The Psychology of Evaluation: Affective Processes in Cognition and Emotion

430 Pages·2002·22.38 MB·English

by  Jochen Musch

THE PSYCHOLOGY
OF EVALUATION
Affective Processes in Cognition and Emotion
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THE PSYCHOLOGY
OF EVALUATION
Affective Processes in Cognition and Emotion
Edited by
Jochen Musch
Karl Christoph Klauer
University of Bonn
LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS
2003 Mahwah, New Jersey London
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The psychology of evaluation: affective processes in cognition and emotion,
edited by Jochen Musch and Karl Christoph Klauer.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0-8058-4047-8 (c)
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Contents
List of Contributors ix
1 The Psychology of Evaluation: An Introduction 1
Jochen Musch and Karl Christoph Klauer
PART I: MECHANISMS, BOUNDARY CONDITIONS,
AND THEORIES OF AUTOMATIC EVALUATION
2 Affective Priming: Findings and Theories 7
Karl Christoph Klauer and Jochen Musch
3 The "Meddling-In" of Affective Information:
A General Model of Automatic Evaluation 51
Dirk Wentura and Klaus Rothermund
4 Reverse Priming: Implications for the (Un)conditionality
of Automatic Evaluation 87
Jack Glaser
5 The Hidden Vicissitudes of the Priming Paradigm
in Evaluative Judgment Research 109
Klaus Fielder
vi CONTENTS
PART II: EVALUATIVE JUDGMENTS
AND THE ACQUISITION OF EVALUATIONS
6 On the Acquisition and Activation of Evaluative
Information in Memory: The Study of Evaluative Learning
and Affective Priming Combined 139
Dirk Hermans, Frank Baeyens, and Paul Eelen
7 The Constructive Nature of Automatic Evaluation 169
Melissa Ferguson and John Bargh
8 The Hedonic Marking of Processing Fluency:
Implications for Evaluative Judgment 189
Piotr Winkielman, Norbert Schwarz, Tedra Fazendeiro,
and Rolf Reber
PART III: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
AND INDIRECT MEASURES OF EVALUATION
9 A Structural Analysis of Indirect Measures of Attitudes 219
Jan De Houwer
10 Beyond Verbal Self-Report: Priming Methods
in Relationship Research 245
Rainer Banse
11 Putting Process Into Personality, Appraisal, and Emotion:
Evaluative Processing as a Missing Link 275
Michael D. Robinson, Patrick T. Vargas, and Emily G. Crawford
PART IV: THE ROLE OF EVALUATION IN MOOD,
EMOTION AND BEHAVIOR
12 What Is Primed by Emotion
Concepts and Emotion Words? 307
Paula M. Niedenthal, Anette Rohmann, and Nathalie Dalle
13 The Parallel Worlds of Affective Concepts and Feelings 335
Gerald Clore and Stanley Colcombe
CONTENTS vii
14 Motor Compatibility: The Bidirectional Link
Between Behavior and Evaluation 371
Roland Neumann, Jens Forster, and Fritz Strack
Author Index 393
Subject Index 407
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List of Contributors
Frank Baeyens, Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Rainer Banse, Department of Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
John Bargh, Department of Psychology, New York University, USA
Gerald Clore, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, USA
Stanley Colcombe, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, USA
Emily Crawford, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, USA
Nathalie Dalle, Department of Psychology, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France
Jan De Houwer, Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, United
Kingdom
Paul Eelen, Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Tedra Fazendeiro, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, USA
Melissa Ferguson, Department of Psychology, New York University, USA
Klaus Fiedler, Department of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Jens Forster, Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Germany
Jack Glaser, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley,
USA
Dirk Hermans, Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Karl Christoph Klauer, Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Germany
Jochen Musch, Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Germany