Recommended introductory readings

Morsella, E. (2005). The function of phenomenal states: Supramodular interaction theory. Psychological Review, 112, 1000-1021. Link

Morsella, E. (2009).  The mechanisms of human action: Introduction and background.  In E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer, Oxford handbook of human action (pp. 1-32). New York: Oxford University Press. Link

Morsella, E., & Bargh, E. (in press). Unconscious mind. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemeroff (Eds.), The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Link

Books

Morsella, E., Bargh, J. A., & Gollwitzer, P. M. (2009). Oxford handbook of human action. New York: Oxford University Press. Link

Morsella, E. (in press). Expressing oneself / expressing one’s self: Communication, cognition, language, and identity.  London: Taylor and Francis.

Morsella, E. (2002). The motor components of semantic representation. (Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2002). Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: the Sciences & Engineering, 63 (4B). (University Microfilms No. AAI3048195).

Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters

Morsella, E., Gray, J. R., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). The essence of conscious conflict: Subjective effects of sustaining incompatible intentions. Emotion, 9, 717-728. (most recent, 29th publication)

Morsella, E., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Minimal neuroanatomy for a conscious brain: Homing in on the networks constituting consciousness. Neural Networks.

Morsella, E., Wilson, L. E., Berger, C. C., Honhongva, M., Gazzaley, A., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). Subjective aspects of cognitive control at different stages of processing (7-experiment article). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1807-1824.

Morsella, E., Lanska, M., Berger, C. C., & Gazzaley, A. (in press). Indirect cognitive control through top-down activation of perceptual symbols. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Unconscious action tendencies: Sources of 'un-integrated' action. In J. Decety and J. Cacioppo (Eds.), Oxford handbook of social neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.

Morsella, E., Hoover, M. A., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Functionalism redux: How adaptive action constrains perception, simulation, and evolved intuitions. In K. L. Johnson & M. Shiffrar (Eds.), Visual perception of the human body in motion: Findings, theory, and practice. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (in press). Unconscious behavioral guidance systems. In C. R. Agnew, D. E. Carlston, W. G. Graziano, & J. R. Kelly (Eds.), Then a miracle occurs: Focusing on behavior in social psychological theory and research. New York: Oxford University Press.

Morsella, E., Lynn, M. T., Riddle, T. A. (in press). Voluntary action and the illusion of conscious will. In H. Pashler (Ed.), The encyclopedia of the mind. New York: Sage.

Morsella, E., Larson, L. R. L., Bargh, J. A. (in press). Indirect cognitive control, working-memory-related movements, and sources of automatisms. In E. Morsella (Ed.), Expressing oneself / expressing one’s self: Communication, cognition, language, and identity. London: Taylor and Francis.

Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (in press). Unconscious mind. In W. E. Craighead & C. B. Nemeroff (Eds.), The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Morsella, E., Riddle, T. A., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). Undermining the foundations: Questioning the basic notions of associationism and mental representation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 218-219.

Morsella, E. (2009).  The mechanisms of human action: Introduction and background.  In E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer, Oxford handbook of human action (pp. 1-32). New York: Oxford University Press.

Morsella, E., Krieger, S. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). The function of consciousness: Why skeletal muscles are "voluntary" muscles. In. E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer, Oxford handbook of human action (pp. 625-634). Oxford University Press.

Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2008). The unconscious mind.  Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 73-79.

Levine, L. R., Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2007). The perversity of inanimate objects: Stimulus control by incidental musical notation. Social Cognition, 25, 265-280.

Morsella, E., Krieger, S. C., Rizzo-Fontanesi, S., & Bargh, J. A. (2007). The primary function of consciousness in the nervous system. Annual Review of Biomedical Sciences, 9, 37-40.

Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2007). Supracortical consciousness: Insights from temporal dynamics, processing-content, and olfaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 100.

Morsella, E., & Krauss, R. M. (2005). Muscular activity in the arm during lexical retrieval: Implications for gesture-speech theories. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 34, 415-427.

Morsella, E. (2005). The function of phenomenal states: Supramodular interaction theory. Psychological Review, 112, 1000-1021. Link

Morsella, E., & Krauss, R. M. (2005). Can motor states influence semantic processing? Evidence from an interference paradigm (pp. 163-182). In A. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research, Volume 36. New York: Nova.

Morsella, E., & Krauss, R. M. (2004). The role of gestures in spatial working memory and speech. American Journal of Psychology, 117, 411–424.

Morsella, E. (2003). The function of phenomenal states: Is there progress for the
“softer problem” of consciousness? Psychological Reports, 93, 435-440.

Krauss, R. M., Freyberg, R., & Morsella, E. (2002). Inferring speaker’s physical attributes from their voices. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 618-625.

Morsella, E., & Miozzo, M. (2002). Evidence for a cascade model of lexical access in
speech production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 555-563.

Krauss, R. M., & Morsella, E. (2000/2006 [2nd Ed.]). Communication and conflict. In M. Deutsch & P. T. Coleman (Eds.), The handbook of conflict resolution: Theory and practice (pp. 131-143). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Morsella, E., & Zarolia, P. (to appear in a 'to be published' book). Cognitive conflict and consciousness. In B. Gawronski & F. Strack (Eds.), Cognitive consistency: A unifying concept in social psychology. New York: Guilford Press.

Morsella, E., Molapour, T., & Lynn, M. T. (to appear in a 'to be published' book). The three pillars of volition: Phenomenal states, ideomotor processing, and the skeletal muscle system. In H. S. Terrace & J. Metcalfe (Eds.), Joint action and agency. New York: Oxford University Press.

Morsella, E., & Krieger, S. C. (to be published in a special issue). Meta-analysis of the phenomenology of volition.

Morsella, E., Dennehy, T. C., & Bargh, J. A. (to appear in a 'to be published' book). Voluntary action. In T. Vierkant (Ed.), Decomposing the will. New York: OUP Press.

Representative invited colloquia, lectures, and symposia

Conscious and Unconscious Action: Social, Cognitive, and Neural Aspects. Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, 11/9/09.

The Three Pillars of Volition: Phenomenal States, Ideomotor Processing, and the Skeletal Muscle System, Conference on Joint Attention and Agency, Columbia University, 6/12-13/09.

Action, Consciousness, and the Prospective Brain: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach, The Grand Rounds of the Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Neurology, 2/13/09.

Action, Consciousness, and the Prospective Brain, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Psychology, 12/3/08.

The Primary Function of Consciousness in the Nervous System, Neurocena Colloquium, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Medicine, 8/8/2008.

Neural Correlates of the Subjective Aspects of Cognitive Conflict, Colloquium, Yonsei University, Department of Psychology, South Korea, 7/25/2008.

Voluntary Action, the Function of Consciousness, and the Skeletal Muscle System, Symposium presented at Consciousness, Agency, and the Will: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 6/28/2008.

The Primary Function of Consciousness: Why Skeletal Muscles are 'Voluntary' Muscles, Colloquium,
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany,
6/26/2008.

The Primary Function of Consciousness,
Harvard University, Department of Psychology, 10/26/2006.

Out of the Blue: Sources of Automatisms, Co-Speech Gestures, and Other Spontaneous Actions, Symposium presented at Expressing Oneself/ Expressing One’s Self: A Festschrift in honor of Robert M. Krauss, a conference organized by Ezequiel Morsella at Columbia University, New York, 6/10/2006.

The Primary Function of Phenomenal States: Supramodular Interaction Theory, Symposium presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, San Diego, California, 10/10/2005.

Nonconscious and Conscious Action Plans,
Columbia University, Department of Psychology, 2/21/2005.

Nonconscious Activation of Action plans: A Cascade Framework,
Yale University, Department of Psychology, 3/22/2005.

Krauss, R. M., & Morsella, E. Stereotyping and the Vocal Embodiment of Identity, Symposium presented by R.M.K. at Communication-Based Approaches to Stereotype Research. Heidelberg, Germany, 6/14/2003.

Krauss, R. M., & Morsella, E. (2002). Gesture as a Facilitator of Lexical Access, Symposium presented at Gesture: The Living Medium, the First Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Austin, Texas, 6/7/2002.

Poster presentations and recent findings

Berger, C. C., Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2009). Perturbing metacognition: Tip-of-the-tongue state contagion and the urge fan effect. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California. (most recent, 23rd poster presentation)

Cigarchi, S., Zarolia, P., & Morsella, E. (2009). How different modes of cognitive control influence affective/incentive States. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

Lanska, M., Rigby, T., & Morsella, E. (2009). The forward-looking bias of the mind/brain: How future tasks breed intrusive cognitions. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

Rigby, T., & Morsella, E. (2009). Conscious of conflict, but not of the triggering stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

Larson, L. R. L., Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2009). Mental modes: Expertise priming influences behavioral dispositions in expertise-unrelated contexts. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

Zarolia, P., & Morsella, E. (2009). The role of indirect cognitive control in activating affective/incentive states. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Convention. Portland, Oregon.

Cigarchi, S., & Morsella, E. (2009). Subjective fatigue, self-regulation, and mental rotation. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Annual Convention. Portland, Oregon.

Rigby, T., Riddle, T. A., Berger, C. C., & Morsella, E. (2009). Conscious of conflict but not of the eliciting stimulus: Implications for the neuroscience of cognitive control. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco, California.

Lanska, M., Rigby, T., & Morsella, E. (2009). The prospective brain: How future actions breed intrusive cognitions and interfere with current tasks. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of Cognitive Neuroscience, San Francisco, California.

Riddle, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2009). Is that me? Authorship processing as a function of intra-psychic conflict. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.

Rigby, T., Acosta, K., & Morsella, E. (2009). Does conscious conflict require awareness of the triggering stimulus? Implications for social cognition research. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, Florida.

Berger, C. C., Wilson, L. E., Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2009). Cognitive dynamics underlying the subjective aspects of self-control. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, Florida.

Riddle, T. A., & Morsella, E. (2009). Is that me? The influence of subjective conflict on authorship processing. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, Florida.

Lanska, M., Morsella, E., Ben-Zeev, A., and Bargh, J. A. (2009). The spontaneous thoughts of the night: How future action breeds intrusive congnitions. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, Florida.

Rigby, T. (2009). Metacognition without the cognition: Subjective effects of interference from subliminal stimuli and prospective memory. Presented at the Annual Psi Chi Conference at San Francisco State University.

Kang, Y. N., Morsella, E., Shamosh, N. A., Bargh, J. A., Gray, J. R. (2008). The essence of subjective conflict during self-control: Neural correlates of sustaining incompatible intentions. Proceeding of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Link

Larson, L. R. L., Morsella, E., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Mental Modes: Direct effects of expertise-based priming on action. Poster presented at Poster presented at the Judgment and Decision-Making Preconference at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Morsella, E., Honhongva, M. K., & Bargh, J. A. (2007). On the function of consciousness: The subjective consequences of priming conflicting actions. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, Tennessee.

Morsella, E., Gray, J. R., Levine, L. R., & Bargh, J. A. (2006). On the function of consciousness: The subjective experience of incompatible intentions. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, New York City.

Morsella, E. (2004). The cognitive role of conscious states: Supramodular interaction theory (SIT). Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Morsella, E., Romero, R., Halim, J., & Krauss, R. M. (2003). Judging social identity from voice and photograph. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, California.

Camacho, C. J., Higgins, E. T., & Morsella, E. (2001). The mere categorization effect: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Presented as a “Hot Topic” talk at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Montreal, Canada.

Morsella E., & Krauss, R. M. (1999). Electromyography of arm during the lexical retrieval of abstract and concrete words. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Psychophysiology, Granada, Spain. Psychophysiology, 36, S82-S82.