Prof. Dr. Roland Imhoff

Vita

Since 10/2015
Professor of Social and Legal Psychology (W2), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
09/2012 – 09/2015
Juniorprofessor (W1) of Social Psychology: Social Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Cologne
04/2010 – 08/2012
Research Assistant, Department for Social and Legal Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Bonn
10/2006 - 3/2010
Doctoral scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V. and Student Assistant, Department for Social and Legal Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Bonn
3/2005
Diploma in Psychology

Research interests

  • Conspiracy mentality
  • Data-driven approaches for the content-related description of stereotypes
  • Prejudices, stigmatization, and labeling-effects
  • Representations of history and intergroup-relationships
  • Implicit social cognition
  • Automatic processes of sexual interest

 

Third-party funds

  • DFG grant “Sekundärer Antisemitismus – zugrundeliegende psychologische Prozesse” [Secondary antisemitism – underlying psychological processes] (IM 147/1-1) (€ 120,600)
  • German-Israeli Foundation research grant “Seventy Years Later: Historical Representations of the Holocaust and their effects on German-Israeli Relations” (I-1218- 358.4/2012) – (€165,000) – with Gilad Hirschberger and Katja Hanke
  • University zu Köln (University of Cologne) Advanced Postdoc Grant: “Content and application of fundamental stereotype dimensions” (€ 169,260)
  • DFG grant “Taking a Measure of Comparative Thinking” (IM 147/3-1) (€139,800) in the context of the research group “Relativity in Social Cognition: Antecedents and Consequences of Comparative Thinking” (FOR 2150) - with Ron Dotsch and Daniël Wigboldus
  • DFG grant “Taking a Measure of Comparative Thinking” (IM 147/3-2) (€ 244,800) in the context of the research group “Relativity in Social Cognition: Antecedents and Consequences of Comparative Thinking” (FOR 2150) - with Ron Dotsch
  • Subproject “B01 Kognitive Humandifferenzierung. Das situative Auf- und Abtauchen relevanter Kategorisierungen” (€ 458,220) in the context of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre “Humandifferenzierung" [Human categorization]” (CRC/ SFB 1482)
  • DFG grant “Deutsche Opferschaftserinnerungen: Die Rolle von (motivierter) Erinnerungsverzerrung und Transmission” [German victimhood memories: The role of (motivated) memory biases and transmission.] (IM 147/6-1) (€ 259,720)

 

Publications

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

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]

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]

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.

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]

Ecker, Y., Gilead, M., & Imhoff, R. (2023). The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state. Motivation and Emotion, 47, 246–256. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R., & Hoffmann, L. (2023). Prenatal sex role stereotypes: Gendered expectations and perceptions of (expectant) parents. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52, 1095–1104.[Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Ecker, Y., Gilead, M., & Imhoff, R. (2023). An Examination of the Motivations to Maintain, Approach, and Avoid by Proximity to the Ideal State. Social Cognition, 41, 88-102.

Kazarovytska, F. & Imhoff, R. (2023). No Differences Between Memory Performance for Instances of Historical Victimization and Historical Perpetration: Evidence from Four Large-Scale Experiments on Memory of the Second World War. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 105, Article 104440. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Meuer, M., Oeberst, A., & Imhoff, R. (in press). How Do Conspiratorial Explanations Differ from Non-Conspiratorial Explanations? A Content Analysis of Real-World Online Articles. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53, 288-306. [Preprint] [Open materials and data]

Alves, H., & Imhoff, R. (2023). Evaluative Context and Conditioning Effects Among Same and Different Objects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124, 735–753. [Open materials and data]

Alper, S., & Imhoff, R. (2023). Suspecting Foul Play When It Is Objectively There: The Association of Political Orientation with General and Partisan Conspiracy Beliefs as a Function of Corruption Levels. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, 610–620. [Open Access Article]

Frenken, M., & Imhoff, R. (2023). Don’t trust anybody: Conspiracy mentality and the detection of facial trustworthiness cues. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37, 256-265. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Frenken, M., Bilewicz, M., & Imhoff, R. (2023). On the relation between religiosity and the endorsement of conspiracy theories: The role of political orientation. Political Psychology, 44, 139-156. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data for Study 5 - all other studies based on re-analyses]

Barker, P., & Imhoff, R. (2022). The Attentional Cost of Comparisons: Evidence for a General Comparison Induced Delay. Acta Psychologica, 230, Article 103745. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Kazarovytska, F. & Imhoff, R. (2022). Too Great to be Guilty? Collective Narcissists Demand Closure regarding the Past to Attenuate Collective Guilt. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52, 748-771. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Bilewicz, M., & Imhoff, R. (2022). Political Conspiracy Beliefs and Their Alignment on the Left-Right Political Spectrum. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 89, 679-706.

Frenken, M., & Imhoff, R. (2022). Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 103, Article 104383. [Preprint] [Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R., Bertlich, T., & Frenken, M. (2022). Tearing apart the “evil” twins: A general conspiracy mentality is not the same as specific conspiracy beliefs.Current Opinion in Psychology, 46, Article 101349. [Preprint]

Imhoff, R., Zimmer, F., Klein, O., António, J. H. C., Babinska, M., Bangerter, A., Bilewicz, M., Blanuša, N., Bovan, K., Bužarovska, R., Cichocka, A., Delouvée, S., Douglas, K. M., Dyrendal, A., Gjoneska, B., Graf, S., Gualda, E., Hirschberger, G., Kende, A., Kutiyski, Y., ..., & van Prooijen, J.-W. (2022). Conspiracy Mentality and Political Orientation across 26 countries. Nature Human Behavior, 6, 392-403. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Nicolas, G., Fiske, S., Koch, A., Imhoff, R., Unkelbach, C., Terache, J., Carrier, A., & Yzerbyt, V. (2022). Relational versus structural goals prioritize different social information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, 659-682.

Kazarovytska, F., Kretzschmar, M., Lamberty, P., Rees, J., Knausenberger, J., & Imhoff, R. (2022). From Moral Disaster to Moral Entitlement – The Impact of Success in Dealing with a Perpetrator Past on Claims for Historical Closure. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10, 48-71. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Hirschberger, G., Imhoff, R., Kahn, D. T., & Hanke, K. (2022). Making sense of the past to understand the present: Attributions for historical trauma predict contemporary social and political attitudes. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25, 509-526. [Preprint][Open materials and data]

Molenaar, C., Blessin, M., Erfurth, L., & Imhoff, R. (2022). Were we stressed or was it just me - and does it even matter?: Efforts to disentangle individual and collective resilience within real and imagined stressors. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61, 167-191. [Open Access Article]

Imhoff, R. (2022). Conspiracy Theories Through a Cross-Cultural Lens. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 5(3).

Frenken, M., Hemmerich, W., Izydorczyk, D., Scharf, S. E., & Imhoff, R. (2022). Cognitive processes behind the shooter bias: Dissecting response bias, motor preparation and information accumulation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 98, Article: 104230. [Preprint] [Open materials and data]

Rudert, S., Gleibs, I. H., Gollwitzer, M., Häfner, M., Hajek, K. V., Harth, N., Häusser, J. A., Imhoff, R., & Schneider, D. (2021). Us and the virus: Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic through a social psychological lens. European Psychologist, 26, 259-271.

Frenken, M., & Imhoff, R. (2021). A uniform conspiracy mindset or differentiated reactions to specific conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from Latent Profile Analyses. International Review of Social Psychology, 34(1):27, 1–15. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Meuer, M., Oeberst, A., Imhoff, R. (2021). Believe It or Not – No support for an effect of providing explanatory or threat-related information on conspiracy theories’ credibility. International Review of Social Psychology, 34(1):26, 1-13. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Ecker, Y., Imhoff, R., & Lammers, J. (2021). Self-control failure increases a strategic preference for submission as means to avoid future failure. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, Article 104155. [Preprint] [Open materials and data]

Wertz, M., Hausam, J., Konrad, N., Schiltz, K., Imhoff, R., & Rettenberger, M. (2021). Qualität von Schuldfähigkeitsgutachten: Mindestanforderungen, unterbringungsrelevante Gefährlichkeitsprognose und Berücksichtigung im richterlichen Urteil. Recht & Psychiatrie, 39, 202-211. [Link zur Publikation auf KrimPub]

Lammers, J., & Imhoff, R. (2021). A Chronic Lack of Perceived Personal Control increases Women and Men’s Self-Reported Preference for High-Status Characteristics when Selecting Romantic Partners in Simulated Dating Situations. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 1345-1357.

Barker, P. & Imhoff, R. (2021). The Dynamic Interactive Pattern of Assimilation and Contrast: Accounting for Standard Extremity in Comparative Evaluations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 97, Article 104190. [Open Access Article] [Open materials and data]

Rösch, D., Ruckelshaußen, S., Kirsch, J., Gerhard, S., Sroka, L. A., & Imhoff, R. (2021). Schwachsinnig und abartig? Wahrgenommene Stigmatisierung und tatsächliche Etikettierungseffekte der alten und modernisierten Eingangsmerkmale in § 20 Strafgesetzbuch (StGB). Forensische Psychiatrie, Psychologie, und Kriminologie, 15, 159-168.

Oeberst, A., Wachendörfer, M., Imhoff, R., & Blank, H. (2021). Rich false memories of autobiographical events can be reversed. Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, 118 (13).

Meuer, M. & Imhoff, R. (2021). Believing in Hidden Plots is Associated with Decreased Behavioral Trust: Conspiracy Belief as Greater Sensitivity to Social Threat or Insensitivity Towards its Absence?  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 93, Article 104081. [Open materials and data]

Troian, J., Wagner-Egger, P., Motyl, M., Arciszewski, T., Imhoff, R., Zimmer, F., … van Prooijen, J.-W. (2021). Investigating the Links Between Cultural Values and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: the Key Roles of Collectivism and Masculinity. Political Psychology, 42, 597-618.

Imhoff, R., Nickolaus, C. (2021). Combined Anchoring: Prosecution and defense sentencing recommendations as sequential anchors in the courtroom. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 26, 215-227. [Preprint] [Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R., Dieterle, L., & Lamberty, P. (2021). Resolving the puzzle of conspiracy worldview and political activism: Belief in secret plots decreases normative but increases non-normative political engagement. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 71-79.[Open materials and data]

Dang, J., Barker, P., Baumert, A., Bentvelzen, M., Berkman, E., Buchholz, N., …, Imhoff, R., …, Zinkernagel, A. (2021). A Multi-Lab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect. Social and Personality Psychology Science, 12, 14-24.[Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R. (2020). Assessment of Evidential Value Requires More Than a Single Data Point [Commentary]. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49, 2755–2759.

Wertz, M., Schiltz, K., Imhoff, R., & Rettenberger, M. (2020). Der Einfluss des richterlichen Auftrags auf die Qualität der Arbeit von Sachverständigen im Rahmen der Prognosebegutachtung. Recht & Psychiatrie, 38, 193-200.

Imhoff, R., & Lamberty, P. (2020). A bioweapon or a hoax? The link between distinct conspiracy beliefs about the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and pandemic behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11, 1110-1118. [Preprint][Open materials and data]

Betsch, C., Korn, L., Felgendreff, L., Eitze, S., Schmid, P., Sprengholz, P., … & Imhoff, R. (2020). German COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO) - Welle 10 (05.05.2020). PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.2900

Koch, A., Dorrough, A., Glöckner, A., & Imhoff, R. (2020). The ABC of society: Perceived similarity in agency/socioeconomic success and conservative-progressive beliefs increases intergroup cooperation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90, Article 103996.[Open materials and data]

Koch, A., Imhoff, R., Unkelbach, C., Nicolas, G., Fiske, S., Terache, J., Carrier, A., & Yzerbyt, V. (2020). Groups' warmth is a personal matter: Understanding consensus on stereotype dimensions reconciles adversarial models of social evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 89, Article 103995.[Open materials and data]

Barker, P., Dotsch, R., & Imhoff, R. (2020). Assimilation and contrast in Spontaneous Comparisons: Heterogeneous Effects of Standard Extremity in Facial evaluations. International Review of Social Psychology, 33, Article 11.[Open materials and data]

Landy, J. F., Jia, M., Ding, I. L., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., … Imhoff, R., … Uhlmann, E. L. (2020). Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. Psychological Bulletin, 146, 451-479.[Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R., & Zimmer, F. (2020). Men’s Reasons to Abstain from Masturbation May Not Reflect the Conviction of “reboot” Websites [Letter to the editor]. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 491429-1430.

Zimmer, F., & Imhoff, R. (2020). Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 491333-1343.

Marhenke, T., & Imhoff, R. (2020). Increased accessibility of semantic concepts after (more or less) subtle activation of related concepts: support for the basic tenet of priming research. Journal of General Psychology, 147, 186-211.[Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R., Barker, P., & Schmidt, A. F. (2020). To what extent do erotic images elicit visuospatial vs. cognitive attentional processes? Consistent support for a (non-spatial) Sexual Content Induced Delay. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49, 531-550. [Open materials and data]

Flade, F., Klar, Y., & Imhoff, R. (2019). Unite Against: A common threat invokes spontaneous decategorization between social categories. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, Article 103890.[Open materials and data]

Lamberty, P. & Imhoff, R. (2019). From sperm to fatherhood - an experimental approach to determinants of paternal responsibility. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 2217-2228. [Open materials and data]

Bartels, R. M., Lister, V. P. M., Imhoff, R., & Banse, R. (2019). Tracking mouse trajectories related to decisions about sexual interest. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 1387–1401.

Petrowski, K., Schmalbach, B, Schurig, S., Imhoff, R., Banse, R., Strauss, B. (2019). Implicit Attachment Schemas and Therapy Outcome for Panic Disorder Treated with Manualized Confrontation Therapy. Psychopathology, 52, 184-190.

Marhenke, T., & Imhoff, R. (2019). Does Bem´s Psychological Androgyny map on gender or sex differences in faces?. Psychology, Society, & Education, 11, 99-112.

Petrowski, K., Schurig, S., Kirchmann, H., Singh, S., Banse, R., Imhoff, R., & Strauss, B. (2019). Incongruence between implicit attachment schemes and unconscious attachment representations. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 207, 423-428.

Imhoff, R., & Messer, M. (2019). In search of experimental evidence for secondary antisemitism - A file drawer report. Meta-Psychology, 3, MP.2018.880.[Open materials and data]

Klein, V., Imhoff, R., Reiniger, K. M., & Briken, P. (2019). Perceptions of Sexual Script Deviation in Women and Men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 631-644.

Imhoff, R., Lange, J., & Germar, M. (2019). Identification and location tasks rely on different mental processes: A diffusion model account of validity effects in spatial cueing paradigms with emotional stimuli. Cognition and Emotion, 33, 231-244. [Open materials and data]

Lamberty, P., & Imhoff, R. (2018). Powerful Pharma and its Marginalized Alternatives? Effects of Individual Differences in Conspiracy Mentality on Attitudes towards Medical Approaches. Social Psychology, 49, 255-270.[Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R., & Lamberty, P. (2018). How paranoid are conspiracy believers? Towards a more fine-grained understanding of the connect and disconnect between paranoia and belief in conspiracy theories. European Journal of Social Psychology 48, 909-926. [Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R., Lamberty, P., & Klein, O. (2018). Using power as a negative cue: How conspiracy mentality affects epistemic trust in sources of historical knowledge. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 1364-1379.[Open materials and data]

Koch, A. S., Kervyn, N., Kervyn, M., & Imhoff, R. (2018). Studying the cognitive map of the U.S. states: Ideology and prosperity stereotypes predict interstate prejudice. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9, 530-538. [Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R., Koch, A., & Flade, F. (2018). (Pre)occupations: A data-driven model of jobs and its consequences for categorization and evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 77, 76-88. [Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R., & Jahnke, S. (2018). Determinants of Punitive Attitudes Toward People with Pedophilia: Dissecting Effects of the Label and Intentionality Ascriptions. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47, 353-361. [Open materials and data]

Imhoff, R., Smith, J., & van Zomeren, M. (2018). Opening up to openness [Editorial]. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 1-3.

Imhoff, R. & Lamberty, P. (2017). Too special to be duped: Need for uniqueness motivates conspiracy beliefs. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 724-734.

Imhoff, R., Bilewicz, M., Hanke, K., Kahn, D. T., Henkel-Guembel, N., Halabi, S., Shani-Sherman, T., & Hirschberger, G. (in press). Explaining the inexplicable: Differences in attributions to the Holocaust in Germany, Israel and Poland. Political Psychology.

Bilewicz, M., Witkowska, M., Stefaniak, A., & Imhoff, R. (2017). The lay historian explains intergroup behavior: Identification and epistemic abilities as correlates of ethnocentric historical attributions. Memory Studies, 10, 310-322.

Imhoff, R., Banse, R., & Schmidt, A. F. S. (2017). Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Sexual Orientation and Sexual Motivation. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 29-33.

Imhoff, R. & Koch, A. (2017). How orthogonal are the Big Two of social perception? On the curvilinear relation between agency and communion. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 12, 122-137.

Koch, A.*, Imhoff, R.*, Dotsch, R., Unkelbach, C., & Alves, H. (2016). The ABC of stereotypes about groups: Agency / socio-economic success, conservative-progressive Beliefs, and Communion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 675–709.
* geteilte Erstautorenschaft

Imhoff, R. (2016). Zeroing in on the effect of the schizophrenia label on stigmatizing attitudes: A large scale study. Schizophrenia Bulletin,42, 456-463.

Lammers, J., & Imhoff, R. (2016). Power and sadomasochism: Understanding the antecedents of a knotty relationship. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7, 142-148.

Bergen, E., Ahto, A., Schulz, A., Imhoff, R., Antfolk, J., Schuhmann, P., Alanko, K., Santtila, P., & Jern, P. (2015). Adult-adult and adult-child/adolescent online sexual interactions: An exploratory self-report study on the role of situational factors. Journal of Sex Research, 52, 1006-1016.

Schmidt, A. F., Zimmermann, P. S., Banse, R., & Imhoff, R. (2015). Ego depletion moderates the influence of automatic and controlled precursors of reactive aggression: A double dissociation. Social Psychology, 46, 132-141.

Heser, K., Imhoff, R., & Banse, R. (2015). Affiliation or power: What motivates behavior on social networking sites? Swiss Journal of Psychology, 74, 37-47.

Imhoff, R. (2015). Punitive attitudes against pedophiles or persons with sexual interest in children: Does the label matter? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 35-44.

Jahnke, S., Imhoff, R., & Hoyer, J. (2015). Stigmatization of people with pedophilia: Two comparative surveys. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 21-34.

Imhoff, R., Schmidt, A. F., & Gerstenberg, F. (2014). Exploring the Interplay of Trait Self-Control and Ego Depletion: Empirical Evidence for Ironic Effects. European Journal of Personality, 28, 413-424.

Imhoff, R., & Bruder, M. (2014). Speaking (Un-)Truth to Power: Conspiracy Mentality as a Generalized Political Attitude. European Journal of Personality, 28, 25-43.

Larue, D., Schmidt, A. F., Imhoff, R., Eggers, K., Schönbrodt, F. D., & Banse, R. (2014). Validation of direct and indirect measures of preference for sexual violence. Psychological Assessment, 26, 1173-1183.

Imhoff, R., & Schmidt, A. F. (2014). Sexual disinhibition under sexual arousal: Evidence for domain specificity in men and women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43, 1123-1136.

Imhoff, R., & Dotsch, R. (2013). Do we look like me or like us? Visual projection as self- or ingroup-projection. Social Cognition, 31, 806-816.

Gerstenberg, F. X. R., Imhoff, R., Banse, R., & Schmitt, M. (2014). Discrepancies between implicit and explicit self-concepts of intelligence: relations to modesty, narcissism, and achievement motivation. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:85.

Imhoff, R., Woelki, J., Hanke, S., & Dotsch, R. (2013). Warmth and competence in your face! Visual encoding of stereotype content. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:386.

Imhoff, R., Bergmann, X., Banse, R., & Schmidt, A. F. (2013). Exploring the Automatic Undercurrents of Sexual Narcissism: Individual Differences in the Sex-Aggression-Link. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42, 1033-1041.

Gerstenberg, F., Imhoff, R., Banse, R., Altstötter-Gleich, C., Zinkernagel, A., & Schmitt, M. (2013). How Implicit-Explicit Consistency of the Intelligence Self-Concept Moderates Reactions to Performance Feedback. European Journal of Personality, 27, 238-255.

Bruder, M., Haffke, P., Neave, N., Nouripanah, N., & Imhoff, R. (2013). Measuring individual differences in generic beliefs in conspiracy theories across cultures: conspiracy mentality questionnaire. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:225.

Imhoff, R., Wohl, M., Erb, H.-P. (2013). When the past is far from dead: How ongoing consequences of genocides committed by the ingroup impact collective guilt. Journal of Social Issues, 69, 74-91.

Banse, R., Imhoff, R., Steffens, M., Schramm, N., Rösch, A., Robert, M., & Stangier, U. (2013). Partner-AMP and well-being: Evidence for an implicit secure base script? Personal Relationships, 20, 140-154.

Gerstenberg, F. X. R., Imhoff, R., & Schmitt, M. (2012). "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, 26, 588-599.

Imhoff, R., & Recker, J. (2012). Differentiating Islamophobia: Introducing a new scale to measure Islamoprejudice and Secular Islam Critique. Political Psychology, 33, 811-824.

Imhoff, R., Schmidt, A. F., Weiß, S., Young, A. W., & Banse, R. (2012). Vicarious Viewing Time: Prolonged response latencies for sexually attractive targets as a function of task- or stimulus-specific processing. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41, 1389-1401.

Imhoff, R., Bilewicz, M., & Erb, H.-P. (2012). Collective Guilt versus Collective Regret. Different emotional reactions to ingroup atrocities. European Journal for Social Psychology, 42, 729-742.

Blaison, C., Imhoff, R., Hess, U., & Banse, R. (2012). The affect misattribution procedure: Hot or not? Emotion, 12, 403-412.

Dislich, F. X. R., Imhoff, R., Banse, R., Altstötter-Gleich, C., Zinkernagel, A., & Schmitt, M. (2012). Am I smart or not? Discrepancies between the implicit and the explicit self-concept of intelligence predict IQ test performance. European Journal of Personality, 26, 212-220.

Imhoff, R.*, Dotsch, R.*, Bianchi, M., Banse, R., & Wigboldus, D. (2011). Facing Europe: Visualizing spontaneous ingroup projection. Psychological Science, 22, 1583-1590.
* geteilte Erstautorenschaft

Imhoff, R., & Banse, R. (2011). Implicit and explicit attitudes towards ex-partners differentially predict breakup adjustment. Personal Relationships, 18, 427-438.

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.

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.
* geteilte Erstautorenschaft

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. (2010). Zwei Formen des modernen Antisemitismus? Eine Skala zur Messung primären und sekundären Antisemitismus [Two forms of modern anti-Semitism? A scale for the measurement of primary and secondary ant-Semitism]. Conflict and Communication Online, 9.

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.

 

Book contributions

Imhoff, R., & Lamberty, P. (2020). Conspiracy beliefs as psychopolitical reactions to perceived power. In M. Butter & P. Knight (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. Routledge.

Koch, A. & Imhoff, R. (2019). Rethinking the nature and relation of fundamental dimensions of meaning. In A. E. Abele & B. Wojciszke (Eds.) Agency and Communion in Social Psychology (pp. 167-180). New York, NY: Routledge.

Bilewicz, M., Witkowska, M., Stubig, S., Beneda, M., & Imhoff, R. (2017). How to educate about the Holocaust? Psychological obstacles in historical education in Poland and Germany. In C. Psaltis, M. Carretero & S. Cehajic-Clancy (Eds.) History teaching and conflict transformation: Social psychological theories, history teaching and reconciliation (pp. 169-197). London: Palgrave.

Banse, R., Schmidt, A. F., & Imhoff, R. (2016). Aggression from the perspective of the Reflective-Impulsive Model: Testing predictions using indirect measures. In R. Deutsch, B. Gawronski, & W. Hoffmann (Eds.). Reflective and impulsive determinants of human behavior (pp. 239-256). New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Imhoff, R. (2015). Beyond (right-wing) authoritarianism: Conspiracy mentality as an incremental predictor of prejudice. In. M. Bilewicz, A. Cichocka, & W. Soral (Eds.) The Psychology of Conspiracy (pp. 122-141).London: Routledge.

Schmidt, A. F., Banse, R., & Imhoff, R. (2015). Indirect measures in forensic contexts. In F. J. R. van de Vijver & T. Ortner (Eds.), Behavior Based Assessment in Personality, Social, and Applied Psychology (pp. 173-194). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Imhoff, R. (2013). Fragebogen zur Erfassung von Verschwörungsmentalität – Kurzform. In C. J. Kemper, E. Brähler, & M. Zenger (Hrsg.), Psychologische und sozialwissenschaftliche Kurzskalen (pp. 334-336). Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft.

Imhoff, R. (2013). Skala zur Erfassung von Vorurteilen gegenüber dem Islam und säkularer Kritik am Islam - Kurzform. In C. J. Kemper, E. Brähler, & M. Zenger (Hrsg.), Psychologische und sozialwissenschaftliche Kurzskalen (pp. 279-282). Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft.

Imhoff, R. (2013). Skala zur Messung von primärem und sekundärem Antisemitismus – Kurzform. In C. J. Kemper, E. Brähler, & M. Zenger (Hrsg.), Psychologische und sozialwissenschaftliche Kurzskalen (pp. 220-223). Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft.

Banse, R., & Imhoff, R. (2013). Implicit cognition and relationship processes. In J. A. Simpson and L. Campbell (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Close Relationships (pp. 475-499). Oxford University Press.

Imhoff, R., & Decker, O. (2013). Verschwörungsmentalität als Weltbild. In: O. Decker, J. Kiess & E. Brähler (Hrsg.), Rechtsextremismus der Mitte (S. 130-145). Wiesbaden: Psychosozial Verlag.

Imhoff, R. (2009). Holocaust at the table - Experiences from seven years of "German-Israeli Exchange". In C. Misselwitz, & C. Siebeck (Eds.) Dissonant Memories - Fragmented Present. Exchanging young discourses between Israel and Germany (pp. 35-43). Bielefeld: transcript.

 

Monographies

Imhoff, R. (2010). The Dynamics of Collective Guilt Three Generations after the Holocaust: Young Germans' Emotional Experiences in Response to the Nazi Past. Hamburg: Kovac.

Imhoff, R. (2006). Attraktivität von Minderheitenmeinungen. Saarbrücken: VDM.