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John J. Skowronski is affiliated with Northern Illinois University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, as well as Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their work covers a range of main topics such as Personality Traits and Psychology, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Memory Processes and Influences, Identity, Memory, and Therapy, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies, and Aging and Gerontology Research.

Skowronski has contributed to multiple publication venues, notably including Psychological Reports, Journal of Research in Personality, SSRN Electronic Journal, Current Directions in Psychological Science, and Sexuality & Culture.

Notable recent publications by the scientist include:

  • Does the Fading Affect Bias Vary by Memory Type and a Parent's Risk of Physically Abusing a Child? A Replication and Extension, 2022, Psychological Reports
  • Mnemic Neglect for Behaviors Enacted by Members of One's Nationality Group, 2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Grandiose narcissism, unfounded beliefs, and behavioral reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2024, Scientific Reports
  • The One Ring Model: Rape Culture Beliefs are Linked to Purity Culture Beliefs, 2022, Sexuality & Culture
  • In Human Memory, Good Can Be Stronger Than Bad, 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Constantine Sedikides, Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Artur Sawicki, Jarosław Piotrowski, and Peter K. Jonason.

Best Publications

  • Negativity and extremity biases in impression formation: A review of explanations.

    John J. Skowronski;Donal E. Carlston

  • Social judgment and social memory: The role of cue diagnosticity in negativity, positivity, and extremity biases.

    John J. Skowronski;Donal E. Carlston

  • Life Is Pleasant—and Memory Helps to Keep It That Way!

    W. Richard Walker;John J. Skowronski;Charles P. Thompson

  • Savings in the relearning of trait information as evidence for spontaneous inference generation.

    Donal E. Carlston;John J. Skowronski

  • Autobiographical Memory : Remembering What and Remembering When

    Charles P. Thompson;John J. Skowronski;Steen F. Larsen;Andrew L. Betz

  • The Symbolic Self in Evolutionary Context

    Constantine Sedikides;John J. Skowronski

  • Spontaneous trait transference: Communicators take on the qualities they describe in others.

    John J. Skowronski;Donal E. Carlston;Lynda Mae;Matthew T. Crawford

  • The Fading affect bias: But what the hell is it for?

    W. Richard Walker;John J. Skowronski

  • Sex differences in jealousy: a meta-analytic examination

    Brad J. Sagarin;Amy L. Martin;Savia A. Coutinho;John E. Edlund

  • Linking versus thinking: evidence for the different associative and attributional bases of spontaneous trait transference and spontaneous trait inference.

    Donal E. Carlston;John J. Skowronski

  • The Law of Cognitive Structure Activation

    Constantine Sedikides;John J. Skowronski

  • Social memory in everyday life: Recall of self-events and other-events.

    John J. Skowronski;Andrew L. Betz;Charles P. Thompson;Laura Shannon

  • Why people rehearse their memories: frequency of use and relations to the intensity of emotions associated with autobiographical memories.

    W. Richard Walker;John J. Skowronski;Jeffrey A. Gibbons;Rodney J. Vogl

  • Event Self-Importance, Event Rehearsal, and the Fading Affect Bias in Autobiographical Memory

    Timothy D. Ritchie;John J. Skowronski;Sarah E. Wood;W. Richard Walker

  • Savings in relearning: II. On the formation of behavior-based trait associations and inferences.

    Donal E. Carlston;John J. Skowronski;Cheri Sparks

  • On the emotions that accompany autobiographical memories: Dysphoria disrupts the fading affect bias

    W. Richard Walker;John J. Skowronski;Jeffrey A. Gibbons;Rodney J. Vogl

  • Telescoping in dating naturally occurring events

    Charles P. Thompson;John J. Skowronski;D. John Lee

  • Trait memory and behavior memory: the effects of alternative pathways on impression judgment response times.

    Donal E. Carlston;John J. Skowronski

  • The Effect of Social Disclosure on the Intensity of Affect Provoked by Autobiographical Memories

    John J. Skowronski;Jeffrey A. Gibbons;Rodney J. Vogl;W. Richard Walker

  • Mnemic neglect: Selective amnesia of one’s faults

    Constantine Sedikides;Jeffrey D. Green;Jo Saunders;John J. Skowronski

Frequent Co-Authors

Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Joel S. Milner
Joel S. Milner Northern Illinois University
David P. Valentiner
David P. Valentiner Northern Illinois University
Brad J. Sagarin
Brad J. Sagarin Northern Illinois University
Joseph P. Magliano
Joseph P. Magliano Georgia State University
M. Anne Britt
M. Anne Britt Northern Illinois University
Ulrich S. Tran
Ulrich S. Tran University of Vienna
Daniel Västfjäll
Daniel Västfjäll Linköping University
Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Matthias Gamer
Matthias Gamer University of Würzburg

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