Thompson, S. C. (1975). Detection of social cues: A signal detection theory analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 452-455.

Thompson, S. C. (1981). A complex answer to a simple question: Will it hurt less if I can control it? Psychological Bulletin, 90, 89-101.

Thompson, S. C. & Kelley, H. H. (1981). Judgments of responsibility for activities in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 469-477.

Taylor, S. E., Wood, J., & Thompson, S. C. (1981). Psychological control. In B. Wolman (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. New York: Van Nostrand, Reinhold.

Taylor, S. E., & Thompson, S. C. (1982). Stalking the elusive "vividness" effect. Psychological Review, 89, 155-181.

Thompson, S. C. (1985). Finding positive meaning in an event and coping. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 6, 279-295.

Graham, M., Thompson, S. C., & Yonekura, M. L. (1987). Factors affecting psychological adjustment to a fetal demise. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 157, 254-257.

Thompson, S. C., Cheek, P. & Graham, M. (1988). The other side of perceived control: Disadvantages and negative effects. In S. Oskamp & S. Spacapan (Eds.), The social psychology of health (pp. 69-93). Beverly Hills: Sage.

Collins, R. L., Taylor, S. E., Wood, J. V., & Thompson, S. C. (1988). The vividness effect: Elusive or illusory? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 24, 1-18.

Thompson, S. C., & Janigian, A. (1988). Life schemes: A framework for understanding the search for meaning. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 7, 260-280.

Thompson, S. C., Sobolew-Shubin, A., Graham, M., & Janigian, A. (1989). Psychosocial adjustment following a stroke. Social Science and Medicine, 28, 239-247.

Thompson, S. C., Bundek, N. I., & Sobolow-Shubin, A., (1990). The caregivers of stroke patients: An investigation of factors associated with depression. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 20, 115-129.

Thompson, S. C., Nanni, C., & Schwankovsky, L. (1990). Patient-oriented interventions to improve communication in a medical office visit. Health Psychology, 9, 390-404.

Thompson, S. C. & Spacapan, S. (1991). Perceptions of control in vulnerable populations. Journal of Social Issues, 47(4), 1-21.

Thompson, S. C. (1991). Intervening to enhance perceptions of control. In C. R. Snyder & D. Forsyth (Eds.), Handbook of social and clinical psychology (pp. 607-623). New York: Pergamon Press.

Thompson, S. C. (1991). The search for meaning following a stroke. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 12, 81-96.

Thompson, S. C., & Stoutemeyer, K. (1991). Water use as a commons dilemma: The effects of education that focuses on long-term consequences and individual action. Environment and Behavior, 23, 314-333.

Thompson, S. C., & Pitts, J. S. (1992). In sickness and in health: Chronic illness and marriage. In S. Spacapan and S. Oskamp (Eds.), Helping and being helped (pp. 115-151). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Thompson, S. C., Sobolew-Shubin, A., Galbraith, M. E., Schwankovsky, L., & Cruzen, D. (1993). Maintaining perceptions of control: Finding perceived control in low-control circumstances. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 293-304.

Thompson, S. C. (1993). Cognitive coping: Research and implications. In Turnbull, A. P., Patterson, J. M., Behr, S. G., Murphy, O. L., & Marquis, S. J. (Eds.), Cognitive coping in families who have a member with a developmental disability. Theoretical and empirical implications and directions. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.

Thompson, S. C., & Sobolew-Shubin, A. (1993). Perceptions of overprotection in ill adults. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 23, 85-97.

Thompson, S. C., Schwankovsky, L., & Pitts, J. (1993). Counselling patients to make lifestyle changes: The role of physician self-efficacy, training and beliefs about causes. Family Practice, 10, 70-75.

Thompson, S. C., & Sobolew-Shubin, A. (1993). Overprotective relationships: A nonsupportive side of social networks. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 14, 363-383.

Mio, J. S., Thompson, S. C., & Givens, G. H. (1993). The commons dilemma as metaphor: Memory, influence, and implications for environmental conservation. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 8, 23-42.

Thompson, S. C. (1993). Perspectives on the search for meaning. Contemporary Psychology, 38, 567-568. (Book review.)

Thompson, S. C. (1993). Naturally-occurring perceptions of control: A model of bounded flexibility. In G. Weary, F. Gleicher, & K. Marsh (Eds.), Control motivation and social cognition. (pp. 74-93). New York: Springer-Verlag

Thompson, S. C. (1993). Successful adjustment to chronic illness: Expanding the focus to include aging and physical outcomes. The Health Psychologist, 15, 3-4.

Thompson, S. C. & Pitts, J. (1993). Factors that are related to a person's ability to find meaning following a diagnosis of cancer. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 11, 1-21.

Thompson, S. C., Pitts, J., & Schwankovsky, L. (1994). Preferences for involvement in medical decision making: Situational and demographic influences. Patient Education and Counseling, 22, 133-140.

Thompson, S. C., Nanni, C., & Levine, A. (1994). Primary versus secondary and disease versus consequence-related control in HIV-positive men. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 540-547.

Thompson, S. C. G., & Barton, M. A. (1994). Ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes toward the environment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 14, 149-157.

Thompson, S. C., & Collins, M. A. (1995). Applications of perceived control to cancer: An overview of theory and measurement. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 13, 11-26.

Thompson, S. C., & Collins, M. A. (1995). Applications of perceived control to cancer: An overview of theory and measurement. In B. Curbow, & M. R. Somerfield (Eds.), Psychosocial resource variables in cancer studies: Conceptual and measurement issues. New York: Haworth Press.

Davis, C. G., Lehman, D. R., Wortman, C. B., Silver, R. C., & Thompson, S. C. (1995). The undoing of traumatic life events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 109-124.

Thompson, S. C., Medvene, L. J., & Freedman, D. (1995). Caregiving in the close relationships of cardiac patients: Exchange, power, and attributional perspectives on caregiver resentment. Personal Relationships, 2, 125-142.

Banks, W. P. & Thompson, S. C. (1996). The mental image of the human body: Implications of physiological mental models for our understanding of health and illness. In J. S. Mio & A. N. Katz (Eds.). Metaphor: Implications and applications. Hillsdale, NH: Erlbaum.

Thompson, S. C., Anderson, K., Freedman, D., & Swan, J. (1996). Illusions of safety in a risky world: A study of college students' condom use. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26, 189-210.

Thompson, S. C., Collins, M. A., Newcomb, M. D., & Hunt, W. (1996). On fighting versus accepting stressful circumstances: Primary and secondary control among HIV-positive men in prison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 1307-1317.

Thompson, S. C., Nanni, C., & Levine, A. (1996). The stressors and stress of being HIV-positive. AIDS Care, 8, 5-14.

Thompson, S. C., & Swan, J. (1996). Preventing AIDS. Theories and methods of behavioral interventions. Archives of Sexual Behavior. (Book review).

Rickabaugh, C., & Thompson, S. C. (1996). Of optimism, learned helplessness, and yearning for control: Two views on personal control. Contemporary Psychology. (Book review).

Thompson, S. C., & Oskamp, S. (1996). Understanding and promoting HIV-preventive behavior: An overview. In S. Oskamp & S. C. Thompson (Eds.), Safer sex and drug use: Understanding and preventing HIV risk behavior. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Thompson, S. C. (1996). Maintaining meaning; Keeping control. Coping.

Thompson, S. C. (1996). Barriers to maintaining a sense of meaning and control in the face of loss. Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss, 1, 333-358.

Thompson, S. C., Kohles, J. C., Otsuki, T. A., & Kent, D. R. (1997). Perceptions of attitudinal similarity in ethnic groups in the US: Ingroup and outgroup homogeneity effects. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 815-826.

Thompson, S. C., Armstrong, W., & Thomas, C. (1998). Illusions of control, underestimations, and accuracy: A control heuristic explanation. Psychological Bulletin, 123, 143-161.

Thompson, S. C. (1998). Blockades to finding meaning and control. In J. Harvey et al. (Eds.), Perspectives on loss: A sourcebook.Death, dying, and bereavement, pp, 21-34.Philadelphia, PA:Brunner/Mazel, Inc.

Thompson, S. C., Thomas, C., Rickabaugh, C. A., Tantamjarik, P., Otsuki, T., Pan, D., Garcia, B. F., & Sinar, E. (1998). Primary and secondary control over age-related changes in physical appearance. Journal of Personality, 66, 585-607.

Thompson, S. C., Kent, D. K., Thomas, C., & Vrungos, S. (1999). Real and illusory control over exposure to HIV in college students and gay men. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 29, 1128-1150.

Thompson, S. C., & Wierson, M. (2000). Enhancing perceived control in psychotherapy. In R. C. Snyder and R. Ingram (Eds.) The handbook of clinical psychology.New York:Wiley & Sons.

Thompson, S. C. (1999). Illusions of control: How we overestimate our personal influence. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 187-190.

Thompson, S. C., & Kyle, D. J.The role of perceived control in coping with the losses associated with chronic illness.In J. H. Harvey & E. D. Miller (Eds.), Loss and trauma:General and close relationship perspectives, pp. 131-145.Philadelphia, PH:Brunner-Routledge.

Thompson, S. C.(in press).The role of personal control in adaptive functioning.In C. R. Snyder & S. Lopez (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology.

Marcus-Newhall, A., Thompson, S. C., & Thomas, C.(in press).Examining a gender stereotype:Menopausal women.Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Thompson, S. C., Galbraith, M., Thomas, C., Swan, J., & Vrungos, S.(in press).Caregivers of stroke patient family members:Behavioral and attitudinal indicators of overprotective care.Psychology and Health.

Books and Journal Issues

"Perceived control in vulnerable populations" Journal of Social Issues issue, edited by S. Spacapan and S. C. Thompson.

Oskamp, S., & Thompson, S. C. (Eds.) (1996). Safer sex and drug use: Understanding and preventing HIV risk behavior. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.