Paradoxical effects of praise and blame: Personal and situative moderatorsAbstract. Praise following success and a neutral reaction following failure can inform the assessed person that he or she has been judged as ungifted by the sanctioning individual. ...
Mimicry and prosocial feelings are generally thought to be positively related. However, the conditions under which mimicry and liking are related largely remain unspecified. We advance this specification by examining the relationship between mimicry and ...
Abstract. Processing fluency, a metacognitive feeling of ease of cognitive processing, serves as a cue in various types of judgments. Processing fluency is sometimes evaluated by response times, with shorter response times indicating ...
Abstract: The importance of processing fluency in evaluative judgments has been repeatedly demonstrated across many domains such as liking, beauty, and truth. However, a clear picture of the nature of processing fluency has yet to emerge. Fluent ...
Abstract. Morally ambiguous characters are often perceived to challenge Zillmann’s affective disposition theory of drama. At the heart of this challenge is the question: “To what extent can liking be independent of character morality?” The ...
Five experiments investigated the effects of spatial elevation on person perception in both a computer setup and actual encounters, determining the moderating role of additional verbal information about the target. In accordance with prior findings, ...