Roland Imhoff
@rolandimhoff.bsky.social
Social Psychologist: Categorization, Stereotypes, Conspiracy Mentality; EASP Executive Committee; https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=PJwzk1EAAAAJ
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Roland Imhoff
@rolandimhoff.bsky.social
· Jan 14
🎧 NEUE STAFFEL: #Forschungspodcast #MindsOfMainz – #DerGutenbergTalk | Folge 20: Alles nur Lug & Trug? Wie entstehen Verschwörungsmythen und warum machen uns Stereotype das Leben leichter? | mit Prof. Roland Imhof 👉 www.magazin.uni-mainz.de/minds-of-mai... #Sozialpsychologie #Verschwörungsmentalität
Im #MindsOfMainz Podcast durfte ich meine beiden großen Forschungsinteressen Kategorisierung/Stereotype und Verschwörungstheorien gleich beide verwursten.. auch auf Spotify, Deezer oder Apple... 🥳
Diese Woche hatte ich das große Vergnügen, den AbiturientInnen des www.rama-mainz.de im Rahmen des Kleinen Studium Generale etwas über kognitive Humandifferenzierung zu erzählen. Tolles Publikum, spannende Rückfragen. @sortingpeople.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Diese Woche hatte ich das große Vergnügen, den AbiturientInnen des www.rama-mainz.de im Rahmen des Kleinen Studium Generale etwas über kognitive Humandifferenzierung zu erzählen. Tolles Publikum, spannende Rückfragen. @sortingpeople.bsky.social
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Mein #ikonographischesGedächtnis hat wieder einen seltsamen Bezug hergestellt:
January 24, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Mein #ikonographischesGedächtnis hat wieder einen seltsamen Bezug hergestellt:
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Pre-Print
When are citizens able to discern plausible from implausible conspiracy theories?
We @rolandimhoff.bsky.social @lpummerer.bsky.social @stephanwinter.bsky.social address this question in two large scale studies (in Germany and the UK).
Blinded by the Lies or Lifting the Blinds osf.io/daz2q
When are citizens able to discern plausible from implausible conspiracy theories?
We @rolandimhoff.bsky.social @lpummerer.bsky.social @stephanwinter.bsky.social address this question in two large scale studies (in Germany and the UK).
Blinded by the Lies or Lifting the Blinds osf.io/daz2q
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January 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Pre-Print
When are citizens able to discern plausible from implausible conspiracy theories?
We @rolandimhoff.bsky.social @lpummerer.bsky.social @stephanwinter.bsky.social address this question in two large scale studies (in Germany and the UK).
Blinded by the Lies or Lifting the Blinds osf.io/daz2q
When are citizens able to discern plausible from implausible conspiracy theories?
We @rolandimhoff.bsky.social @lpummerer.bsky.social @stephanwinter.bsky.social address this question in two large scale studies (in Germany and the UK).
Blinded by the Lies or Lifting the Blinds osf.io/daz2q
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Reposted by Roland Imhoff
Unser Spotify wrapped ist da!
Hier könnt ihr sehen, wie unser Podcast #SoneUndSolche sich im letzten Jahr entwickelt hat 🤩
Hier könnt ihr sehen, wie unser Podcast #SoneUndSolche sich im letzten Jahr entwickelt hat 🤩
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Unser Spotify wrapped ist da!
Hier könnt ihr sehen, wie unser Podcast #SoneUndSolche sich im letzten Jahr entwickelt hat 🤩
Hier könnt ihr sehen, wie unser Podcast #SoneUndSolche sich im letzten Jahr entwickelt hat 🤩
Top-Folge des Sone/Solche Podcasts des @sortingpeople.bsky.social !! Yay!
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Top-Folge des Sone/Solche Podcasts des @sortingpeople.bsky.social !! Yay!
3rd Goldegg Meeting on Social Psychology & History, lunch break #historicaldistortion #historicalrepresentation
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
3rd Goldegg Meeting on Social Psychology & History, lunch break #historicaldistortion #historicalrepresentation
Kazarovytska, F., Árnadóttir, K., D’Ottone, S. A., Halabi, S., Clarke, E. J. R., Sharma, S., Heidrich, V., & Imhoff, R. (in press). Do people across the world want to remember positive ingroup histories? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Preprint doi: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Kazarovytska, F., Árnadóttir, K., D’Ottone, S. A., Halabi, S., Clarke, E. J. R., Sharma, S., Heidrich, V., & Imhoff, R. (in press). Do people across the world want to remember positive ingroup histories? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Preprint doi: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Across seven countries, we find striking cross-national differences in what people want to preserve in collective memory. In some countries, primarily want to remember events in which the ingroup behaved morally. In other countries, there is a weaker preference for these ingroup-favoring histories.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Across seven countries, we find striking cross-national differences in what people want to preserve in collective memory. In some countries, primarily want to remember events in which the ingroup behaved morally. In other countries, there is a weaker preference for these ingroup-favoring histories.
🚨New Preprint (in press @ JPSP)🚨
Publishing my research on Germans' desire for a “Schlussstrich” (to achieve closure on the Nazi past) was hard, as it seemed too specific for one context to many. Our new paper led by @zakfio.bsky.social provides global perspectives on the desire to remember/ forget.
Publishing my research on Germans' desire for a “Schlussstrich” (to achieve closure on the Nazi past) was hard, as it seemed too specific for one context to many. Our new paper led by @zakfio.bsky.social provides global perspectives on the desire to remember/ forget.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
🚨New Preprint (in press @ JPSP)🚨
Publishing my research on Germans' desire for a “Schlussstrich” (to achieve closure on the Nazi past) was hard, as it seemed too specific for one context to many. Our new paper led by @zakfio.bsky.social provides global perspectives on the desire to remember/ forget.
Publishing my research on Germans' desire for a “Schlussstrich” (to achieve closure on the Nazi past) was hard, as it seemed too specific for one context to many. Our new paper led by @zakfio.bsky.social provides global perspectives on the desire to remember/ forget.
DB-Durchsage zum wohlverdienten Ruhestand von Lokführer Harald nach 47 Jahren im ICE 557: "Harald Du bist mehr Kilometer im Zug gefahren als die meisten Menschen gelaufen sind!" Potzblitz!
a man in a white shirt is walking towards a train at a train station .
ALT: a man in a white shirt is walking towards a train at a train station .
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November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
DB-Durchsage zum wohlverdienten Ruhestand von Lokführer Harald nach 47 Jahren im ICE 557: "Harald Du bist mehr Kilometer im Zug gefahren als die meisten Menschen gelaufen sind!" Potzblitz!
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Die Geisteswissenschaften und die Öffentlichkeit – Szenen einer Legitimationskrise
Mein Aufsatz über die Forderung, Geisteswissenschaften sollten öffentlicher sein oder sich verweigern, und über die Angst, Richard David Precht zu werden, ist erschienen (open access).
brill.com/edcollchap-o...
Mein Aufsatz über die Forderung, Geisteswissenschaften sollten öffentlicher sein oder sich verweigern, und über die Angst, Richard David Precht zu werden, ist erschienen (open access).
brill.com/edcollchap-o...
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Die Geisteswissenschaften und die Öffentlichkeit – Szenen einer Legitimationskrise
Mein Aufsatz über die Forderung, Geisteswissenschaften sollten öffentlicher sein oder sich verweigern, und über die Angst, Richard David Precht zu werden, ist erschienen (open access).
brill.com/edcollchap-o...
Mein Aufsatz über die Forderung, Geisteswissenschaften sollten öffentlicher sein oder sich verweigern, und über die Angst, Richard David Precht zu werden, ist erschienen (open access).
brill.com/edcollchap-o...
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Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference:
"Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory"
@easp2026.bsky.social ✨
With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social
Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...
"Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory"
@easp2026.bsky.social ✨
With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social
Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – EASP 2026 PRECONFERENCES
Social Psychology News Articles
www.easp.eu
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference:
"Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory"
@easp2026.bsky.social ✨
With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social
Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...
"Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory"
@easp2026.bsky.social ✨
With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social
Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...
Neues #openaccess Kapitel: Für den von Mathis Lesau und Hans-Christian Riechers herausgegebenen Sammelband "Überzeugungskräfte: Über das Vertrauen in Wissenschaft (und Pseudowissenschaft)" durfte ich einen Beitrag zu Verschwörungstheorien als heterodoxes Wissen beisteuern. doi.org/10.30965/978...
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Neues #openaccess Kapitel: Für den von Mathis Lesau und Hans-Christian Riechers herausgegebenen Sammelband "Überzeugungskräfte: Über das Vertrauen in Wissenschaft (und Pseudowissenschaft)" durfte ich einen Beitrag zu Verschwörungstheorien als heterodoxes Wissen beisteuern. doi.org/10.30965/978...
On January 6, 2021, the US Capitol was attacked by a mob of Trump supporters. Exactly 5 years later, the free access to my new overview paper "The Psychology of Conspiracy Mentality" will expire. Coincidence, Elsevier? 🤐
Download now before it's too late:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7EoErgEa...
Download now before it's too late:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7EoErgEa...
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
On January 6, 2021, the US Capitol was attacked by a mob of Trump supporters. Exactly 5 years later, the free access to my new overview paper "The Psychology of Conspiracy Mentality" will expire. Coincidence, Elsevier? 🤐
Download now before it's too late:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7EoErgEa...
Download now before it's too late:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7EoErgEa...
Ich freue mich sehr auf das @leizarchaeology.bsky.social Streitgespräch am 10.12. - 19 Uhr. "Wollen wir belogen werden?"
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Ich freue mich sehr auf das @leizarchaeology.bsky.social Streitgespräch am 10.12. - 19 Uhr. "Wollen wir belogen werden?"
So, the visually accessible MC ratio on gender cues is typically enhanced. For categories like race, an implication would be that an increased frequency of people visually read as "biracial", the salience of the category dimension might attenuate...
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
So, the visually accessible MC ratio on gender cues is typically enhanced. For categories like race, an implication would be that an increased frequency of people visually read as "biracial", the salience of the category dimension might attenuate...
Yes! It may also be part of the puzzle why age is less reliably used. In the information ecology, it has no clear category boundaries and a flat meta contrast ratio -- unless it is institutionally created (e.g., in schools). On the contrary, gender is actively done and emphasized: costumes, make-up
November 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Yes! It may also be part of the puzzle why age is less reliably used. In the information ecology, it has no clear category boundaries and a flat meta contrast ratio -- unless it is institutionally created (e.g., in schools). On the contrary, gender is actively done and emphasized: costumes, make-up
Forgot to tag @chrispetsko.bsky.social - apologies!
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Forgot to tag @chrispetsko.bsky.social - apologies!
Heidrich, V., Flade, F., & Imhoff, R. (in press). Face the difference: Meta-contrast as an affordance to spontaneous social categorization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Heidrich, V., Flade, F., & Imhoff, R. (in press). Face the difference: Meta-contrast as an affordance to spontaneous social categorization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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This idea started in my 2019 ESCON keynote (with Felicitas Flade) and came to life thanks to the incredible talent of Verena Heidrich who turned this vague idea into a paper I am really proud of.
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This idea started in my 2019 ESCON keynote (with Felicitas Flade) and came to life thanks to the incredible talent of Verena Heidrich who turned this vague idea into a paper I am really proud of.
Across 5 pre-registered experiments, we found:
People don’t just categorize more when meta-contrast is high —
They prefer to use the dimension with the stronger relative meta-contrast when several are available.
People don’t just categorize more when meta-contrast is high —
They prefer to use the dimension with the stronger relative meta-contrast when several are available.
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Across 5 pre-registered experiments, we found:
People don’t just categorize more when meta-contrast is high —
They prefer to use the dimension with the stronger relative meta-contrast when several are available.
People don’t just categorize more when meta-contrast is high —
They prefer to use the dimension with the stronger relative meta-contrast when several are available.