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Wilhelm Hofmann is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and specializes in psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research spans multiple main topics including behavioral health and interventions, social and intergroup psychology, mental health research topics, environmental education and sustainability, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, attachment and relationship dynamics, and death anxiety and social exclusion.

Hofmann has contributed extensively to academic literature, with some of their recent papers including:

  • "Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect" (2021), published in Psychological Science
  • "Best research practices for using the Implicit Association Test" (2021), published in Behavior Research Methods
  • "Everyday Thoughts in Time: Experience Sampling Studies of Mental Time Travel" (2020), published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • "A motivational framework of social comparison" (2021), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Frequent co-authors working with Hofmann include Sonja Grelle, Kristian Steensen Nielsen, Kathi Diel, Francesca Righetti, and Ruddy Faure.

Their work is often disseminated through several key publication venues such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Current Opinion in Psychology, and Behavioural Public Policy.

Best Publications

  • Executive functions and self-regulation

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Alan D. Baddeley

  • A Meta-Analysis on the Correlation Between the Implicit Association Test and Explicit Self-Report Measures

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Bertram Gawronski;Tobias Gschwendner;Huy Le

  • Impulse and Self-Control From a Dual-Systems Perspective

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Malte Friese;Fritz Strack

  • Subjective well-being and adaptation to life events: a meta-analysis.

    Maike Luhmann;Wilhelm Hofmann;Michael Eid;Richard E. Lucas

  • Everyday temptations: an experience sampling study of desire, conflict, and self-control.

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Roy F. Baumeister;Georg Förster;Kathleen D. Vohs

  • Evaluative conditioning in humans: A meta-analysis.

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Jan De Houwer;Marco Perugini;Frank Baeyens

  • Impulsive versus reflective influences on health behavior: a theoretical framework and empirical review

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Malte Friese;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Working memory capacity and self-regulatory behavior: Toward an individual differences perspective on behavior determination by automatic versus controlled processes

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Tobias Gschwendner;Malte Friese;Reinout W. Wiers

  • And deplete us not into temptation: Automatic attitudes, dietary restraint, and self-regulatory resources as determinants of eating behavior

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Wolfgang Rauch;Bertram Gawronski

  • Yes, But Are They Happy? Effects of Trait Self‐Control on Affective Well‐Being and Life Satisfaction

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Maike Luhmann;Rachel R Fisher;Kathleen D. Vohs

  • When impulses take over: moderated predictive validity of explicit and implicit attitude measures in predicting food choice and consumption behaviour.

    Malte Friese;Wilhelm Hofmann;Michaela Wänke

  • What People Desire, Feel Conflicted About, and Try to Resist in Everyday Life

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Kathleen D. Vohs;Roy F. Baumeister

  • Morality in everyday life

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Daniel C. Wisneski;Mark J. Brandt;Linda J. Skitka

  • Are "implicit" attitudes unconscious?

    Bertram Gawronski;Wilhelm Hofmann;Christopher J. Wilbur

  • Cognitive Bias Modification and Cognitive Control Training in Addiction and Related Psychopathology: Mechanisms, Clinical Perspectives, and Ways Forward

    Reinout W. Wiers;Thomas E. Gladwin;Wilhelm Hofmann;Elske Salemink

  • Control yourself or just eat what you like? Weight gain over a year is predicted by an interactive effect of response inhibition and implicit preference for snack foods

    Chantal Nederkoorn;Katrijn Houben;Wilhelm Hofmann;Anne Roefs

  • On Integrating the Components of Self-Control

    Hiroki P. Kotabe;Wilhelm Hofmann

  • Three ways to resist temptation: The independent contributions of executive attention, inhibitory control, and affect regulation to the impulse control of eating behavior

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Malte Friese;Anne Roefs

  • When and why do implicit measures predict behaviour? Empirical evidence for the moderating role of opportunity, motivation, and process reliance

    Malte Friese;Wilhelm Hofmann;Manfred Schmitt

  • Control me or I will control you: Impulses, trait self-control, and the guidance of behavior

    Malte Friese;Wilhelm Hofmann

  • What people desire, feel conflicted about, and try to resist in everyday life

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Frequent Co-Authors

Malte Friese
Malte Friese Saarland University
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Roy F. Baumeister
Roy F. Baumeister University of Queensland
Kathleen D. Vohs
Kathleen D. Vohs University of Minnesota
Anne Roefs
Anne Roefs Maastricht University
Katrijn Houben
Katrijn Houben Maastricht University
Eli J. Finkel
Eli J. Finkel Northwestern University
Fritz Strack
Fritz Strack University of Würzburg
Linda J. Skitka
Linda J. Skitka University of Illinois at Chicago

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