The Psychology of Evaluation: Affective Processes in Cognition and Emotion

by Musch, Jochen; Klauer, Karl C.; Bargh, John A.; Forster, Jens

• ISBN13: 9780805840476
• ISBN10: 0805840478
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

The affective connotations of environmental stimuli are evaluated spontaneously and with minimal cognitive processing. The activated evaluations influence subsequent emotional and cognitive processes. Featuring original contributions from leading researchers active in this area, this book reviews and integrates the most recent research and theories on this exciting new topic. Many fundamental issues regarding the nature of and relationship between evaluations, cognition, and emotion are covered. The chapters explore the mechanisms and boundary conditions of automatic evaluative processes, the determinants of valence, indirect measures of individual differences in the evaluation of social stimuli, and the relationship between evaluations and mood, as well as emotion and behavior. Offering a highly integrated and comprehensive coverage of the field, this book is suitable as a core textbook in advanced courses dealing with the role of evaluations in cognition and emotion.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
The Psychology of Evaluation: An Introduction	1	(6)
Jochen Musch
Karl Christoph Klauer
PART I: MECHANISMS, BOUNDARY CONDITIONS, AND THEORIES OF AUTOMATIC EVALUATION
Affective Priming: Findings and Theories	7	(44)
Karl Christoph Klauer
Jochen Musch
The ``Meddling-In'' of Affective Information: A General Model of Automatic Evaluation	51	(36)
Dirk Wentura
Klaus Rothermund
Reverse Priming: Implications for the (Un) conditionality of Automatic Evaluation	87	(22)
Jack Glaser
The Hidden Vicissitudes of the Priming Paradigm in Evaluative Judgement Research	109	(30)
Klaus Fielder
PART II: EVALUATIVE JUDGMENTS AND THE ACQUISITION OF EVALUATIONS
On the Acquisition and Activation of Evaluative Information in Memory: The Study of Evaluative Learning and Affective Priming Combined	139	(30)
Dirk Hermans
Frank Baeyens
Paul Eelen
The Constructive Nature of Automatic Evaluation	169	(20)
Melissa Ferguson
John Bargh
The Hedonic Marking of Processing Fluency: Implications for Evaluative Judgement	189	(30)
Piotr Winkielman
Norbert Schwarz
Tedra Fazendeiro
Rolf Reber
PART III: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND INDIRECT MEASURES OF EVALUATION
A Structural Analysis of Indirect Measures of Attitudes	219	(26)
Jan De Houwer
Beyond Verbal Self-Report: Priming Methods in Relationship Research	245	(30)
Rainer Banse
Putting Process Into Personality, Appraisal, and Emotion: Evaluative Processing as a Missing Link	275	(32)
Michael D. Robinson
Patrick T. Vargas
Emily G. Crawford
PART IV: THE ROLE OF EVALUATION IN MOOD, EMOTION AND BEHAVIOR
What Is Primed by Emotion Concepts and Emotion Words?	307	(28)
Paula M. Niedenthal
Anette Rohmann
Nathalie Dalle
The Parallel Worlds of Affective Concepts and Feelings	335	(36)
Gerald Clore
Stanley Colcombe
Motor Compatibility: The Bidirectional Link Between Behavior and Evaluation	371	(22)
Roland Neumann
Jens Forster
Fritz Strack
Author Index	393	(14)
Subject Index	407