Publications
BOREDOM & THINKING Westgate, E.C. & Wilson, T.D. (2018). Boring Thoughts and Bored Minds: The MAC Model of Boredom and Cognitive Engagement. Psychological Review. Data | Supplemental | Preprint Wilson, T.D., Westgate, E.C., Buttrick, N.B., & Gilbert, D.T. (2019). The Mind is Its Own Place: The Difficulties and Benefits of Thinking for Pleasure. In J.M. Olson (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Data | Supplemental | Preprint Westgate, E. C., Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. (2017). With a Little Help for Our Thoughts: Making It Easier to Think for Pleasure. Emotion, 17, 828-839. Data | Supplemental Wilson, T.D., Reinhard, D., Westgate, E.C., Gilbert, D., Ellerbeck, N., Hahn, C., Brown, C., & Shaked, A. (2014). Just Think: The Challenges of the Disengaged Mind. Science, 345, 75-77. Data | Supplemental Westgate, E. C., Wormington, S.V., Oleson, K.,C. & Lindgren, K.P. (2016). Productive Procrastination: Academic Procrastination Style Predicts Academic and Alcohol Outcomes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47, 124-135. Data | Preprint Alahmadi, S., Buttrick, N., Gilbert, D.T., Hardin, A., Westgate, E.C.,. & Wilson, T.D.* (2017). You Can Do It If You Really Try: The Effects of Motivation on Enjoying One’s Own Thoughts. Motivation and Emotion, 41, 545-561. Supplemental * Authors in alphabetical order Oishi, S., Westgate, E., Tucker, J., & Komiya, A. (2015). Desire and Happiness: Aristotelian, Puritan, and Buddhist Approaches. In W. Hofmann & L. Nordgren (Ed.), The Psychology of Desire. Oishi, S., Choi, H., Buttrick, N., Heintzelman, S., Kushlev, K., Westgate, E.C., Tucker, J., Ebersole, C., Axt, J., Gilbert, E., Ng, B.W., & Besser, L.L. (2019). The Psychologically Rich Life Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality. Wilson, T.D., Gilbert, D., Reinhard, D., Westgate, E.C., & Brown, C. (2014). Would You Fund This Movie? A Reply to Fox et al. (2014). Frontiers in Psychology, 5. IMPLICIT ATTITUDES Westgate, E.C., Riskind, R. G., & Nosek, B. (2015). Implicit preferences for straight people over lesbian and gay people decreased from 2006-2013. Collabra Open Access, 1, Art.1. Data | Supplemental Inbar, Y., Westgate, E.C., Nosek, B.A., & Pizarro, D. (2016). Can a Naturally-Occurring Pathogen Threat Change Social Attitudes? Evaluations of Gay Men and Lesbians During the 2014 Ebola Epidemic. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 420-427. Data | Preregistration Lindgren, K.P., Westgate, E., Kilmer, J., Kaysen, D., & Teachman, B.A. (2012). Pick Your Poison: Stimuli Selection in Implicit Measures. Addictive Behaviors, 37, 990-993. Lindgren, K. P., Neighbors, C., Teachman, B., Wiers, R., Westgate, E., & Greenwald, A. G. (2012). I Drink, Therefore I am: Validating Alcohol-related Implicit Association Tests. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 27, 1-13. Lindgren, K.P., Neighbors, C., Westgate, E.C., & Salemink, E. (2014) Self-control moderates the association between implicit drinking identity and alcohol consumption. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75, 290-298. Lindgren, K.P., Foster, D. W., Westgate, E. C., & Neighbors, C. (2013). Implicit Drinking Identity: Drinker + Me Associations Predict College Student Drinking Consistently. Addictive Behaviors, 38, 2163-2166. SOCIAL MEDIA & ALCOHOL Westgate, E.C. & Holliday, J. (2016). Identity, Influence, and Intervention: The Roles of Social Media in Alcohol Use. Current Opinion in Psychology, 9. Preprint Westgate, E. C., Neighbors, C., Heppner, H., Jahn, S., & Lindgren, K.P. (2014). “I’ll Take a Shot for Every Like I Get on This Status”: Posting Alcohol- related Facebook Content Predicts Drinking Outcomes. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 75, 390-398. Data | Preprint Lindgren, K.P. Weirs, R., Teachman, B., Gasser, M., Westgate, E.C., Cousijn, J., Enkema, M., & Neighbors, C. (2015). Attempted Training of Alcohol Approach and Drinking Identity Associations in US Undergraduate Drinkers: Null Results from Two Studies. PLOS ONE, 10. Data Lindgren, K. P., Neighbors, C., Kaysen, D., Zvorsky, I., & Westgate, E. (2011). Experimental and cross-sectional examinations of the relations among implicit alcohol cognitions, stress, and drinking. Alcohol, 45, 276. Lindgren, K. P., Jacques-Tiura, A. J., & Westgate, E. (2012). Sexual intent perceptions: A primer on methods, theories, and applications. In M. Paludi (Ed.), The Psychology of Love. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. |
UNDER REVIEW Westgate, E.C. (Under review). Why boredom is interesting. Accepted proposal to Current Directions in Psychological Science. Oishi, S., Choi, H., Galinha, I., Ishii, K., Komiya, A., Koo, M., Luhmann, M., Scollon, C., Shin, J., Suh, E., Vittersø, J., Heintzelman, S., Kushlev, K., Westgate, E.C., Buttrick, N., Tucker, J., Ebersole, C.R., Axt, J., Gilbert, E., Ng, B.W., Kurtz, J., & Besser, L.L. (Under review). What is a psychologically rich life? Manuscript under review. Axt, J. Conway, J., Westgate, E.C., & Buttrick, N.B. (Under review). Implicit transgender attitudes independently predict transgender-related beliefs and policy support. Manuscript under review. IN PREP Westgate, E.C., Wormington, S.V., Thomas, S.L., & Oleson, K.C. (in preparation). Productive Procrastination, or Why You Should Stop Working and Read This Paper. Manuscript in preparation. Raza, S., Buttrick, N.B., Westgate, E.C., Heintzelman, S., Furrer, R., Wilson, T.D., & Gilbert, D.T. (in preparation). Thinking for pleasure and personal meaningfulness. Manuscript in preparation. Selected PresentationsWesgate, E.C. (2019). The boredom loop: How boredom shapes our preferences for interest and enjoyment. Poster presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, Oregon.
Westgate, E.C. (2018). Why boredom is interesting. Paper accepted to the annual meeting of the Person Memory Interest Group, Union, Washington. Westgate, E. C. & Wilson, T.D. (2018). Too much to bear: Excessive cognitive load causes boredom via attentional failure. Poster presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, Georgia. Westgate, E.C. & Wilson, T.D. (2017). Why Boredom is Interesting. Paper presented at the Fall 2017 Academy of the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course, Zurich, Switzerland. Westgate, E. C. & Wilson, T.D. (2017). What is Boredom? The Motivational and Attentional Components (MAC) Model. Poster presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas. Westgate, E. C. & Wilson, T.D. (2016). Intentional enjoyable thought requires mental control. Poster presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, California. Westgate, E.C. (2015). Why Enjoyable Thought Is Surprisingly Hard. Paper presented at the Student Choice Psychology Department Colloquium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Westgate, E.C. & Wilson, T.D. (2015). Alone With Your Thoughts: Intentional Reverie Requires Mental Control. Paper presented at the Fall 2015 Academy of the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course, Schloss Marbach, Germany. Westgate, E.C. & Wilson, T.D. (2015). Choosing Reverie: Do People Like To Think? Paper presented at the Mental Simulation Preconference Data Blitz of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, California. Westgate, E.C. & Wilson, T.D. (2015). Do People Enjoy Thinking? Intentional Enjoyable Thought is Real But Rare. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, California. Westgate, E.C., Wilson, T.D., Taggart, J., Lillard, A., & Buttrick, N. (2015). Alone With Your Thoughts: Lifespan Differences in Enjoyment of Intentional Reverie. Poster presented at the Spring 2015 Academy of the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Westgate, E.C., Reinhard, D., Brown, C.L,, & Wilson, T.D. (2014). The pain of doing nothing: Preferring negative stimulation to boredom. Poster presentation presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, Texas. Westgate, E. (2012). Science is a Joke! Conceptual Humor as a Tool for Increasing Student Engagement and Interest in Science. Poster presented at the 9th International Conference on Hands on Science, Antalya, Turkey. |