All Outputs (14)

Contextual positivity-familiarity effects are unaffected by known moderators of misattribution (2020)
Journal Article
Weil, R., Palma, T. A., & Gawronski, B. (in press). Contextual positivity-familiarity effects are unaffected by known moderators of misattribution. Cognition and Emotion, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1858029

The positivity-familiarity effect refers to the phenomenon that positive affect increases the likelihood that people judge a stimulus as familiar. Drawing on the assumption that positivity-familiarity effects result from a common misattribution mecha... Read More about Contextual positivity-familiarity effects are unaffected by known moderators of misattribution.

When does contextual positivity influence judgments of familiarity? Investigating moderators of the positivity-familiarity effect (2020)
Journal Article
Weil, R., Palma, T., & Gawronski, B. (2020). When does contextual positivity influence judgments of familiarity? Investigating moderators of the positivity-familiarity effect. Social cognition : the official journal of the International Social Cognition Network, 38(2), 119-145. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2020.38.2.119

The positivity-familiarity effect suggests that people use positive affect as a cue to answer the question of whether they have encountered a stimulus before. Five experiments investigated this effect under various conditions. Positivity-familiarity... Read More about When does contextual positivity influence judgments of familiarity? Investigating moderators of the positivity-familiarity effect.

Detecting falsehood relies on mismatch detection between sentence components (2019)
Journal Article
Weil, R., & Mudrik, L. (2020). Detecting falsehood relies on mismatch detection between sentence components. Cognition, 195, Article 104121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104121

How do people process and evaluate falsehood of sentences? Do people need to compare presented information with the correct answer to determine that a sentence is false, or do they rely on a mismatch between presented sentence components? To illustra... Read More about Detecting falsehood relies on mismatch detection between sentence components.

Correction of evident falsehood requires explicit negation (2019)
Journal Article
Weil, R., Schul, Y., & Mayo, R. (2020). Correction of evident falsehood requires explicit negation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(2), 290-310. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000635

The danger of receiving false information is omnipresent, and people might be highly vigilant against being influenced by falsehoods. Yet, as research on misinformation reveals, people are often biased by false information, even when they know the va... Read More about Correction of evident falsehood requires explicit negation.

At the boundaries of misattribution: does positivity influence judgments of familiarity in the affect misattribution procedure? (2017)
Journal Article
Weil, R., Palma, T. A. C., & Gawronski, B. (2017). At the boundaries of misattribution: does positivity influence judgments of familiarity in the affect misattribution procedure?. Experimental Psychology, 64(6), 369-386. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000379

Priming effects in the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP) have been explained by a misattribution of prime-related affect to neutral targets. However, the measure has been criticized for being susceptible to intentional use of prime features in ju... Read More about At the boundaries of misattribution: does positivity influence judgments of familiarity in the affect misattribution procedure?.

A look inside the toolbox: Measurement procedures in Implicit Social Cognition (2016)
Book Chapter
Weil, R. (2016). A look inside the toolbox: Measurement procedures in Implicit Social Cognition. In F. T. Leong, D. Bartram, F. Cheung, K. F. Geisinger, & D. Iliescu (Eds.), The ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med%3Apsych/9780199356942.001.0001

Sozialpsychologie (2015)
Book Chapter
Weil, R., & Walther, E. (2015). Sozialpsychologie. In A. Schütz, M. Brand, H. Selg, & S. Lautenbacher (Eds.), Psychologie: Eine Einführung in ihre Grundlagen und Anwendungsfelder (233-255). (5th ed.). Kohlhammer Verlag

The role of recollection in evaluative conditioning (2014)
Journal Article
Halbeisen, G., Blask, K., Weil, R., & Walther, E. (2014). The role of recollection in evaluative conditioning. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 162-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.07.005

Attitudes are a core construct of social psychology, and research showed that attitudes can be acquired by merely pairing neutral stimuli with other liked or disliked stimuli (i.e., evaluative conditioning, EC). In this research we address the role o... Read More about The role of recollection in evaluative conditioning.

At the crossroads: Attention, contingency awareness, and evaluative conditioning (2012)
Journal Article
Blask, K., Walther, E., Halbeisen, G., & Weil, R. (2012). At the crossroads: Attention, contingency awareness, and evaluative conditioning. Learning and Motivation, 43(3), 99-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2012.03.004

Evaluative conditioning (EC) refers to changes in the evaluation of a conditioned stimulus (CS) due to its repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus (US). One of the most debated topics in EC research is whether or not EC is dependent on contin... Read More about At the crossroads: Attention, contingency awareness, and evaluative conditioning.

Balance principles in attitude formation and change: The desire to maintain consistent cognitions about people (2012)
Book Chapter
Walther, E., & Weil, R. (2012). Balance principles in attitude formation and change: The desire to maintain consistent cognitions about people. In B. Gawronski, & F. Strack (Eds.), Cognitive consistency: A fundamental principle in social cognition (351-368). Guilford Press

Why do we like some people and dislike others? Why is it that our social sentiments are not always stable, and what motivates these changes? Answers to these questions can be derived from balance theory. Our aim in this chapter is to provide a short... Read More about Balance principles in attitude formation and change: The desire to maintain consistent cognitions about people.

Die Antonymie-Heuristik: Automatische Falsifikation Valenter Information (2011)
Thesis
Weil, R. (2011). Die Antonymie-Heuristik: Automatische Falsifikation Valenter Information. (Dissertation). University of Trier. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3378543

The aim of the present research was to find evidence for the existence of an antonym-heuristic when valenced (positive or negative) information is falsified. According to former studies falsification is a non-automatic, higher-order cognitive process... Read More about Die Antonymie-Heuristik: Automatische Falsifikation Valenter Information.

Why do we like the iPhone? The role of evaluative conditioning in attitude formation (2011)
Journal Article
Walther, E., Weil, R., & Langer, T. (2011). Why do we like the iPhone? The role of evaluative conditioning in attitude formation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(7), 473-486. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2011.00366.x

Evaluative conditioning (EC) is the change in liking due to the paring of an affectively meaningful and a neutral stimulus. Starting with the exemplary question of why we like the iPhone, this article provides an overview of past and present research... Read More about Why do we like the iPhone? The role of evaluative conditioning in attitude formation.

The role of evaluative conditioning in attitude formation (2011)
Journal Article
Walther, E., Weil, R., & Düsing, J. (2011). The role of evaluative conditioning in attitude formation. Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society, 20(3), 192-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721411408771

In this article, we address how attitudes are acquired. We present evaluative conditioning (EC) as an explanation for attitude formation and attitude change. EC refers to changes in liking due to pairings of affectively meaningful and neutral stimuli... Read More about The role of evaluative conditioning in attitude formation.

Preferences surf on the currents of words: Implicit verb causality influences evaluative conditioning (2010)
Journal Article
Walther, E., Langer, T., Weil, R., & Komischke, M. (2011). Preferences surf on the currents of words: Implicit verb causality influences evaluative conditioning. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(1), 17-22. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.785

It is a psychological truism that thought shapes language. However, the idea that language constrains cognition is less well understood and has been debated in philosophy, linguistic, and psychology. The goal of the present research was to investigat... Read More about Preferences surf on the currents of words: Implicit verb causality influences evaluative conditioning.