Research interests

Evaluative conditioning • False memory

Publications

• Moran, T., Hughes, S. J., Hussey, I., Vadillo, M., Olson, M., Aust, F., Bading K., Balas, R., Benedict, T., Corneille, O., Douglas, S. B., Ferguson, M. J., Fritzlen, K. A., Gast, A., Gawronski, B., Giménez-Fernández, T., Hanusz, K., Heycke, T., Högden, F., Hütter, M., Kurdi, B., Mierop, A., Richter, J., Sarzyńska-Wawer, J., Smith, C. T., Stahl, C., Thomasius, P., Unkelbach, C., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Incidental attitude formation via the surveillance task: A registered replication report of Olson and Fazio (2001). Psychological Science. [Preregistrations 1] [2] [Materials, data, analyses, and code] [Preprint]

• Benedict, T., & Gast, A. (in press). Evaluative conditioning with fear- and disgust-evoking stimuli: No evidence that they increase learning without explicit memory. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1646213

• Benedict, T., Richter, J., & Gast, A. (2019). The influence of misinformation manipulations on evaluative conditioning. Acta Psychologica,194, 28-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.01.014

Academic distinctions

• Seedcorn Grant Investigating memory processes underlying evaluative conditioning with functional magnetic resonance imaging (together with Anne Gast (PI), & Christiane Thiel (University of Oldenburg)), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2017