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Overview

Elaine A. Leventhal is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. They have developed their academic career and research activity within this institution.

Although specific details about their recent papers, frequent co-authors, and publication venues are not listed, the professional association with Rutgers provides context for the scope of their academic involvement.

There are no recorded entries regarding the main fields of study, subfields, or particular research topics associated with Elaine A. Leventhal at this time.

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Best Publications

  • Illness cognition: Using common sense to understand treatment adherence and affect cognition interactions

    Howard Leventhal;Michael Diefenbach;Elaine A. Leventhal

  • Illness representations: Theoretical foundations.

    Howard Leventhal;Yael Benyamini;Susan Brownlee;Michael Diefenbach

  • Self-regulation, health, and behavior: A perceptual-cognitive approach

    Howard Leventhal;Elaine A. Leventhal;Richard J. Contrada

  • Positive Affect and Function as Influences on Self-Assessments of Health Expanding Our View Beyond Illness and Disability

    Yael Benyamini;Ellen L. Idler;Howard Leventhal;Elaine A. Leventhal

  • Symptom representations and affect as determinants of care seeking in a community-dwelling, adult sample population.

    Linda Cameron;Elaine A. Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • Gender differences in processing information for making self-assessments of health.

    Yael Benyamini;Elaine A. Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • Self-rated oral health as an independent predictor of self-rated general health, self-esteem and life satisfaction

    Yael Benyamini;Howard Leventhal;E A Elaine A Leventhal

  • Health Psychology: The Search for Pathways between Behavior and Health

    Howard Leventhal;John Weinman;Elaine A. Leventhal;L. Alison Phillips

  • Medication adherence in rheumatoid arthritis patients: older is wiser.

    Denise C. Park;Christopher Hertzog;Howard Leventhal;Roger W. Morrell

  • Using the common sense model to design interventions for the prevention and management of chronic illness threats: From description to process

    Lisa M. McAndrew;Tamara J. Musumeci-Szabó;Pablo A. Mora;Loretta Vileikyte;Loretta Vileikyte

  • Seeking medical care in response to symptoms and life stress.

    Linda Cameron;Elaine A. Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • Self-assessments of health: What do people know that predicts their mortality?

    Yael Benyamini;Elaine A. Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • Health practices and illness cognition in young, middle aged, and elderly adults.

    Thomas R. Prohaska;Elaine A. Leventhal;Howard Leventhal;Mary L. Keller

  • Age, symptom interpretation, and health behavior

    Elaine A. Leventhal;Thomas R. Prohaska

  • Elderly people's ratings of the importance of health-related factors to their self-assessments of health.

    Yael Benyamini;Yael Benyamini;Elaine A Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • In Sickness but Not in Health: Self-ratings, Identity, and Mortality∗:

    Ellen Idler;Howard Leventhal;Julie Mclaughlin;Elaine Leventhal

  • Population Risk, Actual Risk, Perceived Risk, and Cancer Control: a Discussion

    Howard Leventhal;Kim Kelly;Elaine A. Leventhal

  • Impact of symptoms and aging attribution on emotions and coping.

    Thomas R. Prohaska;Mary L. Keller;Elaine A. Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • Cognitive Science Speaks to the “Common-Sense” of Chronic Illness Management

    Howard Leventhal;Elaine A. Leventhal;Jessica Y. Breland

  • Giving Up and Replacing Activities in Response to Illness

    Jennifer Duke;Howard Leventhal;Susan Brownlee;Elaine A. Leventhal

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Leventhal
Howard Leventhal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael A. Diefenbach
Michael A. Diefenbach Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Linda D. Cameron
Linda D. Cameron University of California, Merced
Richard J. Contrada
Richard J. Contrada Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Gretchen B. Chapman
Gretchen B. Chapman Carnegie Mellon University
Keith J. Petrie
Keith J. Petrie University of Auckland
Ivan W. Miller
Ivan W. Miller Brown University
Karen S. Quigley
Karen S. Quigley Northeastern University
Christopher Hertzog
Christopher Hertzog Georgia Institute of Technology
Denise C. Park
Denise C. Park The University of Texas at Dallas

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