Gerd W. Bohner (born 1959) is a

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social psychology Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field ...

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and

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Bielefeld University Bielefeld University () is a public university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization and teaching than the e ...

Academia

After graduating from the Goethe Gymnasium Karlsruhe in 1978 and doing his

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in a day-care centre for disabled children from 1978 to 1980, Bohner studied

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at the

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from 1980 to 1986, when he obtained his

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, and was awarded his

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in 1990. In 1997 he

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at the

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public university, public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Aca ...

, holding a temporary professorship in group sociology and social psychology afterwards. The following year, Bohner held a temporary chair in general and social psychology at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. Founded in 1402, it is one of the ol ...

. From 1998 to 2001, he was a senior lecturer to professor of social Psychology at the

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. Since 2001, he has been head of the Social Psychology Unit at Bielefeld University's Department of Psychology. From 2007 to 2009 he served as Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science. Currently he is a board member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung). His main research areas include attitudes, social judgement, social influence, marketing and advertising psychology, relations between groups, sexual violence, and sexual harassment. He was founding

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of the

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''Social Psychology'' (2007–2010) and editor of the ''Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie'' (2003–2006).

Selected publications

*with N. Dickel. 2011. Attitudes and attitude change. ''Annual Review of Psychology 62'': 391–417. *with A. Pina, G. T. Viki, and F. Siebler. 2010. Using social norms to reduce men's rape proclivity: Perceived rape myth acceptance of out-groups may be more influential than that of in-groups. ''Psychology, Crime and Law 16'': 671–693. *with F. Eyssel. 2010. Schema effects of rape myth acceptance on judgments of guilt and blame in rape cases: The role of perceived entitlement to judge. ''Journal of Interpersonal Violence 26''. (published online 25 May 2010). *with F. Eyssel, P. Süssenbach, and P. Schreiber. 2009. Neuentwicklung und Validierung eines szenariobasierten Verfahrens zur Erfassung der Neigung zu sexueller Aggression. evelopment and validation of a scenario-based method to record the proclivity to become sexually aggressive''Diagnostica 55'': 117–127. *with F. Eyssel, A. Pina, F. Siebler, and G. T. Viki. 2009. Rape myth acceptance: Affective, behavioural, and cognitive effects of beliefs that blame the victim and exonerate the perpetrator. In ''Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking'', eds. M. A. H. Horvath and J. M. Brown. Cullompton, UK: Willan. *with F. Siebler and S. Sabelus. 2008. A refined computer harassment paradigm: Validation, and test of hypotheses about target characteristics. ''Psychology of Women Quarterly 32'': 22–35. *with H. Gerger, H. Kley, and F. Siebler. 2007. The Acceptance of Modern Myths about Sexual Aggression (AMMSA) Scale: Development and validation in German and English. ''Aggressive Behavior 33'': 422–440. *with H.-P. Erb, M. Hewstone, L. Werth, and M.-A. Reinhard, 2006. Large minorities and small majorities: Interactive effects of inferred and explicit consensus on attitudes. ''Basic and Applied Social Psychology 28'': 221–231. *with F. Siebler and J. Schmelcher. 2006. Social norms and the likelihood of raping: Perceived rape myth acceptance of others affects men's rape proclivity. ''Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 32'': 286–297. *with C. I. Jarvis, F. Eyssel, and F. Siebler. 2005. The causal impact of rape myth acceptance on men's rape proclivity: Comparing sexually coercive and noncoercive men. ''European Journal of Social Psychology 35'': 819–828.

External links

Member page in Social Psychology Network

with Bohner on

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s in ''

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Member Page
at the German Psychological Society

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bohner, Gerd 1959 births Academic staff of Bielefeld University German psychologists Academics of the University of Kent Living people Heidelberg University alumni