Prof. Dr. Mandy Hütter

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Psychologisches Institut
Schleichstr. 4, Level 5, Room 4508
Consultation hours: by appointment only

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Research Interests

The work of my team focuses on social cognition and decision sciences. I focus on the cognitive processes that underlie attitudes, judgment, and decisions. In particular, I examine to what extent cognitive processes adapt adaptively and flexibly to the context in which they occur. In addition, I am interested in learning and judgment processes that operate under suboptimal conditions (e.g., distraction, time pressure, and lack of information).

I often address substantive research questions with the help of statistical modeling, which can provide information about the involvement of different cognitive processes or influencing factors in a learning outcome or judgment.

Key Publications

• Reichmann, K., Hütter, M., Kaup, B., & Ramscar, M. (2023). Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108, Article 104478. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104478.
• Hütter, M. (2022). An integrative review of dual and single-process accounts of evaluative conditioning. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 640-653. doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00102-7
• Hütter, M., Niese, Z. A., & Ihmels, M. (2022). Bridging the gap between autonomous and predetermined paradigms: The role of sampling in evaluative learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(8), 1972–1998. doi.org/10.1037/xge0001172
• Niese, Z. A., & Hütter, M. (2022). It’s good and it’s bad: Sampling processes can generate decision-framing effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(11), 2771–2787. doi.org/10.1037/xge0001234
• Hütter, M., & Genschow, O. (2020). What is learned in approach-avoidance tasks? On the scope and generalizability of approach-avoidance effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(8), 1460-1476. doi.org/10.1037/xge0000728
• Ache, F., Rader, C. A., & Hütter, M. (2020). Advisors want their advice to be used – but not too much: An interpersonal perspective on advice taking. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 89, 103979. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.103979
• Corneille, O., & Hütter, M. (2020). Implicit? What do you mean? A comprehensive review of the delusive implicitness construct in attitude research. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 24(3), 212-232. doi.org/10.1177/1088868320911325
• Berger, K. T., Hütter, M., & Corneille, O. (2019). Investigating attitudinal ambivalence via sequential priming: Evidence for the simultaneous and unintentional activation of opposite evaluations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(7), 1296-1297. doi.org/10.1037/xge0000572
• Hütter, M., & Sweldens, S. (2018). Dissociating controllable and uncontrollable effects of affective stimuli on attitudes and consumption. Journal of Consumer Research, 45(2), 320-349. doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucx124
• Hütter, M., & Klauer, K. C. (2016). Applying processing trees in social psychology. European Review of Social Psychology, 27, 116-159. doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2016.1212966
• Hütter, M., & Ache, F. (2016). Seeking advice: A sampling approach to advice taking. Judgment and Decision Making, 11(4), 401-415. doi.org/10.1017/S193029750000382X
• Hütter, M., Kutzner, F., & Fiedler, K. (2014). What is learned from repeated pairings? On the scope and generalizability of evaluative conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(2), 631-643. doi.org/10.1037/a0033409
• Hütter, M., Sweldens, S., Stahl, C., Unkelbach, C., & Klauer, K. C. (2012). Dissociating contingency awareness and conditioned attitudes: Evidence of contingency-unaware evaluative conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(3), 539–557. doi.org/10.1037/a0026477

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