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Galen Bodenhausen

Galen Bodenhausen is a social psychologist who teaches and conducts research in the area of social attitudes and social cognition. His work focuses particularly on the nature of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, examining the cognitive and affective processes that give rise to and result from our mental representations of social groups.

Primary Interests:

  • Attitudes and Beliefs
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Person Perception
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
  • Social Cognition
  • Attitudes and Beliefs
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Person Perception
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
  • Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Books:

Journal Articles:

  • Bauer, M. A., Wilkie, J. E. B., Kim, J. K., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (in press). Cuing consumerism: Situational materialism undermines personal and social well-being. Psychological Science.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Hugenberg, K., Bodenhausen, G. V., & McLain, M. (2006). Framing discrimination: Effects of inclusion versus exclusion mindsets on stereotypic judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 1020-1031.
  • Peery, D., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2008). Black + White = Black: Hypodescent in reflexive categorization of racially ambiguous faces. Psychological Science, 19, 973-977.
  • Rüsch, N., Corrigan, P. W., Todd, A. R., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2010). Implicit self-stigma in people with mental illness. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 198, 150-153.
  • 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.
  • Wilkie, J. E. B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (in press). Are numbers gendered? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  • 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., & Richeson, J. A. (2010). Prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. In R. F. Baumeister & E. J. Finkel (Eds.), Advanced social psychology (pp. 341-383). Oxford University Press.
  • 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.

Galen Bodenhausen
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
2029 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-2710
United States

Phone: (847) 467-3887
Fax: (847) 491-7859

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