Cognitive social psychology

TL;DR: In this paper, the Bem-Funder (1978) template-matching approach did not enhance the search for cross-situational consistency either in their original data or in an extended replication presented here.

TL;DR: This research views dispositional inference as a process whereby perceivers integrate multiple inferences about a target person's motives and traits, and suggests that although perceived motives may stimulate extra attributional processing, the content of the inferred motive is important as well.

TL;DR: Emotional experiences in online, text-based tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) have a significant impact on players beyond the game environment, influencing their skills, perspectives, and social interactions.

TL;DR: It is found that emotion can influence evaluative judgments by affecting the confidence people have in their thoughts to a persuasive message, and individuals with relatively low motivation to think showed a main effect of emotion on attitudes, regardless of argument quality.