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Lee, D. S., & Fujita, K. (in press). From whom do people seek what type of support? A regulatory scope perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [pdf]
Miller, C., King, D., Nagaraja, H. N., Fujita, K., Cheavens, J., & Focht, B. (in press). Impact of an augmented intervention on self-regulatory, dietary and physical activity outcomes in a diabetes prevention trial among adults with prediabetes. Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
Miller, C., Nagaraja, H., Cheavens, J., Fujita, K., Lazarus, S., & Brunette, D. (in press). Sex differences in early weight loss success during a lifestyle intervention for diabetes prevention. American Journal of Health Behavior.
Nguyen, T., & Fujita, K. (in press). On psychological distance and construal level: A regulatory perspective. In D. E. Carlston, K. Johnson, & K. Hugenberg (Eds.), Oxford handbook of social cognition (2nd edition).
Park, L. E., Ward, D. E., Naragon-Gainey, K., Fujita, K., & Koefler, N. (in press). I’m still spending: Financial contingency of self-worth predicts financial motivational conflict and compulsive buying. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [pdf]
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Jansen, E. J., Miele, D. B., Fujita, K., & Scholer, A. A. (2022). Managing the motivation of others: Do managers recognize how to flexibly manage regulatory focus in subordinates? Motivation Science, 8(4), 330-345. [pdf]
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Nguyen, T., Togawa, T., Scholer, A., A., Miele, D. B., & Fujita, K. (2022). A cross-cultural investigation of metamotivational beliefs about regulatory focus task-motivation fit. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(5), 807-820. [pdf]
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Fujita, K., Orvell, A., & Kross, E. (2020). Smarter, not harder: A toolbox approach to enhancing self-control. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7(2), 149-156. [pdf]
Hughes, C., Fujita, K., & Krendl, A. C. (2020). The proximity of treatment decisions moderates whether internalized stigma interferes with willingness to seek mental health treatment. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 50, 489-498. [pdf].
Miele, D. B., Scholer, A. A., & Fujita, K. (2020). Metamotivation: Emerging research on the regulation of motivational states. In A. Elliot (Eds.), Advances in Motivation Science (Vol. 7, pp. 1-42). New York: Academic Press.
Nguyen, T., Togawa, T., Scholer, A. A., & Fujita, K. (2020). A cross-cultural investigation of metamotivational knowledge of construal level in the United States and Japan. Motivation Science. [pdf]
Sklar, A. Y., & Fujita, K. (2020). Self-control as a coordination problem. In A. Mele (Ed.), Surrounding Self-Control. New York: Oxford University Press.
Stillman, P. E., Lee, H., Deng, X., Unnava, H. R., & Fujita, K. (2020). The role of temporal construal on the color of future-directed imagery: A consumer neuroscience approach. Psychology and Marketing, 37(7), 995-1007. [pdf]
Stillman, P. E., Lu, Z. L., & Fujita, K. (2020). Construal level shifts integration and segregation of the brain network. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(2), 382-390. [pdf]
Fujita, K., Scholer, A. A., Miele, D. B., & Nguyen, T. (2019). On metamotivation: Consumers’ knowledge about the role of construal level in enhancing task performance. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 4(1), 57-64. [pdf]
Nguyen, T., Carnevale, J. J., Scholer, A. A., Miele, D. B., & Fujita, K. (2019). Metamotivational knowledge of the role of high-level and low-level construal in goal-relevant task performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117(5), 876-899. [pdf]
de Ridder, D. T. D., Adriaanse, M. A., & Fujita, K. (2018). Self-control in health and well-being: Concepts, theories, and central issues. In de Ridder, D. T. D., Adriaanse, M. A., & Fujita, K. (Eds.), Handbook of self-control in health and well-being (pp. 1-7). London: Routledge Press.
Fujita, K., Carnevale, J. J., & Trope, Y. (2018). Understanding self-control as a whole vs. part dynamic. Neuroethics, 11, 283-296. [pdf]
Kalkstein, D. A., Fujita, K. & Trope, Y. (2018). Broadening mental horizons to resist temptation: Construal level and self-control. In de Ridder, D. T. D., Adriaanse, M. A., & Fujita, K. (Eds.), Handbook of self-control in health and well-being (pp. 180-192). London: Routledge Press.
Rees, H. R., Fujita, K., Han, H. A., Sherman, J. W., & Sklar, A. Y. (2018). An examination of the processes by which construal level affects the implicit evaluation of goal relevant stimuli. Motivation Science, 4(3), 251. [pdf]
Scholer, A. A., Miele, D. B., Murayama, K., & Fujita, K. (2018). New directions in self-regulation: The role of metamotivational beliefs. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(6), 437-442. [pdf]
Sklar, A. Y., Rim, S., & Fujita, K. (2018). Initiatory and inhibitory processes of self-control. In de Ridder, D. T. D., Adriaanse, M. A., & Fujita, K. (Eds.), Handbook of self-control in health and well-being (pp. 24-34). London: Routledge Press.
Stillman, P. E., Fujita, K., Sheldon, O., & Trope, Y. (2018). From “me” to “we”: The role of construal level in promoting maximized joint outcomes. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 147, 16-25. [pdf]
MacGregor, K. E., Carnevale, J. J., Dusthimer, N. E., & Fujita, K. (2017). Knowledge of the self-control benefits of high-level vs. low-level construal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112(4), 607-620. [pdf]
Miller, C. K., Pawelczyk, K., Cheavens, J. S., Fujita, K., & Moss, S. (2017). Development and pilot testing of a novel behavioral intervention for adults with Type 2 diabetes using intervention mapping. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 5, 317-336. [link]
Sklar, A. Y., & Fujita, K. (2017). On when and how identity value impacts self-control decisions. Psychological Inquiry, 28(2-3), 153-156. [pdf]
Stillman, P. E., Lee, H., Deng, X., Unnava, R., Cunningham, W. A., & Fujita, K. (2017). Neurological evidence for the role of construal level in future-directed thought. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(6), 937-947. [pdf]
Carnevale, J. J., & Fujita, K. (2016). What does ego-depletion research reveal about self-control? A conceptual analysis. In E. Hirt, J. J. Clarkson, & L. Jia (Eds.), Self-regulation and ego control (pp. 88-110). Waltham, MA: Academic Press.
Carnevale, J. J., & Fujita, K. (2016). Consensus vs. anarchy in the senate of the mind: On the roles of high-level vs. low-level construal in self-control. In K. Vohs & R. Baumeister (Eds.), Handbook of self-regulation: Research, theory and applications (pp. 146-164). New York: Guilford Press.
Lee, H., Fujita, K., Deng, X., & Unnava, H. R. (2016). The Role of Temporal Distance on the Color of Future-Directed Imagery: A Construal-Level Perspective. Journal of Consumer Research, 43(5), 707-725. [pdf]
Belding, J. N., Naufel, K. Z., & Fujita, K. (2015). Using high-level construal and perceptions of changeability to promote self-change over self-protection motives in response to negative feedback. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(6), 822-838. [pdf]
Carnevale, J. J., Fujita, K., Han, H. A., & Amit, E. (2015). Immersion vs. transcendence: How pictures and words impact evaluative associations assessed by the Implicit Association Test. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(2), 92-100. [pdf]
Rim, S., Amit, E., Fujita, K., Trope, Y., Halbeisen, G., & Algom, D. (2015). How words transcend and pictures immerse: On the association between medium and level of construal. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(2), 123-130. [pdf]
Fujita, K., & Trope, Y. (2014). Structured vs. unstructured regulation: On procedural mindsets and the mechanisms of priming effects. Social Cognition, 32 (Supplement), 68-87. [pdf]
Fujita, K., Trope, Y., Cunningham, W. A., & Liberman, N. (2014). What is control? A conceptual analysis. In J. W. Sherman, B. Gawronski, B., & Y. Trope (Eds.), Dual-process theories of the social mind (pp. 50-68). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Packer, D. J., Fujita, K., & Chasteen, A. L. (2014). The motivational dynamics of dissent decisions: A goal-conflict approach. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5(1), 27-34. [pdf]
Schley, D. R., & Fujita, K. (2014). Seeing the math in the story: On how abstraction promotes performance on mathematical word problems. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5(8), 953-961. [pdf]
Stillman, P. E., Gilovich, T. D., & Fujita, K. (2014). Predicting group outcomes from brief exposures. Social Cognition, 32, 71-82. [pdf]
Fujita, K., Clark, S. L., & Freitas, A. L. (2013). “Think globally, act locally”: Construal levels and environmentally relevant decision-making (pp. 87-107). In H. C. M. van Trijp (Ed.), Encouraging Sustainable Behavior. New York: Psychology Press.
Fukukura, J., Ferguson, M. J., & Fujita, K. (2013). Psychological distance can improve decision-making under information overload. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 658-665. [pdf]
Gollwitzer, P. M., Marquardt, M. K., Scherer, M., & Fujita, K. (2013). Identity-goal threats: Engaging in distinct compensatory efforts. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 555-562. [pdf]
Mann, T., de Ridder, D. T. D., & Fujita, K. (2013). Social psychological approaches to self-regulation: Processes of goal setting and goal striving. Health Psychology, 32, 487-489. [pdf]
Packer, D. J., Fujita, K., & Herman, S. (2013). A goal conflict approach to understanding when conscientious people dissent. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 927-932. [pdf]
Fujita, K., & Carnevale, J. J. (2012). Transcending temptation through abstraction: The role of construal level in self-control. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 248-252. [pdf]
Fujita, K., & MacGregor, K. E. (2012). Basic goal distinctions. In H. Aarts & A. J. Elliot (Eds.), Goal-oriented behavior (pp. 85-114). New York: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.
Johnson, I. R., & Fujita, K. (2012). Using perceptions of changeability to promote system-change motives over system-justification motives in information search. Psychological Science, 23, 133-140. [pdf]
Eyal, T., Hoover, G. M., Fujita, K., & Nussbaum, S. (2011). The effect of distance-dependent construals on schema-driven impression formation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 278-281 [pdf]
Fujita, K. (2011). On conceptualizing self-control as more than the effortful inhibition of impulses. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 352-366. [pdf]
Fujita, K., & Sasota, J. A. (2011). The effect of construal levels on asymmetric temptation-goal cognitive associations. Social Cognition, 29, 125-146. [pdf]
Henderson, M. D., Wakslak, C. J., Fujita, K., & Rohrbach, J. (2011). Construal level theory and spatial distance: Implications for mental representation, judgment, and behavior. Social Psychology, 42, 165-173. [pdf]
Darwent, K. M., Fujita, K., & Wakslak, C. J. (2010). On the role of abstraction in global and local processing phenomena. Psychological Inquiry, 21, 198-202. [pdf]
Fujita, K., & Roberts, J. C. (2010). Promoting prospective self-control through abstraction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 1049-1054. [pdf]
Fujita, K., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2010). Seeing the big picture: A construal level analysis of self-control. In R. R. Hassin, K. N. Ochsner, & Y. Trope (Eds.), Self control in society, mind, and brain (pp. 408-427). New York: Oxford University Press.
Scholer, A. A., Zou, X., Fujita, K., Stroessner, S. J., & Higgins, E. T. (2010). When risk-seeking becomes a motivational necessity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 215-231. [pdf]
Fujita, K., & Han, H. A. (2009). Moving beyond deliberative control of impulses: The effects of construal levels on evaluative associations in self-control. Psychological Science, 20, 799-804. [pdf]
Fujita, K. (2008). Seeing the forest beyond the trees: A construal level approach to self-control. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 1475-1496. [pdf]
Fujita, K., Eyal, T., Chaiken, S., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2008). Influencing attitudes toward near and distant objects. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 562-572. [pdf]
Iida, M., Seidman, G., Shrout, P. E., Fujita, K., & Bolger, N. (2008). Modeling support provision in intimate relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 460-478. [pdf]
McCulloch, K. C., Aarts, H., Fujita, K., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Inhibition in goal systems: Means isolation and suppression. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 857-865.[pdf]
Fujita, K., Gollwitzer, P. M., & Oettingen, G. (2007). Mindsets and pre-conscious open-mindedness to incidental information. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 48-61. [pdf]
Fujita, K., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2007). Temporal construal theory. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology (pp. 971-973). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Fujita, K., Henderson, M., Eng, J., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2006). Spatial distance and mental construal of social events. Psychological Science, 17, 278-282. [pdf]
Fujita, K., Trope, Y., Liberman, N., & Levin-Sagi, M. (2006). Construal levels and self-control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 351-367. [pdf]
Fujita, K., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2006). The role of mental construal in self-control. In D. DeCremer, M. Zeelenberg, & J. K. Murnighan (Eds.), Social psychology and economics (pp. 193-211). New York: Sage Publications.
Henderson, M. D., Fujita, K., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2006). Transcending the “Here”: The effects of spatial distance on social judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 845-856. [pdf]
Gollwitzer, P. M., Fujita, K., & Oettingen, G. (2004). Planning and the implementation of goals. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Handbook of self-regulation research: Research, theory, and applications (pp. 211-228). Guildford: New York.
Shih, M., Ambady, N., Richeson, J. A., Fujita, K., & Gray, H. M. (2002). Stereotype performance boosts: The impact of self-relevance and the manner of stereotype activation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(3), 638-647. [pdf]