Piotr Winkielman: UC San Diego Department of PsychologyMy talk explores the relation between emotion and conscious experience. Conscious feelings are typically viewed as a central and necessary ingredient of emotion. In contrast, I will argue that emotion also can be genuinely unconscious (i.e., occur without the accompanying subjective experience). Theoretically, my argument is anchored in […]
Jennie Pyers: UC Berkeley Department of PsychologyFalse-belief understanding is the non-egocentric ability to recognize that one's own thoughts and beliefs can be different from others', and different from real-world events (i.e., mistaken). Research on early child development suggests that false-belief understanding is contingent upon language development. Recent findings from an emergent sign language in Nicaragua […]
Brian Lickel: University of Southern California Department of PsychologyIn this talk, I’ll present data examining how people think about and react to the wrong-doing of ingroup members. In particular, I’ll describe affective reactions of self-blame (shame, guilt, ingroup directed anger) that people sometimes experience when a member of their ingroup harms an outgroup. I argue […]
