Selected Publications         

 

Hicks, J. A., & King, L.A. (in press). Meaning in life as a subjective judgment and a lived experience. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. PDF

Hicks, J. A., Schlegel, R. J., Friedman, R. S., & McCarthy, D. M. (in press). Alcohol primes, expectancies, and the working self concept. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

 Friedman, R. S., McCarthy, D. M., Pedersen, S. L., & Hicks J. A. (in press). Alcohol expectancy priming and drinking behavior: The role of compatibility between prime and expectancy content. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Hicks, J. A., Pedersen, S. P., & McCarthy, D. M, & Friedman, R. S. (2009). Marijuana primes, marijuana expectancies, and arithmetic efficiency. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 70, 391-399. PDF

Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., King, L. A., & Arndt, J. (2008). Thine own self: True self-concept accessibility and meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. PDF

King, L. A., & Hicks, J. A. (2007). Whatever happened to “what might have been?” Regrets, happiness, and maturity. American Psychologist. 62, 625 -636. PDF

Hicks, J. A., & King, L.A. (2008). Religious commitment and positive mood as information about meaning in life. Journal of Research in Personality. PDF

Hicks, J. A., & King, L. A. (2007). Meaning in life and seeing the big picture: Positive affect and global focus. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 1577 - 1584.  PDF

King, L. A., Burton, C. M., Hicks, J. A., & Dragotis, S. (2007). Ghosts, UFOs, and magic: Positive affect and the experiential system. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 905-919. PDF

Friedman, R. S., McCarthy, D. M., Bartholow, B. D., & Hicks J. A. (2007). Interactive effects of alcohol outcome expectancies and suboptimal alcohol cues on non-consumptive behavior. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 15, 102-114. PDF

King, L. A., & Hicks, J. A. (2006).  Narrating the self in the past and the future:  Implications for maturity. Research in Human Development, 3, 121-138. PDF

King, L. A., Hicks, J. A., Krull, J., &  Baker, A. G. (2006). Positive affect and the experience of meaning in life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 179-196. PDF