Melissa Ferguson

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Melissa Ferguson is affiliated with the following schools: University of Vermont, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Stanford University, Pennsylvania State University, Cornell University, University of Bonn, New York University

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Melissa Ferguson's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Melissa J. Ferguson is an American professor of psychology and was a Senior Associate Dean of Social Sciences at Cornell University before becoming a professor at Yale University in 2020. She is known for her work on how people form and evolve their interpretations of social events, and how people recognize and evaluate information like fake news. Ferguson's research shows that information consumers can avoid misinformation by focusing on the quality of its source.

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Melissa Ferguson's Published Works

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Beyond behaviorism: on the automaticity of higher mental processes. (2000) (909)
Everyday Sexism: Evidence for Its Incidence, Nature, and Psychological Impact From Three Daily Diary Studies (2001) (778)
Liking is for doing: the effects of goal pursuit on automatic evaluation. (2004) (550)
The goal construct in social psychology. (2007) (407)
How social perception can automatically influence behavior (2004) (251)
Automatic goal inferences. (2005) (174)
He did what? The role of diagnosticity in revising implicit evaluations. (2015) (162)
Subliminal exposure to national flags affects political thought and behavior (2007) (142)
On becoming ready to pursue a goal you don't know you have: effects of nonconscious goals on evaluative readiness. (2008) (134)
The Self-Organization of Explicit Attitudes (2009) (117)
Automatic Evaluation (2009) (110)
A Single Exposure to the American Flag Shifts Support Toward Republicanism up to 8 Months Later (2011) (106)
On the automatic evaluation of end-states. (2007) (104)
Can we undo our first impressions? The role of reinterpretation in reversing implicit evaluations. (2015) (101)
Avoiding Stigma by Association: Subtle Prejudice Against Lesbians in the Form of Social Distancing (1999) (99)
Reversing Implicit First Impressions through Reinterpretation after a Two-Day Delay. (2017) (95)
Mood as a resource in processing self-relevant information (2001) (94)
The cost of keeping it hidden: decomposing concealment reveals what makes it depleting. (2014) (85)
Psychological distance can improve decision making under information overload via gist memory. (2013) (83)
How Mouse-tracking Can Advance Social Cognitive Theory (2018) (81)
Implicit motivation: Past, present, and future. (2008) (78)
After-affects: How automatic evaluations influence the interpretation of subsequent, unrelated stimuli (2005) (76)
Changing Our Implicit Minds: How, When, and Why Implicit Evaluations Can Be Rapidly Revised (2017) (57)
On the Automatic Association Between America and Aggression for News Watchers (2007) (54)
Resisting Temptation: Tracking How Self-Control Conflicts Are Successfully Resolved in Real Time (2017) (53)
The constructive nature of automatic evaluation (2003) (52)
Self-Silencing to Sexism (2010) (51)
Theory building through replication response to commentaries on the "Many labs" replication project (2014) (51)
Taking a closer look: On the operation of nonconscious impression formation. (2008) (49)
The Future of Women in Psychological Science (2020) (44)
IMPLICIT NATIONALISM AS SYSTEM JUSTIFICATION: THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2011) (37)
Affect in the aftermath: How goal pursuit influences implicit evaluations (2011) (35)
How gender determines the way we speak about professionals (2018) (35)
Précis of Implicit Nationalism (2009) (32)
Affect in the abstract: Abstract mindsets promote sensitivity to affect (2011) (32)
Believability of evidence matters for correcting social impressions (2019) (30)
When and How Implicit First Impressions Can Be Updated (2019) (28)
Evaluative Readiness: The Motivational Nature of Automatic Evaluation (2008) (28)
Updating Implicit Impressions: New Evidence on Intentionality and the Affect Misattribution Procedure (2019) (26)
Beyond the attitude object: Automatic attitudes spring from object-centered-contexts (2008) (26)
Goal pursuit is grounded: The link between forward movement and achievement (2012) (25)
EFFECTS OF EVALUATION: AN EXAMPLE OF ROBUST "SOCIAL" PRIMING (2014) (23)
Commentary on the Attempt to Replicate the Effect of the American Flag on Increased Republican Attitudes (2014) (21)
On the Automaticity of Nationalist Ideology: The Case of the USA (2008) (21)
The When and How of Evaluative Readiness: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective (2011) (21)
Likes and dislikes: A social cognitive perspective on attitudes (2010) (17)
Beware a dishonest face?: Updating face-based implicit impressions using diagnostic behavioral information (2020) (16)
The automaticity of evaluation (2008) (16)
Prospection by Any Other Name? A Response to Seligman et al. (2013) (2013) (15)
Goals and (implicit) attitudes: A social-cognitive perspective. (2009) (14)
Voluntary action from the perspective of social-personality psychology (2003) (14)
"Whether I like it or not, it's important": Implicit importance of means predicts self-regulatory persistence and success. (2016) (13)
Using dynamic monitoring of choices to predict and understand risk preferences (2020) (13)
Sensitivity and flexibility: Exploring the knowledge function of automatic attitudes. (2002) (12)
The Long-Term Effects of New Evidence on Implicit Impressions of Other People (2021) (12)
The Mind in Motivation: A Social Cognitive Perspective on the Role of Consciousness in Goal Pursuit (2013) (10)
Decisional Conflict Predicts Impatience (2019) (9)
An Examination of Categorization Processes in Organizations: The Root of Intergroup Bias and a Route to Prejudice Reduction (2013) (8)
17. What is implicit about goal pursuit (2010) (7)
Social-psychological evidence for the effective updating of implicit attitudes. (2015) (7)
Implicit evaluations of moral agents reflect intent and outcome (2020) (7)
Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task: A Preregistered Replication of the Olson and Fazio (2001) Study (2020) (6)
Changes in Americans’ prejudices during the presidency of Donald Trump (2022) (6)
Tracking Prejudice: A Mouse-Tracking Measure of Evaluative Conflict Predicts Discriminatory Behavior (2020) (5)
IDENTIFYING INSINCERE AND SINCERE BIAS THROUGH POST-REPORT INTERACTIONS (2021) (4)
Identifying Bias Through Post-Report Interactions (2017) (4)
How resistant are implicit impressions of facial trustworthiness? When new evidence leads to durable updating (2021) (4)
Drinking Your Own Kool-Aid: Self-Deception, Deception Cues, and Persuasion in Meetings (2016) (3)
How inferred motives shape moral judgements (2022) (3)
Implicit Impressions of Creative People (2018) (3)
Dual and Single-Process Perspectives on the Role of Threat Detection in Evaluation (2018) (3)
How and when preferences influence inferences: A motivated hypothesis-testing framework. (2001) (2)
Deepfaked online content is highly effective in manipulating people’s attitudes and intentions (2021) (2)
Does the surveillance paradigm provide evidence for unconscious evaluative conditioning? A Bayesian perspective (2020) (2)
Unaware Attitude Formation in the Surveillance Task? Revisiting the Findings of Moran et al. (2021) (2022) (1)
The Automatic Evaluation of Goals (2007) (1)
On the Automaticity of American Nationalism (2007) (1)
Decisional Con fl ict Predicts Impatience (2018) (1)
Rejoinder on Klein et al . ( 2014 ) The Limits of Direct Replications and the Virtues of Stimulus Sampling (2014) (1)
The Motivational Nature of Automatic Evaluation (2008) (1)
Persuading the Implicit Mind: Changing Negative Implicit Evaluations With an 8-Minute Podcast (2021) (1)
Of Two Minds: A registered replication (2020) (1)
Geostrategic Security Analysis of Israel (2001) (1)
Did Donald Trump’s presidency reshape Americans’ prejudices? (2023) (1)
Has the Effect of the American Flag on Political Attitudes Declined Over Time? A Case Study of the Historical Context of American Flag Priming (2020) (1)
Drinking Your Own Kool-Aid: The Role of Beliefs, Belief-Revision, and Meetings in Persuasion (2014) (1)
Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task: A Registered Replication Report of Olson and Fazio (2001) (2020) (1)
Updating Face-Based Implicit Impressions Using Diagnostic Information (2018) (0)
The Relation Between Updated Implicit Evaluations and the Trust Game (2022) (0)
Implicit American Nationalism: Effects of the American Flag on Desire for Power and Materialism (2007) (0)
The Role of Ethics in U.S. Military Humanitarian Intervention (2001) (0)
Mind in Motivation : A Social Cognitive Perspective on the Role of Consciousness in Goal Pursuit 23 (2013) (0)
Training routes in Audiology in the UK - past, present and future (2008) (0)
The Role of Intentionality in Priming (2021) (0)
Explicit Importance of Schoolwork Scale (2016) (0)
Long-term effects of a single exposure to the American flag on political behavior and judgment (2010) (0)
Forming and Updating Implicit Impressions of Robot Competence (2017) (0)
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions (2023) (0)
A social cognitive perspective on attitudes (2010) (0)
Decisional Conflict Predicts Myopia (2018) (0)
VALUES , EMPATHY , AND FAIRNESS ACROSS SOCIAL BARRIERS Précis of Implicit Nationalism (2009) (0)
Mouse-Tracking Measure of Racial Bias (2021) (0)
Replication of Williams and Ceci (2018) (0)
Wishful thinking: When preferences influence inferences (2000) (0)
Updating implicit first impressions: When does new evaluative information override initial learning? (2017) (0)
Perceived costs of omission vs. commission errors play a role in trait inferences. (2002) (0)
Motivated Construals: How Goals Implicitly Change Object Meaning (2017) (0)
Data and Syntax (2015) (0)
Research and commerce (1994) (0)
Anwar Sadat and the 1973 October War (2001) (0)
Unaware attitude formation in the surveillance task? Revisiting the findings of Moran et al. (2020) (2020) (0)
Instructions and measures (2019) (0)
Implicit Ideology and the Pursuit of Power and Status: The Case of American Nationalism: (617962012-087) (2008) (0)
Subattractor Dynamics in Real-Time Mental Processing (2009) (0)
The Nation as motivation: American cues increase the desire for power (2012) (0)
Gender and Reference Type (2017) (0)
Self-Regulatory Effort Measure (2016) (0)
ASSOCIATION FOR CONSUMER RESEARCH (2015) (0)
Explicit Attitude Toward the Means of Goal Pursuit Measure (2016) (0)

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