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According to Wikipedia, Shelley Elizabeth Taylor is an American psychologist. She serves as a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University, and was formerly on the faculty at Harvard University. A prolific author of books and scholarly journal articles, Taylor has long been a leading figure in two subfields related to her primary discipline of social psychology: social cognition and health psychology. Her books include The Tending Instinct and Social Cognition, the latter by Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor.

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Social cognition, 2nd ed. (1991) (3073)
Adjustment to threatening events: A theory of cognitive adaptation. (1983) (3060)
Risky families: family social environments and the mental and physical health of offspring. (2002) (2803)
Social Cognition, from Brains to Culture (1984) (1536)
Salience, Attention, and Attribution: Top of the Head Phenomena (1978) (1266)
Coping resources, coping processes, and mental health. (2007) (1123)
Categorical and contextual bases of person memory and stereotyping. (1978) (964)
Culture and social support. (2008) (825)
Culture and social support: who seeks it and why? (2004) (812)
Stalking the elusive "vividness" effect. (1982) (781)
Theory and Research Concerning Social Comparisons of Personal Attributes (2001) (752)
Social Support: A Review (2011) (674)
It Could Be Worse: Selective Evaluation as a Response to Victimization (1983) (560)
From Thought to Action: Effects of Process-Versus Outcome-Based Mental Simulations on Performance (1999) (535)
Point of view and perceptions of causality. (1975) (533)
Tend and Befriend (2006) (480)
Coping and the Simulation of Events (1989) (480)
A Better World or a Shattered Vision? Changes in Life Perspectives Following Victimization (1990) (459)
Psychosocial Resources and the SES‐Health Relationship (1999) (457)
Neural pathways link social support to attenuated neuroendocrine stress responses (2007) (456)
Positive illusions: Creative self-deception and the healthy mind. (1989) (454)
Neurocognitive components of the behavioral inhibition and activation systems: implications for theories of self-regulation. (2007) (443)
Affirmation of Personal Values Buffers Neuroendocrine and Psychological Stress Responses (2005) (440)
Situated Optimism: Specific Outcome Expectancies and Self-Regulation (1998) (436)
Early Family Environment, Current Adversity, the Serotonin Transporter Promoter Polymorphism, and Depressive Symptomatology (2006) (433)
Attachment figures activate a safety signal-related neural region and reduce pain experience (2011) (391)
Are psychosocial factors mediators of socioeconomic status and health connections? (2010) (375)
Neural sensitivity to social rejection is associated with inflammatory responses to social stress (2010) (361)
Cultural Differences in the Impact of Social Support on Psychological and Biological Stress Responses (2007) (360)
Early environment, emotions, responses to stress, and health. (2004) (352)
A Picture's Worth (2009) (337)
Pursuit of Comfort and Pursuit of Harmony: Culture, Relationships, and Social Support Seeking (2006) (336)
Mechanisms linking early life stress to adult health outcomes (2010) (330)
Portrait of the self-enhancer: well adjusted and well liked or maladjusted and friendless? (2003) (326)
Culture, distress, and oxytocin receptor polymorphism (OXTR) interact to influence emotional support seeking (2010) (322)
Are self-enhancing cognitions associated with healthy or unhealthy biological profiles? (2003) (304)
Relationship of Early Life Stress and Psychological Functioning to Adult C-Reactive Protein in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (2006) (282)
Relation of Oxytocin to Psychological Stress Responses and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Axis Activity in Older Women (2006) (274)
Variation in the μ-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) is associated with dispositional and neural sensitivity to social rejection (2009) (269)
Self-Evaluation Processes (1995) (254)
Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) is related to psychological resources (2011) (253)
Judgment under uncertainty: The availability bias in social perception and interaction (1982) (249)
Accelerated Course of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Gay Men Who Conceal Their Homosexual Identity (1996) (248)
Neural Responses to Emotional Stimuli Are Associated with Childhood Family Stress (2006) (245)
Social psychology, 8th ed. (1994) (242)
Hospital Patient Behavior: Reactance, Helplessness, or Control? (1979) (240)
Self-generated feelings of control and adjustment to physical illness. (1991) (231)
Social Support and Marital Adjustment After Breast Cancer (1988) (223)
Are Plasma Oxytocin in Women and Plasma Vasopressin in Men Biomarkers of Distressed Pair-Bond Relationships? (2010) (223)
Social Comparison, Stress, and Coping (1990) (217)
Understanding Genetic Risk for Aggression: Clues From the Brain’s Response to Social Exclusion (2007) (216)
Structural models for the mediation of salience effects on attribution (1982) (215)
Schematic Bases of Belief Change (1984) (214)
Accounting for changes in social support among married older adults: insights from the MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. (2003) (209)
Heuristics and Biases: When Predictions Fail: The Dilemma of Unrealistic Optimism (2002) (204)
Stigma, Staring, and Discomfort: A Novel-Stimulus Hypothesis. (1976) (202)
Early adversity and adult health outcomes (2011) (201)
Does Self-Affirmation, Cognitive Processing, or Discovery of Meaning Explain Cancer-Related Health Benefits of Expressive Writing? (2007) (201)
Neural bases of moderation of cortisol stress responses by psychosocial resources. (2008) (194)
Positive and Negative Effects of HIV Infection in Women with Low Socioeconomic Resources (2002) (190)
Neural and behavioral bases of age differences in perceptions of trust (2012) (188)
Evidence for social working memory from a parametric functional MRI study (2012) (186)
Relation of Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Family Environment to Adult Metabolic Functioning in the CARDIA Study (2005) (185)
Mediating and moderating processes in psychosocial stress: Appraisal, coping, resistance, and vulnerability. (1996) (184)
Social Comparisons and Adjustment Among Cardiac Patients1 (1993) (184)
The Serotonin Transporter Promoter Polymorphism Is Associated with Cortisol Response to Psychosocial Stress (2010) (183)
Childhood abuse, parental warmth, and adult multisystem biological risk in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study (2013) (178)
Illness‐related and treatment‐related factors in psychological adjustment to breast cancer (1985) (176)
Anger and fear responses to stress have different biological profiles (2010) (175)
Realistic acceptance as a predictor of decreased survival time in gay men with AIDS. (1994) (172)
Low Calorie Dieting Increases Cortisol (2010) (162)
The Effects of Mindset on Behavior: Self-Regulation in Deliberative and Implemental Frames of Mind (2003) (161)
THE TENDING INSTINCT: HOW NURTURING IS ESSENTIAL TO WHO WE ARE AND HOW WE LIVE (2002) (2004) (154)
Self-affirmation alters the brain’s response to health messages and subsequent behavior change (2015) (153)
Relationship of early life stress and psychological functioning to blood pressure in the CARDIA study. (2009) (147)
Facial Expressions of Emotion Reveal Neuroendocrine and Cardiovascular Stress Responses (2007) (144)
Finding positive meaning and its association with natural killer cell cytotoxicity among participants in a bereavement-related disclosure intervention (2003) (144)
Maintaining Positive Illusions in the Face of Negative Information: Getting the Facts Without Letting them Get to You (1989) (128)
From Vulnerability to Growth: Positive and Negative Effects of Stressful Life Events (2021) (126)
Social comparison, self-regulation, and motivation. (1996) (124)
5-HTTLPR moderates effects of current life events on neuroticism: Differential susceptibility to environmental influences (2010) (119)
Social Neuroscience: Progress and Implications for Mental Health (2007) (116)
The social being in social psychology. (1998) (113)
What makes experiences satisfying? The interaction of approach-avoidance motivations and emotions in well-being. (2004) (112)
Health psychology, 4th ed. (1999) (110)
Effects of a supportive or an unsupportive audience on biological and psychological responses to stress. (2010) (106)
The generalizability of salience effects. (1979) (106)
Mental simulation, motivation, and action. (1996) (105)
On inferring one's attitudes from one's behavior: Some delimiting conditions. (1975) (104)
The vividness effect: Elusive or illusory? (1988) (102)
Negative and competitive social interactions are related to heightened proinflammatory cytokine activity (2012) (97)
The Effects of Mental Simulation on Coping with Controllable Stressful Events (1999) (95)
The Effect of Mental Simulation on Goal-Directed Performance (1999) (92)
Gene–Culture Interaction (2011) (88)
Date with an Earthquake (1987) (88)
Relations with children after breast cancer : the mother-daughter relationship at risk (1985) (84)
Cognitive Bases of Stereotyping (1982) (84)
“HIV Is not My Biggest Problem”: The Impact of HIV and Chronic Burden on Depression in Women at Risk for Aids (2004) (81)
Psychosocial aspects of chronic illness. (1996) (80)
Social Influences on Health: Is Serotonin a Critical Mediator? (2010) (78)
Culture, serotonin receptor polymorphism and locus of attention. (2010) (75)
Social working memory and its distinctive link to social cognitive ability: an fMRI study. (2015) (75)
When Love Is Blind (1976) (67)
Perceived Control and Psychological Adjustment in Gay Men With AIDS1 (1993) (66)
Affect and the processing of personal information: Evidence for mood-activated self-schemata☆ (1986) (66)
Thin-Ideal Media and Women’s Body Dissatisfaction: Prevention using Downward Social Comparisons on Non-Appearance Dimensions (2007) (66)
Neurobiological correlates of coping through emotional approach (2009) (63)
Close Relationships and Happiness (2013) (60)
Imaging, Empathy, and Causal Attribution. (1979) (59)
Impact of health beliefs, quality of life, and the physician-patient relationship on the treatment intentions of inflammatory bowel disease patients. (2002) (59)
Childhood Family Psychosocial Environment and Coronary Heart Disease Risk (2011) (55)
Social Cognition and Health (1982) (55)
Social psychological aspects of health (1984) (53)
Oxytocin and vasopressin receptor polymorphisms interact with circulating neuropeptides to predict human emotional reactions to stress. (2014) (53)
Social comparison and the drive upward revisited: Affiliation as a response to marital stress (1991) (52)
Close Relationships and the Female Cancer Patient (1986) (52)
Storytelling and coping with stressful events. (1993) (52)
Social relationships and immune processes in HIV seropositive gay and bisexual men (1997) (52)
The Effect of Metaphor on Political Attitudes (1981) (50)
Social Cognition in the Classroom. (1983) (48)
Early environment affects neuroendocrine regulation in adulthood. (2011) (47)
Assault on the Self: Positive Illusions and Adjustment to Threatening Events (1991) (46)
Self-affirmation activates brain systems associated with self-related processing and reward and is reinforced by future orientation. (2016) (44)
The self in transition (1993) (43)
Early adversity, neural development, and inflammation. (2015) (43)
Psychosocial Resources: Functions, Origins, and Links to Mental and Physical Health (2011) (42)
Pregnancy: A social stigma? (1977) (38)
Fostering a Supportive Environment At Work (2008) (36)
Schematic Bases of Social Problem-Solving (1978) (34)
Tend and befriend theory. (2012) (34)
Effects of self-transcendence on neural responses to persuasive messages and health behavior change (2018) (34)
Social comparison and affiliation under threat. (1992) (34)
Effects of Environmental Predictability and Personal Mastery on Self-Regulatory and Physiological Processes (2001) (34)
Altered emotion regulation capacity in social phobia as a function of comorbidity. (2015) (33)
Self-monitoring and the use of consensus information. (1981) (33)
Neural responses to social threat and predictors of cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in social anxiety disorder (2017) (32)
Sex differences in biobehavioral responses to threat: Reply to Geary and Flinn (2002) (2002) (32)
Positive illusions and affect regulation (1993) (32)
Culture and social support: neural bases and biological impact. (2009) (32)
A Polymorphism in the Serotonin Transporter Gene Moderates Cardiovascular Reactivity to Psychosocial Stress (2011) (30)
Adiposity moderates links from early adversity and depressive symptoms to inflammatory reactivity to acute stress during late adolescence (2017) (30)
Social responses to stress: The tend-and-befriend model. (2011) (29)
RETRACTED: Facial Expressions of Emotion Reveal Neuroendocrine and Cardiovascular Stress Responses (2005) (27)
Depressive symptoms and immune transcriptional profiles in late adolescents (2019) (27)
Cognitive Bases of Children's Moral Judgments. (1977) (26)
Positive Psychology and Health Psychology: A Fruitful Liaison (2012) (25)
The relation of approach/avoidance motivation and message framing to the effectiveness of charitable appeals (2011) (24)
Affiliation, social support and biobehavioral responses to stress. (2009) (24)
Predicting Perceptions of Victimization (1976) (24)
Daily interpersonal stress, sleep duration, and gene regulation during late adolescence (2019) (23)
The Vividness Effect: Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill? (1983) (22)
Cultural Differences in the Link Between Supportive Relationships and Proinflammatory Cytokines (2013) (22)
Stress, Psychological Resources, and HPA and Inflammatory Reactivity During Late Adolescence (2018) (21)
Premature Consensus on Consensus? Effects of Sample-Based Versus Self-Based Consensus Information (1980) (20)
Affiliation and Stress (2010) (20)
Childhood family psychosocial environment and carotid intima media thickness: the CARDIA study. (2014) (19)
Self-Transcendent Values and Neural Responses to Threatening Health Messages (2017) (17)
Handbook of Psychology and Health (Volume IV) (2020) (17)
Breast self‐examination among diagnosed breast cancer patients (1984) (17)
How psychosocial resources enhance health and well-being. (2011) (16)
Preference, Expectations, and Attributional Bias: Two Field Studies1 (1979) (16)
The Changing Face of World Cities (2017) (15)
Publishing in Scientific Journals: We're Not Just Talking to Ourselves Anymore (2009) (14)
Private Equity at Work (2017) (14)
Nonsynonymous HTR2C polymorphism predicts cortisol response to psychosocial stress II: Evidence from two samples (2016) (14)
A Developing Role for Social Psychology in Medicine and Medical Practice (1978) (14)
Sex, sex‐role identification, and awareness of sex‐role stereotypes (1979) (12)
Evolution, Relationships, and Health: The Social Shaping Hypothesis (2006) (12)
Interview with Shelley E. Taylor. (2019) (12)
Relationship of Personal Cognitive Schemas to the Labeling of a Profound Emotional Experience as Religious-Mystical or Aesthetic (2008) (12)
The effect of being shunned upon the desire to affiliate (1971) (12)
Lessons learned from a life in psychological science: Implications for young scientists. (1999) (12)
Current issues and new directions in Psychology and Health : Bringing basic and applied research together to address underlying mechanisms (2008) (12)
Effects of a Multidimensional Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Program on Psychosocial Function (1992) (11)
Psychological sequelae of avoiding HIV-serostatus information (1999) (10)
The Development of Schemas. (1980) (10)
Theory Driven Processing and the Use of Complex Evidence. (1978) (9)
Sociocultural Perspectives in Social Psychology: Current Readings (1996) (9)
Social psychology / Shelley E. Taylor, Letitia Anne Peplau, David O. Sears (1997) (8)
On healthy illusions (2005) (7)
The Influence of Early Socialization Experiences on the Development of Biological Systems. (2007) (7)
Genetic contributions to sensitive parenting. (2008) (7)
Genetic factors in social pain. (2011) (7)
Social Cognition evolves: Illustrations from our work on Intergroup Bias and on Healthy Adaptation. (2020) (7)
Alternative Theories of Health Policy Attitudes and Protective Behaviors: Self Interest, Sociotropy, and Socialization (1984) (6)
Preparing for social psychology’s future☆ (2004) (6)
Social comparison and self-regulation (1996) (6)
Experimenting with Social Norms (2014) (6)
Expectancy confirmed again: A computer investigation of expectancy theory (1974) (6)
Coping with the threat of AIDS (2015) (5)
Social Psychology: Study Guide (1999) (5)
Motivated Cognition: Phenomena in Search of Theory (1999) (5)
The role of multiple negative social relationships in inflammatory cytokine responses to a laboratory stressor (2015) (5)
The Future of Social-Health Psychology: Prospects and Predictions (2011) (5)
Envisioning the Future and Self-Regulation (2011) (4)
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) (2020) (3)
Nashville in the New Millennium (2017) (3)
Monoamine Oxidase A, Gender Differences, and Social Exclusion: Response to Gallardo-Pujol et al. (2008) (2)
The contribution of trait negative affect and stress to recall for bodily states (2016) (2)
The Impact of Early Adversity on Health (2010) (2)
The Irony of Cultural Psychology Research. (2009) (2)
Correction to Lehman, Taylor, Kiefe, and Seeman (2009). (2009) (2)
Relationships and Well-Being 1 Running Head: Relationships and Well-Being Close Relationships and Subjective Well-Being (2014) (2)
19th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (2005) (2)
The Present-Minded Professor: Controlling One's Career (2021) (1)
Reply to: No Replication of Genotype Effect of 5-HTTLPR on Cortisol Response to Social Stress in Larger Adolescent Sample (2010) (1)
Emotions as Psychological Achievements (2014) (1)
Preface to the special issue of Social Psychology and Health (1995) (1)
How are Social Ties Protective? (2020) (1)
Interventions for Family Members of High-Risk Cardiac Patients (1986) (0)
The Developing Field of Health Psychology (2020) (0)
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Profile of Shelley E. Taylor. Interview by Beth Azar. (2010) (0)
Chronic Burden Measure (2013) (0)
Improving Training and Performance of Navy Teams (1980) (0)
Structures cognitives des attitudes (2011) (0)
Annual Review of Psychology (1971) (0)
Chapter 19. Health psychology (2010) (0)
Research on the Chronically Ill: Conceptual and Methodological Perspectives (2020) (0)
Trauma History List (2013) (0)
Positive and Negative HIV-Related Changes Measure (2013) (0)
Situational Optimism Scale (2012) (0)
Response (1984) (0)
Early Adversity Running Head : Early Adversity and Health The Impact of Early Adversity on Health (2014) (0)
Volume 6, 2011, List of Contents (2011) (0)
Pathways Linking Early Life Stress to Adult Health (2011) (0)
The Academic Marathon: Managing the Academic Career (2002) (0)
Health psychology: The science and the field (1990). (1997) (0)
Bookend: Positive Illusions (1989) (0)
Implications of health psychology for mental health services (1986) (0)

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