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.
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UCSD Press
Release (includes video and pictures)
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.
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 Spanish: Las personas que son felices son más propensas a probar algo nuevo
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.