APS

2023 APS Annual Convention

What Lies Beneath? When and How Old Information Re-Emerges after Impression Updating

Friday, May 26, 2023 · Washington, DC

Oral · Social

A central question in impression formation and updating is what happens to the old information of an individual upon learning new information and how, together, they influence impressions. The current symposium addresses this question by reviewing empirical evidence on how pre-existing representations, reinterpreting, recalling and forgetting old information influence impressions.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Arin KorkmazChair
    Yale University
  • Melissa FergusonCoChair
    Yale University

Presentations

  1. Strangers Elicit Implicit Bivalence Despite Having Enacted Univalent BehaviorsVivian Zayas, Minghui Ni
  2. Likeable, Yet Still Harmful: First Impressions Linger after Reinterpretation of Initial InformationArin Korkmaz
  3. Fast but Fragile? the Return of Negativity in Implicit Social Cognition Following Counterattitudinal UpdatingBenedek Kurdi
  4. Directed Forgetting in the Social Domain: Forgetting Behaviors but Not Inferred TraitsIrmak Olcaysoy-Okten