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Overview

Gerd Bohner is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has contributed extensively to research within the social sciences. Their body of work spans several interrelated fields and subfields, including gender studies, sociology and political science, social psychology, health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as social and intergroup psychology, sexual assault and victimization studies, cultural differences and values, intimate partner and family violence, behavioral health and interventions, sex work and related issues, and gender, feminism, and media.

Among notable recent publications are:

  • "Ladies First: Gender Stereotypes Drive Anticipatory Eye-Movements During Incremental Sentence Interpretation" (2021), Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Ambivalent Stereotypes and Persuasion: Attitudinal Effects of Warmth vs. Competence Ascribed to Message Sources" (2022), Frontiers in Psychology
  • "AMMSA-21: a revised version of the Acceptance of Modern Myths About Sexual Aggression Scale in English, German, Polish and Spanish (AMMSA-21: una versión revisada de la escala Aceptación de Mitos Modernos sobre la Agresión Sexual en inglés, alemán, polaco y español)" (2022), International Journal of Social Psychology Revista de Psicología Social
  • "A Russian Version of the Acceptance of Modern Myths about Sexual Aggression Scale: Validation with a Female Online Sample" (2020), Psychology in Russia State of Art
  • "Do Biospheric Values Moderate the Impact of Information Appeals on Pro-Environmental Behavioral Intentions?" (2024), Sustainability

Gerd Bohner frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Roman Linne, Tina Glaser, Jesús L. Megías, Ronja M. J. Boege, and Alexa Weiß.

Their work has been published repeatedly in several venues, such as:

  • International Journal of Social Psychology Revista de Psicología Social
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld (Universität Bielefeld)
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Social Cognition

Best Publications

  • Attitudes and Attitude Change

    Gerd Bohner;Nina Dickel

  • Mood and persuasion: A cognitive response analysis.

    Herbert Bless;Gerd Bohner;Norbert Schwarz;Fritz Strack

  • Perceptions of stranger and acquaintance rape: the role of benevolent and hostile sexism in victim blame and rape proclivity.

    Dominic Abrams;G. Tendayi Viki;Barbara Masser;Gerd Bohner

  • Mood and Persuasion: Affective States Influence the Processing of Persuasive Communications

    Norbert Schwarz;Herbert Bless;Gerd Bohner

  • The Construction of Attitudes

    Norbert Schwarz;Gerd Bohner

  • The acceptance of modern myths about sexual aggression scale: development and validation in German and English

    Heike Gerger;Hanna Kley;Gerd Bohner;Frank Siebler

  • The interplay of heuristic and systematic processing of social information

    Gerd Bohner;Gordon B. Moskowitz;Shelly Chaiken

  • Rape myths as neutralizing cognitions : evidence for a causal impact of anti-victim attitudes on men's self-reported likelihood of raping

    Gerd Bohner;Marc-André Reinhard;Stefanie Rutz;Sabine Sturm

  • What triggers causal attributions? The impact of valence and subjective probability.

    Gerd Bohner;Herbert Bless;Norbert Schwarz;Fritz Strack

  • There Are Many Reasons to Drive a BMW: Does Imagined Ease of Argument Generation Influence Attitudes?

    Michaela Wänke;Gerd Bohner;Andreas Jurkowitsch

  • Social Norms and the Likelihood of Raping: Perceived Rape Myth Acceptance of Others Affects Men's Rape Proclivity

    Gerd Bohner;Frank Siebler;Jürgen Schmelcher

  • Audience-tuning effects on memory: The role of shared reality.

    Gerald Echterhoff;E. Tory Higgins;Stephan Groll

  • Need for cognition: eine Skala zur Erfassung von Engagement und Freude bei Denkaufgaben

    Herbert Bless;Roland F. Fellhauer;Gerd Bohner;Norbert Schwarz

  • Need for cognition: eine Skala zur Erfassung von Engagement und Freude bei Denkaufgaben: Need for cognition: a scale measuring engagement and happiness in cognitive tasks

    Herbert Bless;Michaela Wänke;Gerd Bohner;Roland F. Fellhauer

  • Rape myth acceptance: cognitive, affective and behavioural effects of beliefs that blame the victim and exonerate the perpetrator

    Gerd Bohner;Friederike Eyssel;Afroditi Pina;Frank Siebler

  • The causal impact of rape myth acceptance on men's rape proclivity: comparing sexually coercive and noncoercive men

    Gerd Bohner;Christopher I. Jarvis;Friederike Anne Eyssel;Frank Siebler

  • Affect and persuasion: mood effects on the processing of message content and context cues and on subsequent behaviour

    Gerd Bohner;Kimberly Crow;Hans-Peter Erb;Norbert Schwarz

  • Feelings and their motivational implications: Moods and the action sequence

    Norbert Schwarz;Gerd Bohner

  • Accuracy Motivation, Consensus Information, and the Law of Large Numbers: Effects on Attitude Judgment in the Absence of Argumentation

    Peter R. Darke;Shelly Chaiken;Gerd Bohner;Sabine Einwiller

  • The role of mood and message ambiguity in the interplay of heuristic and systematic processing

    Gerd Bohner;Gerd Bohner;Shelly Chaiken;Piroska Hunyadi

  • Protecting self-esteem from stigma: A test of different strategies for coping with the stigma of mental illness:

    Marie Ilic;Jost Reinecke;Gerd Bohner;Hans-Onno Röttgers

  • Attitudes and attitude change

    Gerd Bohner

Frequent Co-Authors

Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Herbert Bless
Herbert Bless University of Mannheim
Michaela Wänke
Michaela Wänke University of Mannheim
Martin Driessen
Martin Driessen Bielefeld University
Patrick W. Corrigan
Patrick W. Corrigan Illinois Institute of Technology
Shelly Chaiken
Shelly Chaiken New York University
Fritz Strack
Fritz Strack University of Würzburg
Bärbel Knäuper
Bärbel Knäuper McGill University
Rocio Garcia-Retamero
Rocio Garcia-Retamero University of Granada
Dominic Abrams
Dominic Abrams University of Kent

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