Rainer Greifeneder
My current research focuses on four main topics: (1) the influence of "feelings" in judgment (including, for instance, being in a happy or sad mood state, or experiencing ease or difficulty when recalling some information from memory); (2) unconscious processes and intuition in judgment and decision; (3) consumer decision making, specifically the influence of choice set characteristics like the number of alternatives to choose from; and (4) ostracism, that is, being socially excluded.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Interpersonal Processes
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Person Perception
- Social Cognition
Books:
- Greifeneder, R., Bless, H., & Fiedler, K. (2018). Social Cognition: How Individuals Construct Social Reality (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
- Unkelbach, C., & Greifeneder, R. (Eds.). (2013). The experience of thinking: How the fluency of mental processes influences cognition and behavior. Hove: Psychology Press.
Journal Articles:
- Ask, K., Greifeneder, R., & Reinhard, M.-A. (2012). On the ease of (dis)believing: The role of accessibility experiences in credibility judgments. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 26, 779-784
- Greifeneder, R., Alt, A., Bottenberg, K., Seele, T., Zelt, S., & Wagener, D. (2010). On writing legibly: Processing fluency systematically biases evaluations of handwritten material. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(3), 230-237. [Featured as Editors' Choice in Science, 329, 370]
- Greifeneder, R., & Bless, H. (2010). The fate of activated information in impression formation: Fluency of concept activation moderates the emergence of assimilation versus contrast. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 405-414.
- Greifeneder, R., & Bless, H. (2008). Depression and reliance on ease-of-retrieval experiences. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38(2), 213-230.
- Greifeneder, R., & Bless, H. (2007). Relying on accessible content versus accessibility experiences: The case of processing capacity. Social Cognition, 25(6), 853-881.
- Greifeneder, R., Bless, H., & Pham, M. T. (2011). When do people rely on affective and cognitive feelings in judgment? A review. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 107-141.
- Greifeneder, R., & Keller, J. (2012). Habitual self-regulatory orientation and ease-of-retrieval: Regulatory focus qualifies the impact of subjective experiences in judgment. Motivation and Emotion, 36, 338-348.
- Greifeneder, R., Scheibehenne, B., & Kleber, N. (2010). Less may be more when choosing is difficult: Choice complexity and too much choice. Acta Psychologica, 133, 45-50.
- Greifeneder, R., Zelt, S., Seele, T., Bottenberg, K., & Alt, A. (2012). Towards a better understanding of the legibility bias in performance assessments: The case of gender-based inferences. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 82, 361-374.
- Reinhard, M.-A., Greifeneder, R., & Scharmach, M. (2013). Unconscious Processes Improve Lie Detection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105, 721-739. doi:10.1037/a0034352
- Scheibehenne, B., Greifeneder, R., & Todd, P. M. (2010). Can there ever be too many options? A meta-analytic review of choice overload. Journal of Consumer Research, 37, 409-425.
- Schoel, C., Eck, J., & Greifeneder, R. (2014). A matter of vertical position: Consequences of ostracism differ for those above versus below its perpetrators. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 149-157. doi:10.1177/1948550613488953
Courses Taught:
- Experimental Methods and Data Analysis
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Social Cognition
- Social Influence
- Social Psychology
- Well-Being
Rainer Greifeneder
Department of Psychology
University of Basel
Missionsstrasse 64a
4055 Basel
Switzerland
- Phone: +41 (0)61 26 706 50