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Cacioppo, J.T., & Visser, P.S. (2003). Political Psychology Special Issue: Neuroscientific Contributions to Political Psychology, 24, 647-768.
Cacioppo, J.T., Visser, P.S., & Pickett, C.L. (2006). Social Neuroscience: People Thinking About Thinking People. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Levitan, L. C., Mirabile, R. R., & Visser, P. S. (in press). Attitudes and Behavior. In M. Tietjens (Ed.), Facets of Social Support. Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.
Visser, P. S. Attitude Strength. (in press). In R. Baumeister and K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. London: Sage Publications.
Visser, P. S., Holbrook, A. L., & Krosnick, J. A. (in press). Knowledge and Attitudes. In W. Donsbach & M. W. Traugott (Ed.s), Handbook of Public Opinion Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [PDF]
Levitan, L. C., & Visser, P. S. (2008). The impact of the social context on resistance to persuasion: Effortful versus effortless responses to counter-attitudinal information. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(3), 640-649. [PDF]
Tetlock, P. E., Visser, P. S., Singh, R., Polifroni, M., Scott, A., Elson, B., & Mazzocco, P. (2007). People as intuitive prosecutors: The impact of social-control goals on attributions of responsibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43(2), 195-209. [PDF]
DeWall, N. C., Visser, P. S., & Levitan, L. C. (2006). Openness to attitude change as a function of temporal perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1010-1023. [PDF]
Krosnick, J. A., Holbrook, A. L., Lowe, L., & Visser, P. S. (2006). The origins and consequences of democratic citizens’ policy agendas: A Study of Popular Concern about Global Warming. Climatic Change, 77, 7-43. [PDF]
Kronsnick, J. A., Holbrook, A. L., & Visser, P. S. (2006). Optimizing brief assessments in research on the psychology of aging. In National Research Council, When I'm 64 (pp.231-239). Committee on Aging Frontiers in Social Psychology, Personality, and Adult Developmental Psychology. L. L. Carstensen and C. R. Hartel, editors. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. [PDF]
Visser, P. S., Bizer, G., & Krosnick, J. A. (2006). Exploring the latent structure of strength-related attitude attributes. In M. Zanna (Ed.), of Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 38 (pp. 1-67). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. [PDF]
Holbrook, A. L., Berent, M. K., Krosnick, J. A., Visser, P. S., & Boninger, D. (2005). Attitude importance and the accumulation of attitude-relevant knowledge in memory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 749-769. [PDF]
Miller, D. T., Visser, P. S., & Staub, B. (2005). How surveillance begets perceptions of dishonesty: The case of the counterfactual sinner. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 117-128. [PDF]
Pardy, S. A., Fabrigar, L. R., & Visser, P. S. (2005). Multitrait-Multimethod Analyses. In B. Everitt and D. Howell (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. [PDF]
Rasinski, K. A., Visser, P. S., Zagatsky, M., & Rickett, E. (2005). Using implicit goal priming to improve the quality of self-report data. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 321-327. [PDF]
Visser, P. S., Rasinski, K. A., & Zagatsky, M. (2005). Surveying sensitive topics. In B. Radcliff and S. Best (Eds.), Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion. West Port, CT: Greenwood Press. [PDF]
Bizer, G. Y., Visser, P. S., Berent, M. K., & Krosnick, J. A. (2004). Importance, knowledge, and accessibility: Exploring the dimensionality of strength-related attitude properties. In W. E. Saris & P. M. Sniderman (Eds.), Studies in public opinion: Gauging attitudes, nonattitudes, measurement error and change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. [PDF]
Visser, P. S., & Mirabile, R. R. (2004). Attitudes in the social context: The impact of social network composition on individual-level attitude strength. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 779-795. [PDF]
Cacioppo, J. T., & Visser, P. S. (2003). Political psychology and social neuroscience: Strange bedfellows or comrades in arms? Political Psychology, 24, 647-656. [PDF]
Visser, P. S., & Clark, L. (2003). Attitudes. In A. Kuper & J. Kuper (Eds.), Social Science Encyclopedia. London: Routledge. [PDF]
Visser, P. S., & Cooper, J. (2003). Attitude change. In M. Hogg & J. Cooper (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Social Psychology. London: Sage Publications. [PDF]
Visser, P. S., Krosnick, J. A., & Simmons, J. P. (2003). Distinguishing the cognitive and behavioral consequences of attitude importance and certainty: A new approach to testing the common-factor hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 118-141. [PDF]
Holbrook, A. L., Krosnick, J. A., Visser, P. S., Gardner, W.L., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2001). Attitudes toward Presidential candidates and political parties: Initial optimism, inertial first impressions, and a focus on flaws. American Journal of Political Science, 45, 930-950. [PDF]
Green, M., Visser, P. S., & Tetlock, P. E. (2000). Coping with accountability cross‑pressures: Low‑effort evasive tactics and high‑effort quests for complex compromises. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1380-1391. [PDF]
Krosnick, J. A., Holbrook, A. L., & Visser, P. S. (2000). The impact of the fall 1997 debate about global warming on American public opinion. Journal for the Public Understanding of Science, 9, 239-260. [PDF]
Remington, N., Fabrigar, L. R., & Visser, P. S. (2000). Reexamining the Circumplex Model of Affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79 (2), 286-300. [PDF]
Tetlock, P. E., & Visser, P. S. (2000). Thinking about Russia: Probable pasts and plausible futures. British Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 173‑196. [PDF]
Visser, P. S., Krosnick, J. A., & Lavrakas, P. J. (2000). Survey research. In C. M. Judd & H. Reis (Eds.), Research methods in social psychology, NY: Cambridge University Press. [PDF]
Visser, P. S., Krosnick, J. A., Marquette, J., & Curtin, M. (2000). Improving election forecasting: Allocation of undecided respondents, identification of likely voters, and response order effects. In P. J. Lavrakas and M. Traugott (Eds.), Election polls, the news media, and democracy. NY: Chatham House. [PDF]
Herrmann, R., Tetlock, P. E., & Visser, P. S. (1999). Mass public decisions on going to war: A cognitive interactionist perspective. American Political Science Review, 93, 553‑573. [PDF]
Krosnick, J. A., Visser, P. S., & Holbrook, A. L. (1998). American opinion about global warming:The impact of the fall 1997debate. Resources, 133, 5-9. [PDF]
Visser, P. S., & Krosnick, J. A. (1998). The development of attitude strength over the life cycle: Surge and decline. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1389-1410. [PDF]
Fabrigar, L. R., Visser, P. S., & Browne, M. W. (1997). Conceptual and methodological issues in testing the circumplex structure of data in personality and social psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1, 184-203. [PDF]
Visser, P. S., Krosnick, J. A., Marquette, J., & Curtin, M. (1996). Mail surveys for election forecasting? An evaluation of the Columbus Dispatch Poll. Public Opinion Quarterly, 60, 181-227. [PDF]
