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Galen V. Bodenhausen

Galen V. Bodenhausen

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Psychology

D-Index
78
Citations
32885
World Ranking
1548
National Ranking
923

Overview

Galen V. Bodenhausen is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences and psychology, focusing primarily on social and intergroup psychology, LGBTQ health, identity and policy, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, climate change communication and perception, cultural differences and values, behavioral health and interventions, and racial and ethnic identity research.

Their work is published in a variety of venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Bodenhausen's research output includes papers that address topics such as intersectional stereotyping, gender essentialism and the mental representation of transgender individuals, pricing effects on consumer demand, evaluative conditioning, and stereotyping related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Through the looking glass: A lens-based account of intersectional stereotyping," 2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Gender essentialism and the mental representation of transgender women and men: A multimethod investigation of stereotype content," 2021, Cognition
  • "The boomerang effect of zero pricing: when and why a zero price is less effective than a low price for enhancing consumer demand," 2022, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
  • "Acquiring favorable attitudes based on aversive affective cues: Examining the spontaneity and efficiency of propositional evaluative conditioning," 2021, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • "The Pandemic and the "Perpetual Foreigner": How Threats Posed by the COVID-19 Pandemic Relate to Stereotyping of Asian Americans," 2022, Frontiers in Psychology

Bodenhausen frequently collaborates with a select group of co-authors, including Natalie M. Gallagher, Christopher D. Petsko, Xiaomeng Fan, Jordan S. Daley, and Ryan F. Lei. These collaborations are reflected in multiple joint publications.

The scientist's primary fields of study comprise social sciences and psychology, with subfields covering sociology and political science, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, applied psychology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law. Bodenhausen's research themes traverse socially relevant topics such as stereotyping, identity, moral and emotional judgment, and communication related to climate change.

Best Publications

  • Associative and propositional processes in evaluation: An integrative review of implicit and explicit attitude change.

    Bertram Gawronski;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • Social cognition: thinking categorically about others.

    C. Neil Macrae;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • Stereotypes as energy-saving devices: A peek inside the cognitive toolbox.

    C. Neil Macrae;Alan B. Milne;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • Out of mind but back in sight: Stereotypes on the rebound

    C. Neil Macrae;Galen V. Bodenhausen;Alan B. Milne;Jolanda Jetten

  • Negative affect and social judgment: The differential impact of anger and sadness

    Galen V Bodenhausen;Lori A. Sheppard;Geoffrey P Kramer

  • Happiness and stereotypic thinking in social judgment.

    Galen V. Bodenhausen;Geoffrey P. Kramer;Karin Süsser

  • Stereotypes as Judgmental Heuristics: Evidence of Circadian Variations in Discrimination

    Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • Social stereotypes and information-processing strategies: The impact of task complexity.

    Galen V. Bodenhausen;Meryl Lichtenstein

  • Stereotypic biases in social decision making and memory: testing process models of stereotype use.

    Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • Facing Prejudice Implicit Prejudice and the Perception of Facial Threat

    Kurt Hugenberg;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • The dissection of selection in person perception: Inhibitory processes in social stereotyping.

    Neil Macrae;G V Bodenhausen;Alan Berkeley Milne

  • When Positive Stereotypes Threaten Intellectual Performance: The Psychological Hazards of “Model Minority” Status

    Sapna Cheryan;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • Stereotype activation and inhibition

    Galen V Bodenhausen;C. Neil Macrae

  • The Associative–Propositional Evaluation Model: Theory, Evidence, and Open Questions

    Bertram Gawronski;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • Perspective taking combats automatic expressions of racial bias.

    Andrew R. Todd;Galen V. Bodenhausen;Jennifer A. Richeson;Adam D. Galinsky

  • Personalized Persuasion Tailoring Persuasive Appeals to Recipients’ Personality Traits

    Jacob B. Hirsh;Sonia K. Kang;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • Effects of Stereotypes on Decision Making and Information-Processing Strategies

    Galen V. Bodenhausen;Robert S. Wyer

  • Emotions, Arousal, and Stereotypic Judgments: A Heuristic Model of Affect and Stereotyping

    Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • Ambiguity in social categorization: The role of prejudice and facial affect in race categorization.

    Kurt Hugenberg;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • Social cognition: Categorical person perception.

    C. Neil Macrae;Galen V. Bodenhausen

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Neil Macrae
C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen
Bertram Gawronski
Bertram Gawronski The University of Texas at Austin
Kurt Hugenberg
Kurt Hugenberg Indiana University
Patrick W. Corrigan
Patrick W. Corrigan Illinois Institute of Technology
Alan B. Milne
Alan B. Milne University of Aberdeen
Robert S. Wyer
Robert S. Wyer University of Cincinnati
Jennifer A. Richeson
Jennifer A. Richeson Yale University
Adam D. Galinsky
Adam D. Galinsky Columbia University
Thomas Mussweiler
Thomas Mussweiler London Business School
Frank D. Fincham
Frank D. Fincham Florida State University

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