The Feeling of Familiarity

We (Teresa Garcia-Marques, Instituo Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisbon, Portugal, Heather Claypool, Miami University of Ohio, and Diane Mackie, UC, Santa Barbara) have a long collaboration investigating the experience of familiarity, or the sense that something has been encountered before.

Familiarity is inherently positive

Research in the lab investigates the many consequences of our demonstration that familiarity is inherently positive, so that familiarity sometimes confers positivity and in turn positivity sometimes is misattributed as familiarity.

Garcia-Marques, T., Mackie, D.M., Claypool, H.M., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2013). Once more with feeling! Familiarity and positivity as integral consequences of previous exposure.  In C. Unkelbach & R. Greifeneder (Eds). The experience of thinking: How feelings from mental processes influence cognition and behavior. New York: Psychology Press

Claypool, H.M., Housley, M.K., Hugenberg, K., Bernstein, M.J., & Mackie D.M. (2012). "Easing in: Fluent processing brings others into the ingroup. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 15, 441-455.

Housley, M.K., Claypool, H., Mackie, D.M., & Garcia-Marques, T. (2010). "We" are familiar but "It" is not: Ingroup pronouns trigger feelings of familiarity" Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46,114-119.

Garcia-Marques, T., Mackie, D. M., & Claypool, H. M., & Garcia-Marques, L. (2010). Is it familiar or positive? Mutual facilitation of response latencies. Social Cognition, 28, 205-218.

Claypool, H. Hall, C., Mackie, D.M., & Garcia-Marques, T. (2008). Positive mood, attribution, and the Illusion of familiarity, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 721-728.

Claypool, H. Hugenberg., K. Housley, M., & Mackie, D.M. (2007). Familiar eyes are smiling: On the role of familiarity in the perception of facial affect. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 856-866.

Garcia-Marques, T., Mackie, D.M., Claypool, H. M., & Garcia-Marques,L. (2004). Positivity can cue familiarity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 585-593.

Garcia-Marques, T. & Mackie, D.M. (2000). The positive feeling of familiarity: mood as an information processing regulation mechanism. In J. Forgas and H. Bless (Eds.), The message within: The role of subjective experiences in social cognition and behavior (pp. 240-261). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

Familiarity regulates social information processing

Moons, W.G., Mackie, D.M., & Garcia-Marques, T. (2009). The impact of repetition-induced familiarity on agreement with weak and strong arguments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 32-44.

Weisbuch, M. & Mackie, D.M. (2009) False fame, perceptual clarity, or persuasion? Flexible fluency attribution in spokesperson familiarity effects. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 19, 62-72.

Garcia-Marques, T. & Mackie, D.M. (2007) Familiarity impacts person impression. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 839-855.

Claypool, H.M., Mackie, D.M., Garcia-Marques, T., McIntosh, A., & Udal, A (2004). The effects of personal relevance and repetition on persuasive processing. Social Cognition, 22, 310-355.

Garcia-Marques, T. & Mackie, D.M. (2001). The feeling of familiarity as a regulator of persuasive processing. Social Cognition,19, 9-34.


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