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Overview

Rainer Banse is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Applied Psychology.

Their research covers a variety of main topics, such as psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending; criminal justice and corrections analysis; attachment and relationship dynamics; maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum; family dynamics and relationships; deception detection and forensic psychology; and maternal and perinatal health interventions.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • IET Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Adolescent Research Review
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Forensische Psychiatrie Psychologie Kriminologie

Select recent papers demonstrate the range of topics addressed:

  • Validity of content-based techniques for credibility assessment-How telling is an extended meta-analysis taking research bias into account? (2020), Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • Evaluative priming as an implicit measure of evaluation: An examination of outlier-treatments for evaluative priming scores (2020), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Psychological aspects of childbirth: Evidence for a birth-related mindset (2020), European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Partner support and relationship quality as potential resources for childbirth and the transition to parenthood (2023), BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • A field study investigating road safety effects of a front brake light (2021), IET Intelligent Transport Systems

Rainer Banse collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Lisa Hoffmann
  • Verena Oberlader
  • Alexander F. Schmidt
  • Laura Quinten
  • Norbert Hilger

Their work integrates applied and clinical approaches within psychology, often intersecting with forensic and social psychology, maternal health, and environmental health domains.

Best Publications

  • Acoustic profiles in vocal emotion expression.

    Rainer Banse;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Emotion Inferences from Vocal Expression Correlate Across Languages and Cultures

    Klaus R. Scherer;Rainer Banse;Harald Günter Wallbott

  • Double dissociation between implicit and explicit personality self-concept: The case of shy behavior.

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Rainer Banse;Daniel Mücke

  • Implicit attitudes towards homosexuality: reliability, validity, and controllability of the IAT

    Rainer Banse;Jan Seise;Nikola Zerbes

  • Vocal cues in emotion encoding and decoding

    Klaus R. Scherer;Rainer Banse;Harald G. Wallbott;Thomas Goldbeck

  • The intensity of facial expression is determined by underlying affective state and social situation.

    Ursula Hess;Rainer Banse;Arvid Kappas

  • Adult Attachment and Marital Satisfaction: Evidence for Dyadic Configuration Effects:

    Rainer Banse

  • Psychologie der Beziehung

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Rainer Banse;Franz J. Neyer

  • How Common is Men's Self-Reported Sexual Interest in Prepubescent Children?

    Beate Dombert;Alexander F. Schmidt;Rainer Banse;Peer Briken

  • Implicit bias in impression formation: associations influence the construal of individuating information

    Bertram Gawronski;Daniel Geschke;Rainer Banse

  • Indirect Measures of Sexual Interest in Child Sex Offenders A Multimethod Approach

    Rainer Banse;Alexander F. Schmidt;Jane Clarbour

  • Psychophysiological responses to appraisal dimensions in a computer game

    Carien M. Van Reekum;Tom Johnstone;Rainer Banse;Alexandre Etter

  • Affective priming with liked and disliked persons: Prime visibility determines congruency and incongruency effects

    Rainer Banse

  • Automatic Evaluation of Self and Significant Others: Affective Priming in Close Relationships:

    Rainer Banse

  • The development of spontaneous gender stereotyping in childhood: relations to stereotype knowledge and stereotype flexibility.

    Rainer Banse;Bertram Gawronski;Christine Rebetez;Hélène Gutt

  • Validity of content-based techniques to distinguish true and fabricated statements: A meta-analysis.

    Verena A. Oberlader;Christoph Naefgen;Judith Koppehele-Gossel;Laura Quinten

  • Assessment of implicit personality self-concept using the implicit association test (IAT): concurrent assessment of anxiousness and angriness.

    Konrad Schnabel;Rainer Banse;Jens B. Asendorpf

  • Ongoing Victim Suffering Increases Prejudice: The Case of Secondary Anti-Semitism

    Roland Imhoff;Rainer Banse

  • Is pedophilic sexual preference continuous? A taxometric analysis based on direct and indirect measures.

    Alexander F. Schmidt;Andreas Mokros;Rainer Banse

  • Viewing time effects revisited: prolonged response latencies for sexually attractive targets under restricted task conditions.

    Roland Imhoff;Alexander F. Schmidt;Uta Nordsiek;Charlotte Luzar

  • Assessment of multiple implicit self-concept dimensions using the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task (EAST)

    Sarah Teige;Konrad Schnabel;Rainer Banse;Jens B. Asendorpf

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Imhoff
Roland Imhoff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Jens B. Asendorpf
Jens B. Asendorpf Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Bertram Gawronski
Bertram Gawronski The University of Texas at Austin
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau
Klaus R. Scherer
Klaus R. Scherer University of Geneva
Mario Gollwitzer
Mario Gollwitzer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Guy Bodenmann
Guy Bodenmann University of Zurich
Andrew W. Young
Andrew W. Young University of York
Bernhard Strauss
Bernhard Strauss Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ursula Hess
Ursula Hess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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