Publications

2024 and in press

Saunders, B., & More, K. (in press). Some habits are more work than others: Deliberate self-regulation strategy use increases with behavioral complexity, even for established habits. Journal of Personality. 

2023

Lopez, R.B., Tausen, B.M., Traub, G., Marathia, E., Saunders, B. (2023). Connecting to our future, healthier selves: Associations between self-continuity measures and eating behaviors in daily life. Current Research in Behavioural Sciences. 

2022 

Saunders, B., Milyavskaya, M., & Inzlicht, M. (2022). Longitudinal evidence that Event Related Potential measures of self-regulation do not predict everyday goal pursuit. Nature Communications, 13, 3201.

2021

Lopez, R.B., Cosme, D., Werner, K.M., Saunders, B., & Hofmann, W.  (2021). Associations between use of self-regulatory strategies and daily eating patterns: An experience sampling study in college-aged females. Motivation & Emotion.

Milyavskaya, M., Saunders, B., & Inzlicht, M. (2021). Self-control in daily life: Prevalence and effectiveness of diverse self-control strategies. Journal of Personality.

Saunders, B., & Inzlicht, M. (2021). Pooling resources to enhance rigour in psychophysiological research: Insights from open science approaches to meta-analysis. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 

van Steenbergen, H., Sauter, D., Saunders, B., & Pourtois, G. (2021). Editorial Overview: Taxonomies, Mechanisms, and Applications. Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences

Vohs, K. D., Schmeichel, B. J., Lohmann, S., Gronau, Q., Finley, A. J…. Wagenmakers, E.-J., & Albarracín, D. (2021). A multi-site preregistered paradigmatic test of the ego depletion effect. Psychological Science

2020 

Chartier et al. (2020). Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Albarracín et al. (2008), Experiment 5. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Ebersole et al., (2020). Many Labs 5: Testing pre-data collection peer review as an intervention to increase replicability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Lin, H., Saunders, B., Friese, M., Evans, N. J., & Inzlicht, M. (2020). Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm.  Psychological Science.  

Saunders, B., & Inzlicht, M. (2020). Assessing and adjusting for publication bias in the relationship between anxiety and the error-related negativity. International Journal of Psychophysiology.

2018 

Saunders, B., Milyavskaya, M., Etz, A., Randles, D., & Inzlicht, M. (2018). Reported self-control is not meaningfully associated with inhibition-related executive function: A Bayesian analysis. Collabra: Psychology.

Included in the "Top 100 pre-prints of 2017" on the Open Science Framework

Covered by Vox in "Why Willpower is overrated" 

Elkins-Brown, N., Saunders, B., & Inzlicht, M. (2018). The misattribution of emotions and the error-related negativity: a Registered Report. Cortex. 

Moshontz et al. (2018). The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network.  Advanced Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

O’Donnell, M., et al., (2018). Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis & van Knippenberg (1998). Perspectives in Psychological Science.

Saunders, B., Riesel, A., Klawohn, J., & Inzlicht, M. (2018). Interpersonal touch enhances cognitive control: A neurophysiological investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

2017

Elkins-Brown, N., Saunders, B., He, F.F.H., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). Stability of error-related electromyography over the corrugator supercilii with increasing trials. Psychophysiology. 

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Saunders, B., Lin, H., Milyavskaya, M., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). The emotive nature of conflict monitoring in the medial prefrontal cortex. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 

2016

Elkins-Brown, N., Saunders, B., & Inzlicht, M. (2016). Error-related electromyographic activity over the corrugator supercilii predicts neural performance monitoring. Psychophysiology

Saunders, B., & Inzlicht, M. (2016). Vigour and fatigue: How variation in affect underlies effective self-control. In T. Braver (Ed.), Motivation and Cognitive Control. New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge. 

Saunders, B., Rodrigo, A.H., & Inzlicht, M. (2016). Mindful awareness of feelings increases neural performance monitoring. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

2015

Saunders, B., Milyavskaya, M., & Inzlicht, M. (2015). Variation in cognitive control as emotion regulation. Psychological Inquiry.

2014

Hobson, N.M., Saunders, B., Al-Khindi, T., & Inzlicht, M. (2014). Emotion down-regulation diminishes cognitive control: A neurophysiological investigation. Emotion. 

2012

pre-prints

Cameron, D., Cunningham, W., Saunders, B., & Inzlicht, M. (preprint). The ends of empathy: Constructing empathy from value-based choice. 

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