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Roland Imhoff

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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

Im #MindsOfMainz Podcast durfte ich meine beiden großen Forschungsinteressen Kategorisierung/Stereotype und Verschwörungstheorien gleich beide verwursten.. auch auf Spotify, Deezer oder Apple... 🥳

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz @unimainz.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

Minds of Mainz – Der Gutenberg-Talk. Forschungspodcast der Uni Mainz

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Fiona Kazarovytska @zakfio.bsky.social · 8d

✨ Wir suchen Verstärkung für ein Projekt zu 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗺 𝗔𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘇 - Bitte weitersagen! ✨

Zum 01.03.26 starten wir ein Projekt zu Antisemitismuserfahrungen im Arbeitskontext und vergeben eine Promotionsstelle (d/w/m, 75%, TV-L E13)!

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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (d/w/m; 75% TV-L E13)

Am Psychologischen Institut der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Abteilung Sozial- und Rechtspsychologie, ist zum 01.03.2026 (oder 01.04.2026) folgende Stelle befristet für 4 Jahre zu besetzen: W...

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Promotionsstelle "Antisemitismus am Arbeitsplatz" - TVL-13 75%, 4 Jahre 🚨

Bitte gerne eifrig weiterleiten: ab März 2026 (vorbehaltlich finaler BMFTR-Zusage) ist in unserem Team eine Stelle im Projekt von @zakfio.bsky.social zu vergeben. Näheres in der Ausschreibung:
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (d/w/m; 75% TV-L E13)

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · 16d

Whoever organizes #FGSP3027 will be more than delighted to realize that @olivergenschow.bsky.social has been promoting it and its hashtag in advance for more than a thousand years.

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · 21d

A fantastic #fgsp2025 German SocPsy meeting is crowned with a band performance feat. organizers @hansalves.bsky.social @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social and @moritzingendahl.bsky.social! A really great organization and inspiring event. See you at #fgsp2027 in Lüneburg (w/ @olivergenschow.bsky.social).

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ph.D. position/ Promotionsstelle (75%; f/m/d) "Parsimony in Bias Research". Please share with potential candidates - gerne streuen:

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · Aug 27

„Wenn Menschen an Verschwörungserzählungen glauben, dann haben sie ganz automatisch das Gefühl, über eine Art Geheimwissen zu verfügen“, sagt @rolandimhoff.bsky.social , Professor für Sozial- & Rechtspsychologie an der Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, am Telefon. „Sie fühlen sich erleuchtet…“

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entschwört. Berlin - Beratung zu Verschwörungsmythen @entschwoert-berlin.bsky.social · Aug 21

Christina Lopinski #SZ im Gespräch mit @rolandimhoff.bsky.social & entschwört über den wertschärtzenden Umgang in Beziehungen mit verschwörungsgläubigen Angehörigen & Familienmitgliedern:

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#demokratie #berlin #beratung #noafd #antisemitismus #rassismus #familie

Ihr Mann glaubt an Verschwörungserzählungen, sie will die Beziehung retten

Früher schauten sie gemeinsam Arte-Dokus, heute glaubt er an Chemtrails. Über eine Frau, die versucht, ihren Mann aus den Fängen der Verschwörungsideologie zu retten.

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jul 25

No one applies the most basic cognitive principles so beautifully to explain meaningful real-world phenomena like @hansalves.bsky.social. I'm a fan!

Hans Alves @hansalves.bsky.social · Jul 25

New paper in PsychScience: Partial election results fuel fraud beliefs via cumulative redundancy bias. Early leaders are favored; late flips spark suspicion. 7 studies, including 2020 GA data, show this persists despite explanations. @moritzingendahl.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jul 22

Am 14. September gibt es in Bochum eine Abendrevue zu Verschwörungserzählungen, die ich mit @pialamberty.bsky.social und @lpummerer.bsky.social gestalte unter Mitwirkung von @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social und sekten-info-nrw.de. Tickets sind begrenzt und unter dem Link bestellbar.

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jul 15

Das NDR-Magazin ZAPP hat sich mit dem Fall Muhammad al Muhammad beschäftigt, einem syrischen Geflüchteten, der in einem Akt von Zivilcourage einen Messerangriff unterband -- und sich anschließend Diffamierungen und Verschwörungstheorien ausgesetzt sah.
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Messerangriff in Hamburg: Ein Held, der nicht sein darf

Muhammad greift beim Messerangriff in Hamburg beherzt ein – und wird zur Zielscheibe rechter Hetze. Warum gerät ein Helfer ins Visier?

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Humandifferenzierung @sortingpeople.bsky.social · Jul 8

Neue Publikation aus unserem Teilprojekt "Kognitive Humandifferenzierung" aus der Sozialpsychologie!

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#humandifferenzierung #sozialpsychologie #individuation

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jun 27

In a newly accepted #EJSP paper, we (w/ Doro Mischkowski) discuss how the two accounts could be integrated and propose concrete predictions under which conditions people create coherence via belief-consistent processing or by updating their beliefs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Belief‐Consistent Information Processing or Coherence‐Based Reasoning: Integrating Two Parsimonious Frameworks for Biases

Recently, two independently published papers put forward separate frameworks to explain several different biases. Although the two frameworks do not contradict each other, their mere co-existence is ...

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨New #openaccess paper🚨
A bit over two years ago, Aileen Oeberst and I published a call for more parsimony in bias research (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...). Shortly thereafter, another paper made a somewhat similar (albeit broader) proposition (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

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Yasin Koc @spyasin.bsky.social · Jun 26

Can pronouns override appearance?
Verena Heidrich from Mainz explores how people categorize gender when phenotypic cues and pronouns clash. Findings show that strong essentialist beliefs make people cling to binaries, subtyping non-binary identities instead of updating beliefs. #IntersectionalitySGM

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

Vernissage der Ausstellung "MENSCHENSORT[IER]EN" in der Schule des Sehen auf dem Mainzer Campus! @sortingpeople.bsky.social

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · Jun 18

🚨 Call for Proposals: DFG Priority Programme “Rethinking Disinformation (Re:DIS)” (SPP 2573) The DFG invites interdisciplinary research on disinformation from an epistemic perspective. 🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025
📍 Online info roundtable: 27 June 2025, 4–8pm CET
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Priority Programme “Rethinking Disinformation (Re:DIS)” (SPP 2573)

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

This study was led by Verena Heidrich and inspired by discussions within and financed by the Collaborative Research Center "Human Differentiation" (@sortingpeople.bsky.social ).

Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

In contrast, US Black participants showed only little differentiation between target races with even a slight tendency for greater ingroup categorization. This aligns with the view that marginalized groups may allocate greater cognitive resources to individuating members of dominant social groups.

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

Result from our registered Report suggest that minority and majority members do not lump the respective Outgroup and individuate the Ingroup (a cross-race effect) symmetrically. Specifically, White US American showed an greater categorization of Black than White targets in a Who-Said-What Paradigm.

Results for the d parameter of social categorization strength: White participants exhibit markedly greater categorization of Black compared to White target speakers. Black participants show an attenuated pattern i nthe same direction.

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨New Registered Report🚨
"Through the lens of race: Accounting for majority-minority relations in cross-race categorization and individuation". Do majority members (White) categorize minority members (Black) more than vice versa? Or is categorization symmetrical? authors.elsevier.com/c/1lDlX51f8w...

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · May 27

The Psychology of Conspiracy Mentality: https://osf.io/e4sn7

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · May 27

The paper has a taste of shameless self-citation-ism, but -to my defense- the journal seeks to publish "publishes theoretical chapters that review and integrate previously published findings of a research program by an individual scholar."

Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · May 27

🚨 New Preprint 🚨
"The Psychology of Conspiracy Mentality". In this overview chapter, accepted at Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, I review what we know about conspiracy mentality as an individual difference doi.org/10.31234/osf....

The Psychology of Conspiracy Mentality

People vary in their tendency to believe that powerful, hidden elites orchestrate major events—a disposition known as conspiracy mentality. This mindset has been linked to important social outcomes,…

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · May 5

Our findings only partially supported this hypothesis, revealing a category of authoritarian, non-spiritual conspiracy adherents (approximately 6% of the samples), while spiritual conspiracy believers (about 3%) also displayed significant levels of authoritarianism. Paper: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Law and order, magical spirits, and false flag operations

Frenken & Imhoff (2025) in Political Psychology

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Roland Imhoff @rolandimhoff.bsky.social · May 5

...with strong conspiracy beliefs using quota-based samples from Germany (graciously supplied by @cemas.io): one in the alternative spectrum (exhibiting profound spiritual or esoteric convictions) and the other in the conservative spectrum (demonstrating high authoritarian tendencies).

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