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| Michael D RobinsonSummaryAffiliation: University of North Dakota Country: USA Publications
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Belief and feeling: evidence for an accessibility model of emotional self-reportMichael D Robinson
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo 58105, USA
Psychol Bull 128:934-60. 2002..The accessibility model provides an organizing framework for understanding self-reports of emotion and suggests some new directions for research...- Trait as default: extraversion, subjective well-being, and the distinction between neutral and positive eventsMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo 58105, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:517-27. 2003..The findings suggest that extraversion scales measure (among other things) beliefs about SWB that differentially contribute to judgments among those less capable of making evaluative distinctions at encoding... - 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... - Using and being used by categories. The case of negative evaluations and daily well-beingMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, ND 58105, USA
Psychol Sci 15:521-6. 2004..The results support the idea that categorization provides a useful perspective on personality functioning... - Driven to tears or to joy: response dominance and trait-based predictionsMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:629-40. 2006..Together, the studies reveal a consistent effect of response dominance on trait-like consistency and raise some important issues for future studies of the traitedness construct... 
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...- 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... 
Explicit and implicit approach motivation interact to predict interpersonal arroganceMichael D Robinson
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, United States
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 38:858-69. 2012..Implications for understanding approach motivation, implicit probes of it, and problematic approach-related outcomes are discussed...- Driven, distracted, or both? A performance-based ex-Gaussian analysis of individual differences in anxietyKonrad Bresin
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
J Pers 79:875-904. 2011..Implications for understanding neuroticism, distress, the anxiety-performance interface, and cognitive models of personality 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... - Behavioral facilitation: a cognitive model of individual differences in approach motivationMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Emotion 9:70-82. 2009..Results are discussed in terms of the benefits of modeling the cognitive processes hypothesized to underlie individual differences motivation, affect, and depression... - 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... - Traits, States, and encoding speed: support for a top-down view of neuroticism/state relationsMichael D Robinson
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo 58105, USA
J Pers 75:95-120. 2007..Such data reinforce suggestions that neuroticism is particularly pernicious among individuals less capable of making distinctions at encoding... - 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... - The big chill: interpersonal coldness and emotion-labeling skillsSara K Moeller
North Dakota State University, USA
J Pers 80:703-24. 2012..Implications of the findings for understanding the nature and correlates of interpersonal coldness are discussed... - 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... - When aggressive individuals see the world more accurately: the case of perceptual sensitivity to subtle facial expressions of angerBenjamin M Wilkowski
University of Wyoming, Department of Psychology, 1000 E University Ave, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 38:540-53. 2012..This pattern could not be explained in terms of response bias and was specific to angry expressions. The results thus support the idea that aggression is associated with social-cognitive skills rather than bias and ineptitude... - Regulated and unregulated forms of cortisol reactivity: a dual vulnerability modelMichael D Robinson
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Dept 2765, PO Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
Psychosom Med 73:250-6. 2011.... - Associative and spontaneous appraisal processes independently contribute to anger elicitation in daily lifeBenjamin M Wilkowski
University of Wyoming, Department of Psychology, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Emotion 10:181-9. 2010..Results therefore support a model that acknowledges the role of both associative and appraisal processes in anger elicitation... - Cognitive-emotional dysfunction among noisy minds: predictions from individual differences in reaction time variabilityScott Ode
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, PO Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
Cogn Emot 25:307-27. 2011..Results converge on the idea that mental noise is an important individual difference dimension with multiple adverse correlates and consequences... - Blood pressure reactivity predicts somatic reactivity to stress in daily lifeClayton J Hilmert
Psychology Department NDSU Dept 2765, North Dakota State University, PO Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
J Behav Med 33:282-92. 2010..Stress reactivity individual differences in one system may indicate more general differences in bodily reactivity across systems... - Neuroticism and responsiveness to error feedback: adaptive self-regulation versus affective reactivityMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
J Pers 78:1469-96. 2010..Implications for understanding the processing basis of neuroticism and adaptive self-regulation are discussed... - You may worry, but can you recognize threats when you see them?; Neuroticism, threat identifications, and negative affectMaya Tamir
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
J Pers 74:1481-506. 2006..Of most importance, our data indicate that threat-identification skills can be hedonically beneficial, rather than costly, at high levels of neuroticism... - Knowing good from bad: the paradox of neuroticism, negative affect, and evaluative processingMaya Tamir
Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:913-25. 2004..The present studies demonstrate that although negative mood states are hedonically unpleasant, they can be beneficial in some ways for individuals high in neuroticism... - The epistemic benefits of trait-consistent mood states: an analysis of extraversion and moodMaya Tamir
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 61820, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:663-77. 2002..Overall, the authors suggest that there are pragmatic benefits to trait-consistent moods, particularly for processing motivation-relevant stimuli... - The regulatory benefits of high levels of affect perception accuracy: a process analysis of reactions to stressors in daily lifeMichael D Robinson
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo 58105 5075, USA
Emotion 12:785-95. 2012..The findings support a regulatory view of such perceptual abilities. Implications for understanding emotion regulation processes, emotional intelligence, and individual differences in reactivity are discussed... - Toward a cognitive view of trait mindfulness: distinct cognitive skills predict its observing and nonreactivity facetsCali L Anicha
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
J Pers 80:255-85. 2012..Implications for understanding the cognitive basis of mindfulness facets are discussed... - Routine cognitive errors: a trait-like predictor of individual differences in anxiety and distressAdam K Fetterman
Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
Cogn Emot 25:244-64. 2011..The results are novel, but discussed within the context of the wider literatures that informed them... - Happiness as a belief system: individual differences and priming in emotion judgmentsMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 31:1134-44. 2005..The results indicate that happy, relative to less happy, individuals organize information concerning their positive emotions in a qualitatively different and tighter semantic manner... - Gaze-triggered orienting as a tool of the belongingness self-regulation systemBenjamin M Wilkowski
University of Wyoming, Department of Psychology, Department 3415, 1000 East University Ave, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Psychol Sci 20:495-501. 2009..However, belongingness had no influence on a nonsocial form of orienting. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for theories of belongingness self-regulation and social attention... - Neural and behavioral measures of error-related cognitive control predict daily coping with stressRebecca J Compton
Department of Psychology, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041, USA
Emotion 11:379-90. 2011..Finally, depression levels predicted daily affect and coping independent of cognitive control variables. The results offer qualified support for an integrated conception of cognitive and emotional self-regulation... - Integrating trait and social-cognitive views of personality: neuroticism, implicit stress priming, and neuroticism-outcome relationshipsSara K Moeller
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 36:677-89. 2010..The results highlight an interface of trait and social-cognitive views of personality and do so in the context of understanding stress-reactivity processes, a topic of importance to multiple literatures... - Neuroticism's importance in understanding the daily life correlates of heart rate variabilityScott Ode
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
Emotion 10:536-43. 2010..The flexibility perspective was systematically supported in a daily experience-sampling protocol. Implications focus on theories of neuroticism and HRV... - Motor control accuracy: a consequential probe of individual differences in emotion regulationKonrad Bresin
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, USA
Emotion 12:479-86. 2012..Motor control probes of the present type thus appear consequential in understanding emotion-regulation processes and successes in emotion regulation... - The cognitive basis of trait anger and reactive aggression: an integrative analysisBenjamin M Wilkowski
North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 12:3-21. 2008.... - Guarding against hostile thoughts: trait anger and the recruitment of cognitive controlBenjamin M Wilkowski
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Emotion 8:578-83. 2008..The convergence of findings across studies provides one likely mechanism for the reduced levels of reactivity at low levels of trait anger. Findings are discussed in relation to broader theories of trait anger and emotion regulation... - Error-monitoring ability predicts daily stress regulationRebecca J Compton
Department of Psychology, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041, USA
Psychol Sci 19:702-8. 2008..The results support the notion that cognitive control and emotion regulation depend on common or interacting systems... - Neurotic contentment: a self-regulation view of neuroticism-linked distressMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
Emotion 7:579-91. 2007..The findings are interpreted in terms of trait-cognition self-regulation principles... - You never think about my feelings: interpersonal dominance as a predictor of emotion decoding accuracySara K Moeller
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University 2765, PO Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
Emotion 11:816-24. 2011..The results provide a novel perspective on interpersonal dominance, suggest its strategic nature (Study 2), and are discussed in relation to Fiske's (1993) social-cognitive theory of power... - Keeping one's cool: trait anger, hostile thoughts, and the recruitment of limited capacity controlBenjamin M Wilkowski
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, ND 58105, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:1201-13. 2007..All studies, then, converge on the link between low trait anger and the spontaneous recruitment of limited-capacity cognitive control resources following hostile primes... - 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... - How does cognitive control reduce anger and aggression? The role of conflict monitoring and forgiveness processesBenjamin M Wilkowski
Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:830-40. 2010..In sum, the results contribute to a systematic understanding of how cognitive control leads to lower levels of anger and aggression... - Extraversion and reward-related processing: probing incentive motivation in affective priming tasksMichael D Robinson
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
Emotion 10:615-26. 2010.... - Personality dynamics: insights from the personality social cognitive literatureMichael D Robinson
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, USA
J Pers Assess 93:161-76. 2011..Implicit approaches to assessment also provide clues to interventions targeting the processes of interest, a point that will be made as well... - 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... - Age differences in the organization of emotion knowledge: effects involving valence and time frameRebecca E Ready
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Psychology, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Psychol Aging 21:726-36. 2006..The discussion focuses on the manner in which age differences in the schematic organization of emotion knowledge might contribute to age differences in the self-concept, affective processing, and emotional experience... - What's the use of being happy? Mood states, useful objects, and repetition priming effectsMark C Goetz
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, US
Emotion 7:675-9. 2007..The authors propose that happiness sensitizes individuals to useful or rewarding objects, which in turn creates a stronger memory trace for such stimuli in the future... - Personality dominance and preferential use of the vertical dimension of space: evidence from spatial attention paradigmsSara K Moeller
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Psychol Sci 19:355-61. 2008..These results have implications for understanding dominance and also indicate that conceptual metaphor is relevant to understanding the cognitive-processing basis of personality... - The happy spotlight: positive mood and selective attention to rewarding informationMaya Tamir
Psychology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:1124-36. 2007..non-rewarding) positive stimuli. The results extend our knowledge of mood-cognition relations and have important implications for understanding the social cognitive consequences of positive mood states... - Loving, hating, vacillating: Agreeableness, implicit self-esteem, and neurotic conflictMichael D Robinson
Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, ND 58105, USA
J Pers 74:935-77. 2006..Results therefore support Horney's (1945) theory concerning the consequences of intrapsychic conflicts related to interpersonal motivation and cognition... - 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... - Neuroticism as mental noise: a relation between neuroticism and reaction time standard deviationsMichael D Robinson
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:107-14. 2005..g., frontal lobe injury) in previous research. The present findings are potentially useful for understanding why neuroticism often correlates with variations in the functionality of cognition and behavior... - Personality processes in anger and reactive aggression: an introductionMichael D Robinson
University of Wyoming, Department of Psychology, Department 3415, 1000 EastUniversity Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
J Pers 78:1-8. 2010..The final section introduces the invited papers and makes a brief case for broader process-related conclusions that are generally apparent... - Approach motivation as incentive salience: perceptual sources of evidence in relation to positive word primesScott Ode
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108 6050, USA
Emotion 12:91-101. 2012..Results are discussed in relation to theories of approach motivation, affective priming, and the motivation-perception interface... - 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... - Inferences about the authentic self: when do actions say more than mental states?Joel T Johnson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:615-30. 2004..Perceived diagnosticity of the true self was partially mediated by inferences concerning the relative stability of actions versus states but not by inferences of volition... - The anatomy of anger: an integrative cognitive model of trait anger and reactive aggressionBenjamin M Wilkowski
Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming, Department 3415, 1000 EastUniversity Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
J Pers 78:9-38. 2010.... - Are we puppets on a string? The contextual meaning of unconscious expressive cuesMaya Tamir
Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:237-49. 2004..Together, these results suggest that the meaning of unconscious expressive cues is not fixed... - Episodic and semantic knowledge in emotional self-report: evidence for two judgment processesMichael D Robinson
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo 58105-5075, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 83:198-215. 2002..The authors suggest that self-reports of emotion over short versus long time frames assess qualitatively different sources of self-knowledge... - 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... - 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... - Examining the conceptual model of integrative cognitive-affective therapy for BN: Two assessment studiesStephen A Wonderlich
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Fargo, North Dakota 58107 1415, USA
Int J Eat Disord 41:748-54. 2008..The present results examine assessment-related predictions of this model... - Anger as "seeing red": Evidence for a perceptual associationAdam K Fetterman
a Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
Cogn Emot 26:1445-58. 2012..Implications for multiple literatures are discussed... - Implicit associations in tension-type headaches: a cognitive analysis based on stress reactivity processesJennifer F Armstrong
Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
Headache 46:1281-90. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: These data provide initial support for a plausible cognitive model for the occurrence of TTHs among predisposed individuals... - Preferences and inferences in encoding visual objects: a systematic comparison of semantic and affective primingJustin Storbeck
University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904 4400, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:81-93. 2004..The results conceptually replicated those from Studies 1 and 2. In sum, the findings suggest that affective priming may be a relatively fragile phenomenon, particularly when the semantic properties of objects vary in a salient manner... - 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...
Research Grants
- Personality, Antisocial Thoughts, & AggressionMichael Robinson; Fiscal Year: 2006..For this reason, this project will have implications for the assessment and treatment of aggressive-prone individuals. ..