Why good is more alike than bad: Processing implications

H Alves, A Koch, C Unkelbach - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Humans process positive information and negative information differently. These valence
asymmetries in processing are often summarized under the observation that 'bad is stronger …

Relativity in social cognition: Basic processes and novel applications of social comparisons

C Unkelbach, H Alves, M Baldwin… - European Review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A key challenge for social psychology is to identify unifying principles that
account for the complex dynamics of social behaviour. We propose psychological relativity …

The ABC of stereotypes about groups: Agency/socioeconomic success, conservative–progressive beliefs, and communion.

A Koch, R Imhoff, R Dotsch, C Unkelbach… - Journal of personality …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous research argued that stereotypes differ primarily on the 2 dimensions of
warmth/communion and competence/agency. We identify an empirical gap in support for this …

Social evaluation: Comparing models across interpersonal, intragroup, intergroup, several-group, and many-group contexts

A Koch, V Yzerbyt, A Abele, N Ellemers… - Advances in experimental …, 2021 - Elsevier
This chapter compares five models that analyze social evaluation from the micro,
interpersonal to macro, many-group level: the Dual Perspective Model (DPM), Behavioral …

A retrieved context model of the emotional modulation of memory.

D Talmi, LJ Lohnas, ND Daw - Psychological review, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Emotion enhances episodic memory, an effect thought to be an adaptation to prioritize the
memories that best serve evolutionary fitness. However, viewing this effect largely in terms of …

What is the structure of perceiver effects? On the importance of global positivity and trait-specificity across personality domains and judgment contexts.

R Rau, EN Carlson, MD Back, M Barranti… - Journal of Personality …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
When judging others' personalities, perceivers differ in their general judgment tendencies.
These perceiver effects partly reflect a response bias but are also stable and psychologically …

What makes a word a good representative of the category of “emotion”? The role of feelings and interoception.

P Ferré, M Guasch, H Stadthagen-González… - Emotion, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The words we use to describe emotions vary in terms of prototypicality; that is, some of these
words may be more representative of the semantic category of emotion than others (eg …

The Evaluative Lexicon 2.0: The measurement of emotionality, extremity, and valence in language

MD Rocklage, DD Rucker, LF Nordgren - Behavior research methods, 2018 - Springer
The rapid expansion of the Internet and the availability of vast repositories of natural text
provide researchers with the immense opportunity to study human reactions, opinions, and …

Exploring the impact of sentiment on multi-dimensional information dissemination using COVID-19 data in China

H Luo, X Meng, Y Zhao, M Cai - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
The outbreak of information epidemic in crisis events, with the channel effect of social media,
has brought severe challenges to global public health. Combining information, users and …

Negativity bias, positivity bias, and valence asymmetries: Explaining the differential processing of positive and negative information

C Unkelbach, H Alves, A Koch - Advances in experimental social …, 2020 - Elsevier
Distinguishing between “good” and “bad” is a fundamental task for all organisms. However,
people seem to process positive and negative information differentially, described in the …