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Embodiment in social psychologyBrian P Meier
Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA
Top Cogn Sci 4:705-16. 2012..Such research will likely provide a more explanatory account of the role of embodiment in general terms as well as how it expands the knowledge base in social psychology...
Color in context: psychological context moderates the influence of red on approach- and avoidance-motivated behaviorBrian P Meier
Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e40333. 2012..Research is needed to directly test whether red influences the same behavior differently depending entirely on psychological context...- Sweet taste preferences and experiences predict prosocial inferences, personalities, and behaviorsBrian P Meier
Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:163-74. 2012..The results reveal that an embodied metaphor approach provides a complementary but unique perspective to traditional trait views of personality... 
What's "up" with God? Vertical space as a representation of the divineBrian P Meier
Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:699-710. 2007..These robust results reveal that vertical perceptions are invoked when people access divinity-related cognitions...- When "light" and "dark" thoughts become light and dark responses: affect biases brightness judgmentsBrian P Meier
Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, USA
Emotion 7:366-76. 2007..Not only do evaluations activate metaphors, but such metaphoric mappings are sufficient to lead individuals to violate input from visual perception when judging an object's brightness... - Turning the other cheek. Agreeableness and the regulation of aggression-related primesBrian P Meier
Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA
Psychol Sci 17:136-42. 2006..These results reveal that agreeable individuals are able to short-circuit the cue-aggression sequence, likely by recruiting prosocial thoughts in response to aggression-related primes... - Counting to ten milliseconds: low-anger, but not high-anger, individuals pause following negative evaluationsMichael D Robinson
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA
Cogn Emot 26:261-81. 2012..Implications for the personality-processing literature, theories of trait anger, and fast-acting regulatory processes are discussed... - Stuck in a rut: perseverative response tendencies and the neuroticism-distress relationshipMichael D Robinson
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 135:78-91. 2006..Overall, the results highlight the manner in which response perseveration reinforces experiences of negative emotion... - Hot-headed is more than an expression: the embodied representation of anger in terms of heatBenjamin M Wilkowski
University of Wyoming, Department of Psychology, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Emotion 9:464-77. 2009..The results are discussed in terms of their implications for embodied views of emotion concepts and their potential social consequences... - Wringing the perceptual rags: reply to IJzerman and Koole (2011)Mark J Landau
Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 7556, USA
Psychol Bull 137:362-5. 2011.... - Bring it on: angry facial expressions potentiate approach-motivated motor behaviorBenjamin M Wilkowski
Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:201-10. 2010..The results are discussed in terms of the processes underlying anger-related approach motivation and the conditions under which they are likely to arise... - A metaphor-enriched social cognitionMark J Landau
Department of Psychology, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 7556, USA
Psychol Bull 136:1045-67. 2010..Finally, we mention specific benefits of a metaphor-enriched perspective for integrating and generating social cognitive research and for bridging social cognition with neighboring fields... - Why the sunny side is up: association between affect and vertical positionBrian P Meier
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Psychol Sci 15:243-7. 2004..Study 3 revealed that, although evaluations activate areas of visual space, spatial positions do not activate evaluations. The studies suggest that affect has a surprisingly physical basis... - A comparison of chronic pain between an urban and rural populationPamela K Hoffman
North Dakota State University, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 5075, Fargo, ND 58105-5075, USA
J Community Health Nurs 19:213-24. 2002..Individuals from rural and urban locations differed significantly in the rate of chronic pain reported. Participants with chronic pain reported a significantly lower quality of life than individuals without chronic pain... - Extraversion, threat categorizations, and negative affect: a reaction time approach to avoidance motivationMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, 58105, USA
J Pers 73:1397-436. 2005..The authors discuss implications of the findings for extant views of Extraversion, avoidance motivation, and self-regulation... - Watch out! That could be dangerous: valence-arousal interactions in evaluative processingMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:1472-84. 2004..Studies 1, 6, and 7 establish that the findings are not due to stimulus identification processes. The findings therefore suggest that people make evaluative inferences on the basis of stimulus arousal... - Why good guys wear whiteBrian P Meier
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Psychol Sci 15:82-7. 2004..g., negative). Studies 4 and 5 reveal boundary conditions for the effect. The studies suggest that, when making evaluations, people automatically assume that bright objects are good, whereas dark objects are bad... - Unstable in more ways than one: reaction time variability and the neuroticism/distress relationshipMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
J Pers 74:311-43. 2006..The results highlight the manner in which Neuroticism may "taint" control functions, in turn reinforcing Neuroticism-linked outcomes... - Does quick to blame mean quick to anger? The role of agreeableness in dissociating blame and angerBrian P Meier
Department of Pyschology, North Dakota State University, Fargo 58105, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:856-67. 2004..The results suggest that agreeableness plays an important role in facilitating (low agreeableness) or inhibiting (high agreeableness) the link between accessible blame and anger... - Things are sounding up: affective influences on auditory tone perceptionUlrich W Weger
State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:517-21. 2007..In addition to clarifying the nature of these cross-modal associations, the present results further the idea that affective evaluations exert large effects on perceptual judgments related to verticality...