A meta-analysis assessed the behavioral impact of and psychological processes associated
with presenting words connected to an action or a goal representation. The average and …

To what extent do we know our own minds when making decisions? Variants of this
question have preoccupied researchers in a wide range of domains, from mainstream …

There has been increasing criticism of the way psychologists conduct and analyze studies.
These critiques as well as failures to replicate several high-profile studies have been used …

Habits are largely absent from modern social and personality psychology. This is due to
outdated perspectives that placed habits in conflict with goals. In modern theorizing, habits …

People automatically repeat behaviors that were frequently rewarded in the past in a given
context. Such repetition is commonly attributed to habit, or associations in memory between …

The perspective that behavior is often driven by unconscious determinants has become
widespread in social psychology. Bargh, Chen, and Burrows'(1996) famous study, in which …

John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our
understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the …

Concerns have been raised recently about the replicability of behavioral priming effects, and
calls have been issued to identify priming methodologies with effects that can be obtained in …

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 …

How incidentally activated social representations affect subsequent thoughts and behaviors
has long interested social psychologists. However, such priming effects have recently …