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Overview

Roland Imhoff is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research spans several fields within social sciences and psychology, with a primary focus on social and political phenomena analyzed through empirical and experimental methods.

The main fields of study covered in their work include Social Sciences with 79 publications and Psychology with 60 publications. Within these, the prominent subfields are Sociology and Political Science (64 publications), Cognitive Neuroscience (34 publications), Social Psychology (25 publications), Clinical Psychology (18 publications), and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (9 publications).

Key research topics addressed in Imhoff's publications cover:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Frequent collaborations include coauthors such as Aileen Oeberst, Marius Frenken, Pia Lamberty, Fiona Kazarovytska, and Yael Ecker. These partnerships reflect recurring contributors across multiple published works.

Imhoff has published extensively in several scholarly venues. Notable publication outlets with multiple contributions include:

  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (10 publications)
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science (6 publications)
  • European Journal of Social Psychology (5 publications)
  • Political Psychology (4 publications)
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior (4 publications)

Representative recent papers encompass a range of topics connected to conspiracy beliefs, political orientation, and cognitive psychology:

  • "A Bioweapon or a Hoax? The Link Between Distinct Conspiracy Beliefs About the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak and Pandemic Behavior", published in 2020 in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • "Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries", published in 2022 in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political Engagement", published in 2020 in Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • "Tearing apart the "evil" twins: A general conspiracy mentality is not the same as specific conspiracy beliefs", published in 2022 in Current Opinion in Psychology

These publications indicate a strong focus on understanding conspiracy mentality and its social and political implications, particularly in the context of pandemic-related misinformation and behavioral responses. The body of work also covers broader themes in social psychological phenomena and political activism.

Best Publications

  • Measuring Individual Differences in Generic Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures: Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire

    Martin Bruder;Peter Haffke;Nick Neave;Nina Nouripanah

  • Speaking (un-)truth to power : conspiracy mentality as a generalised political attitude

    Roland Imhoff;Martin Bruder

  • A Bioweapon or a Hoax? The Link Between Distinct Conspiracy Beliefs About the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak and Pandemic Behavior

    Roland Imhoff;Pia Lamberty

  • The ABC of stereotypes about groups: Agency/socioeconomic success, conservative–progressive beliefs, and communion.

    Alex Koch;Roland Imhoff;Ron Dotsch;Christian Unkelbach

  • The humanity of what we eat: Conceptions of human uniqueness among vegetarians and omnivores†

    Michal Bilewicz;Roland Imhoff;Marek Drogosz

  • How paranoid are conspiracy believers? Toward a more fine‐grained understanding of the connect and disconnect between paranoia and belief in conspiracy theories.

    Roland Imhoff;Pia Lamberty

  • Stigmatization of people with pedophilia: two comparative surveys.

    Sara Jahnke;Roland Imhoff;Juergen Hoyer

  • Too special to be duped: Need for uniqueness motivates conspiracy beliefs.

    Roland Imhoff;Pia Karoline Lamberty

  • Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political Engagement:

    Roland Imhoff;Lea Dieterle;Pia Lamberty

  • What Motivates Nonconformity? Uniqueness Seeking Blocks Majority Influence

    Roland Imhoff;Hans-Peter Erb

  • Exploring the Interplay of Trait Self-Control and Ego Depletion: Empirical Evidence for Ironic Effects

    Roland Imhoff;Alexander F. Schmidt;Friederike X. R. Gerstenberg

  • Differentiating Islamophobia: Introducing a New Scale to Measure Islamoprejudice and Secular Islam Critique

    Roland Imhoff;Julia Recker

  • A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect.

    Junhua Dang;Paul Barker;Anna Baumert;Margriet Bentvelzen

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

    Roland Imhoff;Rainer Banse

  • Punitive Attitudes Against Pedophiles or Persons With Sexual Interest in Children: Does the Label Matter?

    Roland Imhoff

  • The Affect Misattribution Procedure: hot or not?

    Christophe Blaison;Roland Imhoff;Isabell Hühnel;Ursula Hess

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

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

  • Warmth and competence in your face! Visual encoding of stereotype content.

    Roland Imhoff;Jonas Woelki;Sebastian Hanke;Ron Dotsch

  • Collective regret versus collective guilt: Different emotional reactions to historical atrocities

    Roland Imhoff;Michał Bilewicz;Hans-Peter Erb

  • Using Power as a Negative Cue: How Conspiracy Mentality Affects Epistemic Trust in Sources of Historical Knowledge.

    Roland Imhoff;Pia Lamberty;Olivier Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Banse
Rainer Banse University of Bonn
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau
Michał Bilewicz
Michał Bilewicz University of Warsaw
Joris Lammers
Joris Lammers University of Cologne
Christian Unkelbach
Christian Unkelbach University of Cologne
Gilad Hirschberger
Gilad Hirschberger Reichman University
Bernhard Strauss
Bernhard Strauss Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Elliot T. Berkman
Elliot T. Berkman University of Oregon
Nick Neave
Nick Neave Northumbria University
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University

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