Journal Articles
Wang, L., Jeong, D., C., Gillig, T., Christensen, P. R., Appleby, P. R., Read, S. J. & Miller, L. (in press) Can Video Games Change Who You Are? Video Game Identification to Increase Future-thinking. Health Communication.
Choe, SY., Lee, J. O., & Read, S. J. (2022). Adolescent normative beliefs about aggression mediate the association between fathers’ psychological control in adolescence and physical aggression in emerging adulthood. Social Development, 31, 1042-1058. doi: 10.1111/sode.12597
Pynadath, D. V., Dilkina, B, Jeong, D. C., John, R. S., Marsella, S. C., Merchant, C., Miller, L.C., & Read, S.J. (2022). Disaster World: Decision-theoretic agents for simulating population responses to hurricanes. Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory (newer journal JIF:2.023). doi.org/10.1007/s10588-022-09359-y
Choe, SY., Lee, J. O., & Read, S. J. (2021). Parental psychological control perceived in adolescence predicts jealousy toward romantic partners in emerging adulthood via insecure attachment. Social Development. doi: 10.1111/sode.12514
Wang, L., Jeong, D. C., Smith, B. J., Christensen, J., Gillig, T., Liu, M., Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (2021, August 26). User-Agent Bond in Generalizable Environments: Long-term Risk-Reduction Via Nudged Virtual Choices, In Special Issue, “User-Avatar Bond: Risk and Opportunities in Gaming and Beyond” (Vasileios Stravropoulos, Rabindra Ratan and Kwan Min Lee (Eds.)). Frontiers in Psychology, doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.695389
Smith, B. J., & Read, S. J. (2021). Modeling incentive salience in Pavlovian learning more parsimoniously using a multiple attribute model. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00953-2
Choe, S. Y., Lee, J. O., & Read, S. J. (2020). Psychological intimate partner violence, insecure attachment, and parental psychological control from adolescence to emerging adulthood. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Simon, D., Ahn, M., Stenstrom, D., & Read, S. J. (2020). The Adversarial Mindset. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
Basaran, A., Christensen, J. L., Miller, L. C., Appleby, P. R., & Read, S. J. (2019). The relationship between social norms and sexual risk-reduction intentions and behavior among men who have sex with men: Findings from an eHealth intervention. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Miller, L. C., Shaikh, S. J., Jeong, D. C., Wang, L., Gillig, T. K., Godoy, C. G., Appleby, P.R., Corsbie-Massay, C. L., Marsella, S., Christensen, J. L., & Read, S. J. (2019). Causal Inference in Generalizable Environments: Systematic Representative Design. Psychological Inquiry. 30:4, 173-202, DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2019.1693866
Miller, L. C., Shaikh, S. J., Jeong, D. C., Wang, L., Gillig, T. K., Godoy, C. G., Appleby, P.R., Corsbie-Massay, C. L., Marsella, S., Christensen, J. L., & Read, S. J. (2019). Systematic Representative Design: A Reply to Commentaries, Psychological Inquiry, 30:4, 250-263, DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2019.1698908
Choe, S. Y., Lee, J. O., & Read, S. J. (2019). Self-concept as a mechanism through which parental psychological control impairs empathy development from adolescence to emerging adulthood. Social Development.
Droutman, V., Xue, F., Barkley-Levenson, E., Lam, H. Y., Bechara, A., Smith, B., Lu, Z-L., Xue, G., Miller, L. C., & Read, S. J. (2019). Neurocognitive decision-making processes of casual methamphetamine users. NeuroImage: Clinical.
Choe, SY, & Read, S. J. (2018). Perceived parental psychological control has indirect effects on aggression via need satisfaction and motivation for revenge. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,
Smith, B. J., Monterosso, J. R., Wakslak, C. J., Bechara, A., and Read, S. J.(2018). A meta-analytical review of brain activity associated with intertemporal decisions: Evidence for an anterior-posterior tangibility axis.Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews,86, 85-98.
Simon, D., & Read, S. J. (in press). Neither Cognitive, Nor Consistency – A Comment on “Cognitive Consistency Theory in Social Psychology: A Paradigm Reconsidered”. Psychological Inquiry.
Read, S. J., Brown, A. D., Wang, P., & Miller, L. C. (2018). The Virtual Personalities Neural Network Model: Neurobiological Underpinnings. Personality Neuroscience.Vol 1: e10, 1–11. doi:10.1017/ pen.2018.6
Xue, F., Droutman, V., Smith, B. J., Bechara, A., Miller, L. C., Read, S. J., Barkley-Levenson, E., Xue, G., & Lu, Z-L. (2018). The role of the dorsal anterior insula in sexual risk: Evidence from an erotic Go/NoGo task and real-life risk taking. Human Brain Mapping,39(4), 1555-1562.DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23931
Smith, B.J., Xue, F., Droutman, V., Barkley-Levenson, E., Melrose, A.J., Miller, L.C., Monterosso, J.R., Bechara, A., Appleby, P.R., Christensen, J.L., Godoy, C. G., & Read, S.J. (2018). Virtually “in the heat of the moment”: Insula activation in safe sex negotiation among risky men. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.13(1), 80-91.doi: 10.1093/scan/nsx137
Read, S. J., Droutman, V., Smith, B. J., and Miller, L. C. (2017). Using Neural Networks as Models of Personality Process: A Tutorial. Personality and Individual Differences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.015
Droutman, V., & Read, S. J. (2018). Development and initial validation of the Adolescent and Adult Mindfulness Scale (AAMS). Personality and Individual Differences, 123, 34-43.
Baumert, A., Schmitt, M., Perugini, M., Johnson, W., Blum, G., Borkenau, P., Costantini, G., Denissen, J., Fleeson, W., Grafton, B., Jayawickreme, E., Kurzius, E., MacLeod, C., Miller, L. C., Read, S. J., Robinson, M. D., Roberts, B., Wood, D., Wrzus, C. (2017). AUTHORS’ RESPONSE Working Towards Integration of Personality Structure, Process, and Development. European Journal of Personality, 31, 529-595
Baumert, A., Schmitt, M., Perugini, M., Johnson, W., Blum, G., Borkenau, P., Costantini, G., Denissen, J., Fleeson, W., Grafton, B., Jayawickreme, E., Kurzius, E., MacLeod, C., Miller, L. C., Read, S. J., Robinson, M. D., Roberts, B., Wood, D., Wrzus, C. (2017). Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development. European Journal of Personality, 31(5),503-528.
Barkley-Levenson, E., Xue, F., Droutman, V., Miller, L.C., Smith, B. J., Jeong, D., Lu, Z-L., Bechara, A., & Read, S. J. (2018). Prefrontal cortical activity during the Stroop task: New insights into the why and the who of real-world risky sexual behavior. Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
Jilk, D. J., Herd, S. J., Read, S. J., & O’Reilly, R. C. (2017). Anthropomorphic Reasoning about Neuromorphic AGI Safety. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 29:6, 1337-1351, DOI: 10.1080/0952813X.2017.1354081
Xu, X., Mellor, D., & Read, S. J. (2017). Taxonomy of Psychogenic Needs (Murray). In V. Zeigler-Hill, T.K. Shackelford (eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer International Publishing.DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_557-1
Talevich, J.R., Read, S. J., Walsh, D. A., Iyer, R., Chopra, G. (2017). Toward a comprehensive taxonomy of human motives. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0172279. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172279
Read, S. J., Smith, B., Droutman, V., & Miller, L. C. (2017). Virtual Personalities: Using Computational Modeling to Understand Within-Person Variability. Journal of Research in Personality. 69, 237–249.
Corsbie-Massay, C. L., Miller, L. C., Christensen, J. L. Appleby, P. R., Godoy, C., & Read, S. J. (2016). Identity Conflict and Sexual Risk for Black and Latino YMSM. AIDS and Behavior.
Droutman, V., Bechara, A., and Read. S.J. (2015). Roles of the Different Sub-Regions of the Insular Cortex in Various Phases of the Decision-Making Process. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9:309.
Zachary, W., Rosoff, A., Thomas, R., Iordanov, V., Read, S., and Miller, L. (2015) Toward Computational, Embeddable, Cognitive Models of Context. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics. NY: Elsevier.
Droutman, V., Read, S. J., & Bechara, A. (2015). Revisiting the insula's role in addiction. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19(17), 414-420.
Simon, D., Stenstrom, D., & Read, S. J. (2015). The Coherence Effect: Blending Cold and Hot Cognitions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(3), 369-394.
Ehret, P. J., Monroe, B. M., & Read, S. J. (2015).Modeling the Dynamics of Evaluation: A Multilevel Neural Network Implementation of the Iterative Reprocessing Model. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19(2), 148-176.
Park, M., Anderson, J. N., Christensen, J., Miller, L. C., Appleby, P. R., & Read, S. J. (2014). Young men¹s shame about their desire for other men predicts risky sex and moderates the knowledge - self-efficacy link. Frontiers in Public Health, section HIV and AIDS.
Yang, Y., Read, S. J., Denson, T. F., Xu, Y., Zhang, J., & Pedersen, W. C. (2014). The key ingredients of personality traits: Situations, behaviors, and explanations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(1),79-91.
Talevich, J. R., Read, S. J., & Walsh, D. A. (2014). Goal Impact: A Goal Systems Domain-General Prediction Tool, Applied to Voluntary Job Turnover. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 36(1),35-50.
de Melo, C., Carnevale, P., Read, S. J., & Gratch, J. (2014). Reading People’s Minds from Emotion Expressions in Interdependent Decision Making. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106(1), 73-88.
Christensen, J. L., Miller, L. C., Appleby, P. R., Corsbie-Massay, C., Godoy, C., & Read, S. J. (2013). Reducing shame in a game that predicts HIV risk reduction for young adult MSM: A randomized trial delivered nationally over the web. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 16(Suppl 2):18716.
Godoy, C., Miller, L., Corsbie-Massay, C, Christensen, J. L., Appleby, P., Read, SJ., Si, M. (2013). Virtual Validity: mHealth Simulation Games, Diagnostic Indicators, and Behavior Change.Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine,V2, 45, 17. DOI:10.7309/jmtm.2.45.14.
Zachary, W., Rosoff, A., Miller, L., & Read, S. (2103). Context as a cognitive process: An integrative framework for supporting decision-making. Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS) Proceedings, pp. 48-55. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1097/STIDS2013_T07_ZacharyEtAl.pdf.
Xue, G., Xue, F., Droutman, V., Lu, Z-L., Bechara, A., Read, S. J. (2013). Common neural mechanisms underlying reversal learning by reward and punishment revealed among men who have sex with men.PLOS ONE, 8(2),e82169.
Read, S.J., & Miller, L. C. (2012). Sources of constraint on network equilibrium. European Journal of Personality, 26(4),442–444.
de Melo, C., Carnevale, P., Read, S., & Gratch, J. (2012). Reverse appraisal: The importance of appraisals for the effect of emotion displays on people's decision-making in a social dilemma. Proceedings of The 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci).
Kenworthy, J. B., Miller, N., Collins, B. E., Read, S. J., & Earleywine, M. (2011). A Trans-Paradigm Theoretical Synthesis of Cognitive Dissonance Theory: Illuminating the Nature of Discomfort. European Review of Social Psychology, 22(1),36-113.
Read, S. J., Monroe, B. M., Brownstein, A. L., Yang, Y., Chopra, G., & Miller, L. C. (2010). A Neural Network Model of the Structure and Dynamics of Human Personality. Psychological Review.117, 61–92.
Yang, Y., Read, S., & Miller, L. (2009). The Concept of Situations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3/6, 1018–1037.
Read, S. J., & Monroe, B. M. (2009). Must Judgments About Intentionality Precede Dispositional Inference? Psychological Inquiry, 20, 1–7,
Monroe, B. M., & Read, S. J. (2008). A General Connectionist Model of Attitudes and Attitude Change: The ACS (Attitudes as Constraint Satisfaction) Model.Psychological Review,115, 733–759.
Brownstein, A., & Read, S. J. (2007). Situation models and memory: The effects of temporal and causal information in recall sequences. Memory, 15, 730-745.
Read, S. J., & Monroe, B. M. (2007). Modeling Cognitive Dissonance using A Recurrent Neural Network Model with Learning. In D. McNamara and Greg Trafton (Eds). Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 587-592). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Read, S. J., & Monroe, B. M. (2007). Gaps in the Mapping between Simulations and Self: Concerns with the Proposed Neural Network Model: Commentary on the Target Article by Kashima et al. Psychological Inquiry, 18, 1-4.
Roseman, I., & Read, S. J. (2007). Psychologist at Play: Robert P. Abelson‘s Life and Contributions to Psychological Science.Perspectives in Psychological Science, 2, 86-87.
Read, S. J., Miller, L. C., Rosoff, A, Eilbert, J., Iordanov, V., Le Mentec, J-C., Zachary, W. (2006). Integrating Emotional Dynamics into the PAC Cognitive Architecture.Paper in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Baltimore, MD.
Yang, Y., Read, S. J., Miller, L. C. (2006). A taxonomy of situations from Chinese idioms: Goal processes as a central organizing principle. Journal of Research in Personality, 40,750-778.
Read, S. J., Miller, L. C., Appleby, P. R., Nwosu, M. E., Reynaldo, S., Lauren, A. & Putcha, A. (2006). Socially Optimized Learning in a Virtual Environment: Reducing Risky Sexual Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex With Men. Human Communication Research, 32 (1), 1-34.
Osselaer, S. M. J., Ramanathan, S., Campbell, M. C., Cohen, J. B., Dale, J. K., Herr, P. M., Janiszewski, C., Kruglanski, A. W., Lee, A. Y., Read, S. J., Russo, J. E., & Tavassoli, N. T. (2005). Choice Based on Goals. Marketing Letters, 16, 335–346.
Zachary, W., Le Mentec, J.-C.. Miller, L.C., Read, S. J., & Thomas-Meyers, G. (2005). Human behavioral representations with realistic personality and cultural characteristics. Paper in the proceedings of the Tenth International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, McLean, VA.
Zachary, W., LeMentec, J-C., Miller, L. C., Read, S. J., & Thomas-Meyers, G. (2005). Steps toward a Personality-based Architecture for Cognition. Paper in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Los Angeles, CA.
Jones, D. K., & Read, S. J. (2005). Expert versus Novice differences in the representation of political knowledge. Discourse Processes, 39, 45-80.
Marsella, S. C., Pynadath, D. V., & Read, S. J. (2004, June). PsychSim: Agent-based modeling of social interactions and influence.Paper in the Proceedings of the 6thInternational Conference on Cognitive Modeling, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Brownstein, A. L., Read, S. J., Simon, D. (2004). Coherence in Perceptions of a Romantic Relationship. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner & T. Regier (Eds). Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society August 4-7, 2004 Chicago, Illinois. (pp. 162-167). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Kim, D., & Read, S. J. (2004). Asymmetries in the Bidirectional Associative Strengths Between Events in Cue Competition for Causes and Effects. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner & T. Regier (Eds). Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society August 4-7, 2004 Chicago, Illinois. (pp. 690-695). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Simon, D., Snow, C. & Read, S. J. (2004). The Redux of Cognitive Consistency Theories: Evidence Judgments by Constraint Satisfaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.86, 814-837.
Brownstein, A., Read, S. J., & Simon, D. (2004). Effects of Individual Expertise and Task Importance on Pre-decision Reevaluation of Alternatives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.30, 891-904.
Read, S. J., Snow, C. J. & Simon, D. (2003). Constraint satisfaction processes in social reasoning. In The Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference.
Read, S. J., & Urada, D. (2003). A neural network model of the outgroup homogeneity effect. Personality and Social Psychology Review.7, 146-169.
Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (2002). Virtual Personalities: A Neural Network Model of Personality. Personality and Social Psychology Review.6, 357-369.
Vallacher, R. R., Read, S. J., & Nowak, A. (Eds.)(2002). The Dynamical Perspective in Personality and Social Psychology. Special issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review.6(4).
Vallacher, R. R., Read, S. J., & Nowak, A. (2002). The Dynamical Perspective in Personality and Social Psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 4, 264-273.
Chulef, A., Read, S. J., & Walsh, D. A. (2001). A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Human Goals. Motivation and Emotion, 25, 191-232.
Read, S. J., & Montoya, J. A. (1999). A feedback neural network model of causal learning and causal reasoning. In M. Hahn and S. C. Stoness (Eds.). The Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference. (pp. 578-583). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Read, S. J., & Montoya, J. A. (1999). An autoassociative model of causal learning and causal reasoning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 728-742.
Montoya, J. A., & Read, S. J. (1998). A constraint satisfaction model of the correspondence bias: The role of accessibility and applicability of explanations. In M. A. Gernsbacher and S. J. Derry (Eds.). The Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference. (pp. 722-727). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Read, S. J., Vanman, E. J., & Miller, L. C. (1997). Connectionism, Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Processes and Gestalt Principles: (Re) Introducing Cognitive Dynamics to Social Psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1, 26-53.
Read, S. J., & Johnson, R. W. (1996). Improving the use of analogies by learning to encode their causal structure. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 644-648). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Rothspan, S., & Read, S. J. (1996). Present versus future time perspective and HIV risk among heterosexual college students.Health Psychology, 15, 1-4.
Vanman, E. J., Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1995). Gestalt principles and parallel constraint satisfaction processes: The parallels. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1993). Rapist or "regular guy": Explanatory coherence in the construction of mental models of others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,19, 526-540.
Read, S. J., & Marcus-Newhall, A. R. (1993). Explanatory coherence in social explanations: A parallel distributed processing account. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 429-447.
Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1993). Explanatory coherence in the construction of mental models of others. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 836-841). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Read, S. J. & Cesa, I. (1991). This reminds me of the time when...: Expectation failures in reminding and explanation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 27, 1-25.
Read, S. J., Miller, L. C., & Jones, D. K. (1990). Goals in the conceptual coherence of social categories. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 28, 261-267.
Read, S. J., Jones, D. K., & Miller, L. C. (1990). Traits as goal-based categories: The importance of goals in the coherence of dispositional categories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,58, 1048-1061.
Collins, N. L., & Read, S. J. (1990). Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58,644-663.
Read, S. J., Cesa, I., Jones, D., & Collins, N. (1990). When is the Federal Budget like a baby? Metaphor in political rhetoric. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity,5, 125-149.
Hershey, D., Walsh, D. A., Read, S. J., & Chulef, A. (1990). The effects of expertise on financial problem solving: Evidence for goal-directed problem solving scripts. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 46, 77-101.
Read, S. J., Druian, P., & Miller, L. C. (1989). The role of causal sequence in the meaning of actions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 341-351.
Read, S. J., & Miller, L. C. (1989). Explanatory coherence in understanding persons, interactions, and relationships: Commentary on Paul Thagard's article "Explanatory Coherence". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 485-486.
Read, S. J. (1988). Conjunctive explanations: The effect of a comparison between a chosen and a nonchosen alternative. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 24, 146-162.
Read, S. J. (1987). Similarity and causality in the use of social analogies. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 23, 189-207.
Read, S. J. (1987). Constructing causal scenarios: A knowledge structure approach to causal reasoning. Journal of Personality andSocial Psychology,52, 288-302.
Read, S. J. (1984). Analogical reasoning in social judgment: The importance of causal theories. Journal of Personality and SocialPsychology, 46, 14-25.
Read, S. J. (1983). Once is enough: Causal reasoning from a single instance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 323-334.
Berman, J. S., Read, S. J., & Kenny, D. A. (1983). Processing inconsistent social information. Journal of Personality and SocialPsychology, 45, 1211-1224.
Read, S. J., & Rosson, M. B. (1982). Rewriting history: The biasing effects of attitudes on memory. Social Cognition, 1, 240-255.
Swann, W. B., Jr., & Read, S. J. (1981). Acquiring self-knowledge: The search for feedback that fits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,41, 1119-1128.
Swann, W. B., Jr., & Read, S. J. (1981). Self-verification processes: How we sustain our self-conceptions. Journal of Experimental SocialPsychology,17, 351-372.
Read, S. J., & Stephan, W. G. (1979). An integration of Kelley's attribution cube and Weiner's achievement attribution model. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5, 196-200.
Fischhoff, B., Slovic, P., Lichtenstein, S., Read, S., & Combs, B. (1978). How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits. Policy Sciences, 8, 127-152.