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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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.
Journal Articles:
- Banse, R., Imhoff, R., Steffens, M., Schramm, N., Rösch, A., Robert, M., & Stangier, U. (in press). Partner-AMP and well-being: Evidence for an implicit secure base script? Personal Relationships.
- Bilewicz, M.*, Imhoff, R.*, Drogosz, M. (2011). The humanity of what we eat. Conceptions of human uniqueness among vegetarians and omnivores. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 201-209. * equal contribution
- Blaison, C., Imhoff, R., Hess, U., & Banse, R. (in press). The affect misattribution procedure: Hot or not? Emotion.
- Dislich, F. X. R., Imhoff, R., Banse, R., Altstötter-Gleich, C., Zinkernagel, A., & Schmitt, M. (in press). Am I smart or not? Discrepancies between the implicit and the explicit self-concept of intelligence predict IQ test performance. European Journal of Personality.
- Gerstenberg, F. X. R., Imhoff, R., & Schmitt, M. (in press). “Women are bad at math, but I’m not, am I?” Narcissistic Mathematical Self-Concept Predicts Vulnerability to Stereotype Threat Effect on Mathematical Performance. European Journal of Personality.
- Imhoff, R.*, Dotsch, R.*, Bianchi, M., Banse, R., & Wigboldus, D. (2011). Facing Europe: Visualizing spontaneous ingroup projection. Psychological Science, 22, 1583-1590. * equal contribution
- Imhoff, R., & Banse, R. (2011). Implicit and explicit attitudes towards ex-partners differentially predict breakup adjustment. Personal Relationships, 18, 1583-1590.
- Imhoff, R., & Banse, R. (2009). Ongoing victim suffering increases prejudice: The case of secondary antisemitism. Psychological Science, 20, 1443-1447.
- Imhoff, R., & Erb, H.-P. (2009). What motivates nonconformity? Uniqueness seeking blocks majority influence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 309-320.
- Imhoff, R., & Recker, J. (in press). Differentiating Islamophobia: Introducing a new scale to measure Islamoprejudice and Secular Islam Critique. Political Psychology.
- Imhoff, R., Schmidt, A. F., Bernhardt, J., Dierksmeier, A., & Banse, R. (2011). An inkblot for sexual preference: A semantic variant of the Affect Misattribution Procedure. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 676-690.
- Imhoff, R., Schmidt, A. F., Nordsiek, U., Luzar, C., Young, A. W. & Banse, R. (2010). Viewing Time Revisited: Prolonged response latencies for sexually attractive targets under restricted conditions. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39, 1275-1288.
- Imhoff, R., Schmidt, A. F., Weiß, S., Young, A. W., & Banse, R. (in press). Vicarious Viewing Time: Prolonged response latencies for sexually attractive targets as a function of task- or stimulus-specific processing. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Other Publications:
- Banse, R., & Imhoff, R. (in press). Implicit cognition and relationship processes. In J. A. Simpson and L. Campbell (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships. Oxford University Press.
Roland Imhoff
Department of Psychology
University of Bonn
Kaiser-Karl-Ring 9
53111 Bonn
Germany
Phone: +49 228 734190
Fax: +49 228 734229