Justin Storbeck
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I argue that emotions have systematic effects on cognition from perception to executive functions, such that positive affect facilitates verbal/conceptual processing promoting social interrelations, whereas negative affect facilitates spatial/perceptual processing promoting identification of threats and (cognitive) errors. Based on this belief, he has developed the emotion and cognition compatibility model in order to predict when emotion will be adaptive or maladaptive for behavior. He is currently testing: 1) do emotions motivate or prime specific cognitive processes, 2) does goal compatibility reduce psychological effort, and 3) do emotion and cognition compatibility optimize cognitive performance.
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
Journal Articles:
- Robinson, M. D., Storbeck, J., Meier, B., & Kirkeby, B. (2004). Watch out! That could be dangerous: Valence-arousal interactions in evaluative processing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1472-1484.
- Stefanucci, J. K., & Storbeck, J. (2009). Don’t look down: Emotional arousal elevates height perception. Journal of Experiment Psychology: General, 138, 131-145.
- Storbeck, J. (in press). Performance costs when emotion tunes inappropriate cognitive abilities: Implications for mental resources and behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
- Storbeck, J., & Clore, G. L. (2011). Affect influences false memories at encoding: Evidence from recognition data. Emotion, 11, 981-989.
- Storbeck, J., & Clore, G. L. (2008). Affective arousal as information: How affective arousal influences judgments, learning, and memory. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 1824-1843.
- Storbeck, J., & Clore, G. L. (2008). The affective regulation of cognitive priming. Emotion, 8, 208-215.
- Storbeck, J., & Clore, G. L. (2005). With sadness come accuracy, with happiness, false memory: Mood and the false memory effect. Psychological Science, 16, 785-791.
- Storbeck, J., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). When preferences need inferences: A direct comparison of the automaticity of cognitive versus affective priming. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 81-93.
- Storbeck, J., Robinson, M. D., & McCourt, M. (2006). Semantic processing precedes affect retrieval: The neurological case for cognitive primacy in visual processing. Review of General Psychology, 10, 41-55.
Courses Taught:
- Affective and Cognitive Aspects of Behavior
- Affective Neuroscience Graduate Seminar
- Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
- Introductory to Statistics for Behavioral Sciences
- Social Psychology
Justin Storbeck
Department of Psychology
Queens College, CUNY
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing, New York 11367
United States of America
- Phone: (718) 997-3294