Distinguishing between “good” and “bad” is a fundamental task for all organisms. However,
people seem to process positive and negative information differentially, described in the …

In everyday language, concepts appear alongside (ie, collocate with) related concepts.
Societal biases often emerge in these collocations; eg, female (vs. male) names collocate …

This research tested a central assumption of attitudinal ambivalence research: ambivalent
attitude objects simultaneously trigger positive and negative evaluations. It further specifies …

To directly investigate the reciprocal causal relationship of the conceptual and affective
meaning of words, two priming experiments were conducted with the lexical decision task. In …

Semantic and affective priming have long been treated separately in psycholinguistic
studies. Recently, however, the question of whether and how these two primings interact has …

Implicit measures are diagnostic tools to assess attitudes and evaluations that people
cannot or may not want to report. Diagnostic inferences from such tools are subject to …

Direct measures of (in) tolerance of ambiguity provided evidence for a variation in liking of
ambiguity. Given the limitations of these measures, we developed a direct measure of …

Rapidly evaluating our environment's beneficial and detrimental features is critical for our
successful functioning. A classic paradigm used to investigate such fast and automatic …

ABSTRACT A growing body of research challenges the automaticity of evaluative priming
(EP). The present research adds to this literature by suggesting that EP is sensitive to …

Attitudinal ambivalence is defined as the simultaneous positive and negative evaluation of
an attitude object. Although the research field investigating this special type of attitudes has …