Psychological Science

Volume 19, Number 2 ·February 2008

Research Reports
Head Up, Foot Down: Object Words Orient Attention to the Objects' Typical Location
Zachary Estes, Michelle Verges, and Lawrence W. Barsalou

The Threat of Appearing Prejudiced and Race-Based Attentional Biases
Jennifer A. Richeson and Sophie Trawalter

Errors Are Aversive: Defensive Motivation and the Error-Related Negativity
Greg Hajcak and Dan Foti

Short Reports
The Face of Success: Inferences From Chief Executive Officers' Appearance Predict Company Profits
Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady

Genes and Popularity: Evidence of an Evocative Gene-Environment Correlation
S. Alexandra Burt

Research Articles
Creating Social Connection Through Inferential Reproduction: Loneliness and Perceived Agency in Gadgets, Gods, and Greyhounds
Nicholas Epley, Scott Akalis, Adam Waytz, and John T. Cacioppo

Precision of the Anchor Influences the Amount of Adjustment
Chris Janiszewski and Dan Uy

The Effect of Visual Search Efficiency on Response Preparation: Neurophysiological Evidence for Discrete Flow
Geoffrey F. Woodman, Min-Suk Kang, Kirk Thompson, and Jeffrey D. Schall

Finding Words and Rules in a Speech Stream: Functional Differences Between Vowels and Consonants
Juan M. Toro, Marina Nespor, Jacques Mehler, and Luca L. Bonatti

The Best Men Are (Not Always) Already Taken: Female Preference for Single Versus Attached Males Depends on Conception Risk
Paola Bressan and Debora Stranieri

Affective Flexibility: Evaluative Processing Goals Shape Amygdala Activity
William A. Cunningham, Jay J. Van Bavel, and Ingrid R. Johnsen

Effects of Fluency on Psychological Distance and Mental Construal (or Why New York Is a Large City)
Adam L. Alter and Daniel M. Oppenheimer

The Negative Consequences of Threat: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Women's Underperformance in Math
Anne C. Krendl, Jennifer A. Richeson, William M. Kelley, and Todd F. Heatherton

Adaptive Memory: The Comparative Value of Survival Processing
James S. Nairne, Josefa N.S. Pandeirada, and Sarah R. Thompson

Do Today's Young People Really Think They Are So Extraordinary? An Examination of Secular Trends in Narcissism and Self-Enhancement
Kali H. Trzesniewski, M. Brent Donnellan, and Richard W. Robins

More Than Meets the Eye: The Role of Language in Binding and Maintaining Feature Conjunctions
Banchiamlack Dessalegn and Barbara Landau

Conjoint Measurement of Gloss and Surface Texture
Yun-Xian Ho, Michael S. Landy, and Laurence T. Maloney

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