindsight. Journal of Experimental
Psychology:
Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 497-502.
- Chang, E. C., Asakawa, K., & Sanna,
L.
J. (2001). Cultural variations in optimistic
and pessimistic bias:
Do Easterners really expect the worst and Westerners really expect the
best when predicting future life events? Journal of Personality
and
Social Psychology, 81, 476-491.
- Sanna, L. J., Chang, E. C.,
&
Meier,
S. (2001). Counterfactual thinking and
self-motives. Personality
and
Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1023-1034.
- Chang, E. C., & Sanna, L. J. (2001). Optimism, pessimism, and positive and
negative affectivity in
middle-aged
adults: A test of a cognitive-affective model of psychological
adjustment. Psychology
and Aging, 16, 524-531.
- Sanna, L. J., Meier, S.,
&
Wegner,
E. A. (2001). Counterfactuals and motivation:
Mood as input to
affective
enjoyment and preparation. British Journal of Social Psychology,
40,
235-256.
- Parks, C. D, Sanna, L. J.,
&
Berel,
S. R. (2001). Actions of similar others as
inducements to cooperate in
social dilemmas. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
27,
345-354.
- Chang, E. C., & Sanna, L. J.
(2001). Negative attributional style as a
moderator
of the link between
perfectionism
and depressive symptoms: Preliminary evidence for an integrative model.
Journal
of Counseling Psychology, 48, 490-495.
- Sanna, L. J. (2001).
Defensive
pessimism.
In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemerhoff (Eds.), The Corsini
encyclopedia
of psychology and behavioral science (3rd ed., Vol. 1, pp.
430-432).
New York: John Wiley & Sons.
- Sanna, L. J. (2000). Mental
simulation,
affect, and personality: A conceptual framework. Current
Directions
in Psychological Science, 9, 168-173.
- Sanna, L. J., & Meier, S.
(2000). Looking for clouds in a silver lining:
Self-esteem, mental simulations,
and temporal confidence changes. Journal of Research in
Personality, 34,
236-251.
- Sanna, L. J.,
& Turley-Ames, K. J. (2000). Counterfactual
intensity. European
Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 273-296.
- Mark, M. M., Reichardt, C. S., &
Sanna,
L. J. (2000). Time-series designs and
analyses. In H. E. A. Tinsley
& S. D. Brown (Eds.), Handbook of applied multivariate
statistics
and mathematical modeling (pp. 353-389). San Diego, CA: Academic
Press.
- Sanna, L. J., Turley-Ames, K.
J.,
&
Meier, S. (1999). Mood, self-esteem, and
simulated alternatives:
Thought-provoking
affective influences on counterfactual direction. Journal of
Personality
and Social Psychology, 76, 543-558.
- Sanna, L. J. (1999). Mental
simulations,
affect, and subjective confidence: Timing is everything. Psychological
Science, 10, 339-345.
- Sanna, L. J., Meier, S.,
&
Turley-Ames,
K. J. (1998). Mood, self-esteem, and
counterfactuals: Externally
attributed
moods limit self-enhancement strategies. Social Cognition, 16,
267-286.
- Sanna, L. J. (1998). Defensive
pessimism
and optimism: The bitter-sweet influence of mood on performance and
prefactual
and counterfactual thinking. Cognition and Emotion, 12,
635-665.
- Sanna, L. J., & Parks, C.
D.
(1997). Group research trends in social and
organizational psychology: Whatever
happened to intragroup research? Psychological Science, 8,
261-267.
- Sanna, L. J. (1997). Self-efficacy
and
counterfactual thinking: Up a creek with and without a paddle. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 654-666.
- Sanna, L. J., & Turley,
K. J.
(1996). Antecedents to spontaneous
counterfactual
thinking: Effects of
expectancy
violation and outcome valence. Personality and Social
Psychology
Bulletin, 22,
906-919.
- Sanna, L. J. (1996). Defensive
pessimism,
optimism, and simulating alternatives: Some ups and downs of prefactual
and counterfactual thinking. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 71,
1020-1036.
- Swim, J. K., & Sanna, L. J.
(1996). He’s skilled, she’s lucky: A
meta-analysis
of observers’ attributions
for
women’s and men’s successes and failures. Personality and
Social
Psychology
Bulletin, 22, 507-519.
- Sanna, L. J., Turley, K. J.,
& Mark,
M. M. (1996). Expected evaluation, goals, and
performance: Mood as
input. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 323-335.
- Turley, K. J., Sanna, L. J.,
& Reiter,
R. L. (1995). Counterfactual thinking and
perceptions of rape. Basic
and Applied Social Psychology, 17, 285-303.
- Sanna, L. J., & Mark, M.
M.
(1995). Self-handicapping, expected
evaluation,
and performance: Accentuating
the
positive and attenuating the negative. Organizational Behavior
and
Human
Decision Processes, 64, 84-102.
- Sanna, L. J., & Pusecker,
P.
A. (1994). Self-efficacy, valence of
self-evaluation,
and performance. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 82-92.
- Sanna, L. J. (1992). Self-efficacy
theory:
Implications for social facilitation and social loafing. Journal
of
Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 774-786.
- Sanna, L. J., & Swim, J.
K.
(1992). Temporal perspective and attributions:
The
role of causal stability and
certainty. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 13,
371-387.
- Mark, M. M., Sanna, L. J.,
&
Shotland,
R. L. (1992). Time series methods in applied social research. In F. B.
Bryant, J. Edwards, R. S. Tindale, E. J. Posavec, L. Heath, E.
Henderson,
& Y. Suarez-Balcazar (Eds.), Methodological issues in applied
social
psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 111-133). New York: Plenum Press.
- Sanna, L. J., & Shotland,
R.
L. (1990). Valence of anticipated evaluation
and
social facilitation. Journal
of
Experimental Social Psychology, 26, 82-92.