Video and audio recordings of emotional expressions of a male speaker were used to construct conflicting stimuli in order to perform a McGurk experiment. The results are compared to an almost identical experiment with a female speaker, described in Abelin (2007) in order to see if the earlier results were reproduced. The results from both experiments show that in the McGurk condition the visual...

Evaluative conditioning (EC) is defined as the change in the evaluation of a conditioned stimulus (CS) due to its pairing with a positive or negative unconditioned stimulus (US). Although several individual studies suggest that EC is unaffected by unreinforced presentations of the CS without the US, a recent meta-analysis indicates that EC effects are less pronounced for post-extinction measure...

Evaluative arguments are pervasive in natural human communication. In countless situations people attempt to advise or persuade their interlocutors that something is desirable (vs. undesirable) or right (vs. wrong). With the proliferation of on-line systems serving as personal advisors and assistants, there is a pressing need to develop general and testable computational models for generating a...

We used implicit and explicit measures to study whether “real” uncanny faces (by of Botox users very ugly people) will be associated with perceptions bad moral character social avoidance. Implicit showed that were more strongly negative aesthetic evaluations (“ugliness”) than evaluation (“moral disgust”). At the level, participants preferred greater distance from neutral inferred they shared fe...

We examined several determinants of interjudge agreement on personality traits. The findings, which were cross-validated in two samples, suggest that agreement is a function of four factors: which Big Five content domain the trait represents, how observable relevant behaviors are, how evaluative the trait is, and whether the self is one of the judges. Agreement was highest for traits related to...

This study investigates the effect of social comparisons with media models on women's body image based on either self-evaluation or self-improvement motives. Ninety-eight women, for whom appearance was a relevant comparison dimension, viewed advertisements that did, or did not, feature idealised models, after being prompted to engage in self-evaluation or self-improvement comparisons. The resul...

Two experiments examined access to the semantic attributes of words that participants failed to retrieve. The results indicated access to all 3 dimensions of the semantic differential--evaluation, potency, and activity, as revealed by attribute judgments and by the nature of the commission errors made. There was no evidence for superior access to the emotional-evaluative dimension, inconsistent...

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs), which provide on-line measures of categorization processes, were used to assess the implicit and explicit categorization of stimuli along evaluative (positive and negative) and nonevaluative (people and no-people) dimensions. Participants were exposed to stimuli that simultaneously varied along both dimensions, but were explicitly instructed to categorize ...

The relationship between flavor evaluative conditioning and contingency awareness was examined intwo experiments using flavored drinks. In Experiment 1, one flavor was always paired with sugar and the other with bitter tween (polysorbate20) during conditioning. In a subsequent test phase, participants tasted the two flavors, and their evaluative ratings indicated an overall preference for the s...

Evaluative morphology (esp. augmentatives and diminutives) has been extensively discussed in the field of morphological typology (see e.g. Stump, 1993; Bauer, 1997; Grandi & Montermini, 2005; Körtvélyessy & Stekauer, 2011). Corpus-based descriptions of evaluative morphology, however, are still sorely lacking for many languages, including French. A first attempt at an exhaustive inventory and ge...