Publications
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Bosson, J., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2012). Symposium co-chairs. How to be good (and bad) authors, reviewers, and editors: Advice to all concerned. Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Boyd, R. L., Robinson, M. D., & Fetterman, A. K. (January, 2012). Stuck between a rock and a hard place: Avoidance conflicts are more difficult to resolve that approach conflicts. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (January, 2012). The head is rational and the heart is emotional: Metaphor-consistent effects of an embodiment manipulation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA, Embodiment Pre-Conference.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (January, 2012). Go with your head or use your heart? When body organs become decision making structures. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Meier, B. P., Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Lappas, C. M. (January, 2012). The myth of the angry atheist. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Robinson, M. D. (January, 2012). You're a sweet person (or not)! Metaphor and personality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA, Embodiment Pre-Conference.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., Gordon, R. D., & Elliot, A. J. (January, 2011). Anger as seeing red: Perceptual sources of evidence. Hot topic talk presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology embodiment pre-conference, San Antonio, TX.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., Gordon, R. D., & Elliot, A. J. (January, 2011). "Seeing red again": Anger and its effects on perception. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Ode, S., Moeller, S. K., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2011). An avoidant way of being: Dispositional negative affect and psychological distance. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Robinson, M. D. (January, 2011). Chair. Dominance, perception, motivation, and behavior. Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Robinson, M. D., Fetterman, A. K., & Ode, S. (January, 2011). If neuroticism is the poison, mindfulness is the antidote. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Robinson, M. D., & Gonzalez, R. (January, 2011). Pre-conference co-chairs. How does one do that? Adding new tools to the research toolbox. Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Arndt, J., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2010). Symposium co-chairs. Giving them wings to fly: Advice for soon-to-be, new, and established faculty in the training of graduate students. Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Fetterman, A. K., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (January, 2010). "I'm so angry I'm seeing red!" Reaction time evidence for an implicit association. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Moeller, S. K., Robinson, M. D., & Wilkowski, B. M. (January, 2010). You never think about my feelings: Interpersonal dominance and emotion decoding performance. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Ode, S., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2010). Implicit approach motivation in affective processing: Biases involving distance and size estimation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., & Meier, B. P. (January, 2010). Embodiment as metaphor: The case of anger and heat. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Self Pre-Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
Zabelina, D. L., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2010). What makes people creative?: A cognitive control perspective. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.
Zabelina, D. L., & Robinson, M. D. (August, 2009). Child's play: Facilitating the originality of creative output by a priming manipulation. Paper presented at the annual American Psychological Association conference, Toronto, Canada.
Meier, B. P., Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (May, 2009). "Hotheaded" is more than an expression: The embodied representation of anger in terms of heat. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society (APS), San Francisco, CA.
Robinson, M. D. (May, 2009). Body in mind: Social dimensions of embodied metaphor. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society (APS), San Francisco, CA.
Zabelina, D. L., & Robinson, M. D. (May, 2009). Child's play: Facilitating the originality of creative output. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society (APS). San Francisco, CA.
Robinson, M. D. (April, 2009). Error regulation, self-regulation, and emotion regulation. Invited talk, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Meier, B. P., Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (February, 2009). Bringing out the agreeableness in everyone: Using a cognitive self-regulation model to reduce aggression. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Moeller, S. K., Ode, S., Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (February, 2009). Does emotional clarity facilitate facial emotion labeling? Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL.
Ode, S., Zielke, D. J., Robinson, M. D., & Hilmert, C. J. (February, 2009). Heart rate variability as a moderator of the neuroticism-negative affect relationship. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa Bay, FL.
Zabelina, D. L., Robinson, M. D., & Council, J. R. (August, 2008). Unconscious affect and creative performance. Paper presented at the annual American Psychological Association conference, Boston, MA.
Zabelina, D. L., Robinson, M. D., Ostafin, B. D., & Council, J. R. (August, 2008). Don't worry so much: The beneficial effects of mindfulness training on elaboration at higher levels of neuroticism. Poster presented at the annual American Psychological Association conference, Boston, MA.
Robinson, M. D. (June, 2008). Personality processes in the cancer control realm. Invited talk, National Cancer Institute, Washington, DC.
Robinson, M. D. (May, 2008). Error-regulation, self-regulation, and emotion-regulation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.
Moeller, S. K., Ode, S., Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (February, 2008). Dominant minds are vertical minds: Spatial attention processes. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Ode, S., Robinson, M. D., & Feltman, R. (February, 2008). The benefits of mindfulness depend on what's in your mind: A role for mindfulness in moderating neuroticism/distress relations. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Robinson, M. D., Wilkowski, B. M., Ode, S., & Meier, B. P. (February, 2008). Neuroticism and cognitive control: Toward an interactive framework. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (February, 2008). A regulatory perspective on trait anger. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM.
Robinson, M. D. (November, 2007). Error regulation and self-regulation. Invited talk, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.
Robinson, M. D. (March, 2007). Neurotic contentment: A self-regulation perspective. Invited talk, University of Rochester, NY.
Ode, S., Robinson, M. D., & Wilkowski, B. M. (January, 2007). Agreeableness as self-regulation: Its role in moderating neuroticism-related depression. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Robinson, M. D. (January, 2007). The correlates of individual differences in automaticity and cognitive control: Evidence from daily experience. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., & Wilkowski, B. M. (January, 2007). Agreeable self-regulation: A social cognition perspective. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
van Boven, L, & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2007). Boys don't cry: Cognitive busyness increases gender stereotypic emotion memory. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Wilkowski, B. M., Robinson, M. D., & Ode, S. (January, 2007). Clear feelings are cool feelings: The role of emotional clarity in anger regulation. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
Robinson, M. D. (May, 2006). The happy mind in action. Invited talk, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & Caven, A. J. (January, 2006). The bigger the better: Associations between affect and size. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Ode, S., Robinson, M. D., & Wilkowski, B. M. (January, 2006). Igniting and extinguishing the flame: Interactive effects of neuroticism and agreeableness in predicting anger/aggression. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Robinson, M. D., & Tamir, M. (January, 2006). Epistemic consequences of mood for affective processing: Interactions of mood and personality. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Tamir, M., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2006). A happy spotlight: The effects of positive affect on selective attention. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Wilkowski, B. M., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2006). The spontaneous self-regulation of aggressive primes by low anger individuals. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
Robinson, M. D. (May, 2005). Why some people are stuck in the past: States, traits, and episodic encoding skills. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2005). Assumptions about stimulus valence based on vertical position. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, L. A.
Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (January, 2005). On feeling down and attending down: Depressive symptoms and vertical selective attention. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Wilkowski, B. M., Robinson, M. D., & Meier, B. P. (January, 2005). Pausing in thought or ready to fight: Trait anger and task switching behavior following violent thoughts. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (May, 2004). Agreeable people and the self-regulation of hostile thoughts. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.
Zetocha, K., Meier, B. P., Robinson, M. D., & McCaul, K. D. (March, 2004). Assessing smokers' and non-smokers' implicit and explicit attitudes towards smoking: Are they different? Poster presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2004). Down and out: Negative affect and vertical selective attention. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Tamir, M., & Robinson, M. D. (January, 2004). Recognizing bad things can be hedonically pleasing: Traits, implicit approach and avoidance, and mood states. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Robinson, M. D. (May, 2003). Personality as categorization. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Meier, B. P. & Robinson, M. D. (May, 2003). Blame accessibility, anger, and the moderating role of agreeableness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Robinson, M. D. (July, 2002). Are extraverts happier?: A trait as belief perspective. Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Cuenca, Spain.
Clore, G. L., Robinson, M. D., Tamir, M., & Centerbar, D. (July, 2002). When motions make emotions. Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Cuenca, Spain.
Clore, G. L., Robinson, M. D., Tamir, M., & Centerbar, D. (February, 2002). Are emotions responses to stimuli or interpretations of stimuli? Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Savannah, Georgia.
Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (May, 2001). Trait-state congruency in affective processing. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Storbeck, J. L., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (April, 2001). When preferences need inferences: A direct comparison of affect and cognition. Poster presented at the Social, Cognitive, and Neuroscience Conference, Los Angeles, California.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (February, 2001). Dissociating belief and feeling in self-reports of emotion. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Crawford, E. G., Joncich, A. D., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (August, 2000). Don't just smile and nod: Motor effects on emotional experience are cognitively mediated. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (August, 2000). Aggregation and belief in self-reports of emotion: Evidence from a new reaction time paradigm. Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (August, 2000). When do we really know what we want?: Trait-state congruency in affective processing. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (May, 2000). Aggregation and belief in self-reports of emotion. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Robinson, M. D., & Ryff, C. D. (February, 2000). Self-deception and judgments of future well-being. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Nashville, Tennessee.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (August, 1998). Ambivalent affect and emotion labeling: Evidence for a new two-factor theory. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Würzberg, Germany.
Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (August, 1998). The comparative automaticity of fear. Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions, Würzberg, Germany.
Robinson, M. D. (November, 1997). Sex differences in emotion, and the implication for measuring subjective well-being. Paper presented at the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, Charlotte, North Carolina.