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Allidina, S., & Cunningham, W. A. (2023). Motivated categories: Social structures shape the construction of social categories through attentional mechanisms. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 27(4), 393-413.

Cunningham, W. A., Dunfield, K. A., & Stillman, P. (2013). Emotional states from affective dynamics. Emotion Review, 5, 344–355.

Cunningham, W.A., & Zelazo, P.D. (2007). Attitudes and evaluations: A social cognitive neuroscience perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 97–104.

Vezhnevets, A. S., Agapiou, J. P., Aharon, A., Ziv, R., Matyas, J., Duéñez-Guzmán, E. A., … & Leibo, J. Z. (2023). Generative agent-based modeling with actions grounded in physical, social, or digital space using Concordia. arXiv.

Wheeler, N. E., Allidina, S., Long, E. U., Schneider, S., Haas, I. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2020). Ideology and Predictive Processing: Coordination, bias, and polarization in socially constrained error minimization. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, 192-198.

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Ai, W., Cunningham, W. A., & Lai, M. (2022). Reconsidering autistic ‘camouflaging’ as transactional impression management. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(8), 631-645.

Allidina, S., & Cunningham, W. A. (2023). Motivated categories: Social structures shape the construction of social categories through attentional mechanisms. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 27(4), 393-413.

Chapman, H. A., & Cunningham, W.A. (2014). Social groups: Both our destruction and our salvation? In W Sinott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology, Volume IV: Free Will and Moral Responsibility, 397–402. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cunningham, W. A. & Brosch, T. (2012). Motivational salience: Amygdala tuning from traits, needs, values, and goals. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 54–59.

Cunningham, W. A., Dunfield, K. A., & Stillman, P. (2013). Emotional states from affective dynamics. Emotion Review, 5, 344–355.

Cunningham, W. A., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2009). Varieties of emotional experience: Differences in object or computation? Emotion Review, 1, 56–57.

Cunningham, W.A., & Zelazo, P.D. (2007). Attitudes and evaluations: A social cognitive neuroscience perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 97–104.

Cunningham, W. A., Zelazo, P. D., Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2007). The iterative reprocessing model: A multilevel framework for attitudes and evaluation. Social Cognition, 25, 736–760.

Dukes, D., Abrams, K., Adolphs, R., Ahmed, M. E., Beatty, A., Berridge, K. C., … & Sander, D. (2021). The rise of affectivism. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-5.

Fujita, K., Trope, Y., Cunningham, W. A., & Liberman, N. (2014). What is control? A conceptual analysis. In J. Sherman, B. Gawronski, & Y. Trope (Eds.) Dual process theories of the social mind, 50–68. New York: Guilford.

Gelpi, R., Cunningham, W. A., & Buchsbaum, D. (2020). Belief as a non-epistemic adaptive benefit. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43.

Kurdi, B., Ratliff, K. A., & Cunningham, W. A. (2021). Can the Implicit Association Test serve as a valid measure of automatic cognition? A response to Schimmack (2021). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(2), 422-434.

Man, V., & Cunningham, W. A. (2021). Multiple scales of valence processing in the brain. Social neuroscience, 16(1), 57-67.

Man, V., Nohlen, H.U., Melo, H., & Cunningham, W.A. (2017). Hierarchical Brain Systems Support Multiple Representations of Valence and Mixed Affect. Emotion Review, 1-9.

Teoh, Y. Y., Cunningham, W. A., & Hutcherson, C. A. (2023). Framing subjective emotion reports as dynamic affective decisions. Affective Science, 4(3), 522-528.

Todd, R. M., Cunningham, W. A., Anderson, A. K., & Thompson, E. (2012). Affect-biased attention as emotion regulation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16, 365–372.

Van Bavel, J. J. & Cunningham, W. A. (2010). A social neuroscience approach to self and social categorization: A New Look at an old issue. European Review of Social Psychology, 21, 237–284.

Van Bavel, J. J., Xiao, Y. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2012). Evaluation is a dynamic process: Moving beyond dual system models. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 438–454.

Vezhnevets, A. S., Agapiou, J. P., Aharon, A., Ziv, R., Matyas, J., Duéñez-Guzmán, E. A., … & Leibo, J. Z. (2023). Generative agent-based modeling with actions grounded in physical, social, or digital space using Concordia. arXiv.

Wheeler, N. E., Allidina, S., Long, E. U., Schneider, S., Haas, I. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2020). Ideology and Predictive Processing: Coordination, bias, and polarization in socially constrained error minimization. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, 192-198.

Zelazo, P. D., & Cunningham, W. (2007). Executive function: Mechanisms underlying emotion regulation. In J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 135–158). New York: Guilford.