Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Close Relationships
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Intergroup Relations
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
- Social Cognition
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Roland Imhoff |
I consider myself primarily a social psychologist who takes great interest in related subdisciplines, like cognitive, personality and legal psychology. Since finishing my diploma in 2005 I have studied an assortment of topics, ranging from intergroup relation issues to questions of forensic diagnostics.
In my diploma thesis I have looked at conditions under which majorities fail to exert an influence and conformity is blocked. My dissertation dealt with representations of German Nazi history and resulting group-based emotions. More recent work has emphasized processes of victim derogation and the ascription of humanness to other groups (infrahumanisation).
Together with my colleagues in Bonn I have worked on indirect measures of sexual preferences, using such diverse approaches as viewing time measures, subliminal priming, mouse tracking, misattribution tasks and attentional paradigms.
An additonal line of research is dedicated to the role of automatic cognitions in romantic relationships. One particular point of interest are conditions under which positive cognitions regarding the partner are associated with less well-being (e.g., breakup, domestic violence) and differential predictive validity of explicit and implicit measures.
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Roland Imhoff
Department of Psychology
University of Bonn
Kaiser-Karl-Ring 9
53111 Bonn
Germany
Phone: +49 228 734190
Fax: +49 228 734229