Psychology Faculty Profiles
Galen V. Bodenhausen, Ph.D.
Professor
Social Psychology
Office: Swift 204
Phone: (847) 467-3887
E-mail: galen@northwestern.edu
Research Interests
I study social perception and judgment. I focus in particular on the dynamics of stereotyping -- how stereotypes are represented in the mind, how and when they get activated, and what consequences their activation has for basic mental operations such as attention, inference, and memory. I am interested in both implicit and explicit aspects of stereotyping and prejudice. I also study the relationship between affect and social cognition and the ways in which the social context influences basic mental processes.
Selected Publications
Bodenhausen, G. V. (in press). Diversity in the person, diversity in the group: Challenges of identity complexity for social perception and social interaction. European Journal of Social Psychology.
Bodenhausen, G. V., & Todd, A. R. (in press). Automatic aspects of judgment and decision making. In B. Gawronski & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of implicit social cognition. New York: Guilford.
Bodenhausen, G. V., & Hugenberg, K. (2009). Attention, perception, and social cognition. In F. Strack & J. Förster (Eds.), Social cognition: The basis of human interaction (pp. 1-22). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
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., & Richeson, J. (2009). Controlling prejudice and stereotyping: Antecedents, mechanisms, and contexts. In T. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination (pp. 111-135). New York: Psychology Press.
Gawronski, B., Strack, F., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2009). Attitudes and cognitive consistency: The role of associative and propositional processes. In R. E. Petty, R. H. Fazio, & P. Briñol (Eds.), Attitudes: Insights from the new wave of implicit measures (pp.85-117). New York: Psychology Press.
Peery, D., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2009). Ambiguity and ambivalence in the voting booth and beyond: A social-psychological perspective on racial attitudes and behavior in the Obama era. Du Bois Review, 6, 71-82.
Rüsch, N., Todd, A. R., Bodenhausen, G. V., Weiden, P. J., & Corrigan, P. W. (2009). Implicit versus explicit attitudes toward psychiatric medicine: Implications for insight and treatment adherence. Schizophrenia Research, 112, 119-122.
Wirth, J. H., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2009). The role of gender in mental illness stigma: A national experiment. Psychological Science, 20, 169-173.
Peery, D., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2008). Black + White = Black: Hypodescent in reflexive categorization of racially ambiguous faces. Psychological Science, 19, 973-977.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.
