Since Freud, clinicians have understood that disturbing memories contribute to
psychopathology and that new emotional experiences contribute to therapeutic change. Yet …

For 40 years, research on impression formation and attitudes has relied on dual-process
theories that represent knowledge in a single associative network. Although such models …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

Over the past few decades, two-factor models of social cognition have emerged as a
dominant framework for understanding impression development. These models suggest that …

The overwhelming majority of those who theorize about implicit biases posit that these
biases are caused by some sort of association. However, what exactly this claim amounts to …

Humans are social animals in that they are dependent on one another for connectedness,
self-esteem, and knowledge/understanding of the world. This chapter focuses on an …

According to early theories, implicit (automatic) social attitudes are difficult if not impossible
to change. Although this view has recently been challenged by research relying on …

Little work has examined whether implicit evaluations can be effectively “undone” after
learning new revelations. Across 7 experiments, participants fully reversed their implicit …

What is a group? How do we know to which groups we belong? How do we assign others to
groups? A great deal of theorizing across the social sciences, has conceptualized “groups” …

When people judge acts of kindness or cruelty, they often look beyond the act itself to infer
the agent's motives. These inferences, in turn, can powerfully influence moral judgements …