Norbert Schwarz Department of ▪ University of Southern California 3620 S. McClintock Ave ▪ Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061▪USA [email protected] ▪ Homepage ▪ CV ▪ Google Scholar Profile ▪ ResearchGate Profile

Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and co-founder of the USC Dornsife Mind & Society Center. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the , Germany (1980) and a “Habilitation” in psychology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1986). Prior to joining the University of Southern California he was the Charles Horton Cooley Collegiate Professor at the (1993-2013), where he held positions in the Institute for Social Research, the Department of Psychology, and the Ross School of Business. He previously taught psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1981-1992) and served as Scientific Director of ZUMA (now GESIS), an interdisciplinary social science research center in Mannheim, Germany (1987-1992).

Dr. Schwarz’s research focuses on human judgment and cognition, including the interplay of feeling and thinking, the socially situated and embodied nature of cognition, and the implications of basic cognitive and communicative processes for public opinion, consumer behavior and social science research. His publications include 20 books and some 400 journal articles and chapters, which have been cited more than 60,000 times (H = 111, Google Scholar, July 2016). Select papers are available at the above websites.

Dr. Schwarz has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina. Other honors include the Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Department of Science and Education for early career contributions; the Medal of the German Psychological Association (jointly with Fritz Strack); the Thomas M. Ostrom Award of the Person Memory Interest Group/International Social Cognition Network; the inaugural Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award of the University of Michigan; the Wilhelm Wundt- Award of the American Psychological Foundation and European Federation of ’ Associations; the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award of the Society for Consumer Psychology; the AAPOR Book Award of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (jointly with Norman Bradburn and Seymour Sudman for Thinking About Answers); the Donald T. Campbell Award of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the University of Würzburg’s Oswald Külpe Prize for the Experimental Study of Higher Mental Processes. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, German Psychological Association, Society for Consumer Psychology, Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and past fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Schwarz serves, or has served, as associate, consulting and guest editor for numerous journals, including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Journal of : General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Psychological Science; Personality and Social Psychology Review; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Emotion; Applied ; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Journal of Consumer Psychology; Journal of Consumer Research; Social Indicators Research, Field Methods, and Public Opinion Quarterly.

Overviews of Core Research Themes Schwarz, N. (2012). Feelings-as-information theory. In P. A. M. Van Lange, A. Kruglanski, & E. T. Higgins (eds.), Handbook of theories of social psychology (pp. 289-308). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. pdf Schwarz, N. (2012). Why researchers should think “real-time”: a cognitive rationale. In M. R. Mehl & T. S. Conner (eds.), Handbook of research methods for studying daily life (pp. 22-42). New York: Guilford. pdf Bless, H., & Schwarz, N. (2010). Mental construal and the emergence of assimilation and contrast effects: The inclusion/exclusion model. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 319-374. pdf Schwarz, N., Sanna, L., Skurnik, I., & Yoon, C. (2007). Metacognitive experiences and the intricacies of setting people straight. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 127-161. pdf Schwarz, N. (2007). Attitude construction: Evaluation in context. Social Cognition, 25, 638-656. pdf Reber, R., Schwarz, N., & Winkielman, P. (2004). Processing fluency and aesthetic pleasure: Is beauty in the perceiver's processing experience? Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8, 364-382. pdf Schwarz, N., & Strack, F. (1999). Reports of subjective well-being: Judgmental processes and their methodological implications. In D. Kahneman, E. Diener, & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology (pp. 61- 84). New York: Russell-Sage. pdf Schwarz, N. (1994). Judgment in a social context: Biases, shortcomings, and the logic of conversation. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 26, 123-162. pdf

Select Recent Articles (all available at ResearchGate) Schwarz, N., Newman, E., & Leach, W. (in press). Making the truth stick and the myths fade: Lessons from cognitive psychology. Behavioral Science and Policy. Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2016). Semantic prosody affects valence inferences about ambiguous concepts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Koriat, A., Adiv, S., & Schwarz, N. (2016). Views that are shared with others are expressed with greater confidence and greater fluency independent of any social influence. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 20 (2), 176-193. -- DOI 10.1177/1088868315585269 Xu, A. J., Schwarz, N., & Wyer, R. S. (2015). Hunger promotes acquisition of nonfood objects. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, 112, 2688-2692. -- DOI:10.1073/pnas.1417712112 Mayo, R., Alfasi, D., & Schwarz, N. (2014). Distrust and the positive test heuristic: Dispositional and situated social distrust improves performance on the Wason rule discovery task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 985-990. -- DOI 10.1037/a0035127 Campbell, T., O’Brien, E., Van Boven, L., Schwarz, N., & Ubel, P.A. (2014). Emotional overexposure: A desensitization bias in emotional perspective taking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 272-285. -- DOI 10.1037/a0035148 Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Seifert, C., Schwarz, N., & Cook, J. (2012). Misinformation and its correction: Continued influence and successful debiasing. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13, 106-131. Lee, S.W.S., & Schwarz, N. (2012). Bidirectionality, mediation, and moderation of metaphorical effects: The embodiment of social suspicion and fishy smells. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 737-749. Xu, A. J., Zwick, R., & Schwarz, N. (2012). Washing away your (good or bad) luck: Physical cleansing affects risk-taking behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 26-30. Lee, S.W.S., & Schwarz, N. (2010). Washing away dissonance. Science, 328, 709.

Select Books Drolet, A., Yoon, C., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.) (2010). The aging consumer: Perspectives from psychology and economics. New York: Routledge. link Wittenbrink, B., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.) (2007). Implicit measures of attitudes. New York: Guilford. link Kahneman, D., Diener, E., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.) (1999). Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology. New York: Russell-Sage. link Schwarz, N. (1996). Cognition and communication: Judgmental biases, research methods and the logic of conversation. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. link Sudman, S., Bradburn, N., & Schwarz, N. (1996). Thinking about answers: The application of cognitive processes to survey methodology. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. [Russian translation 2003] link