Some media coverage of our research

(PDFs and Abstracts available from my main page)


Kavanagh, L., Suhler, C., Churchland, P., & Winkielman, P. (in press).  When it’s an error to mirror: The surprising reputational costs of mimicry. Psychological Science.

·         UCSD Press Release  (includes video and pictures)

·         APS Press Release

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.

·         Science Daily

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.

·         UCSD Press Release:  Feeling blue?  You'll shun the new

·         We're Only Human...: A warm glow in Bangkok

·         In German:  Wer traurig ist, interessiert sich nicht für Neues

·         In Polish -- Newsweek.  Nie unikaj nowości, bo możesz wpaść w depresję.

·         In Russian

·         In Spanish: Las personas que son felices son más propensas a probar algo nuevo

·         In Swedish

·         In Turkish

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.

·         UCSD Press release:  Believing is Seeing

·         APS Observer - The Body of Knowledge: Understanding Embodied Cognition

·         Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/07/2009

·         KPBS.org

·         Believing is seeing, psychologists say | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times

 

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.

 

·         Ed Vul has a page with many links to public coverage and discussion of this paper here.

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.

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.

Winkielman, P., Halberstadt, J., Fazendeiro, T. & Catty, S. (2006). Prototypes are attractive because they are easy on the mind. Psychological Science, 17. 799-806. 

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.

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.

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.

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.


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