Carroll, P. J., Sweeny, K., & Shepperd, J. A. (2006). Forsaking optimism. Review of General Psychology, 10, 56-73.
Sweeny, K., & Shepperd, J. A. (2007). Being the best bearer of bad tidings: The bad news response model. Review of General Psychology, 11, 235-257.
Shepperd, J. A., Malone, W., & Sweeny, K. (2008). Exploring Causes of the Self-serving Bias, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 895–908. (URL: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/ 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00078.x)
Sweeny, K., Melnyk, D., Malone, W., & Shepperd, J. A. (2010). Information avoidance: Who, what, when & why. Review of General Psychology, 14, 340-353.
Sweeny, K., & Shepperd, J. A. (2010). The costs of optimism and the benefits of pessimism: Timing matters. Emotion, 10, 750-753.
Managing Threat by Avoiding Information; Invited Talk; National Cancer Institute; 2013
Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions; Invited talk; College of Central Florida; 2019
A Psychological Perspective on the Gun Divide in America; Symposium on Gun Violence in America; University of Florida School of Law; 2019
Union and Division: A Psychological Perspective on the Gun Debate in American; Inivted Talk; Institute of American Universities, Aix-en-Provence, France; 2018
Maintaining Quality of Life by Avoiding Information; Invited Talk; University of Nice, France; 2018
Gun attitudes on college campus: United and divided by safety needs; Inivted Talk; University of Colorado; 2017
Information Avoidance; Invited talk; University of Leads, United Kingdom; 2017
Calculated Ignorance; Invited talk; University of Freiburg, Germany; 2016
