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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Overview

Wolfgang Stroebe is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research spans central topics in social sciences and psychology, with a focus on sociology, political science, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, health, and applied psychology.

Their publication record includes contributions to several interdisciplinary fields, especially covering social and intergroup psychology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, behavioral health and interventions, COVID-19 and mental health, gun ownership and violence research, terrorism, counterterrorism and political violence, as well as suicide and self-harm studies.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Psychology of Violence
  • Appetite
  • Basic and Applied Social Psychology
  • Personality and Individual Differences

Stroebe has coauthored extensively with researchers such as Maximilian Agostini, Jannis Kreienkamp, Georgios Abakoumkin, Edward P. Lemay, and Jocelyn J. Bélanger.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Stroebe include:

  • Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (2020), Basic and Applied Social Psychology
  • Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence (2021), PLoS ONE

Among their awards is recognition from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2014, in the area of psychology and cognitive sciences.

Best Publications

  • Productivity loss in brainstorming groups: Toward the solution of a riddle.

    Michael Diehl;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Health outcomes of bereavement.

    Margaret Stroebe;Henk Schut;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Bereavement and Health: The Psychological and Physical Consequences of Partner Loss

    Wolfgang Stroebe;Margaret S. Stroebe

  • Productivity loss in idea-generating groups: Tracking down the blocking effect.

    Michael Diehl;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Handbook of bereavement research: Consequences, coping, and care

    Margaret S. Stroebe;Robert O. Hansson;Wolfgang Stroebe;Henk Schut

  • Social Psychology and Health

    Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Handbook of Bereavement: Theory, Research and Intervention

    Margaret S. Stroebe;Wolfgang Stroebe;Robert O. Hansson

  • Gruppenkonflikt und Vorurteil: Entstehung und Funktion sozialer Stereotypen

    Henri Tajfel;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Introduction to Social Psychology : A European Perspective

    Miles Hewstone;Wolfgang Stroebe;Goeffrey M. Stephenson

  • How the Group Affects the Mind

    Bernard A. Nijstad;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Introduction to Social Psychology

    M. Hewstone;W Stroebe

  • The Alleged Crisis and the Illusion of Exact Replication

    Wolfgang Stroebe;Fritz Strack

  • The role of loneliness and social support in adjustment to loss: A test of attachment versus stress theory

    Wolfgang Stroebe;Margaret Stroebe;Georgios Abakoumkin;Henk Schut

  • Receiving instrumental support at work: when help is not welcome.

    Janna T Deelstra;Maria C W Peeters;Wilmar B Schaufeli;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Productivity is not enough: A comparison of interactive and nominal brainstorming groups on idea generation and selection.

    Eric F. Rietzschel;Bernard A. Nijstad;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Who suffers more? Sex differences in health risks of the widowed.

    Margaret S. Stroebe;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • The selection of creative ideas after individual idea generation: Choosing between creativity and impact

    Eric F. Rietzschel;Bernard A. Nijstad;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Beyond Vicary's fantasies: The impact of subliminal priming and brand choice

    Johan C. Karremans;Wolfgang Stroebe;Jasper Claus

  • Broken hearts or broken bonds. Love and death in historical perspective.

    Margaret Stroebe;Mary M. Gergen;Kenneth J. Gergen;Wolfgang Stroebe

  • Gender differences in adjustment to bereavement: An empirical and theoretical review.

    Margaret Stroebe;Wolfgang Stroebe;Henk Schut

  • European Review of Social Psychology: Stroebe/Social Psychology

    Wolfgang Stroebe;Miles Hewstone

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret Stroebe
Margaret Stroebe Utrecht University
Henk Schut
Henk Schut Utrecht University
Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts Utrecht University
Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
Jan van den Bout
Jan van den Bout Utrecht University
Bernard A. Nijstad
Bernard A. Nijstad University of Groningen
Paul A. Boelen
Paul A. Boelen Utrecht University
Robert O. Hansson
Robert O. Hansson University of Tulsa
Arie W. Kruglanski
Arie W. Kruglanski University of Maryland, College Park
John de Wit
John de Wit Utrecht University

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