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Jennifer S. Lerner

Jennifer S. Lerner

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Psychology

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47
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35287
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6010
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3257

Overview

Jennifer S. Lerner is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and works primarily within the field of psychology. Their research spans 23 publications focusing on diverse subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, applied psychology, developmental and educational psychology, as well as sociology and political science.

Their work addresses several key topics: COVID-19 and mental health, cultural differences and values, behavioral health and interventions, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, misinformation and its impacts, and media influence on health.

Jennifer S. Lerner has contributed research to multiple venues, with frequent publications in Psychology Archives, Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) from La Trobe University, and Affective Science.

Key recent papers include:

  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • A global test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Psychology Archives
  • In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries, 2022, Affective Science
  • The role of incidental affective states in appetitive risk behavior: A meta-analysis., 2020, Health Psychology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Charles Dorison, James J. Gross, Amit Goldenberg, Jeremy K. Miller, and Ke Wang, reflecting a collaborative approach to research across several projects.

Best Publications

  • Fear, anger, and risk.

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Dacher Keltner

  • Beyond valence: Toward a model of emotion-specific influences on judgement and choice

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Dacher Keltner

  • Emotion and Decision Making

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Ye Li;Piercarlo Valdesolo;Karim S. Kassam

  • Accounting for the effects of accountability.

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Philip E. Tetlock

  • The role of affect in decision making.

    George Loewenstein;Jennifer S. Lerner

  • Effects of Fear and Anger on Perceived Risks of Terrorism A National Field Experiment

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Roxana M. Gonzalez;Deborah A. Small;Baruch Fischhoff

  • The psychology of the unthinkable: taboo trade-offs, forbidden base rates, and heretical counterfactuals.

    Philip E. Tetlock;Orie V. Kristel;S. Beth Elson;Melanie C. Green

  • Heart Strings and Purse Strings Carryover Effects of Emotions on Economic Decisions

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Deborah A. Small;George Loewenstein

  • Portrait of The Angry Decision Maker: How Appraisal Tendencies Shape Anger's Influence on Cognition.

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Larissa Z. Tiedens

  • Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research Partnerships Affect Student Retention

    Biren A. Nagda;Sandra R. Gregerman;John Jonides;William von Hippel

  • Sober Second Thought: The Effects of Accountability, Anger, and Authoritarianism on Attributions of Responsibility

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Julie H. Goldberg;Philip E. Tetlock

  • Feelings and Consumer Decision Making: The Appraisal-Tendency Framework

    Seunghee Han;Jennifer S. Lerner;Dacher Keltner

  • Rage and reason: the psychology of the intuitive prosecutor

    Julie H. Goldberg;Jennifer S. Lerner;Philip E. Tetlock

  • Early environment, emotions, responses to stress, and health.

    Shelley E. Taylor;Jennifer S. Lerner;Rebecca M. Sage;Barbara J. Lehman

  • Are self-enhancing cognitions associated with healthy or unhealthy biological profiles?

    Shelley E. Taylor;Jennifer S. Lerner;David K. Sherman;Rebecca M. Sage

  • Portrait of the Self-Enhancer: Well Adjusted and Well Liked or Maladjusted and Friendless?

    Shelley E. Taylor;Jennifer S. Lerner;David K. Sherman;Rebecca M. Sage

  • Revising the value pluralism model: Incorporating social content and context postulates.

    Philip E. Tetlock;Randall S. Peterson;Jennifer S. Lerner

  • Emotional Policy: Personal Sadness and Anger Shape Judgments about a Welfare Case

    Deborah A. Small;Jennifer S. Lerner

  • The Financial Costs of Sadness

    Jennifer S. Lerner;Ye Li;Elke U. Weber

  • Leadership is associated with lower levels of stress

    Gary D. Sherman;Jooa J. Lee;Amy J. C. Cuddy;Jonathan Renshon

  • Evolving Judgments of Terror Risks: Foresight, Hindsight, and Emotion.

    Baruch Fischhoff;Roxana M. Gonzalez;Jennifer S. Lerner;Deborah A. Small

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
Deborah A. Small
Deborah A. Small University of Pennsylvania
Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner University of California, Berkeley
Shelley E. Taylor
Shelley E. Taylor University of California, Los Angeles
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Lara Traeger
Lara Traeger Harvard University
David K. Sherman
David K. Sherman University of California, Santa Barbara

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