Publications

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2017

  • Shaffer, V., Focella, E.S., Hathaway, A., Scherer, L.D., & Zikmund-Fisher, B.J. (in press).On the Usefulness of Narratives: An Interdisciplinary Review and Theoretical Model. Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
  • Scherer, L.D., Shaffer, V., Caverly, T., Scherer, A., Zikmund-Fisher, B., Kullgren, J. & Fagerlin, A. (in press). The Role of the Affect Heuristic and Cancer Anxiety in Responding to Negative Information About Medical Tests. Psychology and Health Special Issue: Emotions, Health Decision Making and Health Behavior.
  • VonGunten, C., Bartholow, B., & Scherer, L.D. (in press). Using the P3 to investigate the Affect Misattribution Procedure: Intentional rating, unintentional priming, and contrast effects. Psychophysiology.
  • Shaffer, V. A., Scherer, L. D., Focella, E. S., Hinnant, A., Len-Rios, M. E., Zikmund-Fisher, B. J. (in press). What is the story with narratives? How using personal narratives in journalism changes health behavior. Health Communication.
  • Scherer, L.D., Yates, J.F., Baker, S.G. & Valentine, K.D. (2017). The influence of effortful thought and cognitive proficiencies on the conjunction fallacy: Implications for dual process theories of reasoning and judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 874-887.
  • Scherr, K.A, Fagerlin, A., Hofer, T., Scherer, L.D., Holmes-Rovner, M., Williamson, L.D., Kahn, V.C., Montgomery, J.S., Grenne, K.L., Zhang, B., & Ubel, P. (2017). Physician recommendations trump patient preferences in prostate cancer treatment decisions. Medical Decision Making, 37, 56-69.
  • Yap, S.C.Y, Wortman, J., Anusic, I., Baker, S.G., Scherer, L.D., Donnellan, M.B. & Lucas, R. E. (2017). The Effect of Mood on Judgments of Subjective Well-Being: Nine Tests of the Judgment Model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000115
  • Dillard, A.J., Scherer, L.D., Ubel, P.A., Alexander, S. & Fagerlin, A. (2017). Anxiety symptoms prior to a prostate cancer diagnosis: Associations with knowledge and openness to treatment. British Journal of Health Psychology, 22, 151-168.

2016

  • Scherer, L.D., Finan, C., Simancek, D., Finkelstein, J., Tarini, B.A. (2016). Effect of the term "pink eye" on perceived contagiousness and willingness to use antibiotics to treat acute conjunctivitis.  Clinical Pediatrics, 55, 543-548.
  • Hoerger, M., Scherer, L. D., & Fagerlin, A. (2016). Affective forecasting and medication decision making in breast cancer prevention. Health Psychology, 35, 594-603.
  • Witteman, H. O., Scherer, L. D., Gavaruzzi, T., Pieterse, A., Fuhrel-Forbis A., Exe, N., Kahn, V., Feldman-Stewart, D., Col, N., Chipenda-Dansokho, S., Fagerlin, A. (2016). Design Features of Explicit Values Clarification Methods: A Systematic Review. Medical Decision Making, 36, 453-471.
  • McCaffery, K., Jansen, J., Scherer, L., Thornton, H. Hersch, J., Carter, S., Barratt, A., Moynihan, R., Waller, J., Sheridan, S., Brodersen, J., Pickles, K., Edwards, A. (2016). Walking the tightrope: Communicating overdiagnosis in modern healthcare.  The BMJ, 352, Article i348. *BMJ impact factor: 17.44 (2015)
  • Scherer, L.D., Shaffer, V., Patel, N., Zikmund-Fisher, B. (2016). Can the Vaccine Event Reporting System Be Used to Increase Vaccine Acceptance and Trust? Vaccine, 34, 2424-2429. http://d2ufo47lrtsv5s.cloudfront.net/content/353/6305/1207.summary
    https://theconversation.com/stories-of-vaccine-related-harms-are-influential-even-when-people-dont-believe-them-58314
  • Witteman, H. O., Gavaruzzi, T., Scherer, L. D., Pieterse, A., Fuhrel-Forbis A., Exe, N., Kahn, V., Feldman-Stewart, D., Col, N., Chipenda-Dansokho, S., Fagerlin, A. (2016). Effects of Design Features of Explicit Values Clarification Methods: A Systematic Review. Medical Decision Making, 36, 760-776.
  • Shaffer, V.A., Focella, E.S., Scherer, L.D., Zikmund-fisher, B.J. (2016). Reducing Affective Forecasting Errors with Targeted, but Not Representative, Experience Narratives. Patient Education and Counseling, 99, 1611-1619.
  • Scherer, L.D., Burke, J.F., Zikmund-Fisher, B.J., Caverly, T., Kullgren, J., Steinly, D., McCarthy, D., Roney, M., & Fagerlin, A. (2016). Development of the Medical Maximizer-Minimizer Scale. Health Psychology, 35, 1276-1287.
  • Hamilton, J.G., Lillie, S.E., Alden, D.L., Scherer, L.D., Oser, M., Rini, C., Tanaka, M., Baleix, J., Brewster, M., Lee, S.C., Goldstein, M.K., Jacobson, R., Myers, R.E., Zikmund-Fisher, B.J., Waters, E.A. (2016). What is a good medical decision? A research agenda guided by perspectives from multiple stakeholders. Journal of Behavioral Medicine Special Issue, Advancing Behavioral Medicine Research: A Call to Action. doi:10.1007/s10865-016-9785-z

2015

  • Scherer, A., Scherer, L.D. & Fagerlin, A.  (2015).  Getting Ahead of Illness:  Using metaphors to influence medical decision making.  Medical Decision Making, 35, 37-45.
  • Scherer, L.D., de Vries, M., Zikmund-Fisher, B.K., Witteman, H.O. & Fagerlin, A.  (2015). Trust in deliberation: Examining the consequences of deliberative versus intuitive decision strategies in medical treatment decision contexts. Health Psychology, 34, 1090-1099.
  • Holmes-Rovner, M., Montgomery, J., Rovner, D., Scherer, L.D., Whitfield, J. Kahn, V. Merkle, E. Ubel, P., Fagerlin, A. (2015). Informed decision making: Assessment of the quality of physician communication about prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment. Medical Decision Making, 35, 999-1009.
  • Stigglebout, A., de Vries, M. & Scherer, L.D.  (2015).  Medical Decision Making.  In G. Wu & G. Keren (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making.  Oxford University Press.

2014

  • Zikmund-Fisher, B.J., Witteman, H.O., Dickson, M., Fuhrel-Forbis, A., Kahn, V., Exe, N.L., Valerio, M, Holtzman, L.G., Scherer, L.D., Fagerlin, A.  (2014).  Blocks, Ovals, or People?  Icon Type Affects Risk Perceptions and Recall of Pictographs.  Medical Decision Making, 34, 443-453.
  • Lambert, A.J., Eadeh, F., Peak, S., Scherer, L., Schott, J.P., & Slochower, J. (2014).  Towards a greater understanding of the emotional dynamics of the mortality salience manipulation: Revisiting the "affect free" claim of Terror Management Theory.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 655-678.
  • Scherer, L. D., Zikmund-Fisher, B.J., Maynard, A., Dolinoy, D., & Fagerlin, A. (2014).  The psychology of "regrettable substitutions": Examining consumer judgments of bisphenol A (BPA) and its alternatives.Health Risk and Society, 16, 649-666.
    *This research was featured in The Conversation https://theconversation.com/what-that-bpa-free-label-isnt-telling-you-34725
  • Rothberg, M.B., Scherer, L.D., Kashef, M.A., Coylewright, M., Ting, H.H., Hu, B., Zikmund-Fisher, B.J.  (2014).  The effect of information presentation on beliefs about the benefits of elective percutaneous coronary intervention.  Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine, 174, 1623-1629. *JAMA: Internal Medicine impact factor: 13.11 (2015)

2013

  • Dillard, A., J., Scherer, L. D., Ubel, P. A., Smith, D. M., Zikmund-Fisher, B. J., McClure, J. B., Greene, S., Stark, A. & Fagerlin, A.  (2013).  Breast cancer anxiety's associations with responses to a chemoprevention decision aid.  Social Sciences and Medicine, 77, 13-19.
  • De Vries,* M., Fagerlin, A., Witteman, H. & Scherer, L. D.* (2013).  Combining deliberation and intuition in patient decision support. Patient Education and Counseling, 91, 154-160. *Equal contribution.
  • Scherer, L. D., Zikmund-Fisher, B. J., Fagerlin, A. & Tarini, B. (2013).  Effect of a "GERD" diagnostic label on parents' decision to medicate infants. Pediatrics, 131, 839-845. *Pediatrics is the most-cited journal in the field of pediatrics, and is among the top 2% most-cited scientific and medical journals
    *This work has been featured in multiple news outlets, included the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/upshot/calling-an-ordinary-health-problem-a-disease-leads-to-bigger-problems.html?_r=0
  • Scherer, L. D., Ubel, P.A., McClure, J., Greene, S.M., Hensley-Alford, S., Holtzman, L., Exe, N. & Fagerlin, A. (2013).  Belief in numbers: When and why women disbelieve tailored breast cancer risk statistics. Patient Education and Counseling, 92, 253-259.
  • Fagerlin, A., Pignone, M., Abhyankar, P., Col, N. Feldman-Stewart, D. Gavaruzzi, T., Kryworuchko, J., Levin, C. A., Pieterse, A. H., Reyna, V., Stiggelbout, A., Scherer, L.D., Wills, C. & Witteman, H. O. (2013).  Clarifying values: an updated review.  BioMed Central: Medical informatics & Decision Making, 13, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/13/S2/S8.
  • Lambert, A.J. & Scherer, L.D. (2013). Social cognition methodologies. In D. Carlston (Ed.).  Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition.  Oxford University Press.

2012

  • Scherer, L. D. & Lambert, A.J.  (2012).  Implicit race bias revisited:  On the utility of task context in assessing implicit racial attitudes.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 366-370.
  • Scherer, L. D. & Schott, J.P.  (2012).  The affect misattribution procedure impacts future implicit and explicit judgments.  Social Cognition, 30, 537-563.

2011

  • Scherer, L. D. & Larsen, R. J. (2011)  Cross-modal evaluative priming: Emotion sounds influence the processing of emotion words.  Emotion, 11, 203-208.
  • Schott, J. P, Scherer, L. D., & Lambert, A. J.  (2011).  Casualties of war and sunk cost: Implications for attitude change and persuasion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1134-1145.
  • Lambert, A.J., Schott, J.P. & Scherer, L. D. (2011).  Threat, politics, and attitudes: Toward a greater understanding of rally round the flag effects.  Current Directions In Psychological Science, 20, 343-398.

2010

  • Lambert, A. J., Scherer, L. D., Schott, J. P., Olsen, K. R., Andrews, R., O'Brien, T. & Zisser, (2010).  Rally effects, threat, and attitude change: An integrative approach to understanding the role of emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 886-903.

2009

  • Scherer, L. D. & Lambert, A. J. (2009).  Contrast effects in priming paradigms: Implications for theory and research on implicit attitudes.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 383-403.
  • Scherer, L. D. & Lambert, A. J. (2009).  Counterstereotypic exemplars in context: Evidence for intracategory differentiation using implicit measures.  Social Cognition, 27, 523-550.
  • Lambert, A. J., Scherer, L. D., Jacoby, L. L. & Rogers, C. (2009).  Memory and emotion.  In P. Boyer & J. Wertsch (Eds.), Memory in Mind and Culture. New York  Cambridge University Press, 194-222.