By Scientia Professor Joe Paul Forgas

Journal articles

Lantos D; Forgas JP, 2021, 'The role of collective narcissism in populist attitudes and the collapse of democracy in Hungary', Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 5, pp. 65 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts5.80

Forgas JP; Matovic D, 2020, 'Mood Effects on Humor Production: Positive Mood Improves the Verbal Ability to Be Funny', Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 39, pp. 701 - 715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927X20917994

Brandt MJ; Kuppens T; Spears R; Andrighetto L; Autin F; Babincak P; Badea C; Bae J; Batruch A; Becker JC; Bocian K; Bodroža B; Bourguignon D; Bukowski M; Butera F; Butler SE; Chryssochoou X; Conway P; Crawford JT; Croizet JC; de Lemus S; Degner J; Dragon P; Durante F; Easterbrook MJ; Essien I; Forgas JP; González R; Graf S; Halama P; Han G; Hong RY; Houdek P; Igou ER; Inbar Y; Jetten J; Jimenez Leal W; Jiménez-Moya G; Karunagharan JK; Kende A; Korzh M; Laham SM; Lammers J; Lim L; Manstead ASR; Međedović J; Melton ZJ; Motyl M; Ntani S; Owuamalam CK; Peker M; Platow MJ; Prims JP; Reyna C; Rubin M; Saab R; Sankaran S; Shepherd L; Sibley CG; Sobkow A; Spruyt B; Stroebaek P; Sümer N; Sweetman J; Teixeira CP; Toma C; Ujhelyi A; van der Toorn J; van Hiel A; Vásquez-Echeverría A; Vazquez A; Vianello M; Vranka M; Yzerbyt V; Zimmerman JL, 2020, 'Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries', European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, pp. 921 - 942, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2694

Forgas JP, 2019, 'Happy Believers and Sad Skeptics? Affective Influences on Gullibility', Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, pp. 306 - 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721419834543

Matovic D; Forgas JP, 2018, 'The Answer Is in the Question? Mood Effects on Processing Verbal Information and Impression Formation', Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 37, pp. 578 - 590, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927X18764544

Matovic D; Forgas JP, 2018, 'Mood effects on ingratiation: Affective influences on producing and responding to ingratiating messages', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, pp. 186 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.02.002

Forgas JP, 2017, 'The Role of Dysphoria in Social Thinking and Behaviour', Australian Psychologist, 52, pp. 18 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ap.12230

Forgas JP, 2015, 'Why do highly visible people appear more important?. Affect mediates visual fluency effects in impression formation.', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 58, pp. 136 - 141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.01.007

Matovic D; Koch AS; Forgas JP, 2014, 'Can negative mood improve language understanding? Affective influences on the ability to detect ambiguous communication', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 52, pp. 44 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2013.12.003

Kelemen L; Szabó ZP; Mészáros NZ; László J; Forgas JP, 2014, 'Social cognition and democracy: The relationship between system justification, just world beliefs, authoritarianism, need for closure, and need for cognition in Hungary', Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2, pp. 197 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v2i1.208

Forgas JP; Tan HB, 2013, 'Mood effects on selfishness versus fairness: Affective influences on social decisions in the ultimatum game', Social Cognition, 31, pp. 504 - 517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/soco_2012_1006

Forgas JP, 2013, 'Don't Worry, Be Sad! On the Cognitive, Motivational, and Interpersonal Benefits of Negative Mood', Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, pp. 225 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721412474458

Forgas JP, 2013, 'Belief and affect: On the mental pre-cursors of health-related cognition and behaviour', Journal of Health Psychology, 18, pp. 3 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105312448869

Koch ; Forgas JP; Matovic D, 2013, 'Can negative mood improve your conversation? Affective influences on conforming to Grice's communication norms', European Journal of Social Psychology, 43, pp. 326 - 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.1950

Forgas JP; Tan , 2013, 'To give or to keep? Affective influences on selfishness and fairness in computer-mediated interactions in the dictator game and the ultimatum game', Computers in Human Behavior, 29, pp. 64 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.07.017

Goldenberg L; Forgas JP, 2012, 'Can happy mood reduce the just world bias? Affective influences on blaming the victim', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, pp. 239 - 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.07.007

Koch ; Forgas JP, 2012, 'Feeling good and feeling truth: The interactive effects of mood and processing fluency on truth judgments', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, pp. 481 - 485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.10.006

Forgas JP, 2011, 'Affective influences on self-disclosure strategies', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, pp. 449 - 461, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0021129

Forgas JP, 2011, 'Affective Influences on Self-Disclosure: Mood Effects on the Intimacy and Reciprocity of Disclosing Personal Information', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, pp. 449 - 461, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0021129

Forgas JP, 2011, 'Can negative affect eliminate the power of first impressions? Affective influences on primacy and recency effects in impression formation', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, pp. 425 - 429, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.11.005

Forgas JP, 2011, 'She just doesn't look like a philosopher...? Affective influences on the halo effect in impression formation', European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, pp. 812 - 817, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.842

Forgas JP, 2010, 'Affect in legal and forensic settings: The cognitive benefits of not being too happy', Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 56, pp. 13 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0696-0_2

Forgas JP, 2010, 'Affect and global versus local processing: The processing benefits of negative affect for memory, judgments, and behavior', Psychological Inquiry, 21, pp. 216 - 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2010.499298

Unkelbach C; Von Hippel W; Forgas JP; Robinson MD; Shakarchi RJ; Hawkins C, 2010, 'Good things come easy: Subjective exposure frequency and the faster processing of positive information', Social Cognition, 28, pp. 538 - 555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/soco.2010.28.4.538

Tan HB; Forgas JP, 2010, 'When happiness makes us selfish, but sadness makes us fair: Affective influences on interpersonal strategies in the dictator game', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, pp. 571 - 576, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.01.007

Forgas JP, 2010, 'Affect and local versus global processing: Affective influences on social memory, judgments and behaviour', Psychological Inquiry, 21, pp. 216 - 224

Samsom-daly U; Forgas JP, 2010, 'Do blurred faces magnify priming effects? The interactive effects of perceptual fluency and priming on impression formation', Social Cognition, 28, pp. 630 - 641

Unkelbach C; Von Hippel WH; Forgas JP; Robinson ; Shakarchi ; Hawkins , 2010, 'Good things come easy: Subjective exposure frequency and the faster processing of positive information', Social Cognition, 28, pp. 539 - 556

Wyland CL; Forgas JP, 2010, 'Here’s looking at you kid: Mood effects on processing eye gaze as a heuristic cue', Social Cognition, pp. 133 - 144

Forgas JP; Baumeister R; Tice D, 2010, 'When happiness makes us selfish, but sadness makes us fair: Affective influences on interpersonal strategies in the dictator game', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, pp. 1 - 21

Forgas JP; Goldenberg L; Unkelbach C, 2009, 'Can bad weather improve your memory? An unobtrusive field study of natural mood effects on real-life memory', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, pp. 254 - 257

Paterson HM; Kemp RI; Forgas JP, 2009, 'Co-Witnesses, Confederates, and Conformity: Effects of Discussion and Delay on Eyewitness Memory', Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 16, pp. S112 - S124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218710802620380

Forgas JP, 2008, 'Affect and Cognition', Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, pp. 94 - 101

Forgas JP; Dunn EW; Granland S, 2008, 'Are you being served ... ? An unobtrusive experiment of affective influences on helping in a department store', European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, pp. 333 - 342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.455

Forgas JP; East RB, 2008, 'How real is that smile? Mood effects on accepting or rejecting the veracity of emotional facial expressions', Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 32, pp. 157 - 170

Forgas JP; East RB, 2008, 'On being happy and gullible: Mood effects on skepticism and the detection of deception', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, pp. 1362 - 1367

Unkelbach C; Guastella AJ; Forgas JP, 2008, 'Oxytocin Selectively Facilitates Recognition of Positive Sex and Relationship Words', Psychological Science, 19, pp. 1092 - 1094

Unkelbach C; Forgas JP; Denson T, 2008, 'The turban effect: The influence of Muslim headgear and induced affect on aggressive responses in the shooter bias paradigm', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, pp. 1409 - 1413

Wyland CL; Forgas JP, 2007, 'On bad mood and white bears: The effects of mood state on ability to suppress unwanted thoughts', Cognition and Emotion, 21, pp. 1513 - 1524

Alter A; Forgas JP, 2007, 'On being happy but fearing failure: The effects of mood on self-handicapping strategies', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, pp. 947 - 954

Forgas JP; East RB; Chan N, 2007, 'The use of computer-mediated interaction in exploring affective influences on strategic interpersonal behaviours', Computers in Human Behavior, 23, pp. 901 - 919, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2005.08.010

Forgas JP, 2007, 'When sad is better than happy: Negative affect can improve the quality and effectiveness of persuasive messages and social influence strategies', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, pp. 513 - 528

Halberstadt J; Forgas JP; O Shea R, 2006, 'Outgroup fanship in Australia and New Zealand', Australian Journal of Psychology, 58, pp. 159 - 165

Forgas JP; Locke J, 2005, 'Affective influences on causal inferences: The effects of mood on attributions for positive and negative interpersonal episodes', Cognition and Emotion, 19, pp. 1071 - 1081

Forgas JP; Tehani G, 2005, 'Affective influences on language use - Mood effects on performance feedback by experts and novices', Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 24, pp. 269 - 284

Forgas JP, 2005, 'Hearts and minds: Affect in social thinking and behaviour', Australian Journal of Psychology, 57, pp. 85 - 85, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000234555700312&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Polya T; Laszlo J; Forgas JP, 2005, 'Making sense of life stories: The role of narrative perspective in perceiving hidden information about social identity', European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, pp. 785 - 796

Forgas JP; Laham SM; Vargas P, 2005, 'Mood effects on eyewitness memory: Affective influences on susceptibility to misinformation', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, pp. 574 - 588, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WJB-4FM3X08-1/2/07e29174b9fcdeb4e4877752076017ec

Forgas JP; Cromer M, 2004, 'On being sad and evasive: Affective influences on verbal communication strategies in conflict situations', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, pp. 511 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2003.06.005

Forgas JP; Von Hippel WH; Laham SM, 2004, 'An evolutionary model for managing moods: Evidence for the role of homeostatic cognitive strategies in affect regulation', Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 2, pp. 43 - 60

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