Leigh Ann Vaughn
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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. Lately, our research has turned increasingly to what would cause people to adopt a promotion or prevention focus in a given situation or activity, and how these motivational states relate to various aspects of psychological well-being.
Primary Interests:
- Causal Attribution
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
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Journal Articles:
- Ebersole, C. R., Alaei, R., Atherton, O. E., Bernstein, M. J., Brown, E. R., Chartier, C. R., Chung, J. M., Hermann, A. D., Joy-Gaba, J. A., Line, M. J., Rule, N. O., Sacco, D. F., Vaughn, L. A., & Nosek, B. A. (2017). Observe, hypothesize, test, repeat: Luttrell, Petty, and Xu (2017) demonstrate good science. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 184-186.
- Ebersole, C. R., Atherton, O. E., Belanger, A. L., Skulborstad, H. M., Allen, J. M., Banks, J. B., Baranski, E., Bernstein, M. J., Bonfiglio, D. B. V., Boucher, L., Brown, E. R., Budiman, N. I., Cairo, A. H., Capaldi, C. A., Chartier, C. R., Chung, J. M., Cicero, D. C., Coleman, J. A., Conway, J. G., Davis, W. E., Devos, T., Fletcher, M. M., German, K., Grahe, J. E., Hermann, A. D., Hicks, J. A., Honeycutt, N., Humphrey, B., Janus, B., Johnson, D. J., Joy-Gaba, J. A., Juzeler, H., Keres, A., Kinney, D., Kirshenbaum, J., Klein, R. A., Lucas, R. E., Lustgraaf, C. J. N., Martin, D., Menon, M., Metzger, M., Moloney, J. M., Morse, P. J., Prislin, R., Razza, T., Re, D. E., Rule, N. O., Sacco, D. F., Sauerberger, K., Shrider, E., Shultz, M., Siemsen, C., Sobocko, K., Sternglanz, R. W., Summerville, A., Tskhay, K. O., van Allen, Z., Vaughn, L. A., Walker, R. J., Weinberg, A., Wilson, J. P., Wirth, J. H., Wortman, J., & Nosek, B. A. (2016). Many Labs 3: Evaluating participant pool quality across the academic semester via replication. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 67, 68-82.
- Blanchard, F. A., Crandall, C., Brigham, J., & Vaughn, L. A. (1994). Condemning and condoning racism: A social context approach to interracial settings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 79, 993-997.
- Blanchard, F. A., Lilly, T., & Vaughn, L. A. (1991). Reducing the expression of racial prejudice. Psychological Science, 2, 111-115.
- Klein, R. A., Ratliff, K. A., Vianello, M., Adams, R. B., Jr., Bahník, Š., Bernstein, M. J., Bocian, K., Brandt, M. J., Brooks, B., Brumbaugh, C. C., Cemalcilar, Z., Chandler, J., Cheong, W., Davis, W. E., Devos, T., Eisner, M., Frankowska, N., Furrow, D., Galliani, E. M., Hasselman, F., Hicks, J. A., Hovermale, J. F., Hunt, S. J., Huntsinger, J. R., IJzerman, H., John, M., Joy-Gaba, J. A., Kappes, H. B., Krueger, L. E., Kurtz, J., Levitan, C. A., Mallett, R., Morris, W. L., Nelson, A. J., Nier, J. A., Packard, G., Pilati, R., Rutchick, A. M., Schmidt, K., Skorinko, J. L., Smith, R., Steiner, T. G., Storbeck, J., Van Swol, L. M., Thompson, D., van’t Veer, A., Vaughn, L. A., Vranka, M., Wichman, A., Woodzicka, J. A., & Nosek, B. A. (2014). Investigating variation in replicability: A “many labs” replication project. Social Psychology, 45, 142–152.
- Vaughn, L. A., Dubovi, A. S., & Niño, N. P. (2013). Processing fluency affects behavior more strongly among people higher in trait mindfulness. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 782–788.
- Vaughn, L. A. (2018). Contents of hopes and duties: A linguistic analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-13.
- Vaughn, L. A. (2017). Foundational tests of the need-support model: A framework for bridging regulatory focus theory and self-determination theory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 313-328.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Vaughn, L. A., & Weary, G. (2003). Causal uncertainty and correction of judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 516-524.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Courses Taught:
- Personality Psychology
- Senior Seminar: Credibility Revolution in Psychology
- Social Judgment Research Team
- Social Psychology
Leigh Ann Vaughn
Department of Psychology
1119 Williams Hall
Ithaca College
Ithaca, New York 14805
United States of America
- Phone: (607) 274-7353
- Fax: (607) 274-1925
- Email: lvaughn@ithaca.edu