Sinclair, R. C., Moore, S. E., Mark, M. M., Soldat, A. S., & Lavis, C. A. (in press). Incidental moods, source likeability, and persuasion: Liking motivates message elaboration in happy people. Cognition & Emotion.
Sinclair, R.C., Lovsin, T.K., & Moore, S.E. (2007). Mood state, issue involvement, and argument strength on responses to persuasive appeals. Psychological Reports, 101, 739-753.
Jones, L.W., Sinclair, R.C., Rhodes, R.E., & Courneya, K.S. (2004). Promoting exercise behavior: An integration of persuasion theories and the theory of planned behavior. British Journal of Health Psychology, 9, 505-521.
Evans, M., Sinclair, R.C., Fusimalohi, C., Laiva’a, V., & Freeman, M. (2003). Consumption of traditional versus imported foods: Implications for programs designed to reduce diet-related non-communicable diseases in developing countries. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 42, 153-176.
Jones, L.W., Sinclair, R.C., & Courneya, K.S. (2003). The effects of source credibility and message framing on exercise intentions, behaviors, and attitudes: An integration of the elaboration likelihood model and prospect theory. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 179-196.
Evans, M., Sinclair, R.C., Fusimalohi, C., & Laiva’a, V. (2002). Globalization, diet, and health: An example from Tonga. In M. Tomita (Ed.) Global health disparities: Worldwide health inequities explored on CD-ROM. Washington, DC: National Society for Public Health Education. (Note: This is a reprinted version of Evans et al., 2001).
Evans, M., Sinclair, R.C., Fusimalohi, C., & Laiva’a, V. (2001). Globalization, diet, and health in the micro-states of the South Pacific: An example from Tonga. International Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 79, 856-862.
Soldat A.S. & Sinclair, R.C. (2001). Colors, smiles, and frowns: External affective cues can directly affect responses to persuasive communications in a mood-like manner without affecting mood. Social Cognition, 19, 469-490.
Sinclair, R.C. & Lavis, C.A. (2001). Are happy workers better workers? Folio, 38, 5.
Sinclair, R.C. (2001). Social science, rocket science, and dealing with the media. Psynopsis, 23, 1/21.
Sinclair, R.C., Mark, M.M., Moore, S.E., Lavis, C.A., & Soldat, A.S. (2000). An electoral butterfly effect. Nature, 408, 665-666.
Brown, N. R. & Sinclair, R. C. (1999). Estimating number of lifetime sexual partners: Men and women do it differently. Journal of Sex Research, 36, 292-297.
Sinclair, R.C., Soldat, A.S., & Mark, M.M. (1998). Affective cues and processing strategy: Color coded examination forms influence performance. Teaching of Psychology, 25, 130-132.
Sinclair, R.C., Soldat, A.S., & Ryan, C.A. (1997). Development and validation of Velten-like image-oriented anxiety and serenity mood inductions. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 19, 163-181.
Soldat A.S., Sinclair, R.C., & Mark, M.M. (1997). Color as an environmental processing cue: External affective cues can directly affect processing strategy without affecting mood. Social Cognition, 15, 55-71.
Sinclair, R.C. & Soldat, A.S. (1996). The evolution of social cognition: What a difference ten years make! Contemporary Psychology, 41, 921-924.
Published conference proceedings (refereed):
Sinclair, R. C. & Pearsall, G. E. (2007). Performance appraisal, processing strategy, and personality: Introverts are most accurate. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 79.
Lovsin, T. K. & Sinclair, R.C. (2007). Mood state, issue involvement, argument strength and responses to persuasion. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 79.
Moore, S. E., & Sinclair, R. C., (2006) Incidental happy and sad moods and cognitive dissonance reduction: Attitude change depends on the perceived informativeness of the mood source. Poster presented at The 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Moore, S. E. & Sinclair, R.C. (2005) Incidental happy and sad moods & cognitive dissonance reduction: Attitude change depends on the perceived informativeness of mood sources. Proceedings & Abstracts of the 14th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychologists, Wuerzberg, Germany.
Doucette, K. & Sinclair, R.C. (2005). Sexual precedence, token resistance, and acquaintance rape: Was she asking for it? Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 77, 55.
Moore, S.E. & Sinclair, R.C. (2005). Task preferences in the induced compliance paradigm: Evidence supporting an action-based approach. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 77, 76.
Brown, N.R., Sinclair, R.C., & Moore, S.E. (2005). Sex and cognition: From the field to the lab and back again. Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of The Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (2004). More good than harm: Assessing the impact of mood induction studies on people’s perceptions of psychological research. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 76, 75.
Moore, S.E. & Sinclair, R.C. (2004). Inconsistency-as-Information: Effects of incidental happy and sad moods on the cognitive dissonance reduction process. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 76, 6.
Moore, S.E. & Sinclair, R.C. (2002). On the role of incidental affect in dissonance reduction processes: Both happy and sad moods can reduce cognitive dissonance. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 74.
Evans, M., Sinclair, R.C., Fusimalohi, C., Liava’a, V., & Freeman, M. (2002). Diet, health, and the health transition: Toward an integrated socio-economic analysis. The Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Auckland, New Zealand, February.
Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (2001). The effect of mood state on productivity: Debunking the “Happy workers are better workers” myth. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 42(2a), 32.
Moore, S.E., Pracejus, J.W., & Sinclair, R.C. (2001). Testing the effects of team involvement on attitudes towards sponsoring brands. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 42(2a), 38-39.
Sinclair, R.C. (2001). Social science versus rocket science: An application of social science research methods to voting behavior. Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association.
Sinclair, R.C. & Brown, N.R. (2001). Why men report more lifetime sexual partners than women: Retrieval strategies, attitudes toward sex, and the “Don Juan” hypothesis. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 73, 41.
Evans, M.E. & Sinclair, R.C. (2000). Assessing the True Cost of Imported Foods in Tonga. Paper presented at the Securing Food, Health, and Traditional Values through the Sustainable Use of Marine Resources Conference. Nelson, Aotearoa, New Zealand, November.
Moore, S. E. & Sinclair, R. C. (2000). Affective States and Motivation to Process: Effects of Mood and Source Expertise on the Processing of Persuasive Arguments. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 72, 158.
Soldat, A.S., Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (2000). Do sad people wish to distract themselves from their sadness? A test of the mood-regulation hypothesis. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 72, 50.
Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (1999). Are happy workers better workers? Examining the effects of mood on productivity. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 71, 11.
Moore, S.E. & Sinclair, R.C. (1999). Persuasion and positive affect: Effects of Source likeability and cognitive load on the processing of persuasive arguments. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 71, 11.
Soldat, A.S. & Sinclair, R.C. (1999). Audience cues and persuasion: External affective cues can directly influence responses to persuasion without affecting mood. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 71, 11.
Sinclair, R.C. & Brown, N.R. (1999). Discrepant partner reports: Do women 1 encode sexual experiences more deeply than do men? Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 71, 89.
Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (1998). Overt mood manipulations, saliency at time of judgment, and affect as information. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 70, 128.
Sinclair, R.C. & Dietrich, R.L. (1998). No pain—no gain: Does labor Pain increase mothers’ attachment to infants? Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 70, 44.
Sinclair, R.C., Mark, M.M., Soldat, A.S., & Lavis, C.A. (1998). Do moods really need to be implicated in mood effects? In R. Erber and L.L. Martin (Chairs), When main effects don’t cut it: Complex views on the relationship between affect and cognition. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the 70th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 70, 99.
Sinclair, R.C. (1998). Session Moderator and Discussant. Emotion. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 70, 14.
Soldat, A.S. & Sinclair, R.C. (1998). Color and persuasion: External affective cues can directly influence responses to persuasion without affecting mood. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 70, 128.
Brown, N.R. & Sinclair, R.C. (1997). Discrepant partner reports: A strategy differences explanation. Program of the 52nd Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, 52, 86.
Brown, N.R. & Sinclair, R.C. (1997). Sex and estimation: Men and women do it differently. Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 37, 54.
Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (1997). Mood-as-information and individual differences: Effects of mood state, attribution, and self-monitoring on self-reports of life satisfaction. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 69, 21.
Soldat, A.S. & Sinclair, R.C. (1997). External affective cues can directly affect processing strategy without affecting mood. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 69, 21.
Brown, N.R. & Sinclair, R.C. (1996). One hundred and thirty million Canadians can't be wrong, eh? Population estimation, anchoring, and availability. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 68, 157.
Lavis, C.A., Wuest, S., Soldat, A.S., & Sinclair, R.C. (1996). Mood State, categorization breadth, and performance appraisal: The effects of induced mood states on accuracy and halo when behaviors do or do not vary across dimensions. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 68, 63.
Sinclair, R.C., Mark, M.M., Normand, C.L., Soldat, A.S., & Lavis, C.A. (1996). Affect, attitudes, and peripheral cues: The effects of source expertise, induced moods, and argument strength on persuasion. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 68, 22.
Presentations at academic/professional conferences (refereed)
Sinclair, R. C. & Pearsall, G. E. (2007). Performance appraisal, processing strategy, and personality: Introverts are most accurate. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 79.
Lovsin, T. K. & Sinclair, R.C. (2007). Mood state, issue involvement, argument strength and responses to persuasion. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 79.
Moore, S. E., & Sinclair, R. C., (2006) Incidental happy and sad moods and cognitive dissonance reduction: Attitude change depends on the perceived informativeness of the mood source. Poster presented at The 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Moore, S. E. & Sinclair, R.C. (2005) Incidental happy and sad moods & cognitive dissonance reduction: Attitude change depends on the perceived informativeness of mood sources. Proceedings & Abstracts of the 14th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychologists, Wuerzberg, Germany.
Doucette, K. & Sinclair, R.C. (2005). Sexual precedence, token resistance, and acquaintance rape: Was she asking for it? Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 77, 55.
Moore, S.E. & Sinclair, R.C. (2005). Task preferences in the induced compliance paradigm: Evidence supporting an action-based approach. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 77, 76.
Brown, N.R., Sinclair, R.C., & Moore, S.E. (2005). Sex and cognition: From the field to the lab and back again. Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of The Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (2004). More good than harm: Assessing the impact of mood induction studies on people’s perceptions of psychological research. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 76, 75.
Moore, S.E. & Sinclair, R.C. (2004). Inconsistency-as-Information: Effects of incidental happy and sad moods on the cognitive dissonance reduction process. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 76, 6.
Moore, S.E. & Sinclair, R.C. (2002). On the role of incidental affect in dissonance reduction processes: Both happy and sad moods can reduce cognitive dissonance. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 74.
Evans, M., Sinclair, R.C., Fusimalohi, C., Liava’a, V., & Freeman, M. (2002). Diet, health, and the health transition: Toward an integrated socio-economic analysis. The Annual Meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Auckland, New Zealand, February.
Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (2001). The effect of mood state on productivity: Debunking the “Happy workers are better workers” myth. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 42(2a), 32.
Moore, S.E., Pracejus, J.W., & Sinclair, R.C. (2001). Testing the effects of team involvement on attitudes towards sponsoring brands. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 42(2a), 38-39.
Sinclair, R.C. (2001). Social science versus rocket science: An application of social science research methods to voting behavior. Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association.
Sinclair, R.C. & Brown, N.R. (2001). Why men report more lifetime sexual partners than women: Retrieval strategies, attitudes toward sex, and the “Don Juan” hypothesis. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 73, 41.
Evans, M.E. & Sinclair, R.C. (2000). Assessing the True Cost of Imported Foods in Tonga. Paper presented at the Securing Food, Health, and Traditional Values through the Sustainable Use of Marine Resources Conference. Nelson, Aotearoa, New Zealand, November.
Moore, S. E. & Sinclair, R. C. (2000). Affective States and Motivation to Process: Effects of Mood and Source Expertise on the Processing of Persuasive Arguments. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 72, 158.
Soldat, A.S., Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (2000). Do sad people wish to distract themselves from their sadness? A test of the mood-regulation hypothesis. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 72, 50.
Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (1999). Are happy workers better workers? Examining the effects of mood on productivity. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 71, 11.
Moore, S.E. & Sinclair, R.C. (1999). Persuasion and positive affect: Effects of Source likeability and cognitive load on the processing of persuasive arguments. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 71, 11.
Soldat, A.S. & Sinclair, R.C. (1999). Audience cues and persuasion: External affective cues can directly influence responses to persuasion without affecting mood. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 71, 11.
Sinclair, R.C. & Brown, N.R. (1999). Discrepant partner reports: Do women 1 encode sexual experiences more deeply than do men? Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 71, 89.
Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (1998). Overt mood manipulations, saliency at time of judgment, and affect as information. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 70, 128.
Sinclair, R.C. & Dietrich, R.L. (1998). No pain—no gain: Does labor Pain increase mothers’ attachment to infants? Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 70, 44.
Sinclair, R.C., Mark, M.M., Soldat, A.S., & Lavis, C.A. (1998). Do moods really need to be implicated in mood effects? In R. Erber and L.L. Martin (Chairs), When main effects don’t cut it: Complex views on the relationship between affect and cognition. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the 70th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 70, 99.
Sinclair, R.C. (1998). Session Moderator and Discussant. Emotion. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 70, 14.
Soldat, A.S. & Sinclair, R.C. (1998). Color and persuasion: External affective cues can directly influence responses to persuasion without affecting mood. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 70, 128.
Brown, N.R. & Sinclair, R.C. (1997). Discrepant partner reports: A strategy differences explanation. Program of the 52nd Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, 52, 86.
Brown, N.R. & Sinclair, R.C. (1997). Sex and estimation: Men and women do it differently. Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 37, 54.
Lavis, C.A. & Sinclair, R.C. (1997). Mood-as-information and individual differences: Effects of mood state, attribution, and self-monitoring on self-reports of life satisfaction. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 69, 21.
Soldat, A.S. & Sinclair, R.C. (1997). External affective cues can directly affect processing strategy without affecting mood. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 69, 21.
Brown, N.R. & Sinclair, R.C. (1996). One hundred and thirty million Canadians can't be wrong, eh? Population estimation, anchoring, and availability. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 68, 157.
Lavis, C.A., Wuest, S., Soldat, A.S., & Sinclair, R.C. (1996). Mood State, categorization breadth, and performance appraisal: The effects of induced mood states on accuracy and halo when behaviors do or do not vary across dimensions. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 68, 63.
Sinclair, R.C., Mark, M.M., Normand, C.L., Soldat, A.S., & Lavis, C.A. (1996). Affect, attitudes, and peripheral cues: The effects of source expertise, induced moods, and argument strength on persuasion. Proceedings & Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, 68, 22.