Publications: Applications for Health


Perceived self and social relevance of content motivates news sharing across cultures and topics


Danielle Cosme, Hang-Yee Chan, Alyssa H. Sinclair, Christian Benitez, Kirsten Lydic, Rebecca E. Martin, Anthony Resnick, José Carreras-Tartak, Nicole Cooper, Alexandra M. Paul, David Koelle, Jennifer McVay, Emily B. Falk, Christin Scholz

PNAS Nexus, vol. 4(2), 2025 Jan 23, pgaf019


Personalized feedback about immunity corrects risk misestimation and motivates vaccination


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan Taylor, Stephen J. Beckett, Aroon T. Chande, Joshua S. Weitz, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin

PsyArXiv, 2024


Communicating COVID-19 exposure risk with an interactive website counteracts risk misestimation


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan K. Taylor, Freyja Brandel-Tanis, Audra Davidson, Aroon Chande, Lavanya Rishishwar, Clio Andris, R. Alison Adcock, Joshua S. Weitz, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Stephen J. Beckett

PLoS ONE, vol. 18(10), 2023 Oct 5, pp. e0290708


Scenario-Based Messages on Social Media Motivate COVID-19 Information Seeking


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan K. Taylor, Audra Davidson, Joshua S. Weitz, Stephen Beckett, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, vol. 13(1), 2023 Apr 27, pp. 124-135


Reasons for Receiving or Not Receiving Bivalent COVID-19 Booster Vaccinations Among Adults


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan K. Taylor, Joshua S. Weitz, Stephen Beckett, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, vol. 72(3), 2023 Jan 20, pp. 73-75


Pairing facts with imagined consequences improves pandemic-related risk perception


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Shabnam Hakimi, Matthew L. Stanley, R. Alison Adcock, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 118(32), 2021 Aug 10, pp. e2100970118


Imagining a personalized scenario selectively increases perceived risk of viral transmission for older adults


Alyssa H. Sinclair, Matthew L. Stanley, Shabnam Hakimi, Roberto Cabeza, R. Alison Adcock, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin

Nature Aging, vol. 1, 2021 Aug 5, pp. 677-683