Center for Human Culture and Behavior

Center DirectorDavid Matsumoto, PhDDepartment of Psychology (SFSU)

Associate Center DirectorEzequiel Morsella, PhDDepartments of Psychology (SFSU)and Neurology (UCSF)

Participating institutions andcenter faculty

Dr. Chuck Tate, SFSU (Psychology)

Publications from 8 SFSU center members, 2009-2010 (43 publications)

43. Bogart, K. R., & Matsumoto, D. (in press). Is facial feedback necessary to recognize emotion? Facial expression recognition by people with Moebius syndrome. Social Neuroscience.

42. Yoo, S.H., & Salovey, P. (2009). Emotional intelligence and emotional responses to hypothetical and actual frustrating stressors. Imagination,Cognition, and Personality, 28, 239-249.

41. Salovey, P., Mayer, J., Caruso, D., & Yoo, S.H. (2009). The positive psychology of emotional intelligence. In S.J. Lopez & C.R. Snyder (Eds.), The handbook of positive psychology (2nd Edition, pp.237-248). New York: Oxford University Press. (Reprinted in J.C. Cassady & M.A.Eissa (Eds.) (2008), Emotional intelligence: Perspectives on educational and positive psychology (pp. 185-208). New York: Peter Lang.)

40. Tate, C. (in press). The problem of number of revisited: The relative contributionsof socio-cultural, experiential and evolutionary factors to the desired number ofsexual partners. Sex Roles.

39. Martin, D.S., Howell, R. T., & Sanchez, A. H. (in press) Emotions and satisfaction: Understanding sports fans and their future behavioral intentions. The International Journal of Sport and Society.

38. Matsumoto, D., & Hwang, H. S. (in press). Judging faces in context. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

37. Stibel, Jeffrey M., Dror, Itiel E. & Ben-Zeev, A. (2009). The collapsing choicetheory: Dissociating choice and judgment in decision making. Theory and Decision,66, 149-179.

36. Morsella, E., Gray, J. R., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). The essence of conscious conflict: Subjective effects of sustaining incompatible intentions. Emotion, 9, 717-728.

35. Howell, R. T., Rodzon, K. S. Kurai, M., & Sanchez, A. H. (in press).A validation of well-being and happiness surveys for administration via the Internet. Behavior Research Methods.

34. Morsella, E., Wilson, L. E., Berger, C. C., Honhongva, M., Gazzaley, A., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). Subjective aspects of cognitive control at different stages of processing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1807-1824.

33. Schug, J., Matsumoto, D., Horita, Y., Yamagishi, T., & Bonnet, K. (in press). Emotional expressivity as a signal of altruism. Evolution and Human Behavior.

32. Howell, R. T, Chenot, D., Hill, G., & Howell, C. J. (2009). Momentary happiness: The role of psychologicalneed satisfaction. The Journal of Happiness Studies. DOI 10.1007/s10902-009-9166-132.

31. Koopmann, B., & Matsumoto, D. (in press). Neither arrogant nor rude: Values and emotional display rules in the United States and Germany. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

30. Howell, R. T & Hill, G. (2009). The mediators of experientialpurchases: Determining the impact of psychological needs satisfactionand social comparison. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 4, 511-522.30.

29. Bogart, K. R., & Matsumoto, D. (2010). Living with Moebius Syndrome: Adjustment, social competence, and satisfaction with life. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 47, 134-142.

28. Howell, R. T. & Rodzon, K.S. (2009). How happy can you be? The Journalof Positive Psychology, 5, 434-436.28. Zhang, X., Feng, X., & Matsumoto, D. (2009). A review on the feeling of pride: the concept, function and influencing factors (in Chinese). Psychological Science (China), 1398-1400.27.

27. Howell, R. T (2009). Positive psychological well-being reduces therisk of mortality in both ill and healthy populations. Evidence-Based Mental Health, 12, 41.

26. Matsumoto, D., Olide, A., Schug, J., Willingham, B., & Callan, M. (2009). Cross-cultural judgments of spontaneous facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 33, 213-238.

25. Matsumoto, D., Willingham, B., and Olide, A. (2009). Sequential dynamics and culturally-moderated facial expressions of emotion. Psychological Science, 20, 1269-1274.

24. Ray, R., Shelton, A., Hollon, N., Matsumoto, D., Frankel, C., Gross, J., Gabrieli, J. (2009). Culturally interdependent self-construal and neural representations of self and mother. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, doi: 10.1093/scan/nsp039.

23. Yoshida, T., Matsumoto, D., Akashi, S., Akiyama, T., Furuiye, A., Ishii, C., Moriyoshi, N. (2009). Contrasting experiences inJapanese returnee adjustment: Those who adjust easily and those who do not. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 33, 265-276.

22. Matsumoto, D., Olide, A., & Willingham, B. (2009). Is there an ingroup advantage in recognizing spontaneously expressed emotions? Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 33, 181-191.

21. Matsumoto, D., Nakagawa, S., & Estrada, A. (2009). The role of dispositional traits in accounting for country and ethnic group differences on adjustment. Journal of Personality, 77, 177-212.

20. Matsumoto, D., Yoo, S. H., Fontaine, J., and 56 Members of the Multinational Study of Cultural Display Rules. (2009). Hypocrisy or maturity? Culture and context differentiation. European Journal of Personality, 23, 251-264.

19. Safdar, S., Friedlmeier, W., Matsumoto, D., Yoo, S. H., Kwantes, C., Kakai, H. & Shigemasu, E. (2009). Variations of emotional display rules within and across cultures: A comparison between Canada, USA, and Japan. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 41(1), 1-10.

18. Matsumoto, D., & Willingham, B. (2009). Spontaneous facial expressions of emotion of blind individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1-10.

17. Morsella, E., & Hubbard, J. (in press). Controlled-reflective processes arise from integrative action-goal selection in the ventral pathway. European Journal of Personality.

16. Morsella, E., Dennehy, T. C., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Voluntary action and the three forms of binding in the brain. In T. Vierkant (Ed.), Decomposing the will. New York: Oxford University Press.

15. Morsella, E., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). Minimal neuroanatomy for a conscious brain: Homing in on the networks constituting consciousness. Neural Networks, 23, 14-15.

14. Morsella, E., Larson, L. R. L., Bargh, J. A. (2010). Indirect cognitive control, working-memory-related movements, and sources of automatisms. In E. Morsella (Ed.), Expressing oneself / expressing one’s self: Communication, cognition, language, and identity. London, UK: Psychology Press.

13. Bargh, J.A., & Morsella, E. (2010). Unconscious behavioral guidance systems. In Agnew, C. R., Carlston, D. E., Graziano, W. G., & Kelly, J. R. (Eds.), Then a miracle occurs: Focusing on behavior in social psychological theory and research (pp. 89-118). New York: Oxford University Press.

12. Morsella, E., Lanska, M., Berger, C. C., & Gazzaley, A. (2009). Indirect cognitive control through top-down activation of perceptual symbols. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1173-1177.11.

11. Morsella, E., Riddle, T. A., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). Undermining the foundations: Questioning the basic notions of associationism and mental representation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 218-219.

10. Morsella, E. (2009). The mechanisms of human action: Introduction and background. In E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer, Oxford handbook of human action (pp. 1-32). New York: Oxford University Press.

9. Morsella, E., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). The function of consciousness: Why skeletal muscles are "voluntary" muscles. In. E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer, Oxford handbook of human action (pp. 625-634). Oxford University Press.

8. Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Unconscious action tendencies: Sources of 'un-integrated' action. In J. Decety and J. Cacioppo (Eds.), Oxford handbook of social neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.

7. Morsella, E., Hoover, M. A., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Functionalism redux: How adaptive action constrains perception, simulation, and evolved intuitions. In K. L. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds.), Visual perception of the human body in motion: Findings, theory, and practice. New York: Oxford University Press.

6. Morsella, E., Lynn, M. T., Riddle, T. A. (in press). Voluntary action, Illusion of. In H. Pashler (Ed.), The encyclopedia of the mind. New York: Sage.

5. Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Unconscious mind. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemeroff (Eds.), The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

4. Morsella, E., Molapour, T., & Lynn, M. T. (in press). The three pillars of volition: Phenomenal states, ideomotor processing, and the skeletal muscle system. In H. S. Terrace & J. Metcalfe (Eds.), Joint action and agency. New York: Oxford University Press.

3. Morsella, E., & Zarolia, P. (in press). Cognitive conflict and consciousness. In B. Gawronski & F. Strack (Eds.), Cognitive consistency: A unifying concept in social psychology. New York: Guilford Press.

2. Morsella, E., Berger, C. C., & Krieger, S. C. (in press). Meta-analysis of the phenomenology of volition. Neurocase.

1. Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (in press). Automatic processing and intuition. Psychological Inquiry.

Publications ‘under review,’2009-2010 (19 publications)

19. Tate, C. Attitudinal determinants of voting behavior in the 2008 U.S. presidential election: The (surprising) role of sexism toward men.

18. Howell, R.T., Kurai, M., & Tam, L. Money buys satisfaction and financial security: Testing need theory in affluence.

17. Yoo, S.H., Clark, M.S., Lemay, E.P., Salovey, P., & Monin, J. (2009). Responding to partner's expression of anger: The role of communal responsiveness.

16. Howell, R.T., Lipp, C., & Rodzon, K. S. (under review). An exploration of personality-affect relations in daily life: Determining the support for the affect-level and affect-reactivity views.

15. Ben-Zeev, A., & Kirtman, N. Stereotype threat beyond the laboratory:? Do single-sex colleges signal a safety in the air?

14. Ramage, E. M., Essoe, J., & Geisler, M. W. Physiological processing of olfactory stimuli at below-, near-, and supra-threshold concentrations in healthy adults.

13. Propper, R., Pierce, J., Geisler, M., Christman, S., & Bellorado, N. Asymmetry in Resting Alpha Activity: Effects of Handedness.

12. Morsella, E., Ben-Zeev, A., Lanska M, & Bargh, J. A. The spontaneous thoughts of the night: How future action breeds intrusive cognitions.

11. Morsella, E., Feinberg, G., H., Cigarchi, S., Newton, J. W., & Williams, L. E. Sources of avoidance motivation: Valence effects from physical effort and mental rotation.

10. Rigby, T., Poehlman, T. A., & Morsella, E. Conscious of the conflict but not of the eliciting stimulus.

9. Morsella, E., Larson, L. R., Zarolia, P., & Bargh, J. A. Stimulus control: The sought or unsought influence of the objects wetend to.

8. Larson, L. R. L., Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. Priming of expertise-based dispositions in expertise-unrelated contexts.

7. Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. The primacy of the unconscious: Four quartets constraining the province of consciousness in the brain.

6. Morsella, E., Rigby, T., Hubbard, J., & Gazzaley, A. Inter-representational dynamics in working memory: Internally-generated representations yield interference effects found with external stimuli.

5. Williams, L. E., Poehlman, T. A., Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. Pleasure can be good for you: The nonconscious impact of hedonic experiences on self-regulation.

4. Riddle, T. A., & Morsella, E. Is that me? Authorship processing as a function of intra-psychic conflict.

3. Molapour, T., & Morsella, E. Valence from conflict: Stroop interference influences likeability of shapes presented in the past.

2. Berger, C. C., & Morsella, E. Weakening of stimulus-triggered conscious urges through acquisition of a new action plan.

1. Lynn, M. T., Berger, C. C., Riddle, T. A., & Morsella, E. Mind control? Creating illusory intentions through a phony brain-computer interface.

Papers presented at conferences, 2009-2010 31. Matsumoto, D., Yager, M., & Ruark, G. (2009, August). Interpreting Nonverbal Behavior in Cross-Cultural Interactions. Paper

presented at the Human Social Culture Behavior Modeling Conference, Office of the Secretary Defense. Chantilly, VA.

30. Hwang, H. S., Matsumoto, D., Yamada, H., Takabatake, K., & Lee, H. R. (2009). Culture and emotion moderate judgments of facial expressions of emotion in context. Paper presented in poster at the Annual Conference of Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, USA.

29. Olide, A., Kanska, K., Fernandez, S., Molapour, T., Bonnet, K., Gums, P., Sorensen, K., Matsumoto, D. (2009, May). Facial expressions of emotion when committing the fundamental attribution error. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, California.

28. Loo, J. M., Feng, C., Feng, X., Louie, J., Simpson, B., Tibbets, C. & Matsumoto, D. (2009, April). Cross-cultural comparison of prototypical emotion-eliciting events. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Western Psychological Association Conference, Portland, OR.29. Sorensen, K. S. & Matsumoto, D. (2009, April). A lack of nonverbal "accents" in facial expression. Poster presented at The 89th Annual Western Psychological Association Conference, Portland, OR.

27. 24. Youssef, C., & Tate, C. (2010, January). Correlates of heterosexual prejudice against trans persons in the United States.Poster presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Las Vegas, NV.

26. Dennehy, T. C., Scharnetzki, E, & Ben-Zeev A. (2010, January). Essentialism, entitativity, and stereotyping: The social cognitive ramifications of either/or thinking. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

25. Sackman, R., Vergara S., Berger, C. C., & Ben-Zeev, A. (2009, May). Instrumental flirtation and stereotype threat. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

24. Tate, C. (2010, January). The sharp end of satire: Racial satire increases racial prejudice. Poster presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Las Vegas, NV.

23. Molapour, T., Berger, C. C., Dennehy, T. C., & Morsella, E. (2010). Awareness during cognitive conflict: Double blindness and introspections about speed of processing. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, Massachusetts.

22. Dennehy, T. C., & Morsella, E. (2010). Doing is for perceiving: Does causal action influence entry into attentional awareness? Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, Massachusetts

21. Hubbard, J., Lynn, M. T., & Morsella, E. (2010). Internally-generated representations yield the facilitation and interference effects found with external stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, Massachusetts.

20. Berger, C. C., Lynn, M. T., Riddle, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2010). The 'what' of doing: Lay perceptions of action and illusory intentions to act. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, Nevada.

19. Lanska, M., Ben-Zeev, A., & Morsella, E. (2010). Future action influences the content of spontaneous autobiographical memory: A new paradigm. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, Nevada.

18. Molapour, T., Lynn, M. T., Zarolia, P., Riddle, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2010). Valence from conflict: Its influence on likeability of perceptible and subliminal stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, Nevada.

17. Luong, H. N., Morsella, E., & Paik, J. H. (2010). Giving children a prefrontal cortex: Maintaining 'set' through external cues.Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Convention, Cancun, Mexico.

16. Luong, H. N., Paik, J. H., & Morsella, E. (2010). Giving children a prefrontal cortex: Using environmental stimulus to supplant existing interference. Paper presented at the 17th International Conference on Learning, Hong Kong, China.

15. Berger, C. C., Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2009). Perturbing metacognition: Tip-of-the-tongue state contagion and the urge fan effect. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

14. Cigarchi, S., Zarolia, P., & Morsella, E. (2009). How different modes of cognitive control influence affective/incentive States. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

13. Lanska, M., Rigby, T., & Morsella, E. (2009). The forward-looking bias of the mind/brain: How future tasks breed intrusive cognitions. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

12. Rigby, T., & Morsella, E. (2009). Conscious of conflict, but not of the triggering stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

11. Larson, L. R. L., Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). Mental modes: Expertise priming influences behavioral dispositions in expertise-unrelated contexts. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

10. Zarolia, P., & Morsella, E. (2009). The role of indirect cognitive control in activating affective/incentive states. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Convention, Portland, Oregon.

9. Cigarchi, S., & Morsella, E. (2009). Subjective fatigue, self-regulation, and mental rotation. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Convention. Portland, Oregon.

8. Rigby, T., Riddle, T. A., Berger, C. C., & Morsella, E. (2009). Conscious of conflict but not of the eliciting stimulus: Implications for the neuroscience of cognitive control. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco, California.

7. Lanska, M., Rigby, T., & Morsella, E. (2009). The prospective brain: How future actions breed intrusive cognitions and interfere with current tasks. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco, California.

6. Riddle, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2009). Is that me? Authorship processing as a function of intra-psychic conflict. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

5. Rigby, T., Acosta, K., & Morsella, E. (2009). Does conscious conflict require awareness of the triggering stimulus? Implications for social cognition research. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, Florida.

4. Berger, C. C., Wilson, L. E., Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2009). Cognitive dynamics underlying the subjective aspects of self-control. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, Florida.

3. Riddle, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2009). Is that me? The influence of subjective conflict on authorship processing. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, Florida

2. Lanska, M., Morsella, E., Ben-Zeev, A., and Bargh, J. A. (2009). The spontaneous thoughts of the night: How future action breeds intrusive congnitions. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, Florida.

1. Rigby, T. (2009). Metacognition without the cognition: Subjective effects of interference from subliminal stimuli and prospective memory. Presented at the Annual Psi Chi Conference at San Francisco State University.

Grant-seeking activitiesand developments, 2009-2010

Grant proposals were submitted to the National Science Foundation, NIDA, Department of Justice, National Institutes of Health, and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation

Center member is now on the board of the scientific advisory board of the most important neurology institute in South America

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