Books:

• Cox, W. M., & Klinger, E. (Eds.) (2011). Handbook of motivational counseling: Goal-Based Approaches to Assessment and Intervention in Addiction and Other Problems (2nd ed.). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Klinger, E. (1990). Daydreaming. Los Angeles, CA: Tarcher (Putnam).
• Klinger, E. (1977). Meaning and void: Inner experience and the incentives in people's lives. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
• Klinger, E. (1971). Structure and functions of fantasy. New York: Wiley.

Journal Articles:

• Cox, W. M., Heinemann, A. W., Miranti, S. V., Schmidt, M., Klinger, E., & Blount, J. (2003). Outcomes of systematic motivational counseling for substance use following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Addictive Diseases, 22, 93-110.
• Cox, W. M., & Klinger, E. (2002). Motivational structure: Relationships with substance use and processes of change. Addictive Behaviors.
• Cox, W. M., Schippers, G. M., Klinger, E., Skutle, A., Stuchlíková, I., Man, F., King, A. L., & Inderhaug, R. (2002). Motivational structure and alcohol use of university students with consistency across four nations. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 63, 280-285.
• Klinger, E. (2013). Goal commitments and the content of thoughts and dreams: Basic principles. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00415.
• Klinger, E. (1975). Consequences of commitment to and disengagement from incentives. Psychological Review, 82, 1-25.
• Klinger, E., Barta, S. G., & Kemble, E. D. (1974). Cyclic activity changes during extinction in rats: A potential model of depression. Animal Learning and Behavior, 2, 313-316.
• Klinger, E., Henning, V. R., & Janssen, J. M. (2009). Fantasy-proneness dimensionalized: Dissociative component is related to psychopathology, daydreaming as such is not. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 506-510.
• Klinger, E., Murphy, M. D., Ostrem, J. L., & Stark-Wroblewski, K. (2005). Disclosing daydreams versus real experiences: Attitudes, emotional reactions, and personality correlates. Imagination, Cognition and Personality.
• Nikles, C. D., II, Brecht, D. L., Klinger, E., & Bursell, A. L. (1998). The effects of current-concern- and nonconcern related waking suggestions on nocturnal dream content. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 242-255.

Other Publications:

• Klinger, E. (2012). The search for meaning in evolutionary perspective and its clinical implications. In P. T. P. Wong (Ed.), The human quest for meaning: Theories, research, and applications (2nd ed.) (pp. 23-56). New York: Routledge.
• Klinger, E. (2009). Daydreaming and fantasizing: Thought flow and motivation. In K. D. Markman, W. M. P. Klein, and J. A. Suhr (Eds), Handbook of imagination and mental simulation (pp. 225-239). New York: Psychology Press.
• Klinger, E. (1998). The search for meaning in evolutionary perspective and its clinical implications. In P. T. P. Wong & P. S. Fry (Eds.), The human quest for meaning: A handbook of psychological research and clinical applications (pp. 27-50). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Klinger, E. (1996). Emotional influences on cognitive processing, with implications for theories of both. In P. Gollwitzer & J. A. Bargh (Eds.), The psychology of action: Linking cognition and motivation to behavior (pp. 168-189). New York: Guilford.
• Klinger, E. (1996). The contents of thoughts: Interference as the downside of adaptive normal mechanisms in thought flow. In I. G. Sarason, B. R. Sarason, & G. R. Pierce (Eds.), Cognitive interference: Theories, methods, and findings (pp. 3-23). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Klinger, E., & Cox, W. M. (2011). Motivation and the goal theory of current concerns. In W. M. Cox & E. Klinger (Eds.), Handbook of motivational counseling (2nd ed.) (pp. 3-47). Chichester, UK: Wiley.
• Klinger, E., & Cox, W. M. (2011). The Motivational Structure Questionnaire, Personal Concerns Inventory, and their variants: Psychometric properties. In W. M. Cox & E. Klinger (Eds.). Handbook of motivational counseling (2nd ed.) (pp. 205-232). Chichester, UK: Wiley.