Department of Social and Developmental Psychology

Publications

Scheske, C., & Schnall, S. (in press). The ethics of 'smart drugs': Moral judgments about healthy people's use of cognitive-enhancing drugs. Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Meier, B. P., Schnall, S., Schwarz, N., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Embodiment in social psychology. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Schnall, S., & Roper, J. (in press). Elevation puts moral values into action. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Schnall S., & Cannon, P. R. (in press). The clean conscience at work: Emotions, intuitions and morality. Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion.

Huntsinger, J. R., & Schnall, S. (in press). Emotion/cognition interactions. In D. Reisberg, (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology.

Schnall, S. (in press). Disgust. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Schnall, S. (2011). Clean, proper and tidy is more than the absence of dirty, disgusting and wrong Emotion Review, 3, 264-266.

Schnall, S. (2011). Embodiment in affective space: Social influences on the perception of spatial layout. In A. Maas, & T. Schubert (Eds.), Spatial dimensions of social thought (pp.129-152). Berlin: De Gruyter.

Cannon, P. R., Schnall, S., & White, M. (2011). Transgressions and expressions: Affective facial muscle activity predicts moral judgments. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 325-331.

Schnall, S. (2011). Affect, mood and emotions. In S. Järvelä (Ed.), Social and emotional aspects of learning (pp. 59-63). Oxford: Academic Press.

Schnall, S., Roper, J., & Fessler, D. M. T. (2010). Elevation leads to altruistic behavior. Psychological Science, 21, 315-320.

Schnall, S., Zadra, J., & Proffitt, D. R. (2010). Direct evidence for the economy of action: Glucose and the perception of geographical slant. Perception, 39, 464-482.

Verde, M. F., Stone, L., Hatch, H., & Schnall, S. (2010). Distinguishing between mnemonic and attributional sources of familiarity: Positive emotion bias as a case study. Memory and Cognition, 38, 142-153.

Schnall, S. (2010). Affect, mood and emotions. In B. McGaw, P. P. Peterson, & E. Baker (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (3rd edition, Vol. 6), pp. 544-548. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Spellman, B. A., & Schnall, S. (2009). Embodied rationality. Queen's Law Journal, 35, 117-164.

Schnall, S., Benton, J., & Harvey, S. (2008). With a clean conscience: Cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgments. Psychological Science, 19, 1219-1222.

Schnall, S., Haidt, J., Clore, G. L., & Jordan, A. H. (2008). Disgust as embodied moral judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1096-1109.

Schnall, S., Harber, K., Stefanucci, J. & Proffitt, D. R. (2008). Social support and the perception of geographical slant. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1246-1255.

Centerbar, D.*, Schnall, S.*, Clore, G. L. & Garvin, E. (2008). Affective Incoherence: When affective concepts and embodied reactions clash. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 560-578. (*Note: Joint First Authors because of Equal Contribution)

Schnall, S., Jaswal, V., & Rowe, C. (2008). A hidden cost of happiness in children. Developmental Science. 11, F25-F30.

Clore, G. L., & Schnall, S. (2008). Affective coherence: Affect as embodied evidence in attitude, advertising and art. In G. R. Semin & E. Smith (Eds.) Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches (pp. 211-236). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Schnall, S., & Laird, J. D. (2007). Facing fear: Expression of fear facilitates processing of emotional information. Social Behavior and Personality, 35, 513-524.

Schnall, S. (2007). Karl Duncker. In J. Valsiner (Ed.), Thinking in Psychological Science: Ideas and their makers (pp. 17-38). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction/Aldine.

Schnall, S. (2005). The pragmatics of emotion language. Psychological Inquiry 16, 28-31.

Clore, G. L., & Schnall, S. (2005). The influence of affect on attitude. In D. Albarracín, B. T. Johnson, & M. P., Zanna (Eds.), Handbook of attitudes (pp. 437-489). Mahwah: Erlbaum.

Schnall, S., & Clore, G. L. (2004). Emergent meaning in affective space: Congruent conceptual relations and spatial relations produce positive evaluations. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1209-1214.

Schnall, S., & Laird, J. D. (2003). Keep smiling: Enduring effects of facial expressions and postures on emotional experience. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 787-797.

Schnall, S., Abrahamson, A. & Laird, J. D. (2002). Premenstrual syndrome and misattribution: A self-perception, individual differences perspective. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 24, 214-227.

Schnall, S. (2002). Review of metaphor and emotion: Language, culture and body in human feeling. Metaphor and Symbol, 17, 243-247.

Schnall, S. (1999). Life as the problem: Karl Duncker's context. From Past to Future: Papers on the History of Psychology, 1, 13-28.

Schnall, S. & Gattis, M. (1998). Transitive inference by visual reasoning. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 929 - 934.

Current Research Projects:

How do people decide between right and wrong?

How do people perceive the physical world around them?

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