Journal Articles:

• Davison, A. J., & Higgins, N. C. (1993). Observer bias in perceptions of responsibility [Commentary]. American Psychologist, 48, 585.
• 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), 49-62.
• Higgins, N. C., & Hay, J. A. (2003). Attributional style predicts causes of negative life events on the Attributional Style Questionnaire. Journal of Social Psychology, 143(2), 253-271.
• Higgins, N. C., & LaPointe, M. (2012). Academic attributional style predicts behavioral persistence under failure: Factor structure, reliability, and predictive validity of the Academic Attributional Style Questionnaire. Sage Open, 2(4), 1-15. DOI: 10.1177/2158244012470110
• Higgins, N. C., & Morrison, M. (1998). Construct validity of unsupportive attributional style: The impact of life outcome controllability. Social Indicators Research: An International Journal for Quality of Life Measurement. Special Issue on Validity of Quality of Life Measures, 45, 319-342.
• 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.
• Higgins, N. C., St. Amand, M. D., & Poole, G. A. (1997). The controllability of negative life experiences mediates unrealistic optimism. Social Indicators Research: An International Journal for Quality of Life Measurement, 42, 299-323.
• 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.
• Le Foll, D., Rascle, O., & Higgins, N. C. (2008). Attributional feedback-induced changes in functional and dysfunctional attributions, expectations of success, hopefulness, and short-term persistence in a novel sport. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 9, 77-101.
• 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.
• Lundquist, L. M., Higgins, N. C., & Prkachin, K. M. (2002). Accurate pain detection is not enough: Contextual and attributional style as biasing factors in patient evaluations and treatment choice. Journal of Applied Social Psychology: Biobehavioral Research, 7(2), 114-132.
• 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.

Other Publications:

• Higgins, N. C., Bailey, S.J., LaChapelle, D. L., Harman, K., & Hadjistavropoulos, T. (in progress). Implicit theories of pain predict coping styles and pain expressiveness.
• Higgins, N. C., Randall, H. A., & Almond, R. J. (in progress). Occupational burnout: Does attributional style predict caregiver risk?
• Higgins, N. C., Wang, Y., Uleman, J., Michaux, A., & Vipond, D. (in progress). Proactive interference as evidence of spontaneous trait inferences.
• Higgins, N. C., & Zumbo, B. D. (in progress). An individual differences measure of attributions that affect helping behavior: Factor structure and predictive validity of the Reasons for Misfortune Questionnaire.