Galen Bodenhausen
Galen Bodenhausen is a social psychologist who conducts research on the fundamental mental processes underlying social attitudes, impressions, judgments, and decisions. The starting assumption of his research is that social behavior is based to a large degree on how we interpret or construe the people and situations we encounter in life. From this standpoint, it is important to understand how these construals are formed and how they influence the ongoing stream of behavior. I have a particular interest in stereotypes and prejudice and the ways they influence basic mental processes like attention, perception, memory, and judgment.
Additional interests include the role of emotion and arousal in social judgment, the effects of social roles and social values on judgment and behavior, and mental illness stigma.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Intergroup Relations
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
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Books:
- Bodenhausen, G. V., & Lambert, A. J. (2003). Foundations of social cognition: A festschrift in honor of Robert S. Wyer, Jr.. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (Eds.) (2015). Theory and explanation in social psychology. New York: Guilford Press.
Journal Articles:
- Bauer, M. A., Wilkie, J. E. B., Kim, J. K., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2012). Cuing consumerism: Situational materialism undermines personal and social well-being. Psychological Science, 23, 517-523.
- Bodenhausen, G. V. (2010). Diversity in the person, diversity in the group: Challenges of identity complexity for social perception and social interaction. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 1-16.
- Bodenhausen, G. V., & Peery, D. (2009). Social categorization and stereotyping in vivo: The VUCA challenge. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3, 133-151.
- Bodenhausen, G. V., & Todd, A. R. (2010). Social cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1, 160-171.
- Craig, M. A., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2018). Category (non)fit modulates extrapolative stereotyping of multiply categorizable social targets. Social Cognition, 36, 559-588.
- Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2018). Evaluative conditioning from the perspective of the Associative-Propositional Evaluation Model. Social Psychological Bulletin, 13(3), Article e28024.
- Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2006). Associative and propositional processes in evaluation: An integrative review of implicit and explicit attitude change. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 692-731.
- Hirsh, J. B., Kang, S. K., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2012). Personalized persuasion: Tailoring persuasive appeals to recipient personality traits. Psychological Science, 23, 578-581.
- Hu, X., Antony, J. W., Creery, J. D., Vargas, I. M., Bodenhausen, G. V., & Paller, K. A. (2015). Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep. Science, 348, 1013-1015.
- Hugenberg, K., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2004). Ambiguity in social categorization: The role of prejudice and facial affect in racial categorization. Psychological Science, 15, 342-345.
- Kang, S. K., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2015). Multiple identities in social perception and interaction: Challenges and opportunities. Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 547-574.
- Lei, R. F., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2018). Economic anxieties undermine support for female (but not male) political candidates. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 18, 244-264.
- Lei, R. F., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2017). Racial assumptions color the mental representation of social class. Frontiers in Psychology, 8: 519.
- Peery, D., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2008). Black + White = Black: Hypodescent in reflexive categorization of racially ambiguous faces. Psychological Science, 19, 973-977.
- Perszyk, D. R., Lei, R. F., Bodenhausen, G. V., Richeson, J. A., & Waxman, S. R. (2019). Bias at the intersection of race and gender: Evidence from preschool-aged children. Developmental Science, 22: e12788.
- Petsko, C. D., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2017). Race-crime congruency effects revisited: Do we take defendants' sexual orientation into account? Social Psychological and Personality Science.
- Rüsch, N., Corrigan, P. W., Todd, A. R., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2011). Automatic stereotyping against people with schizophrenia, schizoaffective and affective disorders. Psychiatry Research, 186, 34-39.
- Todd, A. R., Bodenhausen, G. V., Richeson, J. A., & Galinsky, A. D. (2011). Perspective taking combats automatic expressions of racial bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 1027-1042.
- Wirth, J. H., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2009). The role of gender in mental illness stigma: A national experiment. Psychological Science, 20, 169-173.
Other Publications:
- Bodenhausen, G. V., & Todd, A. R. (2010). Automatic aspects of judgment and decision making. In B. Gawronski & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of implicit social cognition (pp. 278-294). New York: Guilford.
- Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2011). The associative-propositional evaluation model: Theory, evidence, and open questions. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 59-127.
Courses Taught:
- Introduction to Social Psychology (undergraduate level)
- Psychology of Attitudes (undergraduate and graduate level)
- Scientific Controversies in Social Psychology (undergraduate level)
- Seminar in Advanced Social Psychology (on sustainability; graduate level)
- Theories in Social Psychology (graduate level)
Galen Bodenhausen
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
2029 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Illinois 60208-2710
United States of America
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