Communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts changes attitudes and motivates action

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Mallory Harris, Danielle Cosme, Angela Fagerlin, Ellen Peters, Clio Andris, Colin L. Cooke, Emily B. Falk, Joshua S. Weitz

PsyArXiv, 2025 Aug 4

Affective framing of environmental news headlines influences engagement, donations, and memory

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Danielle Cosme, José Carreras-Tartak, Emily B. Falk

PsyArXiv, 2025 Jul 8

Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Dani Cosme, Kirsten Lydic, Diego A. Reinero, José Carreras-Tartak, Michael E. Mann, Emily B. Falk

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 122(20), 2025 May 20, pp. e2426768122

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

Pausing to reflect during news consumption counteracts negativity biases in memory

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Abigail Hsiung, Rachael Wright, Shabnam Hakimi, R. Alison Adcock

OSF Preprints, 2024

Memory and belief updating following complete and partial reminders of fake news

Paige L. Kemp*, Alyssa H. Sinclair*, R. Alison Adcock, Christopher N. Wahlheim

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, vol. 9(28), 2024 May 7

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

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