Faculty
PIOTR WINKIELMAN
Professor
CONTACT:
| Email: | piotr@ucsd.edu |
| Phone: | (858) 822-0682 |
WEBSITE:
http://psy.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/
BIOGRAPHY:
Research Interests
My main interest is the interplay between emotion, cognition, embodiment and consciousness, particularly in the domain of social cognition. In my current research, I am exploring "unconscious affect", affective influences on decisions, and the embodiment of affective processing. I am also investigating the role of "cognitive feelings", such as processing fluency or recall difficulty in a variety of judgments, ranging from attractiveness to memory. My work draws on a variety of psychological methods, including those of social neuroscience.
Selected Publications
Winkielman, P. & Schooler, J. (2008). Unconscious, conscious, and metaconscious in social cognition. Strack, F. & Foerster, J. (Eds.), Social cognition: The basis of human interaction. (pp 49-69). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Winkielman, P., Niedenthal, P., & Oberman, L. (2008). The embodied emotional mind. In Semin, G. R., & Smith, E. R. (Eds.) Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches. (pp. 263-288). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Winkielman, P., Knutson, B., Paulus, M.P. & Trujillo, J.T. (2007). Affective influence on decisions: Moving towards the core mechanisms. Review of General Psychology, 11, 179-192.
Winkielman, P., Halberstadt, J., Fazendeiro, T. & Catty, S. (2006). Prototypes are attractive because they are easy on the mind. Psychological Science, 17. 799-806.
Winkielman, P., Berridge, K. C., & Wilbarger, J. (2005). Unconscious affective reactions to masked happy versus angry faces influence consumption behavior and judgments of value. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1, 121-135.
Winkielman, P. & Berridge, K. C. (2004). Unconscious emotion. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 120-123.
Winkielman, P., Schwarz, N., Fazendeiro, T., & Reber, R. (2003). The hedonic marking of processing fluency: Implications for evaluative judgment. In J. Musch & K. C. Klauer (Eds.), The Psychology of Evaluation: Affective Processes in Cognition and Emotion. (pp. 189-217). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Winkielman P., Berntson G. G., & Cacioppo J. T. (2001). The psychophysiological perspective on the social mind. In A. Tesser & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes. (pp. 89-108). Oxford: Blackwell.
Winkielman, P., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2001). Mind at ease puts a smile on the face: Psychophysiological evidence that processing facilitation increases positive affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 989–1000.
Winkielman, P., & Schwarz, N. (2001). How pleasant was your childhood? Beliefs about memory shape inferences from experienced difficulty of recall. Psychological Science, 12, 176-179.
Winkielman, P., Knauper, B. & Schwarz, N. (1998). Looking back at anger: Reference periods change the interpretation of emotion frequency questions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 719-728.
Winkielman, P., Schwarz, N. & Belli, R. F. (1998). The role of ease of retrieval and attribution in memory judgments: Judging your memory as worse despite recalling more events. Psychological Science, 9, 124-126.
Winkielman, P., Zajonc, R. B., & Schwarz, N. (1997). Subliminal affective priming resists attributional interventions. Cognition and Emotion, 11, 433-465.
