Seventy years of research on intergroup contact, or face-to-face interactions between
members of opposing social groups, demonstrates that positive contact typically reduces …

▪ Abstract This survey of attitude theory and research published between 1996 and 1999
covers the conceptualization of attitude, attitude formation and activation, attitude structure …

Partisanship continues to divide Americans. Using data from the American National Election
Studies (ANES), we find that partisans not only feel more negatively about the opposing …

" Emotions have many facets. They involve feelings and experience, they involve physiology
and behavior, and they involve cognitions and conceptualizations. There are important …

The greater power of bad events over good ones is found in everyday events, major life
events (eg, trauma), close relationship outcomes, social network patterns, interpersonal …

A hallmark feature of episodic memory is that of “mental time travel,” whereby an individual
feels they have returned to a prior moment in time. Cognitive and behavioral neuroscience …

A comprehensive, trusted core text on media's impact on attitudes, behavior, elections,
politics, and policymaking, Mass Media and American Politics is known for its readable …

Our society celebrates failure as a teachable moment. Yet in five studies (total N= 1,674),
failure did the opposite: It undermined learning. Across studies, participants answered …

Empirical and anecdotal evidence for hedonic adaptation suggests that the joys of loves and
triumphs and the sorrows of losses and humiliations fade with time. If people's goals are to …

Pupil dilation and blinks provide complementary, mutually exclusive indices of information
processing. Though each index is associated with cognitive load, the occurrence of a blink …