Emerging frontiers in infectious disease modelling: reassessing the data-driven feedback loop between human behaviour and disease dynamics

Mallory J. Harris*, Alyssa H. Sinclair*, Giulia Pullano*, Stephen J. Beckett*, Leah LeJeune*, Folashade B. Agusto, Chris T. Bauch, Cynthia Baur, Henri Berestycki, Jonathan Dushoff, Quentin Griette, Simon A. Levin, Jorge X. Velasco-Hernández, Jianhong Wu, Joshua S. Weitz

Royal Society Open Science, vol. 13(6), 2026, p. 260369

Red, blue, and morally alike: Moral reframing of climate change works when we don't make incorrect assumptions

Diego A. Reinero, Alyssa H. Sinclair, Danielle Cosme, Emily Falk

PsyArXiv, 2026 Jun 24

Personalized feedback about immunity corrects risk misestimation and motivates vaccination

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan Taylor, Stephen J. Beckett, Aroon T. Chande, Joshua S. Weitz, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin

PNAS Nexus, 2026 Jun 20, pgag227

Motivating and supporting youth to vote using theory-driven approaches

Danielle Cosme, Kirsten Lydic, Diego A. Reinero, Alyssa H. Sinclair, Emily B. Falk

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, vol. 19, 2025 Nov 7, pp. e7010110

Co-designing get-out-the-vote messaging with youth increases message effectiveness

Kirsten Lydic, Omaya Torres-Grillo, Julia Levine, Sophia Lee, Paula Vekker, Pètra de Beer, Lyan Casamalhuapa, Alyssa H. Sinclair, Emily B. Falk, Danielle Cosme

PsyArXiv, 2025 Nov 5

Reply to Loh and Ren: Motivating action among climate change believers

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Danielle Cosme, Kirsten Lydic, Diego A. Reinero, Michael E. Mann, Emily B. Falk

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 122(36), 2025 Sep 3, pp. e2515426122

Communicating the economic impact of science funding cuts changes attitudes and motivates action

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Mallory Harris, Danielle Cosme, Angela Fagerlin, Ellen Peters, Clio Andris, Colin L. Cooke, Emily B. Falk, Joshua S. Weitz

PsyArXiv, 2025 Aug 4

Reply to Dablander et al.: Identifying interventions that change intentions lays a valuable foundation for behavior change.

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Dani Cosme, Kirsten Lydic, Diego A. Reinero, Michael E. Mann, Emily B Falk

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 122(8), 2025 Jul 15, pp. e2513159122

Action planning interventions to promote individual and collective climate action

Kirsten Lydic, Alyssa H. Sinclair, Danielle Cosme, José Carreras-Tartak, Emily B. Falk

PsyArXiv, 2025 Jun 28

Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Dani Cosme, Kirsten Lydic, Diego A. Reinero, José Carreras-Tartak, Michael E. Mann, Emily B. Falk

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 122(20), 2025 May 20, pp. e2426768122

Memory and belief updating following complete and partial reminders of fake news

Paige L. Kemp*, Alyssa H. Sinclair*, R. Alison Adcock, Christopher N. Wahlheim

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, vol. 9(28), 2024 May 7

Communicating COVID-19 exposure risk with an interactive website counteracts risk misestimation

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Morgan K. Taylor, Freyja Brandel-Tanis, Audra Davidson, Aroon Chande, Lavanya Rishishwar, Clio Andris, R. Alison Adcock, Joshua S. Weitz, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Stephen J. Beckett

PLoS ONE, vol. 18(10), 2023 Oct 5, pp. e0290708

Pairing facts with imagined consequences improves pandemic-related risk perception

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Shabnam Hakimi, Matthew L. Stanley, R. Alison Adcock, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 118(32), 2021 Aug 10, pp. e2100970118

Imagining a personalized scenario selectively increases perceived risk of viral transmission for older adults

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Matthew L. Stanley, Shabnam Hakimi, Roberto Cabeza, R. Alison Adcock, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin

Nature Aging, vol. 1, 2021 Aug 5, pp. 677-683

Closed-minded cognition: Right-wing authoritarianism is negatively related to belief updating following prediction error

Alyssa H. Sinclair, Matthew L. Stanley, Paul Seli

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 27, 2020 Jul 27, pp. 1348-1361

Intellectual Humility and Perceptions of Political Opponents

Matthew L. Stanley, Alyssa H. Sinclair, Paul Seli

Journal of Personality, vol. 88, 2020 Jun 2, pp. 1196-1216