Northern Illinois University
Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

• Social judgment
• Social memory
• Autobiographical memory
• The self
• Social cognition & parenting behavior
• Attitudes

Social judgment

McCarthy, R.J., & Skowronski, J.J. (in press). What Will Phil Do Next? Spontaneously Inferred Traits Influence Predictions of Future Behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

McCarthy, R. J., & Skowronski, J.J. (in press). The Interplay of Controlled and Automatic Processing in the Expression of Spontaneously Inferred Traits: A PDP Analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Crawford, M. T., Skowronski, J.J., Stiff, C., & Leonards, U. (2008). Seeing, but not thinking: Limiting the spread of spontaneous trait transference II. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 840–847.

Magliano, J. P., Skowronski, J. J., Britt, M. A., Güss, D., & Forsythe, J. C. (2008). What do you want? How perceivers use cues to make goal inferences about others. Cognition, 106, 594-632.

Crawford, M. T., Skowronski, J. J., & Stiff, C. (2007). Limiting the spread of spontaneous trait transference. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 466–472.

Crawford, M.T., Skowronski, J.J., Stiff, C., & Scherer, C.R. (2007). Interfering with inferential, but not associative, processes underlying spontaneous trait inference. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 677-690.

Crawford, M. T., Skowronski, J. J., Stiff, C., & Scherer, C. R. (2007). Trait expectancies and stereotype expectancies have the same effect on person memory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 677–690.

Heider, J. D., Scherer, C. R., Skowronski, J. J., Wood, S. E., Edlund, J. E., & Hartnett, J. L. (2007). Trait expectancies and stereotype expectancies have the same effect on person memory. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 265–272.

Carlston, D. E., & Skowronski, J. J. (2005). Linking versus thinking: Evidence for the different associative and attributional bases of spontaneous trait transference and spontaneous trait inference.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 884-898.

Skowronski, J. J. (2002). Honesty and intelligence judgments of individuals and groups: The effects of entitity-related behavior diagnosticity and implicit theories. Social Cognition, 20, 136-169.

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Social memory

Heider, J.D., Scherer, C.R., Skowronski, J.J., Wood, S.E., Edlund, J.E., & Hartnett, J.L. (2007). Trait expectancies and stereotype expectancies have the same effect on person memory. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 265-272.

Skowronski, J.J., & Gannon, K. (2000). Raw Conditional Probabilities are a Flawed Index of Associative Strength: Evidence From a Single Expectancy Paradigm. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 22, 9-18.

Skowronski, J.J., Betz, A.L., Sedikides, C., & Crawford, M.T. (1998). Raw conditional probabilities are a flawed index of associative strength: Evidence from a multi-trait paradigm. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 437-456.

Skowronski, J.J., & Welbourne, J. (1997). Conditional probability may be a flawed measure of associative strength. Social Cognition, 15, 1-12.

Skowronski, J.J., Betz, A. L., Thompson, C. P., & Shannon, L. (1991). Social memory in everyday life: The recall of self-events and other-events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 831-843.

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Autobiographical memory

Walker, W. R. & Skowronski, J. J. (2009). The Fading Affect Bias: But What the Hell Is It For? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 1122–1136.

Walker, W. R., Skowronski, J.J., Gibbons, J.A., Vogl, R.J., & Ritchie, T.D. (2009).Why people rehearse their memories: Frequency of use and relations to the intensity of emotions associated with autobiographical memories. Memory, 17, 760-773.

Ritchie, T. D., Skowronski, J. J., Hartnett, J. L., Wells, B. M., & Walker, W. R. (2009). The fading affect bias in the context of emotion activation level, mood, and personal theories of emotion change.Memory, 17, 428-444.

Ritchie, T. D. & Skowronski, J. J. (2008). Perceived Change in the Affect Associated With Dreams: The Fading Affect Bias and Its Moderators Dreaming, 18(1), 27–43.

Skowronski, J. J., Ritchie, T. D., Walker, W. R., Betz, A., L., Sedikides, C., Bethencourt, L. A., & Martin, A. L. (2007). Ordering our world: The quest for traces of temporal organization in autobiographical memory. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 850–856.

Ritchie, T. D., Skowronski, J. J., Wood, S. E., Walker, W. R., Vogl, R. J., & Gibbons, J. A. (2006). Event self-importance, event rehearsal, and the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory. Self & Identity, 5, 172-195.

Ritchie, T.D., Skowronski, J.J., Walker, W.R., & Wood, S.E. (2006). Comparing two perceived characteristics of autobiographical memory: Memory detail and accessibility. Memory, 14, 471-485.

Skowronski, J.J. (2005). In diversity there is strength: An autobiographical memory research sampler. Social Cognition, 23, 1-10.

Skowronski, J.J. (2004). Giving sight and voice to the blind mutes: An overview of theoretical ideas in autobiographical memory.  Social Cognition, 22, 451-459.

Skowronski, J.J., & Walker, R.W. (2004). How describing autobiographical events can affect autobiographical memory. Social Cognition, 22, 555-590.

Skowronski, J.J., Gibbons, J.A., Vogl, R.J, & Walker, W.R. (2004). The effect of social disclosure on the affective intensity provoked by autobiographical memories. Self & Identity, 3, 285-309.

Walker, W.R., Skworonski, J.J.,Gibbons, J.A., Vogl, R.J., & Thompson, C.P. (2003). On the emotions accompanying autobiographical memory: Dysphoria disrupts the fading affect bias. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 703-724.

Skowronski, J.J., Walker, W.R., & Betz, A.L. (2003). Ordering our world: An examination of time in autobiographical memory. Memory, 11, 247-260.

Walker, W.R., Skowronski, J.J., & Thompson, C.P. (2003). Life is good - and memory helps to keep it that way. Review of General Psychology, 7, 203-210.

Raymark, P. H., Skowronski, J. J., Bevard, L. A., & Hamann, S. A. (2001). Influence of recorder affect on the content of behavioral diaries and the recall of behaviors. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15,373-393.

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The self

Hartnett, J.L., & Skowronski, J.J. (2010). Affective forecasts and the Valentine's Day shootings at NIU: People are resilient, but unaware of it. Positive Psychology, 5, 275-280.

Skowronski, J. J., Sedikides, C., Heider, J. D., Wood, S. E., & Scherer, C. R. (2010). On the Road to Self-Perception: Interpretation of Self-Behaviors Can Be Altered by Priming. Journal of Personality, 78, 361-391.

Sedikides, C., & Skowronski, J. J. (2009). Social cognition and self-cognition: Two sides of the same evolutionary coin? European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1245–1249.

Hartnett, J., & Skowronski, J. J. (2008). Cash, Money, Woes: The Match Between a Person's Level of Materialism and the Materialistic (or non-Materialistic) Character of Events Alters Affective Forecasts North American Journal of Psychology, 10(3), 647-664.

Coutinho, S., Wiemer-Hastings, K., Skowronski, J.J., & Britt, M. A (2005). Metacognition, need for cognition and use of explanations during ongoing learning and problem solving. Learning and Individual Differences, 15, 321-337.

Monroe, M.R., Skowronski, J.J., MacDonald, W., & Wood, S.E. (2005) The mildly depressed experience more post-decisional regret than the non-depressed. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 24, 665-690.

Sedikides, C., Skowronski, J.J., & Gaertner, L. (2004). Self-enhancement and Self-protection motivation: From the laboratory to an evolutionary context. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 2, 61-79.

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Social cognition & parenting behavior

Risser, H.J., Skowronski, J.J., & Couch, J.L. (in press). Implicit attitudes toward children may be unrelated to child abuse risk. Journal of Family Violence.

Wells, B. M., Crouch, J. L., Schubert, R., Irwin, L. M., Risser, H.J., & Skowronski, J. J. (in press). Revisiting the issue of the Child Abuse Potential Inventory's internal consistency with adolescent samples. Journal of Adolescent Health.

Crouch, J.L., Risser, H.J., Skowronski, J.J. Milner, J.S., Farc, M.M., & Irwin, L.M. (2010). Does accessibility of positive and negative schema vary by child physical abuse risk? Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 34, 886–895.

Crouch, J. L., Milner, J. S., Skowronski, J. J., Farc, M. M., Irwin, L. M., & Neese, A. (2010). Automatic Encoding of Ambiguous Child Behavior in High and Low Risk for Child Physical Abuse Parents.Journal of Family Violence, 25, 73–80.

Crouch, J. L., Skowronski, J. S., Milner, J. S., & Harris, B. (2008). Parental responses to infant crying: The influence of child physical abuse risk and hostile priming. Child Abuse & Neglect, 32, 702-710.

Farc, M. M., Crouch, J. L., Skowronski, J. J., & Milner, J. S. (2008). Hostility ratings by parents at risk for child physical abuse: Impact of chronic and temporary schema activation. Child Abuse & Neglect, 32, 177-193.

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Attitudes

Edlund, J. E., Sagarin, B. J., Skowronski, J.J., Johnson, S. J., & Kutter, J. (2009). Whatever Happens in the Laboratory Stays in the Laboratory: The Prevalence and Prevention of Participant CrosstalkPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 635–642.

Sagarin, B. J. & Skowronski, J.J. (2009). The implications of imperfect measurement for free-choice carry-over effects: Reply to M. Keith Chen's (2008) "Rationalization and cognitive dissonance: Do choices affect or reflect preferences?" Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 421–423.

Sagarin, B. J. & Skowronski, J.J. (2009). In pursuit of the proper null: Reply to Chen and Risen (2009). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 428–430.

Edlund J.E., & Skowronski, J.J. (2008). The effect of racial attitudes on perpetrator identification: The lineup method matters. North American Journal of Psychology, 10, 15-36.

Heider, J. D. & Skowronski, J.J. (2007). Improving the Predictive Validity of the Implicit Association Test. North American Journal of Psychology, 9(1), 53-76.

Skowronski, J.J. & Lawrence, M.A. (2001). A comparative study of the gender attitudes of children and college students. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 25, 155-165.

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