The current chapter reviews the findings of an ongoing research program suggesting that
changes in attitudes can be limited to the context in which counterattitudinal information was …

Over the past few decades, two-factor models of social cognition have emerged as a
dominant framework for understanding impression development. These models suggest that …

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 …

Highlights•We rapidly revise initial social impressions based on new information.•A
distributed network of brain regions supports this process.•Impression updating is flexibly …

Based on 660 effect sizes obtained from 23,255 adult participants across 51 reports of
experimental studies, this meta-analysis investigates whether and when explicit (self …

Research suggests that morality, sociability, and competence exert different effects on
impression formation and that morality forms the primary basis for the global evaluation of …

This research investigated whether stereotypes or individuating information take primacy in
implicit and explicit person perception. Study 1 investigated whether variation in the …

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 …

Human perceivers continually react to the social world implicitly—that is, spontaneously and
rapidly. Earlier research suggested that implicit impressions of other people are slower to …

Since the mid-1990s, research on attitudes has been shaped by a dualism that has gained
enormous popularity across all areas of psychology: the implicit-explicit dualism (see …