People make social inferences without intentions, awareness, or effort, ie, spontaneously.
We review recent findings on spontaneous social inferences (especially traits, goals, and …

Interpersonal trust is a mental construct with implications for social functioning and economic
behavior. We review contemporary theories of trust from behavioral economics and social …

Participant attentiveness is a concern for many researchers using Amazon's Mechanical
Turk (MTurk). Although studies comparing the attentiveness of participants on MTurk versus …

People believe repeated information more than novel information; they show a repetition-
induced truth effect. In a world of “alternative facts,”“fake news,” and strategic information …

Since the publication of our first text on social cognition, a lot has changed for us personally
(children come and gone, grandchildren have arrived, new jobs, new houses) and …

Research provides increasing evidence that women and men differ in their decisions to trust.
However, information systems research does not satisfactorily explain why these gender …

Close relationships are defined as those relationships in which people assume more
responsibility for the welfare of their partner than they do for others, benefit those partners …

Although the trust development literature has been characterized overwhelmingly by
rationality-based models, the current research attempts to explain how affect can influence …

Despite the oft-cited positive effects of an apology on forgiveness, forgiveness does not
always follow. In three studies we tested the ironic notion that, following an interpersonal …

In social cognition, knowledge-based validation of information is usually regarded as relying
on strategic and resource-demanding processes. Research on language comprehension, in …