The empirical study of belief is emerging at a rapid clip, uniting work from all corners of
cognitive science. Reliance on belief in understanding and predicting behavior is …

Although propositional models of associative learning are often referred to in the literature
on evaluative conditioning (EC), it has not yet been clearly stipulated what propositional …

Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

In Why People Radicalize, Kees van den Bos argues that if we want to truly understand
radicalization and prevent, attenuate, and fight violent extremism and terrorism, we must pay …

The idea that attitudes are associations in memory has been very influential. We highlight an
alternative perspective according to which stimulus evaluation is mediated by propositional …

Over the past decade, an increasing number of studies have shown that the performance of
specific actions (eg, approach and avoidance) in response to a stimulus can lead to …

How easily can our first impressions of others be updated when we learn new, contradictory
evidence? We review recent work in the social cognition literature on the ways in which …

Six experiments, involving a total of 6,492 participants, were conducted to investigate the
relative effectiveness of repeated evaluative pairings (REP; exposure to category members …

People are adept at forming impressions of others, but how easily can impressions be
updated? Although implicit first impressions have been characterized as difficult to overturn …

It is often assumed that, once established, spontaneous or implicit evaluations are resistant
to immediate change. Recent research contradicts this theoretical stance, showing that a …