Selected lab publications
For a full list of publications, please see Dr. Shana Cole's Google Scholar profile
Journal
Articles
Wetzel, G. M., Svensson, H., Cole, S., & Sanchez, D. T. (2025). Devaluing Women’s Orgasm: An Experimental Investigation of Whether, When, and to What Effect Women and Men Reduce the Importance of Women’s Orgasm. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0).
Balcetis, E., Daly, J., Guenther, C., Lapitan, E., Pesantes, J., Riccio, M., Voigt, A., & Cole, S. (in press). Self-regulation via visual fixation: Effects of strategic shifting of attentional scope on running intensity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Wetzel, G. M., Sanchez, D. T., & Cole, S. (2024). Feasibility cues during a sexual encounter impact the strength of heterosexual women’s orgasm goal pursuit. The Journal of Sex Research, 61, 196-215.
Svensson, H. Shoots-Reinhard, B. & Cole, S. (2023). COVID-19 and threats to goal scripts: Reimagining goals during a global pandemic. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17, e12863.
Leduc-Cummings, I., Werner, K. M., Milyavskaya, M., Dominick, J. K., & Cole, S. (2022). Experiencing obstacles during goal pursuit: The role of goal motivation and trait self-control. Journal of Research in Personality, 99, 104231.
Howansky, K., Bonagura, D., Wittlin, N., & Cole, S. (2022). Him, her, them, or none: Misgendering and degendering of transgender individuals. Psychology & Sexuality, 13, 1026-1040.
Balcetis, E., Guenther, C., Pesantes, J., & Cole, S. (2021). Where you look and how far you go: The relationship between attentional styles and running performance. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 100014.
Cole, S., Dominick, J. K., & Balcetis, E. (2021). Out of reach and under control: Distancing as a self-control strategy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 939-952.
Balcetis, E., Cole, S., & Duncan. D. (2021). How walkable neighborhoods promote physical activity: Policy implications for development and renewal. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 173-180.
Dominick, J.K. & Cole, S. (2020). Goals as identities: Boosting perceptions of healthy-eater identity for easier goal pursuit. Motivation and Emotion, 44, 410-426.
Howansky, K., Albuja, A., & Cole, S. (2020). Seeing gender: Perceptual representations of transgender individuals. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 11, 474-482.
Balcetis, E., Riccio, M., Duncan, D., & Cole, S. (2019). Keeping the goal in sight: Testing the influence of narrowed visual attention on physical activity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 485–496.
Howansky, K., Dominick, J.K., & Cole, S. (2018). The look of success or failure: Biased self-perceptions serve as informational feedback during goal pursuit. Motivation Science, 5, 314–325.
Mallinas, S., Crawford, J., & Cole, S. (2018). Political opposites do not attract: The effects of ideological dissimilarity on impression formation. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 6, 49-75.
Cole, S., Trope, Y., & Balcetis. E. (2016). In the eye of the betrothed: Perceptual downgrading in romantic self-control conflicts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 879-892.
Balcetis, E., Cole, S., & Bisi, A. (2016). Near and nothing to it: Perceived proximity improves exercise by increasing feasibility appraisals. Motivation Science, 1, 203-218.
Stern, C., Balcetis, E., Cole, S., West, T., & Caruso, E. (2016). Government instability shifts skin tone representations of and intentions to vote for political candidates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 76-95.
Cole, S., Riccio, M., & Balcetis, E. (2014). Focused and fired up: Narrowed attention produces perceived proximity and increases goal-relevant action. Motivation and Emotion, 38, 815-822.
Cole, S., & Balcetis, E. (2013). Sources of resources: Bioenergetic and psychoenergetic resources influence distance perception. Social Cognition, 31, 711-722.
Cole, S., Balcetis, E., & Dunning, D. (2013). Affective signals of threat increase perceived proximity. Psychological Science, 24, 34-40.
Cole, S., Balcetis, E., & Zhang, S. (2013). Visual perception and regulatory conflict: Motivation and physiology influence distance perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 18-22.
Riccio, M., Cole, S., & Balcetis, E. (2013). Seeing the expected, the desired, and the feared: Influences on perceptual interpretation and directed attention. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 7, 401-414.
Stern, C., Cole, S., Gollwitzer, P., Oettingen, G., & Balcetis, E. (2013). Effects of implementation intentions on anxiety, perceived proximity, and motor performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 623-635.
Book
Chapters
Balcetis, E., & Cole, S. (2024). A dynamic perspective on visual perception in social cognition and action. The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition Second Edition, 171-197.
Cole, S. & Balcetis, E. (2021). Motivated perception for self-regulation: How visual experience serves and is served by goals. Advances in Experimental Psychology, 64, 129-186.
Balcetis, E., Cole, S., & Sherali, S. (2014). The motivated and mindful perceiver: Relationships among motivated perception, mindfulness, and self-regulation. In E. Langer, Ngnoumen, & Le, A. (Eds). Handbook of Mindfulness (pp. 200-215). New York: Wiley.
Balcetis, E., & Cole, S. (2014). Motivated distance perception serves action regulation. In Forgas, J. & Harmon-Jones, E. (Eds). The Control Within: Motivation and its Regulation. New York: Psychology Press.
Balcetis, E., & Cole, S. (2013). On misers, managers, and monsters: The social cognition of visual perception. In Carlston, D. (Ed). Handbook of Social Cognition. (pp. 329-351). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cole, S., & Balcetis, E. (2010). Of visions and desires: Biased perceptions can serve self-protective functions. In C. Sedikides & M. Alicke (Eds). Handbook of Self-Enhancement and Self-Protection (pp. 155-173). New York: Guilford Press.