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Piotr Winkielman

Permanent Address:

Occasional Address:

Department of Psychology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, Mailcode 0109
La Jolla, CA 92093-0109
Phone: (858) 822-0682
Fax: (858) 534-7190
http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel

University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Chodakowska 19/31

03-815 Warszawa

POLAND

My other pages: Publications, Lab Page, Teaching, Daily links; Research links; Media; Memorial page dedicated to Robert Zajonc.

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Academic history

Professor of Psychology:
2007: Psychology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
Associate Professor:
2003-2007: Psychology, UCSD
Assistant Professor:
1998-2003: Social, Cognitive, and Neuroscience Programs, Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado.
Post-doctoral Fellow:
1997 - 1998: Social Neuroscience Lab (now at University of Chicago), Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus.
Graduate Student:
1991-1997 Ph.D: Social Psychology, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Undergraduate Student:
1988-1991: Dipl.Psych. Psychology, Minor, Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
1985-1988: Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

Research Interests

My research explores the interplay between emotion, cognition, embodiment and consciousness. I am particularly interested in implications of this work for social cognition. In my work, I draw on diverse methods of social and cognitive psychology, including techniques from social neuroscience. Please see a detailed description of my research interests here.

Representative Publications. Reasonably current and complete list of publications is here.
For reprints, check for PDF next to reference or e-mail me at the address above. PDFs are for personal use only. Download free PDF reader here.

Books

· Feldman-Barrett, L., Niedenthal, P., & Winkielman, P. (2005). Emotion and Consciousness. Guilford Press. New York. Purchase at Guilford (code 5T for discount) or at Amazon.

· Harmon-Jones, E. & Winkielman, P. (2007). Social Neuroscience. Integrating biological and psychological explanations of social behavior. Guilford Press. New York. Purchase at Guilford (code 5T for discount) or at Amazon.

Representative Articles and Chapters

Halberstadt, J., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., Wai, L.I., & Winkielman, P. (in press). Two faces of attractiveness: Making beauty-in-averageness appear and reverse. Psychological Science.
Bornemann, B., Winkielman, P., & van der Meer (2012). Can you feel what you don’t see? Using internal feedback to detect briefly presented emotional stimuli. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 85, 116-124. Link, PDF.
Churchland, P.S., & Winkielman, P. (2012). Modulating social behavior with oxytocin: How does it work? What does it mean? Hormones and Behavior, 61, 392–399. Link, PDF, PubMed Central.
Oosterwijk, S., Winkielman, P., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A.H. (2012). Mental states inside out: Processing sentences that differ in internal and external focus produces switching costs. Memory & Cognition, 40, 93-100. Link, PDF.
Kavanagh, L., Suhler, C., Churchland, P., & Winkielman, P. (2011). When it’s an error to mirror: The surprising reputational costs of mimicry. Psychological Science, 22, 1274–1276 Link, PDF.
Winkielman, P. & Schooler, J.W. (2011). Splitting consciousness: Unconscious, conscious, and metaconscious processes in social cognition. European Review of Social Psychology, 22, 1–35. Link, PDF.
Ybarra, O., Winkielman, P., Yeh, I., Burnstein, E. & Kavanagh, L. (2011). Friends (and sometimes enemies) with cognitive benefits: What types of social interactions boost cognitive functioning? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 253-261. Link. PDF.
De Vries, M., Holland, R.W., Chenier, T., Starr, M.J., & Winkielman, P. (2010). Happiness cools the warm glow of familiarity: Psychophysiological evidence that mood modulates the familiarity-affect link. Psychological Science, 21, 321–328. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P. (2010). Bob Zajonc and the unconscious emotion. Emotion Review, 2, 353–362. Link. PDF.
Halberstadt, J., Winkielman, P., Niedenthal, P. M., & Dalle, N. (2009). Emotional conception: How embodied emotion concepts guide perception and facial action. Psychological Science, 20, 1254-1261. Abstract, PDF.
Niedenthal, P. M., Winkielman, P. Mondillon, L., & Vermeulen, N. (2009). Embodiment of Emotional Concepts: Evidence from EMG Measures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1120–1136. Abstract, PDF.
Vul, E., Harris C., Winkielman, P., & Pashler, H. (2009). Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 274-290. Abstract, PDF. Our reply to comments is here.
Oberman, L. M., Winkielman, P., & Ramachandran, V.S. (2009). Slow echo: Facial EMG evidence for the delay of spontaneous, but not voluntary emotional mimicry in children with autism spectrum disorders. Developmental Science, 12, 510–520. Abstract, PDF.
Wilbarger, J. L., McIntosh, D. N., & Winkielman, P. (2009). Startle modulation in autism: Positive affective stimuli enhance startle response. Neuropsychologia, 47, 1323–1331. Abstract. PDF.
Winkielman, P., McIntosh, D. N., & Oberman, L. (2009). Embodied and disembodied emotion processing: Learning from and about typical and autistic individuals. Emotion Review, 2, 178-190. Abstract, PDF.
Clark, T. F., Winkielman, P. & McIntosh, D. N. (2008). Autism and the extraction of emotion from briefly presented facial expressions: Stumbling at the first step of empathy. Emotion, 8, 803-809. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P. & Schooler, J. (2008). Unconscious, conscious, and metaconscious in social cognition. Strack, F. & Foerster, J. (Eds.), Social cognition: The basis of human interaction. (pp 49-69). Philadelphia: Psychology Press. PDF.
Huber, D. E., Clark, T., Curran, T., & Winkielman, P. (2008). Effects of repetition priming on recognition memory: Testing a perceptual fluency-disfluency model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 1305–1324. Abstract, PDF.
Knutson, B., Wimmer, G. E., Kuhnen, C. M., & Winkielman, P. (2008). Nucleus accumbens activation mediates the influence of reward cues on financial risk taking. NeuroReport, 19, 509-513. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P., Niedenthal, P., & Oberman, L. (2008). The embodied emotional mind. In Semin, G. R., & Smith, E. R. (Eds.) Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches. (pp. 263-288). New York: Cambridge University Press. PDF, (link to the book).
von Helversen, B., Gendolla, G. H. E, Winkielman, P., & Schmidt, R.E. (2008). Exploring the hardship of ease: Subjective and objective effort in the ease-of-processing paradigm. Motivation and Emotion. Abstract, PDF.
Ybarra, O., Burnstein, E., Winkielman, P., Keller, M.C, Manis, M., Chan, E., & Rodriguez, J. (2008). Mental exercising through simple socializing: Social interaction promotes general cognitive functioning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 248-259. Abstract. PDF.
Winkielman, P., Knutson, B., Paulus, M.P. & Trujillo, J.T. (2007). Affective influence on decisions: Moving towards the core mechanisms. Review of General Psychology, 11, 179-192. Abstract, PDF.
Oberman, L., Winkielman, P., & Ramachandran, V. S. (2007). Face to face: Blocking facial mimicry can selectively impair recognition of emotional expressions. Social Neuroscience, 2, 167-178. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P., Halberstadt, J., Fazendeiro, T. & Catty, S. (2006). Prototypes are attractive because they are easy on the mind. Psychological Science, 17. 799-806. Abstract, PDF.
McIntosh, D. N., Reichmann-Decker, A., Winkielman, P., & Wilbarger, J. L. (2006). When the social mirror breaks: Deficits in automatic, but not voluntary mimicry of emotional facial expressions in autism. Developmental Science, 9, 295-302. Abstract, PDF.
Fazendeiro, T., Winkielman, P., Luo, C., & Lorah, C. (2005). False recognition across meaning, language, and stimulus format: Conceptual relatedness and the feeling of familiarity. Memory and Cognition. 33, 249-260. Abstract, PDF.
Niedenthal, P. M., Barsalou, L., Winkielman, P., Krauth-Gruber, S., & Ric, F. (2005). Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 9, 184-211. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P., Berridge, K. C., & Wilbarger, J. L. (2005). Unconscious affective reactions to masked happy versus angry faces influence consumption behavior and judgments of value. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1, 121-135. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P., Berridge, K. C., & Wilbarger, J. L. (2005). Emotion, behavior, and conscious experience: Once more without feeling. In Feldman-Barrett, L., Niedenthal, P., & Winkielman, P. (Eds). Emotion and Consciousness. Guilford Press. New York. PDF.
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. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P. & Berridge, K. C. (2004). Unconscious emotion. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 120-123. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P. & Berridge, K. C. (2003). Irrational wanting and sub-rational liking: How rudimentary motivational and affective processes shape preferences and choices. Political Psychology, 24, 657-680. Abstract, PDF.
Berridge, K. C., & Winkielman, P. (2003). What is an unconscious emotion? The case for unconscious 'liking'. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 181-211. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P., Schwarz, N., Fazendeiro, T., & Reber, R. (2003). The hedonic marking of processing fluency: Implications for evaluative judgment. In J. Musch & K. C. Klauer (Eds.), The Psychology of Evaluation: Affective Processes in Cognition and Emotion. (pp. 189-217). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. (publisher's book webpage here). PDF.
Winkielman, P., Schwarz, N., & Nowak, A. (2002). Affect and processing dynamics: Perceptual fluency enhances evaluations. In S. Moore & M. Oaksford (Eds.), Emotional Cognition: From brain to behaviour. (pp. 111-136). Amsterdam, NL: John Benjamins. See book website here. Read the chapter (#5) on the web here, or in PDF.
Winkielman P., Berntson G. G., & Cacioppo J. T. (2001). The psychophysiological perspective on the social mind. In A. Tesser & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes. (pp. 89-108). Oxford: Blackwell. (publisher's book webpage here). PDF.
Winkielman, P., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2001). Mind at ease puts a smile on the face: Psychophysiological evidence that processing facilitation increases positive affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 989-1000. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P., & Schwarz, N. (2001). How pleasant was your childhood? Beliefs about memory shape inferences from experienced difficulty of recall. Psychological Science, 12, 176-179. Abstract, PDF
Belli, R. F., Winkielman, P., Read, D. J., Schwarz, N., & Lynn, S. J. (1998). Recalling more childhood events leads to judgments of poorer memory: Implications for the recovered/false memory debate. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5, 318-323. Abstract, PDF.
Reber, R., Winkielman, P. & Schwarz, N. (1998). Effects of perceptual fluency on affective judgments. Psychological Science, 9, 45-48. Abstract, PDF
Winkielman, P., Knauper, B. & Schwarz, N. (1998). Looking back at anger: Reference periods change the interpretation of emotion frequency questions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 719-728. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P., Schwarz, N. & Belli, R. F. (1998). The role of ease of retrieval and attribution in memory judgments: Judging your memory as worse despite recalling more events. Psychological Science, 9, 124-126. Abstract, PDF.
Winkielman, P., Zajonc, R. B., & Schwarz, N. (1997). Subliminal affective priming resists attributional interventions. Cognition and Emotion, 11, 433-465. Abstract, PDF.

Po Polsku (in Polish):

· Winkielman, P., Huber, D., & Olszanowski, M. (2011). Dynamiczne związki: Rola płynności przetwarzania w afekcie i procesach wartościowania. In Błaszczak, W & Doliński, D. Dynamika emocji: Teoria i praktyka. PWN. Warszawa. PDF

· Winkielman, P. (2009). Psychologia poznania społecznego w erze neuronauk. In: M. Kofta and M. Kossowska (Eds.). Psychologia poznania społecznego: Nowe idee. Warszawa: PWN. PDF

· Winkielman, P. & Niedenthal, P. (2009). Ucieleśniony emocjonalny umysł społeczny. In: M. Kofta and M. Kossowska (Eds.). Psychologia poznania społecznego: Nowe idee. Warszawa: PWN. PDF

· Winkielman, P. (2008). Psychologia społeczna a neuronauki: Dominacja, separacja, czy satysfakcjonujący związek? [in Polish] Social psychology and neuroscience: Domination, separation, or a fulfilling relationship? Psychologia Społeczna, 1, 11–22. Abstract, PDF

· Winkielman, P. (2006). Nierozłączne nauki dwie. (Inseparable sciences). Charaktery, 10, 8-12. PDF. Popularno-naukowy artykuł o związku psychologii i neuronauk.

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