Meeting date: 2020-12-18 (Friday), 18.30 Access code: gl4wpgy

This lecture will address how individuals perceive, understand and act in the social world. I will argue that the traditional notion of rational choice needs to be expanded by the idea that individual also draw on their subjective experiences and feelings when making judgments and decisions.  This point will be illustrated by empirical examples from work on (i) influence of affective states on risky decision making, (ii) influence of processing effort on evaluations of faces, and (iii) influence of bodily states on conceptual understanding.  Overall, I will argue that people use a variety of rational and non-rational cues to understand their social world.

Place of meeting: MS Teams
Access code: gl4wpgy
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Prof. Winkielman (UC San Diego) studies the interplay between emotion, cognition, embodiment and consciousness, particularly in the domain of social cognition.  Specifically, he is exploring unconscious affect, affective influences on decisions, and embodiment of affective processing.  He is also investigating the role of cognitive feelings, such as processing fluency or recall difficulty in a variety of judgments, ranging from attractiveness to memory. His work draws on a variety of psychological methods, including those of social neuroscience. (source)