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, pp. e2426768122

Instructed motivational states bias reinforcement learning and memory formation

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Yuxi C. Wang, R. Alison Adcock

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 120(31), 2023, pp. e2304881120

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, pp. e2100970118

Prediction errors disrupt hippocampal representations and update episodic memories

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Grace M. Manalili, Iva K. Brunec, R. Alison Adcock, Morgan D. Barense

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 118(51), 2021, pp. e2117625118

Action planning interventions to promote individual and collective climate action

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

PsyArXiv

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

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

PsyArXiv

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

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

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, pp. e2426768122

NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment.

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

Nature Human Behaviour, 2025

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, pgaf019

Reply to Dablander et al.: Identifying interventions that change intentions lays a valuable foundation for behavior change.

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

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 122(8), 2025, pp. e2513159122

First impressions or good endings? Preferences depend on when you ask

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Yuxi C. Wang, R. Alison Adcock

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 153(10), 2024, pp. 2588-2604

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

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, pp. e0290708

Instructed motivational states bias reinforcement learning and memory formation

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Yuxi C. Wang, R. Alison Adcock

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 120(31), 2023, pp. e2304881120

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, pp. 73-75

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, 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, pp. 677-683

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, pp. e2100970118

Prediction errors disrupt hippocampal representations and update episodic memories

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Grace M. Manalili, Iva K. Brunec, R. Alison Adcock, Morgan D. Barense

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 118(51), 2021, pp. e2117625118

Closed-minded cognition: Right-wing authoritarianism is negatively related to belief updating following prediction error

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Matthew L. Stanley, Paul Seli

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 27, 2020, pp. 1348-1361

Intellectual Humility and Perceptions of Political Opponents

Matthew L. Stanley, Alyssa H. Sinclair, Paul Seli

Journal of Personality, vol. 88, 2020, pp. 1196-1216

Prediction Error and Memory Reactivation: How Incomplete Reminders Drive Reconsolidation

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan D. Barense

Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 42(10), 2019, pp. 727-739

Surprise and destabilize: Prediction error influences episodic memory reconsolidation

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan D. Barense

Learning & Memory, vol. 25(8), 2018, pp. 369-381