Lateralized Repetition Priming for Unfamiliar Faces

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Sync or sink? Interpersonal synchrony impacts self-esteem

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Brief Mindfulness Meditation Improves Mental State Attribution and Empathizing

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A matter of design: priming context and person perception

A matter of considerable debate is whether people spontaneously use categorical knowledge (i.e., stereotypes) to guide their interactions with others. Despite initial evidence for the unconditional automaticity of category activation, recent research has identified a range of factors that moderate this process. Extending this line of inquiry, the current investigation explored the extent to which contextual influences - specifically the order in which priming stimuli are presented to participants - may modulate person categorization. Using a standard semantic-priming paradigm to index category and stereotype activation, participants were presented with priming stimuli that were either intermixed or blocked by sex. The results revealed that: (i) category and stereotype activation are moderated by the order in which priming stimuli are presented; and (ii) priming effects decrease monotonically as a function of category repetition. The theoretical implications of these findings are considered

Visual perspective and the characteristics of mind wandering

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Mine and me: exploring the neural basis of object ownership.

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Perspective-Taking from a Social Neuroscience Standpoint

A primary focus of research undertaken by social psychologists is to establish why perceivers fail to accurately adopt or understand other people's perspectives. From overestimating the dispositional bases of behavior to misinterpreting the motivations of out-group members, the message that emerges from this work is that social perception is frequently imperfect. In contrast, researchers from disciplines outside social psychology seek to identify the strategies and skill sets required to successfully understand other people's perspectives. These investigations attempt to identify the mechanisms through which perceivers intuit mental states that underlie behavior (e.g. wants, motivations, beliefs). In this article, we review findings from perspective-taking research in developmental psychology, primatology (i.e. primate cognition) and cognitive neuroscience. We then discuss why understanding how accurate perspective-taking occurs may inform understanding of when and why this process fails

When Imagining Yourself in Pain, Visual Perspective Matters : The Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Simulated Sensory Experiences

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The Mental Landscape of Imagining Life Beyond the Current Life Span : Implications for Construal and Self-Continuity

© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. Funding Funding for Mechanical Turk Participants was provided by Seattle Pacific University School of Psychology, Family and Community. Acknowledgments Life-extension supporters were recruited by A. Csordas at the Undoing Aging conference held in Berlin, Germany, on March 15–17, 2018. No incentives were offered for participation. Data from the present manuscript were not published in any form prior to the submission of the manuscript for publication.Peer reviewedPublisher PD