Welcome to the website of the Department of Social and Legal Psychology of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. We provide some information about our lab members, research and teaching here. If you a curious about additional aspects of our work, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
In press papers:
De Boer, M., Heeren, W., Daser, A., Gannon, C., Gnielka, F., Huikuri, S., Lehmann, R., Reichel, R., Schäfer, T., Schmidt, A. F., Staciwa, K., & Blokland, A. (2025). Lexical choices of sharers and non-sharers on child sexual abuse material forums. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 5(3), 100157.
Kazarovytska, F. & Imhoff, R. (in press). Three Fish at One Hook? — Future-oriented, Reconciliatory, and Defensive Claims for Historical Closure as Expressions of the Same Defensive Desire. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [Preprint][Open materials and data]
Lehmann, R. J. B., Reichel, R., Gnielka, F. M., Schmidt, A. F., Gannon, C., Huikuri, S., & Quinten, L. (in press). Beyond images and videos: A narrative review of text-based child sexual exploitation and abuse material. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse.
Oeberst, A., & Imhoff, R. (in press). Towards parsimony in bias research. Proposing a common framework of belief-consistent information processing. Perspectives on Psychological Science. [Open Access Article]
Quinten, L., Gnielka, F. M., Reichel, R., Babchishin, K. M., Schmidt, A. F., Baumgärtner, N., Yegane, A., Gannon, C., & Lehmann, R. J. B. (in press). Motives and self-reported propensity for sexual offending in community men and women. Sexual Abuse.
Unkelbach, C., Crusius, J., Gast, A., Hofmann, W., Imhoff, R., Genschow, O., Lammers, J., Schneider, I., Topolinski, S., Mussweiler, T., Westfal, M., Pauels, E., Alves, H., & Baldwin, M. (in press). Relativity in Social Cognition: Basic processes and novel applications of social comparisons. European Review of Social Psychology.[Open Access Article]
Wertz, M., Hank, L., Hausam, J., Konrad, N., Schiltz, K., Imhoff, R., & Rettenberger, M. (in press) The Use and Reporting Practice of Psychological Tests in German Risk and Criminal Responsibility Expert Reports. Psychology, Crime & Law.
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