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Overview

Kurt Hugenberg is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Social Sciences, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Their scholarly work spans several related subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Gender Studies.

Their research contributions cover a range of topics, prominently featuring:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies

Kurt Hugenberg has published multiple recent papers in well-recognized venues. Selected papers include:

  • "Poverty and pain: Low-SES people are believed to be insensitive to pain," 2021, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • "Race-based biases in judgments of social pain," 2020, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • "Sharenting and Children's Privacy in the United States: Parenting Style, Practices, and Perspectives on Sharing Young Children's Photos on Social Media," 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Good Cop, Bad Cop: Race-Based Differences in Mental Representations of Police," 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "Social Cognitive Abilities Predict Unique Aspects of Older Adults' Personal Social Networks," 2021, The Journals of Gerontology Series B

The venues where Kurt Hugenberg frequently publishes include:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Emotion

Among their frequent co-authors are Mattea Sim, Jason C. Deska, Steven M. Almaraz, E. Paige Lloyd, and Michael J. Bernstein. Collaboration with these researchers has contributed to a consistent presence in interdisciplinary social and cognitive science research.

Best Publications

  • Separating multiple processes in implicit social cognition : The quad model of implicit task performance

    Frederica R. Conrey;Jeffrey W. Sherman;Bertram Gawronski;Kurt Hugenberg

  • Facing Prejudice Implicit Prejudice and the Perception of Facial Threat

    Kurt Hugenberg;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • The categorization-individuation model: an integrative account of the other-race recognition deficit.

    Kurt Hugenberg;Steven G. Young;Michael Jason Bernstein;Donald F. Sacco

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

    Kurt Hugenberg;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • The Cross-Category Effect Mere Social Categorization Is Sufficient to Elicit an Own-Group Bias in Face Recognition

    Michael J. Bernstein;Steven G. Young;Kurt Hugenberg

  • Racial bias in judgments of physical size and formidability: from size to threat

    John Paul Wilson;Kurt Hugenberg;Nicholas O. Rule

  • Social surrogacy: How favored television programs provide the experience of belonging

    Jaye L. Derrick;Shira Gabriel;Kurt Hugenberg

  • Eye Gaze as Relational Evaluation: Averted Eye Gaze Leads to Feelings of Ostracism and Relational Devaluation

    James H. Wirth;Donald F. Sacco;Kurt Hugenberg;Kipling D. Williams

  • The Self-Regulation of Automatic Associations and Behavioral Impulses

    Jeffrey W. Sherman;Bertram Gawronski;Karen Gonsalkorale;Kurt Hugenberg

  • Categorization and individuation in the cross-race recognition deficit : Toward a solution to an insidious problem

    Kurt Hugenberg;Jennifer Miller;Heather M. Claypool

  • Perception and Motivation in Face Recognition: A Critical Review of Theories of the Cross-Race Effect

    Steven G. Young;Kurt Hugenberg;Michael J. Bernstein;Donald F. Sacco

  • The Reappropriation of Stigmatizing Labels The Reciprocal Relationship Between Power and Self-Labeling

    Adam D. Galinsky;Cynthia S. Wang;Jennifer A. Whitson;Eric M. Anicich

  • Social categorization and the perception of facial affect: target race moderates the response latency advantage for happy faces

    Kurt Hugenberg

  • Class, Race, and the Face: Social Context Modulates the Cross-Race Effect in Face Recognition

    Edwin R. Shriver;Steven G. Young;Kurt Hugenberg;Michael J. Bernstein

  • Social categorization and stereotyping: How social categorization biases person perception and face memory.

    Kurt Hugenberg;Donald F. Sacco

  • THE REAPPROPRIATION OF STIGMATIZING LABELS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL IDENTITY

    Adam D Galinsky;Kurt Hugenberg;Carla Groom;Galen V Bodenhausen

  • Being “In” With the In-Crowd: The Effects of Social Exclusion and Inclusion Are Enhanced by the Perceived Essentialism of Ingroups and Outgroups

    Michael Jason Bernstein;Donald F. Sacco;Steven G. Young;Kurt Hugenberg

  • Implicit and explicit attitudes respond differently to increasing amounts of counterattitudinal information

    Robert J. Rydell;Allen R. McConnell;Laura M. Strain;Heather M. Claypool

  • Implicit Theories About Groups and Stereotyping The Role of Group Entitativity

    Robert J. Rydell;Kurt Hugenberg;Devin Ray;Diane M. Mackie

  • Mere social categorization modulates identification of facial expressions of emotion.

    Steven G. Young;Kurt Hugenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Galen V. Bodenhausen
Galen V. Bodenhausen Northwestern University
Robert J. Rydell
Robert J. Rydell Indiana University
Allen R. McConnell
Allen R. McConnell Miami University
Bennett I. Bertenthal
Bennett I. Bertenthal Indiana University
C. Neil Macrae
C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen
Jeffrey W. Sherman
Jeffrey W. Sherman University of California, Davis
Diane M. Mackie
Diane M. Mackie University of California, Santa Barbara
Kipling D. Williams
Kipling D. Williams Purdue University West Lafayette
Olivier Corneille
Olivier Corneille Université Catholique de Louvain
Nicholas O. Rule
Nicholas O. Rule University of Toronto

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