Jennifer L. Howell

TL;DR: Affirmation decreased participants’ avoidance of risk feedback and eliminated the increased avoidance typically observed when risk feedback might obligate people to engage in undesired behavior when feedback is about risk for an untreatable disease.

TL;DR: It is suggested that cancer risk information avoidance is a multi-determined phenomenon that is associated with demographic characteristics and psychosocial individual differences and also relates to engagement in cancer screening.

TL;DR: An 8-item measure of people's tendency to avoid learning information is developed that is adaptable to a variety of types of information and is internally consistent in several distinct populations.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a pre-registered multilaboratory project (k = 36; N = 3,531) to assess the size and robustness of ego depletion effects using a novel replication method, termed the paradigmatic replication approach.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted four studies assessing three different populations (undergraduates, high school students, and a nationally-representative sample of adults), using a variety of measures and methods (e.g., single and multi-item self-report measures, a behavioral measure, social network analysis), across three information contexts (i.e., general health information, specific disease risk, socially-evaluative information).