Curiosity daily podcast features 5-week interview series with Dr. Vivian Zayas
Dr. Zayas speaks on how psychology researchers investigate how people mentally represent their relationships, the implicit attitudes people have in close relationships with others, the factors that determine how other people see you, the surprising power behind people's need to feel socially connected, and how to feel less excluded and why doing so is important. Listen
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• Curiosity features a 5-week interview series with Vivian Zayas on mentally representing relationships, implicit attitudes, factors that determine how others see you, the need to feel socially connected, and overcoming the power of exclusion.
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• Newsweek features an article written by Vivian Zayas and Yuichi Shoda titled, "Do you really love your Valentine? How to analyze unconscious negative feelings toward our partners".
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• Vivian Zayas discusses the science of love with Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences.
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• Quartz Magazine discusses Vivian Zayas and colleagues' research on predictive ability of first impressions.
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The overarching goal of Person and Context (PAC) Lab is to examine the processes - those that are affective and automatic as well as those that are cognitive and controlled - that shape people's experiences.
Given that many of these processes are occurring at an automatic and at times unconscious level, ongoing projects in the PAC Lab draw from research and theory from social and personality, cognitive, developmental, and most recently cognitive neuroscience.
Some of the topics currently being explored are:
• Mental Representations of Self and Others More Information
• The Social Regulation of Emotions More Information
• Delay of Gratification More Information
• First Impressions More Information
• Perceptions and Reactions to Ambiguous Exclusion More Information