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 sub-optimal 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

• Berger, K. T., Hütter, M., & Corneille, O. (in press). Investigating attitudinal ambivalence via sequential priming: Evidence for the simultaneous and unintentional activation of opposite evaluations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Hütter, M., & Fiedler, K. (in press). Advice taking under uncertainty: The impact of genuine advice versus arbitrary anchors on judgment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Hütter, M., & Sweldens, S. (2018). Dissociating controllable and uncontrollable effects of affective stimuli on attitudes and consumption. Journal of Consumer Research.
• Gawronski, B., Armstrong, J., Conway, P., Friesdorf, R., & Hütter, M. (2017). Consequences, Norms, and Generalized Inaction in Moral Dilemmas: The CNI Model of Moral Decision-Making. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113(3), 343-376.
• Sweldens, S., Tuk, M., & Hütter, M. (2017). How to study consciousness in consumer research. Journal of Consumer Research, 44(2), 266–275.
• Hütter, M., & Klauer, K. C. (2016). Applying processing trees in social psychology. European Review of Social Psychology, 27, 116-159.
• Hütter, M., & Ache, F. (2016). Seeking advice: A sampling approach to advice taking. Judgment and Decision Making, 11(4), 401-415.
• 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.
• Hütter, M., & Sweldens, S. (2013). Implicit misattribution of evaluative responses: Contingency-unaware evaluative conditioning requires simultaneous stimulus presentations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(3), 638–643.
• 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.

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