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)
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 Conversationhttps://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.