Preface
The pensum consists mainly in original articles. Your task will not be to read all articles from beginning to end, but rather to read or scan them with the help of the question catalogue, which highlights central messages or methodological aspects from the articles.
Book
Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Articles
Module 1: Nonverbal information and communication
@ Blair, I. V, Judd, C. M., Chapleau, K. M., Blair, I. V, Judd, C. M., & Chapleau, K. M. (2004). Facial Influence of Features in Criminal Sentencing, Psychological Science, 15, 674–679.
@ Kurzban, R., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2001). Can race be erased ? Coalitional computation and social categorization, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 98, 15387-15392.
@ Unkelbach, C., Forgas, J. P., & Denson, T. F. (2008). The turban effect: The influence of Muslim headgear and induced affect on aggressive responses in the shooter bias paradigm. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1409–1413. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2008.04.003
@ Neal, D. T., & Chartrand, T. L. (2011). Embodied Emotion Perception: Amplifying and Dampening Facial Feedback Modulates Emotion Perception Accuracy. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2(6), 673–678. doi:10.1177/1948550611406138.
@ Kouzakova, M., Van Baaren, R., & Van Knippenberg, A. (2010). Lack of behavioral imitation in human interactions enhances salivary cortisol levels. Hormones and behavior, 57(4-5), 421–6. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.01.011
@ Chartrand, T. L., & Lakin, J. L. (2013). The antecedents and consequences of human behavioral mimicry. Annual review of psychology, 64, 285–308. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143754
@ Likowski, K. U., Muhlberger, A., Seibt, B., Pauli, P., Weyers, P. (2008). Modulation of facial mimicry by attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1065-1072.
Module 2: Fluency
@ Song, H. & Schwarz, N. (2010). If it’s easy to read, it’s easy to do, pretty, good, and true. The Psychologist, 23, 108-111.
@ Garcia-Marques, T., Silva, R. R., Reber, R., Unkelbach, C. (2015). Hearing a statement now and believing the opposite later. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 126-129.
@ Hasher, L., Goldstein, D. and Toppino, T. (1977). Frequency and the conference of referential validity. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 16, 107–112.
@ Reber, R., & Schwarz, N. (1999). Effects of perceptual fluency on judgments of truth. Consciousness and Cognition, 8, 338–342.
@ Reber, R., Schwarz, N., & Winkielman, P. (2004). Processing fluency and aesthetic pleasure: Is beauty in the perceiver's processing experience? Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 364–382.
@ Alter, A. L., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006). Predicting short-term stock fluctuations by using processing fluency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 9369-9372.
@ Alter, A. L., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2009). Suppressing secrecy through metacognitive ease: Cognitive fluency encourages self-disclosure. Psychological Science, 20, 1414-1420.
@ Song, H. & Schwarz, N. (2008). If it’s hard to read, it’s hard to do: Processing fluency affects effort prediction and motivation. Psychological Science, 19, 986–988.
@ Topolinski, S., & Reber, R. (2010). Gaining insight into the „Aha“-experience. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 402-405.
Module 3: Embodiment
@ Barsalou, L. W. (2008). Grounded cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 617–45. doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093639
@ Glenberg, A. M. (2010). Embodiment as a unifying perspective for psychology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1, 586–596. doi:10.1002/wcs.55
@ Gross, E. B., & Proffitt, D. (2013). The economy of social resources and its influence on spatial perceptions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(November), 772. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00772
@ Landau, M. J., Meier, B. P., & Keefer, L. A. (2010). A metaphor-enriched social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 136(6), 1045–1067.
@ Meier, B. P., Schnall, S., Schwarz, N., & Bargh, J. a. (2012). Embodiment in social psychology. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4(4), 705–16. doi:10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01212.x
@ Chandler, J. J., Reinhard, D., & Schwarz, N. (2012). To judge a book by its weight you need to know its content: Knowledge moderates the use of embodied cues. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(4), 948–952. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2012.03.003
@ Lee, S. W. S., & Schwarz, N. (2012). Bidirectionality, mediation, and moderation of metaphorical effects: the embodiment of social suspicion and fishy smells. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103(5), 737–49. doi:10.1037/a0029708
@ Thomsen, L., Frankenhuis, W. E., Ingold-Smith, M., & Carey, S. (2011). Big and mighty: Preverbal infants mentally represent social dominance. Science, 331(6016), 477–480. doi:10.1126/science.1199198
@ Schubert, T. W., Waldzus, S., & Giessner, S. R. (2009). Control over the association of power and size. Social Cognition, 27(1), 1–19. doi:10.1521/soco.2009.27.1.1
@ Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., Crawford, L. E., & Ahlvers, W. J. (2007). When “light” and “dark” thoughts become light and dark responses: affect biases brightness judgments. Emotion, 7(2), 366–376. doi:10.1037/1528-3542.7.2.366
@ Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). “Top-down” effects where none should be found: the El Greco fallacy in perception research. Psychological Science, 25(1), 38–46. doi:10.1177/0956797613485092
@ Schnall, S., Benton, J., & Harvey, S. (2008). With a clean conscience: cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgments. Psychological Science : A Journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 19(12), 1219–22. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02227.x
@ Johnson, D. J., Cheung, F., & Donnellan, M. B. (2014). Does Cleanliness Influence Moral Judgments? Social Psychology, 45(3), 209–215. doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000186
@ Replies from Schnall here: http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/cece/blog
Module 4: Judging and deciding
Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
You can read the original or the Norwegian version: Tenke, fort og langsomt.
- Chapter 1 (pg. 19-30): system 1 & system 2
- Chapter 7 – the part about “what you see is all there is”, pg. 85-88
- Chapter 34 (pg. 363-374): frames and reality
- Chapter 19 (pg. 199-208): the illusion of understanding (hindsight)
- Chapter 20 (pg. 209-221): the illusion of validity (predictions)
@ Sirota, M., & Juanchich, M. (2012). To what extent do politeness expectations shape risk perception? Even numerical probabilities are under their spell! Acta Psychologica, 141, 391-399.
@ Liberman, N., & Trope, Y. (2014). Traversing psychological distance. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(7), 364-369.