Books:

• Plaks, J. E. (Ed.). (2011). The social psychology of motivation. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles:

• Cesario, J., Plaks, J. E., Hagiwara, N., Navarrete, C.D., & Higgins, E. T. (2010). The ecology of automaticity: How situational contingencies shape action semantics and social behavior. Psychological Science, 21, 1311-1317.
• Cesario, J., Plaks. J. E., & Higgins, E. T. (2006). Automatic social behavior as motivated preparation to interact. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 893-910.
• Joel, S., Macdonald, G., & Plaks, J.E. (2012). Attachment anxiety uniquely predicts interpersonal regret. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 348-355.
• Leach, F.R. & Plaks, J.E. (2009). Regret for errors of commission versus omission in the near-term and far-term: The role of level of abstraction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 221-229.
• Plaks, J. E., Grant, H., & Dweck, C. S. (2005). Violations of implicit theories and the sense of prediction and control: Implications for motivated person perception. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 245-262.
• Plaks, J.E., Malahy, L.W., Sedlins, M. & Shoda, Y. (2012). Folk beliefs about human genetic variation predict discrete versus continuous race categorization and evaluative bias. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 31-39.
• Plaks, J. E., McNichols, N. K, & Fortune, J. L. (2009). Thoughts versus deeds: Distal and proximal intent in lay judgments of moral responsibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1687-1701.
• Plaks, J. E., & Stecher, K. (2007). Unexpected improvement, decline, and stasis: A prediction confidence perspective on achievement success and failure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 667-684.
• Remedios, J. D., Chasteen, A. L., Rule, N. O., Plaks, J.E. (2011). Evaluations at the intersection of ambiguous and obvious social categories: Does Gay + Black = Likable? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 1312-1315.