Selected Publications by John McClure
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2010 Publications
Behavior of Persons with Brain Injury: The Effect of Visibility of Injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.
McClure, J. (in press). Attributions, causes, and actions: Is the consciousness of will a perceptual illusion? Theory and Psychology.
McClure, J., & Sibley, C. G. (In press). Framing effects on disaster preparation: Is negative framing more effective? Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies.
Graham, J., Meyer, L. H., McKenzie, L., McClure, J., & Weir. K. F. (2010). Māori and Pacific Secondary Student and Parent Perspectives on Achievement, Motivation and the NCEA. Assessment Matters, 2, 132-157.
Hilton, D. J., McClure, J., & Sutton, R. M. (2010). Selecting explanations from causal chains: Do statistical principles explain preferences for voluntary causes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 383-400.
2009 Publications
McClure, J., & Abbott, J. (2009). How normative information shapes attributions for the actions of persons with traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 10, 180-187.
Harrington, L., McClure, J., & Siegert, R. J. (2009). Appraisals of intentional actions from three perspectives: Do they relate to paranoia? Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 14, 240-256.
Meyer, L. H., McClure, J. Walkey, F., Weir, K. F., McKenzie, L. (2009). Secondary Student Motivation Orientations and Standards-Based Achievement Outcomes. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 79, 273-293.
McClure, J., White, J., & Sibley, C. G. (2009). Framing effects on preparation intentions: Distinguishing actions and outcomes. Disaster Prevention and Management, 18, 187-199.
2008 Publications
Spittal, M., McClure, J., Walkey, F., & Siegert, R. (2008). Psychological predictors of earthquake preparation. Environment and Behavior, 40, 798-817.
McClure, J., Buchanan, S., McDowall, J., Wade, K. (2008). Attributions for behaviours of persons with brain injury: The role of perceived severity and time since injury. Brain Injury, 22, 639-648.
2007 Publications
McClure, J., Hilton, D. J., & Sutton, R. M. (2007). Judgments of voluntary and physical causes in causal chains: Probabilistic and social functionalist criteria for attributions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 879-901.
McClure, J., Sutton, R. M., & Wilson, M. (2007). How information about building design influences causal attributions for earthquake damage. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 10, 233-242.
McClure, J., Sutton, R M., & Sibley, C. G. (2007). Listening to reporters or engineers: How different messages about building design affect earthquake fatalism. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 1956-1973.
Boyd-Wilson, B. M., Walkey, F. H., & McClure, J. (2007). A measure of serenity: A
fresh look at well-being. Advances in Psychology Research, 48, 233-245. Nova Science: New York.
1997-2006 Publications
McClure, J., Devlin, M. E., McDowall, J., & Wade, K. (2006). Visible markers of brain injury influence attributions for adolescents’ behaviour. Brain Injury, 10, 1029-1035.
Spittal, M. J., Walkey, F. H., McClure, J., Siegert, R. J., & Ballantyne, K. E. (2006). The Earthquake Readiness Scale: The development of a valid and reliable unifactorial measure. Natural Hazards, 39, 15-29.
Crozier, M., McClure, J., Vercoe, J., & Wilson, M. (2006). The effects of land zoning information on judgments about earthquake damage. Area, 38.2, 143-152.
Boonzaier, A., McClure, J., & Sutton, R. M. (2005). Distinguishing the effect of beliefs and preconditions: The folk psychology of goals and actions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 725-740.
Spittal, M. J., McClure, J., Siegert, R. J., & Walkey F. H. (2005). Optimistic bias in relation to preparedness for earthquakes. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 2005-1, 1-10.
Harrington, L., Siegert, R. J., & McClure, J. (2005). Theory of mind in schizophrenia; A critical review. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 10, 249-286.
Harrington, L., Langdon, R., Siegert, R. J., & McClure, J. (2005). Schizophrenia, theory of mind, and persecutory delusions. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 10, 87-104.
Cowan, J., McClure J., & Wilson, M. (2002). What a difference a year makes: how immediate and anniversary media reports influence judgments about earthquakes. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 5, 169-185.
Spittal, M., Siegert, R. S., McClure, J., & Walkey, F. H. (2002). The spheres of control scale; The identification of a clear replicable three-factor structure. Personality and Individual Differences, 32, 121-131.
McClure, J. (2002). Goal based explanations of actions and outcomes. European Review of Social Psychology, 12, 201-235.
McClure J., Hilton, D. J., Cowan, J., Ishida, & Wilson, M. (2001). When people explain difficult actions, is the causal question how or why? Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 20, 339-357.
McClure, J., Allen, M. W. & Walkey, F. H. (2001). Countering fatalism: Causal information in news reports affects judgements about earthquake damage. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 23, 109-121.
Sutton, R.M., & McClure, J. (2001). Covariational influences on goal-based explanation: An integrative model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 222-236.
McClure, J., Densley, L., Liu, J. H, & Allen, M. (2001). Constraints on equifinality: Goals are good explanations only for controllable outcomes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 99-115.
Liu, J. H., Wilson, M. S., McClure, J., & Higgins, T.R. (1999). Social identity and the perception of history: Cultural narratives of Aotearoa/New Zealand. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 1021-1047.
McClure, J., Walkey, F., & Allen, M. (1999). When earthquake damage is seen as preventable: Attributions, locus of control and attitudes to risk. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 48, 239-256.
McClure, J. (1998). Discounting causes of behavior: Are two reasons better than one? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 7-20.
McClure, J., & Hilton, D. (1998). Are goals or preconditions better explanations: It depends on the question. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 897-911.
McClure, J., & Hilton, D. (1997). You can't always get what you want: when circumstances are better explanations than goals. British Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 223-240.