She has authored over 300 publications and has written several books, including her 2010 work "Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology" and "Social Cognition," a graduate level text that defined the now-popular subfield of social cognition. She has edited the "Annual Review of Psychology" (with Daniel Schacter and Shelley Taylor) and the "Handbook of Social Psychology" (with Daniel Gilbert and the late Gardner Lindzey). Other books include "Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us", which describes how people constantly compare themselves to others, with toxic effects on their relationships at home, at work, in school, and in the world, and "The Human Brand: How We Relate to People, Products, and Companies".