Publications

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Published Refereed Articles

Lydon, J., Menzies-Toman, D., & Burton , K. (2008). If-Then Contingencies and the Differential Effects of the Availability of Attractive Alternatives on Relationship Maintenance for Men and Women. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 50-65. Download

*Gagné, F., Khan A., Lydon J., & To M. (2008). When Flattery Gets You Nowhere: Discounting Positive Feedback as a Relationship Maintenance Strategy. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, in press. Download

Usborne, E., Lydon, J., & Taylor, D. (2008). Personal Projects and Social Relationships: Windows into the Motivation and Well-Being of Street Kids. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39, 1057-1082.

*Bartz, J. & Lydon, J. (2008). The Influence of Relationship-Specific Attachment on the use of Communal Norms in Close Relationships. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 655-663. Download

*Burton, K. & Lydon, J., D’Alessandro, D., & Koestner, R. (2006). The differential effects of intrinsic and identified motivation on well-being and performance: Prospective, experimental, and implicit approaches to self-determination theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 750-762. Download

*Bartz, J. & Lydon, J. (2006). Navigating the interdependence dilemma: Attachment goals and the use of communal norms with potential close others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 77-96. Download

*Menzies-Toman, D.A., & Lydon, J.E. (2005). Commitment motivated benign appraisals of partner transgression: Do they facilitate accommodation? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 22, 111-128. Download

*Gagné, F. & Lydon, J. (2004). Bias and accuracy in close relationships: An integrative review. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 322-338. Download

*Bartz, J. & Lydon, J. (2004). Close relationships and the working self-concept: Implicit and explicit effects of priming attachment on agency and communion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1389-1401. Download

Taylor, D.M., Lydon, J.E., Bougie, E., & Johannsen, K. (2004). "Street kids:" Towards an understanding of their motivational context. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 36, 1-16. Download

Lydon, J., Fitzsimons, G., & Naidoo, L. (2003). Devaluation versus enhancement of attractive alternatives: A critical test. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 349-359. Download

*Gagné, F. & Lydon, J. (2003). Identification and the commitment shift: Accounting for gender differences in relationship illusions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 907-919. Download

*Gagné, F, Lydon, J., & Bartz, J. (2003). Effects of mindset on the predictive validity of relationship constructs. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 35, 292-304. Download

*Poore, A., Gagné, F., Barlow, K., Lydon, J., Taylor, D., & Wright, S. (2002). Contact and the personal/group discrimination discrepancy in an Inuit community. The Journal of Psychology, 136, 371-382. Download

Kramer, M.S., Goulet, L., Lydon, J., Seguin, L., McNamara, H., Dassa, C., Platt, R.W., Chen, M.F., Gauthier, H., Genest Jr., J., Kahn, S., Libman, M., Rozen, R., Masse, A., Miner, L., Asselin, G., Benjamin, A., Klein, J., & Koren, G. (2001). Socio-economic disparities in preterm birth: Causal pathways and mechanisms. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 15, 104-123. Download

*Gagné, F & Lydon, J. (2001). Mindset and close relationships: When bias leads to inaccurate predictions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 85-96. Download

*Pierce, T., & Lydon, J. (2001). Global and specific relational models in the experience of social interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 613-631.

*Gagné, F., & Lydon, J. (2001). Mindset and relationship illusions: The moderating effects of domain specificity and relationship commitment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1144-1155. Download

*Pierce, T., Lydon, J., & Yang, S. (2001). Enthusiasm versus moral commitment: What sustains family caregivers of those with dementia. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 23, 29-41. Download

Kramer, M.S., Séguin, L., Lydon, J., & Goulet, L. (2000). Socioeconomic disparities in pregnancy outcome: Why do the poor fare so poorly? Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, 14, 194-210. Download

Lydon, J., Meana, M., Sepinwall, D., Richard, N., & Mayman, S. (1999). The commitment calibration hypothesis: When do people devalue attractive alternatives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 152-161. Download

Hynie, M., Lydon, J., Cote, S., & Wiener, S. (1998). Relational sexual scripts and women's condom use: The importance of internalized norms. Journal of Sex Research, 35, 370-380. Download

*Pierce, T., & Lydon, J. (1998). Perceived available support as a relational schema: Testing the buffering effects of activated and chronic interpersonal expectations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1441-1448.

Lydon, J., Jamieson, D., & Holmes, J. (1997). The meaning of social interactions in the transition from acquaintanceship to friendship. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 536-548. Download

Lydon, J., Pierce, T., & O'Regan, S.(1997). Coping with moral commitment to long distance dating relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 104-113. Download

*Ruggiero, K.M., Taylor , D.M., & Lydon, J. (1997). How disadvantaged group members cope with discrimination when social support is available. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27, 1581-1600. Download

*Hynie, M., Lydon, J., & Taradash, A. (1997). Commitment, intimacy and women's perceptions of premarital sex and contraceptive behavior. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 21, 447-464. Download

*Pilkington, N., & Lydon, J. (1997). Similarity-attraction versus dissimilarity-repulsion: The moderating roles of group membership and prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 107-122. Download

Lydon, J., Dunkel-Schetter, C., Cohan, C., & Pierce, T. (1996). Pregnancy decision making as a significant life event: A commitment approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 141-151. Download

*Hynie, M., & Lydon, J. (1996). The sexual opinion survey and contraceptive behavior revisited: Can there be too much of a good thing? Journal of Sex Research, 33, 127-134. Download

*Hynie, M., & Lydon, J. (1995). Women's perceptions of female contraceptive behavior: Experimental evidence of the sexual double standard. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 19, 563-581. Download

Lydon, J., & Dunkel-Schetter, C. (1994). Seeing is committing: A longitudinal study of bolstering commitment in amniocentesis patients. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 218-227. Download

Cohan, C., Dunkel-Schetter, C., & Lydon, J. (1993). Pregnancy decision-making: Predictors of early stress and adjustment. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 17, 223-239. Download

Lydon, J., & Zanna, M. (1990). Commitment in the face of adversity: A value-affirmation approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 1040-1047. Download

Lydon, J., Zanna, M., & Ross, M. (1988). Bolstering newly-formed attitudes by autobiographical recall: Implications for attitude persistence and selective memory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 14, 78-86. Download

Lydon, J., Jamieson, D., & Zanna, M. (1988). Interpersonal similarity and the social and intellectual dimensions of first impressions. Social Cognition, 6, 269-286.

Jamieson, D., Lydon, J., & Zanna, M. (1987). Attitude and activity preference similarity: Differential bases of interpersonal attraction for low and high self-monitors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 1052-1060. Download

Jamieson, D., Lydon, J., Stewart, G., & Zanna, M. (1987). Pygmalion revisited: New evidence for student expectancy effects in the classroom (ERIC document reproduction service no. ED 269 671). Journal of Educational Psychology, 79, 461-466. Download

Pryor, J., Simpson, D., Ostrom, T., Mitchell, M., & Lydon, J. (1982). The representation of social information in memory: Studies of the influence of competing organizational schema on free recall. Social Cognition, 1, 336-357.

 

Book Chapters

Lydon, J.E., McClure, M.J., & Linardatos, L. Commitment : Predictors and Outcomes. (in press). In H. T. Reis & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lydon, J. & Linardatos, L. Decision and Commitment in Love. (2007). In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lydon, J. E., Burton, K. & Menzies-Toman, D.A. (2005). Commitment calibration with the relationship cognition toolbox. In M. W. Baldwin (Ed.), Interpersonal Cognition. New York: Guildford.

Lydon, J. (1999). Commitment and adversity: A reciprocal relation. In W. H. Jones & J. M. Adams (Eds.), Handbook of interpersonal commitment and relationship stability (pp. 193-204). New York: Plenum.

*Pierce, T., Baldwin, M., & Lydon, J. (1997). A relational schema approach to social support. In G. Pierce, B. Lakey, I. Sarason, & B. Sarason (Eds.), Sourcebook of Theory and Research on Social Support and Personality. New York: Plenum.

Lydon, J. (1996). Toward a theory of commitment. In C. Seligman, J. Olson, & M. Zanna (Eds.), Values: The Eighth Ontario Symposium (pp 191-213). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lydon, J., & Zanna, M. (1992). The cost of social support following negative life events: Can adversity increase commitment to caring in close relationships? In L. Montada, S.H. Filipp, & M. Lerner (Eds.), Crises and loss experiences in the adult years, (pp. 461-475). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Manuscripts Under Review

Linardatos, L. & Lydon, J.E. “She’s Just Having a Bad Day”: The Effects of Priming and Relational Self-Construal on Responses to Partner Transgressions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, under review.

*Birnie, C., McClure, M.J., Lydon, J.E. & Holmberg, D. Attachment avoidance and commitment aversion : A script for relationship failure. Personal Relationships, revision submitted.

*McClure, M.J., Lydon, J.E., Baccus, J., & Bladwin, M.W. (2008). Bad aim and an itchy trigger finger: A signal detection analysis of the anxiously attached at speed-dating. Psychological Science, under review.

Menzies-Toman, D. & Lydon, J E. Satisfaction-based and commitment-based relationships motives: Longitudinal and priming studies of self-determined motives and relationship maintenance processes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, under revision

Popeski,N., Scherling, C., Fleming, A S., Lydon, J E., Pruessner, J C., & Meaney, M J. Maternal Adversity Alters Patterns of Neural Activation in Response to Infant Cues, Archives of General Psychiatry, under review.

Kramer, M Wilkins, R, Goultet, L, Seguin L, Lydon, J, Kahn, S, McNamara, H, Dassa, C, Dahhou, M, Masse, A, Miner, L, Asselin, G, & Gauthier, H. Investigating Causal Pathways Underlying Socioeconomic Disparities in Preterm Birth: Does Intensive Data Collection Lead to Selection Bias?

Luong, M-L., Libman, M., Dahhou, M., Chen M.F., Kahn, S.R., Goulet, L., Séguin, L., Lydon, J., McNamara, H., Platt, R.W., & Kramer, M.S. Vaginal douching, bacterial vaginosis, and spontaneous preterm birth.

Kramer, MS., Kahn, S.R., Platt, R.W., Genest, J., Rozen, R., Chen, M.F., Goulet, L., Séguin, L., Dassa, C., Lamoureux, J., & Evans, R.W. Antioxidans vitamins, long-chain fatty acids, and spontaneous preterm birth.

Kramer, M.S., Kahn, S.R., Rozen, R., Evans, R., Platt, R.W., Chen, M.F., Goulet, L., Séguin, L., Dassa, C., Lydon, J., McNamara, H., Dahhou, M., & Genest, J. Vasculopathic and thrombophilic risk factors for spontaneous preterm birth.

Menzies-Toman, D. & Lydon, J E. Self-determination theory and close relationships: Intrinsic, identified, and introjected relationship motives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, under revision

Naomi Popeski, Carole Scherling, Alison S Fleming, John Lydon, Jens C Pruessner, & Michael J Meaney, Maternal Adversity Alters Patterns of Neural Activation in Response to Infant Cues, Archives of General Psychiatry, under review.

Kramer, M Wilkins, R, Goultet, L, Seguin L, Lydon, J, Kahn, S, McNamara, H, Dassa, C, Dahhou, M, Masse, A, Miner, L, Asselin, G, & Gauthier, H. Investigating Causal Pathways Underlying Socioeconomic Disparities in Preterm Birth: Does Intensive Data Collection Lead to Selection Bias? American Journal of Epidemiology, under review.