PSYC 590
Reading List
September 13: The
Social Context of Cognition
Nisbett,
R. E., Peng, K., Choi, I., & Norenzayan, A. (2001). Culture and systems of thought: Holistic
versus analytic cognition. Psychological Review, 108, 291-310.
Neuberg,
S. L., & Schaller, M. (in press).
Evolutionary social cognition. In
E. Borgida & J. Bargh (Eds.), APA
Handbook of personality and social psychology (Vol. 1, pp. xxx-xxx).
Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Heatherton,
T. F. (2011). Neuroscience of self and
self-regulation. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 363-390.
September 20:
Motivation and Social Cognition
Hastorf,
A. H., & Cantril, H. (1954). They saw a game. Journal of Abnormal and
Social Psychology, 49, 129-134.
Kunda,
Z. (1990). The case for motivated reasoning. Psychological Bulletin, 108,
480-489.
Kruglanski,
A. W. & Webster, D. M. (1996). Motivated closing of the mind:
"Seizing" and "freezing." Psychological Review, 103,
263-283.
Heine,
S. J., Proulx, T., & Vohs, K. D. (2006). Meaning maintenance model: On the
coherence of human motivations. Personality and Social Psychology
Review, 10, 88-110.
Higgins,
E. T. (1997). Beyond pleasure and pain. American Psychologist, 52,
1280-1300.
September 27:
Automatic and Controlled Processes
Bargh,
J. A., Schwader, K. L., Hailey, S. E., Dyer, R. L., & Boothby, E. J.
(2012). Automaticity in social-cognitive processes. Trends
in Cognitive Sciences, 16, 593-605.
Smith,
E. R., & DeCoster, J. (2000). Dual-process models in social and cognitive
psychology: Conceptual intergration and links to underlying memory systems. Personality
and Social Psychology Review, 4, 108-131.
Evans,
J. S. B. T., & Stanovich, K. E. (2013). Dual-process theories of higher
cognition: Advancing the debate. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8,
223-241.
Wegner,
D. M. (1994). Ironic processes of mental
control. Psychological Review, 101, 34-52.
October 4:
Heuristics and Biases
Tversky,
A., & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and
biases. Science, 185, 1124-1131.
Gigerenzer,
G., & Gaissmaier, W. (2011).
Heuristic decision making. Annual Review of Psychology, 62,
451-482.
Krueger,
J. I., & Funder, D. C. (2004).
Towards a balanced social psychology: Causes, consequences, and cures
for the problem-seeking approach to social behavior and cognition. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 27, 313-327.
(No need to read all
the commentaries; but you can if you want to, of course.)
October 11:
Attribution and Misattribution
Schachter,
S., & Singer, J. E. (1962). Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants
of emotional states. Psychological
Review, 69, 379-399.
Bem, D.
J. (1972). Self-perception theory. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 6, pp. 1-62). New
York: Academic Press.
Loersch,
C., & Payne, B. K. (2011). The situated inference model: An integrative
account of the effects of primes on perception, behavior, and motivation. Perspectives
on Psychological Science, 6, 234-252.
October 18: Impressions and Judgments of Others
Gilbert,
D. T. (1998). Ordinary personology. In D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, & G.
Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of social
psychology (4th ed., pp. 89-150). New York: McGraw Hill.
Fiske,
S. T., Cuddy, A. J. C., & Glick, P. (2007). Universal dimensions of social
cognition: Warmth and competence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 77-83.
Waytz,
A., Epley, N., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2010).
Social cognition unbound: Insights into anthropomorphism and
dehumanization. Current Directs in Psychological Science, 19, 58-62.
Haidt,
J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist
approach to moral judgment. Psychological
Review. 108, 814–834.
October 25:
Stereotypes and Prejudices
Devine,
P. G. (1989). Stereotypes and prejudice:
Their automatic and controlled components.
Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 56, 5-18.
Crandall,
C. S., & Eshleman, A. (2003). A
justification-suppression model of the expression and experience of
prejudice. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 414-446.
Rubin,
M., & Badea, C. (2012). They’re all the same!. . . but for several
different reasons: A review of the multicausal nature of perceived group
variability. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 367-372.
Schmader,
T., Johns, M., & Forbes, C. (2008). An integrated process model of
stereotype threat effects on performance. Psychological
Review, 115, 336-356.
November 1: Self
Knowledge and Self Concept
Nisbett,
R.E., & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports
on mental processes. Psychological
Review, 84, 231-259.
Greenwald,
A. G. (1980). The totalitarian ego:
Fabrication of personal history. American Psychologist, 35, 603-618.
Leary,
M. R., Tambor, E. S., Terdal, S. K., & Downs, D. L. (1995). Self-esteem as
an interpersonal monitor: The sociometer hypothesis. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 68, 518-530.
Kurzban,
R., & Aktipis, C. A. (2007).
Modularity and the social mind: Are psychologists too self-ish? Personality
and Social Psychology Review, 11, 131-149.
November 8: Ego
Protection and Self-Regulation
Tesser,
A. (2000). On the confluence of
self-esteem maintenance mechanisms. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4,
290-299.
Heine,
S. J., Lehman, D. R., Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1999). Is there a
universal need for positive self-regard? Psychological Review, 106, 766-794.
Kwang,
T., & Swann, W. B., Jr. (2010). Do people embrace praise even when they
feel unworthy? A review of critical tests of self-enhancement versus
self-verification. Personality and
Social Psychology Review, 14, 263-280.
Baumeister,
R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Muraven, M., & Tice, D. M. (1998). Ego depletion:
Is the active self a limited resource? Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 74, 1252-1265.
Vallacher,
R. R., & Wegner, D. M. (1987). What do people think they’re doing? Action
identification and human behavior. Psychological Review, 94, 3-15.
November 15:
Attitudes
Zajonc,
R. B. (1980). Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences. American Psychologist, 35, 151-175.
Fazio,
R. H. (1990). Multiple processes by which attitudes guide behavior: The MODE
model as an integrative framework. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in
experimental social psychology (Vol. 23, pp. 75-109). San Diego: Academic
Press.
Tesser,
A. (1993). The importance of
heritability in psychological research: The case of attitudes. Psychological
Review, 100, 129-142.
Jost, J.
T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. J. (2003). Political conservatism as motivated social
cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 339-375.
Wilson,
T. D., Lindsey, S., & Schooler, T. Y. (2000). A model of dual attitudes. Psychological
Review, 107, 101-126.
November 22:
Attitude Change
Bohner,
G., & Dickel, N. (2011). Attitudes
and attitude change. Annual Review of Psychology, 62,
391-417.
Aronson,
E. (1969). The theory of cognitive dissonance: A current perspective. In
L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 4,
pp. 1-34). New York: Academic Press.
Gawronski,
B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2006). Associative and propositional processes in
evaluation: An integrative review of implicit and explicit attitude change. Psychological
Bulletin, 132, 692-731.
November 29: The
Past and the Future
Roese,
N. J. (1997). Counterfactual
thinking. Psychological Bulletin, 121, 133-148.
Pyszczynski,
T., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (1999).
A dual-process model of defense against conscious and unconscious
death-related thoughts: An extension of terror management theory. Psychological
Review, 106, 835-845.
Gilbert,
D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2007).
Prospection: Experiencing the future.
Science, 317, 1351-1354.
Liberman,
N. & Trope, Y. (2008). The
psychology of transcending the here and now. Science, 322,
1201-1205.