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View article: No memory, no effect: action based evaluative conditioning effects are modulated by contingency memory
No memory, no effect: action based evaluative conditioning effects are modulated by contingency memory Open
Evaluative conditioning refers to the change in the liking of a stimulus due to its pairing with another affective stimulus. Action control research indicates that not only affective stimuli, but also affective actions can lead to conditio…
View article: “A community of unknowledge”: A Social-Psychological Model of the Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Social Identity-Driven Willful Ignorance and Conspiracy Beliefs
“A community of unknowledge”: A Social-Psychological Model of the Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Social Identity-Driven Willful Ignorance and Conspiracy Beliefs Open
This paper explores willful ignorance as a socially motivated, group-basedphenomenon closely tied to conspiracy beliefs. While prior research has emphasizedindividual motives, we highlight how groups actively ignore dissonant information t…
View article: “A community of unknowledge”: A Social-Psychological Model of the Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Social Identity-Driven Willful Ignorance and Conspiracy Beliefs
“A community of unknowledge”: A Social-Psychological Model of the Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Social Identity-Driven Willful Ignorance and Conspiracy Beliefs Open
This paper explores willful ignorance as a socially motivated, group-basedphenomenon closely tied to conspiracy beliefs. While prior research has emphasizedindividual motives, we highlight how groups actively ignore dissonant information t…
View article: Learning to Like the Enemy: Moral Learning Reduces Affective Polarization
Learning to Like the Enemy: Moral Learning Reduces Affective Polarization Open
Affective polarization, the growing gap between negativity toward political outgroups and positivity toward political ingroups, threatens democracies. This preregistered research tested the effectiveness of a novel moral learning treatment…
View article: Introducing the trier univalence neutrality ambivalence (TUNA) database: A picture database differentiating complex attitudes
Introducing the trier univalence neutrality ambivalence (TUNA) database: A picture database differentiating complex attitudes Open
Using validated stimulus material is crucial for ensuring research comparability and replicability. However, many databases rely solely on bidimensional valence ratings, ranging from negative to positive. While this material might be appro…
View article: Two roads leading to the same evaluative conditioning effect? Stimulus-response binding versus operant conditioning
Two roads leading to the same evaluative conditioning effect? Stimulus-response binding versus operant conditioning Open
Evaluative Conditioning (EC) refers to changes in our liking or disliking of a stimulus due to its pairing with other positive or negative stimuli. In addition to stimulus-based mechanisms, recent research has shown that action-based mecha…
View article: Ambivalence Toward the Implementation of Preventive Measures in (Un-)Vaccinated German Citizens
Ambivalence Toward the Implementation of Preventive Measures in (Un-)Vaccinated German Citizens Open
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life around the world. To fight the pandemic, preventive measures were implemented. Despite being accepted by a majority of citizens in Germany, these measures elicited fierce protest from othe…
View article: Survival of the fittest in the pandemic age: Introducing disease-related social Darwinism
Survival of the fittest in the pandemic age: Introducing disease-related social Darwinism Open
COVID-19 was a harsh reminder that diseases are an aspect of human existence and mortality. It was also a live experiment in the formation and alteration of disease-related attitudes. Not only are these attitudes relevant to an individual’…
View article: Love Food, Hate Waste? Ambivalence towards Food Fosters People’s Willingness to Waste Food
Love Food, Hate Waste? Ambivalence towards Food Fosters People’s Willingness to Waste Food Open
Food waste is the origin of major social and environmental issues. In industrial societies, domestic households are the biggest contributors to this problem. But why do people waste food although they buy and value it? Answering this quest…
View article: Unpacking Plastic: Investigating Plastic Related Ambivalence
Unpacking Plastic: Investigating Plastic Related Ambivalence Open
Many people are aware of the negative consequences of plastic use on the environment. Nevertheless, they use plastic due to its functionality. In the present paper, we hypothesized that this leads to the experience of ambivalence—the simul…
View article: How relative deprivation increases aggressive behavior: Exploring the moderating roles of resource scarcity, deprivation intensity, and sanctions in a game task
How relative deprivation increases aggressive behavior: Exploring the moderating roles of resource scarcity, deprivation intensity, and sanctions in a game task Open
The present work investigated the influence of experimentally manipulated relative deprivation (RD) on aggressive behavior in a game context. Participants experienced personal RD as the difference between own rewards and the rewards of a f…
View article: Food for Thought: Investigating Communication Strategies to Counteract Moral Disengagement Regarding Meat Consumption
Food for Thought: Investigating Communication Strategies to Counteract Moral Disengagement Regarding Meat Consumption Open
Eating less meat would benefit environmental sustainability, human health, and animal welfare. Providing information about this, however, does often not lead people to adopt according beliefs, attitudes or behaviors. In fact, dietary chang…
View article: Dataset for: CS as an Effect: Action-Based Evaluative Conditioning Depends on Temporal Contiguity
Dataset for: CS as an Effect: Action-Based Evaluative Conditioning Depends on Temporal Contiguity Open
These are the data belonging to a study, in which we analyzed Evaluative Conditioning (EC) with a recently introduced S-R paradigm (Blask, Frings, & Walther, 2016). In this paradigm valence first transfers from an affective US to a respons…
View article: What You Feel Is What You See: A Binding Perspective on Evaluative Conditioning
What You Feel Is What You See: A Binding Perspective on Evaluative Conditioning Open
In this paper, we outline the predominant theoretical perspectives on evaluative conditioning (EC)—the changes in liking that are due to the pairing of stimuli—identify their weaknesses, and propose a new framework, the binding perspective…
View article: The Impact of Question Format, Context, and Content on Survey Answers in Early and Late Adolescence
The Impact of Question Format, Context, and Content on Survey Answers in Early and Late Adolescence Open
Self-reports in surveys are often influenced by the presented question format and question context. Much less is known about how these effects influence the answers of younger survey respondents. The present study investigated how variatio…
View article: Timeless: A Large Sample Study on the Temporal Robustness of Affective Responses
Timeless: A Large Sample Study on the Temporal Robustness of Affective Responses Open
Emotion and its effects on other psychological phenomena are frequently studied by presenting emotional pictures for a short amount of time. However, the duration of exposure strongly differs across paradigms. In order to ensure the compar…