Publications

Seto, E. (2024). At freedom’s edge: Belief in free will during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE, 19(6).

Seto, E. (2024). Climbing the invisible ladder: Attenuating belief in free will reduces subjective perceptions of social mobility. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15(1), 3-11.

Seto, E., & Davis, W. E. (2021). Authenticity predicts positive interpersonal relationship quality at low, but not high, levels of psychopathy. Personality and Individual Differences, 182.

Seto, E., Kim, J., & Hicks, J. A. (2021). The illusion of time: Testing the bidirectional relationship between belief in free will and temporal horizons. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(2), 176-185.

Kim, J., Schlegel, R. J., Seto, E., & Hicks, J. A. (2019). Thinking about a new decade in life increases personal self-reflection: A replication and reinterpretation of Alter and Hershfield’s (2014) findings. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117(2), e27– e34.

Seto, E., & Schlegel, R. J. (2018). Becoming your true self: Perceptions of authenticity across the lifespan. Self and Identity, 17(3), 310-326.

Christy, A. G., Seto, E., Schlegel, R. J., Vess, M., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). Straying from the righteous path and from ourselves: The interplay between perceptions of morality and self-knowledge. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(11), 1538-1550.

Kim, J., Seto, E., Christy, A. G., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). Investing in the real me: Preference for experiential purchases to material purchases driven by the motivation to search for true self-knowledge. Self and Identity, 15(6), 727-747.

Seto, E., & Hicks, J. A. (2016). Disassociating the agent from the self: Undermining belief in free will diminishes true self-knowledge. Social Psychological and Personality Science,  7(7), 726-734.

Seto, E., Hicks, J. A., Vess, M., & Geraci, L. (2016). The association between vivid thoughts of death and authenticity. Motivation and Emotion, 40(4), 520-540.

Seto, E., Hicks, J. A., Davis, W. E., & Smallman, R. (2015). Free will, counterfactual reflection, and the meaningfulness of life events. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(3), 243-250.

Seto, E. (Expected 2025). Belief in free will, moral responsibility, and agency. In K. Vail, D. Van Tongeren, R. Schlegel, J. Greenberg, L. King, and R. Ryan (Eds.), Handbook of the   Science of Existential Psychology. New York: Guilford Press.

Hicks, J. A., Seto, E., & Kim, J. (2016). Meaning of life. In S. K. Whitbourne (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.                   

Kim, J., Seto, E., Davis, W. E., & Hicks, J. A. (2014). Positive and existential psychological approaches to the experience of meaning in life. In P. Russo-Netzer & A. Batthyany (Eds.), Meaning in Existential and Positive Psychology. New York: Springer Press.