Communication and Social Cognition

On Second Thought: Attenuating the Emotional Impact of Threatening Narratives through Rational Reconsideration

Dual-process theoretic perspectives and dynamical systems concepts were employed to examine the effects of rational system priming on the experiential system's processing of threatening narratives.

In the eyes of others: Monitoring for relational value cues

It was hypothesized that monitoring the social environment for relational value cues both consumes and depletes self-regulatory resources.

When Feeling is Believing: The Role of Emotional Contagion in Persuasion

While a considerable amount of research has documented both emotional contagion and the impact of mood on persuasion, very little has examined the extent to which these two processes can operate in tandem.