Publications and Conference Papers - St Thomas University

Rascle, O., Marbac, F., Higgins, N. C., Le Foll, D., Charrier, M., & Cabagno, G. (2021). Improvements in middle-schoolers’ performance and motivation to practice: An experimental investigation of accurate feedback in a motor task. Sage Open, October-December, 2021, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211067230 PDF

Higgins, N. C., & Zumbo, B. D. (2019). An individual differences measure of attributions affecting helping behavior. North American Journal of Psychology, 21(1), 57-80. Read the article here.

Summers, S. J., Higgins, N. C., Te, M., Byrne, A., & Chipchase, L. S. (2019). The effect of implicit theories of pain on pain and disability in people with chronic low back pain. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 40, 65-71. doi: 10.1016/j.msksp.2019.01.013

Rascle, O., Charrier, M., Higgins, N. C., Rees, T., Coffee, P., Le Foll, D., & Cabagno, G. (2019). Being one of us: Translating expertise into performance benefits following perceived failure.Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 43, 105-113. doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.01.010

Wang, Y., Higgins, N. C., Uleman, J., Michaux, A., & Vipond, D. (2016). An interactive activation and competition model of person knowledge, suggested by proactive interference by traits spontaneously inferred from behaviours. British Journal of Social Psychology, 55(1), 126-143. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12119

Rascle, O., Le Foll, D., Charrier, M., Higgins, N. C., Rees, T., & Coffee, P. (2015). Durability and generalization of attribution-based feedback following failure: Effects on expectations and behavioral persistence. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 18, 68-74. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2015.01.003

Higgins, N. C., Bailey, S.J., LaChapelle, D. L., Harman, K., & Hadjistavropoulos, T. (2014). Coping styles, pain expressiveness, and implicit theories of chronic pain. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 149(7), 737-750. doi:10.1080/00223980.2014.977759

LaChapelle, D. L., Lavoie, S. P., Higgins, N. C., & Hadjistavropoulos, T. (2014). Attractiveness, diagnostic ambiguity, and disability cues impact perceptions of women with pain. Rehabilitation Psychology, 59(2), 162-170. doi: 10.1037/a0035894

Higgins, N. C., & LaPointe, M. R. P. (2012). Academic attributional style predicts behavioral persistence under failure: Factor structure and predictive validity of the Academic Attributional Style Questionnaire. Sage Open, 2(4), 1-15. doi: 10.1177/2158244012470110

Rascle, O., Le Foll, D., & Higgins, N. C. (2008). Attributional retraining alters novice golfers’ free practice behavior. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 20(2), 157-164. doi: 10.1080/10413200701805307

Le Foll, D., Rascle, O., & Higgins, N. C. (2008). Attributional feedback-induced changes in functional and dysfunctional attributions, expectancies for success, hopefulness, and persistence in a novel sport. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 9, 77-101. doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2007.01.004

Le Foll, D., Rascle, O., & Higgins, N. C. (2006). Persistence in a putting task during perceived failure: Influence of state-attributions and attributional style. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 55, 586-605. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-0597.2006.00249.x

Higgins, N. C., & Hay, J. (2003). Attributional style predicts causes of negative life events on the Attributional Style Questionnaire. Journal of Social Psychology, 143(2), 253-271. doi: 10.1080/00224540309598444

Lundquist, L. M., Higgins, N. C., & Prkachin, K. M. (2002). Accurate pain detection is not enough: Contextual and attributional style biasing factors in patient evaluations and treatment choice. Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, 7(2), 114-132. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9861.2002.tb00080.x

Higgins, N. C., & Bhatt, G. (2001). Culture moderates the self-serving bias: Etic and emic features of causal attributions in India and in Canada. Social Behavior and Personality, 29(1), 49-61. doi: 10.2224/sbp.2001.29.1.49

Higgins, N. C., Zumbo, B. D., & Hay, J. (1999). Construct validity of attributional style: Modeling context-dependent item sets in the Attributional Style Questionnaire.Educational and Psychological Measurement, 59, 804-820. doi: 10.1177/00131649921970152

Higgins, N. C., & Shaw, J. K. (1999). Attributional style moderates the impact of causal controllability information on helping behaviour. Social Behavior and Personality, 27(3), 221-236. doi: 10.2224/sbp.1999.27.3.221

Higgins, N. C., & Morrison, M. (1998). Construct validity of unsupportive attributional style: The impact of life outcome controllability. Social Indicators Research, 45, 319-342. doi: 10.1023/A:1006910201412

Higgins, N. C., St Amand, M. D., & Poole, G. A. (1997). The controllability of negative life experiences mediates unrealistic optimism. Social Indicators Research, 42, 299-323. doi: 10.1023/A:1006865832297

Davison, A. J., & Higgins, N. C. (1993: Commentary). Observer bias in perceptions of responsibility. American Psychologist, 48, 585. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.48.5.584.a

Krebs, D., Denton, K., & Higgins, N. C. (1988). On the evolution of self-knowledge and self-deception. In K. McDonald (Ed.), Sociobiological perspectives on human development (pp. 103-139). New York: Springer-Verlag. [Refereed Chapter]

Dickinson, J., & Higgins, N. C. (1977). Release from proactive and retroactive interference in motor short-term memory. Journal of Motor Behaviour, 9(1), 61-66. doi: 10.1080/00222895.1977.10735095

Recent Conference Papers

Antoun, J. P., Hall, A. D., Phung, N. T. H., & Higgins, N. C. (2023). The moderating effects of experience, perceived causal controllability, and perceived severity of negative outcomes on unrealistic optimism. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, GA.

Phung, N. T. H., Hall, A. D., Antoun, J. P., & Higgins, N. C. (2022). Investigating the role of perceived controllability and severity of outcomes in unrealistic optimism. Presented at the Science Atlantic Undergraduate Psychology Conference. (Virtual)

Higgins, N. C., Rascle, O., Marbac, F., Le Foll, D., Charrier, M., & Cabagno, G. (2021). An experimental study of learned helplessness in middle-schoolers. New England Psychological Association Annual Meeting (Virtual).

Nah, K., Higgins, N. C., & Thomson, S. J. (2021). Was it me or the situation? Spontaneous causal inferences in response to one’s own positive and negative outcomes. UNB Graduate Research Conference (Virtual).

Higgins, N. C., & Randall, H. A. (2019). Unrealistic optimism and perceptions of personal financial security and thrift. New England Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Manchester, NH.

Summers, S. J., Te, M., Chipchase, L. S., & Higgins, N. C. (2018). Implicit theories of pain relate to self-reported symptoms in patients with chronic low back pain. Presented at the IASP 17^th World Congress on Pain in Boston, MA.

Nah, K., Higgins, N. C., & Thomson, S. J. (2018). Why did I do that?: Spontaneous causal inferences in self perception. Multidisciplinary Graduate Research Conference, UPEI.

Higgins, N. C., Thomson, S. J., & Buckle, K. (2018). “Am I clumsy, or was it slippery?”: Differential activation of spontaneous trait and situational inferences in self perception. Presented at the 19^th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, GA.

Higgins, N. C., O’Donnell, T., & Randall, H. E. (2017). Maintenance of unrealistic optimism when negative experiences are personally controllable: An experimental investigation. Presented at the 56^th New England Psychological Association Meeting, Newton, MA.