Information avoidance: Who, what, when, and why. K Sweeny, D Melnyk, W Miller, JA Shepperd Review of General Psychology 14 (4), 340-353, 2010 | 700 | 2010 |
Exploring causes of the self‐serving bias J Shepperd, W Malone, K Sweeny Social and Personality Psychology Compass 2 (2), 895-908, 2008 | 410 | 2008 |
Is optimism always best? Future outlooks and preparedness K Sweeny, PJ Carroll, JA Shepperd Current directions in psychological science 15 (6), 302-306, 2006 | 237 | 2006 |
Crisis decision theory: decisions in the face of negative events. K Sweeny Psychological bulletin 134 (1), 61, 2008 | 225 | 2008 |
Forsaking optimism P Carroll, K Sweeny, JA Shepperd Review of general psychology 10 (1), 56-73, 2006 | 216 | 2006 |
The costs of optimism and the benefits of pessimism. K Sweeny, JA Shepperd Emotion 10 (5), 750, 2010 | 183 | 2010 |
A multisite preregistered paradigmatic test of the ego-depletion effect KD Vohs, BJ Schmeichel, S Lohmann, QF Gronau, AJ Finley, ... Psychological Science 32 (10), 1566-1581, 2021 | 179 | 2021 |
Common academic experiences no one talks about: Repeated rejection, impostor syndrome, and burnout LM Jaremka, JM Ackerman, B Gawronski, NO Rule, K Sweeny, LR Tropp, ... Perspectives on Psychological Science 15 (3), 519-543, 2020 | 162 | 2020 |
The surprising upsides of worry K Sweeny, MD Dooley Social and Personality Psychology Compass 11 (4), e12311, 2017 | 145 | 2017 |
The proximal experience of gratitude K Layous, K Sweeny, C Armenta, S Na, I Choi, S Lyubomirsky PloS one 12 (7), e0179123, 2017 | 114 | 2017 |
Self-presentation M Terry, K Sweeny, J Shepperd Encyclopedia of social psychology, 835-838, 2007 | 102 | 2007 |
On near misses and completed tasks: The nature of relief K Sweeny, KD Vohs Psychological science 23 (5), 464-468, 2012 | 95 | 2012 |
Sobering up: A quantitative review of temporal declines in expectations. K Sweeny, Z Krizan Psychological bulletin 139 (3), 702, 2013 | 92 | 2013 |
Predictors of genetic testing decisions: a systematic review and critique of the literature K Sweeny, A Ghane, AM Legg, HP Huynh, SE Andrews Journal of genetic counseling 23, 263-288, 2014 | 84 | 2014 |
Waiting is the hardest part: A model of uncertainty navigation in the context of health news K Sweeny, AG Cavanaugh Health Psychology Review 6 (2), 147-164, 2012 | 80 | 2012 |
Mapping individual differences in the experience of a waiting period. K Sweeny, SE Andrews Journal of personality and social psychology 106 (6), 1015, 2014 | 77 | 2014 |
Two definitions of waiting well. K Sweeny, CA Reynolds, A Falkenstein, SE Andrews, MD Dooley Emotion 16 (1), 129, 2016 | 71 | 2016 |
Flow in the time of COVID-19: Findings from China K Sweeny, K Rankin, X Cheng, L Hou, F Long, Y Meng, L Azer, R Zhou, ... PloS one 15 (11), e0242043, 2020 | 70 | 2020 |
Is waiting the hardest part? Comparing the emotional experiences of awaiting and receiving bad news K Sweeny, A Falkenstein Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 41 (11), 1551-1559, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
A better distraction: Exploring the benefits of flow during uncertain waiting periods. K Rankin, LC Walsh, K Sweeny Emotion 19 (5), 818, 2019 | 56 | 2019 |