Norbert Schwarz
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
P.O. Box 1248
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106-1248
U.S.A.
Home Page
Phone: (734) 647-3616
Fax: (734) 647-3652

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My research interests focus on human judgment, broadly conceived, including the interplay of feeling and thinking, the role of conversational processes in reasoning, and the cognitive and communicative underpinnings of self-reports of attitudes and behaviors. A more detailed description and selected papers are available on my home page. |
 Books:
Kahneman, D., Diener, E., & Schwarz, N. (1999). Well-being: The foundations of hedonic psychology. New York: Russell Sage. (Paperback edition, 2003)
Park, D. C., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.). (2000). Cognitive aging: A primer. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
Schwarz, N. (1996). Cognition and communication: Judgmental biases, research methods, and the logic of conversation. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Sudman, S., Bradburn, N., & Schwarz, N. (1996). Thinking about answers: The application of cognitive processes to survey methodology. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Tesser, A., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.). (2001). Intraindividual processes (Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology, Vol. 1). Oxford, UK: Blackwell. (Paperback edition, 2003)
Wittenbrink, B., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.). (2007). Implicit measures of attitudes. New York: Guilford Press.
Journal Articles:
- Kahneman, D., Krueger, A. B., Schkade, D., Schwarz, N., & Stone, A. A. (2004). A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM). Science, 306, 1776-1780.
- Kahneman, D., Krueger, A., Schkade, D., Schwarz, N., & Stone, A. (2006). Would you be happier if you were richer? A focusing illusion. Science, 132, 1908-1910.
- 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.
- Schwarz, N. (2007). Attitude construction: Evaluation in context. Social Cognition, 25, 638-656.
- Schwarz, N. (2004). Meta-cognitive experiences in consumer judgment and decision making. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 14, 332-348.
- Schwarz, N. (1999). Self-reports: How the questions shape the answers. American Psychologist, 54, 93-105.
- Schwarz, N., & Clore, G. L. (2003). Mood as information: 20 years later. Psychological Inquiry, 14, 296-303.
- Schwarz, N., & Oyserman, D. (2001). Asking questions about behavior: Cognition, communication and questionnaire construction. American Journal of Evaluation, 22, 127-160.
- Schwarz, N., Sanna, L., Skurnik, I., & Yoon, C. (2007). Metacognitive experiences and the intricacies of setting people straight: Implications for debiasing and public information campaigns. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 127-161.
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