Primary Interests:
- Causal Attribution
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Social Cognition
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My research is about how people make sense of their internal states, and how that process affects their motivation and social judgments. For example, my students and I have found that feelings associated with regulatory fit (congruence between strategies of goal pursuit and one's regulatory focus) can increase or decrease motivation, depending on one's decision rules for stopping a task. We currently have several lines of research on how regulatory focus, processing fluency, and/or mood can have context-dependent effects on thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
Journal Articles:
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Vaughn, L. A. (1999). Effects of uncertainty on use of the availability heuristic for self-efficacy judgments. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 407-410.
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Vaughn, L. A., Baumann, J., & Klemann, C. (2008). Openness to experience and regulatory focus: Evidence of motivation from fit. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 886-894.
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Vaughn, L. A., Childs, K. E., Maschinski, C., Niño, N. P., & Ellsworth, R. (2010). Regulatory fit, processing fluency, and narrative persuasion. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 1181-1192.
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Vaughn, L. A., Harkness, A. R., & Clark, E. K. (2010). The effect of incidental experiences of regulatory fit on trust. Personal Relationships, 17, 57-69.
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Vaughn, L. A., Hesse, S. J., Petkova, Z., & Trudeau, L. (2009). “This story is right on”: The impact of regulatory fit on narrative engagement and persuasion. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 447-456.
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Vaughn, L. A., Malik, J., Schwartz, S., Petkova, Z., & Trudeau, L. (2006). Regulatory fit as input for stop rules. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 601-611.
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Vaughn, L. A., O'Rourke, T., Schwartz, S., Malik, J., Petkova, Z., & Trudeau, L. (2006). When two wrongs can make a right: Regulatory nonfit, bias, and correction of judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 654-661.
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Vaughn, L. A., & Weary, G. (2003). Causal uncertainty and correction of judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 516-524.
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Vaughn, L. A., & Weary, G. (2002). Roles of the availability of explanations, feelings of difficulty, and dysphoria in judgments about the future. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 21, 686-704.
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Weary, G., Jacobson, J., & Vaughn, L. A. (1999). I-D compensation theory and the causal uncertainty model: Related models of self-control? Psychological Inquiry, 10, 251-253.
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Weary, G., Vaughn, L. A., Stewart, B. L., & Edwards, J. E. (2006). Adjusting for the correspondence bias: Effects of causal uncertainty, cognitive busyness, and causal strength of situational information. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 87-94.
Other Publications:
- Blanchard, F. A., Lilly, T., & Vaughn, L. A. (2003). Reducing the expression of racial prejudice. In S. Plous (Ed.), Understanding prejudice and discrimination (pp. 467-473). New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Schwarz, N., & Vaughn, L. A. (2002). The availability heuristic revisited: Ease of recall and content of recall as distinct sources of information. In T. Gilovich, D. Griffin, & D. Kahneman (Eds.), Current perspectives on judgment under uncertainty (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Vaughn, L. A. (2010). Regulatory fit and persuasion through advocacy messages and narratives [Monograph]. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Publishers.
Courses Taught:
- Personality Psychology
- Senior Seminar: Social Cognition
- Social Judgment Research Team
- Social Psychology
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Leigh Ann Vaughn
Psychology Department
1119 Williams Hall
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY 14850-7290
United States
Phone: (607) 274-7353
Fax: (607) 274-1925
Email: lvaughn@ithaca.edu