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Overview

Herbert Bless is affiliated with the University of Mannheim in Germany and conducts research primarily within the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

The main topics investigated by Herbert Bless include:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

Herbert Bless has published articles in multiple academic venues, with frequent publications in the Journal of Happiness Studies and Frontiers in Psychology. Other journals where their work has appeared include Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Personality, and Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Several recent papers reflect the scope of Herbert Bless's research interests. These include:

  • Just-World Beliefs Increase Helping Intentions via Meaning and Affect (2020), published in Journal of Happiness Studies
  • You and I Both: Self-Compassion Reduces Self-Other Differences in Evaluation of Showing Vulnerability (2021), published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Effect of social class on personal control beliefs (2023), published in Journal of Personality
  • The Politics Hurdle: Joint Effect of Organizational Culture and Gender on Lack of Fit Experiences (2022), published in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • The 'mixed bag' of segregation-On positive and negative associations with migrants' acculturation (2021), published in European Journal of Social Psychology

Herbert Bless frequently collaborates with other scholars, including Melvin John, Lucia Lou-Anne Boileau, Michaela Wänke, Norbert Schwarz, and Eric R. Igou.

Best Publications

  • Ease of retrieval as information: Another look at the availability heuristic.

    Norbert Schwarz;Herbert Bless;Fritz Strack;Gisela Klumpp

  • Mood and persuasion: A cognitive response analysis.

    Herbert Bless;Gerd Bohner;Norbert Schwarz;Fritz Strack

  • Mood and the use of scripts: Does a happy mood really lead to mindlessness?

    Herbert Bless;Gerald L. Clore;Norbert Schwarz;Verena Golisano

  • Constructing reality and its alternatives: an inclusion/ exclusion model of assimilation and contrast effects in social judgment

    Norbert Schwarz;Herbert Bless

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

    Norbert Schwarz;Herbert Bless;Gerd Bohner

  • Happy and Mindless, But Sad and Smart? The Impact of Affective States on Analytic Reasoning

    Norbert Schwarz;Herbert Bless

  • When Do People Rely on Affective and Cognitive Feelings in Judgment? A Review

    Rainer Greifeneder;Herbert Bless;Michel Tuan Pham

  • Mood and Stereotyping: Affective States and the Use of General Knowledge Structures

    Herbert Bless;Norbert Schwarz;Markus Kemmelmeier

  • Awareness of the influence as a determinant of assimilation versus contrast

    Fritz Strack;Norbert Schwarz;Herbert Bless;Almut Kübler

  • Mood and the regulation of information processing and behavior

    Herbert Bless;Klaus Fiedler

  • Flow and Regulatory Compatibility: An Experimental Approach to the Flow Model of Intrinsic Motivation

    Johannes Keller;Herbert Bless

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

    Gerd Bohner;Herbert Bless;Norbert Schwarz;Fritz Strack

  • Mental Construal and the Emergence of Assimilation and Contrast Effects: The Inclusion/Exclusion Model

    Herbert Bless;Norbert Schwarz

  • 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

  • The Message Within : The Role of Subjective Experience In Social Cognition And Behavior

    Herbert Bless;Joseph P. Forgas

  • Effects of Atypical Exemplars on Racial Beliefs: Enlightened Racism or Generalized Appraisals

    Galen V. Bodenhausen;Norbert Schwarz;Herbert Bless;Michaela Wänke

  • Mood effects on attitude judgments: independent effects of mood before and after message elaboration.

    Herbert Bless;Diane M. Mackie;Norbert Schwarz

  • Physiological aspects of flow experiences: Skills-demand-compatibility effects on heart rate variability and salivary cortisol☆

    Johannes Keller;Herbert Bless;Frederik Blomann;Dieter Kleinböhl

  • Mood and the reliance on the ease of retrieval heuristic.

    Markus Ruder;Herbert Bless

  • Mood and the impact of category membership and individuating information

    Herbert Bless;Norbert Schwarz;Reiner Wieland

  • Social Cognition: How Individuals Construct Social Reality

    Rainer Greifeneder;Herbert Bless;Klaus Fiedler

Frequent Co-Authors

Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Michaela Wänke
Michaela Wänke University of Mannheim
Eric R. Igou
Eric R. Igou University of Limerick
Gerd Bohner
Gerd Bohner Bielefeld University
Fritz Strack
Fritz Strack University of Würzburg
Kees van den Bos
Kees van den Bos Utrecht University
Joseph P. Forgas
Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales
Markus Kemmelmeier
Markus Kemmelmeier University of Nevada Reno
Asher Koriat
Asher Koriat University of Haifa
Diane M. Mackie
Diane M. Mackie University of California, Santa Barbara

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