Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Causal Attribution
- Communication, Language
- Nonverbal Behavior
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
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My research focuses on three topics in the area of social cognition:
One major line of research examines the informativeness of cognitive fluency experiences for social judgments and decisions. In particular, this research focuses on the influence of the processing context on the informational value of fluency experiences.
A second line of research examines some determinants and consequences of abstract (i.e., decontextualized, coherent, superordinate) versus concrete (i.e., context-dependent, detailed, subordinate) mental representations. For instance, I investigate the influence of action representation on imitation processes.
A third line of research concentrates on the relationship between psychological distance and causality perceptions. Accordingly, my research program brings together aspects of experiences during cognitive processing (i.e., fluency) and mental representations (i.e., level of abstractness)—both of which are important when social agents make judgments and decisions.
Journal Articles:
- Dechêne, A., Stahl, C., Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2010). The truth about the truth: A meta-analytic review of the truth effect. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 238-257.
- Dechêne, A., Stahl, C., Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2009). Mix me a list: Context moderates the truth effect and the mere-exposure effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1117-1122.
- Hansen, J., Dechêne, A., & Wänke, M. (2008). Discrepant fluency increases subjective truth. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 687-691.
- Hansen, J., Strick, M., van Baaren, R. B., Hooghuis, M., & Wigboldus, D. (2009). Exploring memory for product names advertised with humour. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 8, 135-148.
- Hansen, J., & Topolinski, S. (2011). An exploratory mindset reduces preference for prototypes and increases preference for novel exemplars. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 709-716.
- Hansen, J., Winzeler, S., & Topolinski, S. (2010). When the death makes you smoke: A terror management perspective on the effectiveness of cigarette on-pack warnings. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 226-228.
- Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2011). The abstractness of luxury. Journal of Economic Psychology, 32, 789-796.
- Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2010). Truth from language and truth from fit: The impact of linguistic concreteness and level of construal on subjective truth. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1576-1588.
- Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2009). Liking what’s familiar: The importance of unconscious familiarity in the mere-exposure effect. Social Cognition, 27, 161-182.
- Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2009). Think of capable others and you can make it! Self-efficacy mediates the effect of stereotype activation on behavior. Social Cognition, 27, 76-88.
- Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2008). It’s the difference that counts: Expectancy/experience discrepancy moderates the use of ease of retrieval in attitude judgments. Social Cognition, 26, 447-468.
- Herzog, S. M., Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2007). Temporal distance and ease of retrieval. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 483-488.
Jochim Hansen
Department of Psychology
University of Salzburg
Hellbrunnerstr. 34
5020 Salzburg
Austria
Phone: +43 662 8044 5177