Sascha Topolinski
I have a broad span of research interests. Being conceptually and methodologically educated in social cognition, my research moves freely between cognitive, social, and physiological psychology as well as arts and ergonomics. The common theme in my projects is to identify those (often automatic and unconscious) processes that constitute our experiences and determine our judgments. In this vein, I have investigated the operating mechanisms in intuition, prefererences, and memory, with processing fluency and embodiment being two important conceptual pillars in my work.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Hansen, J., Winzeler, S., & Topolinski, S. (2010). When the death makes you smoke: A terror management perspective on the effectiveness of cigarette on-pack warnings. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 226-228.
- Topolinski, S. (2012). The sensorimotor contributions to implicit memory, familiarity, and recollection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(2), 260-281.
- Topolinski, S. (2011). A process model of intuition. European Review of Social Psychology, 22(1), 274-315.
- Topolinski, S. (2011). I 5683 you: Dialing phone numbers on cell phones activates key-concordant concepts. Psychological Science, 22(3), 355-360.
- Topolinski, S. (2010). Moving the eye of the beholder: Motor components in vision determine aesthetic preference. Psychological Science, 21(9), 1220- 1224.
- Topolinski, S., & Reber, R. (2010). Gaining insight into the "Aha"- experience. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(6), 402-405.
- Topolinski, S., & Reber, R. (2010). Immediate truth: Temporal contiguity between a cognitive problem and its solution determines experienced veracity of the solution. Cognition, 114, 117-122.
- Topolinski, S., & Sparenberg, P. (2012). Turning the hands of time: Clockwise movements increase preference for novelty. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 308-314.
- Topolinski, S., & Strack, F. (2010). False fame prevented - avoiding fluency-effects without judgmental correction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(5), 721-733.
- Topolinski, S., & Strack, F. (2009). Motormouth: Mere exposure depends on stimulus-specific motor simulations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(2), 423-33.
- Topolinski, S., & Strack, F. (2009). The analysis of intuition: Processing fluency and affect in judgements of semantic coherence. Cognition and Emotion, 23(8), 1465-1503.
- Topolinski, S., & Strack, F. (2009). The architecture of intuition: Fluency and affect determine intuitive judgments of semantic and visual coherence, and of grammaticality in artificial grammar learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138(1), 39-63.
Sascha Topolinski
Department of Psychology
University of Cologne
Richard-Strauss-Str. 2
50931 Cologne
Germany
- Phone: +49 (0) 931 31-82285
