Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Interpersonal Processes
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Person Perception
- Social Cognition
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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) unconsciouis 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.
Journal Articles:
- 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. (in press). When do people rely on affective and cognitive feelings in judgment? A review. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
- 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.
- 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.
Courses Taught:
- Experimental Methods and Data Analysis
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Social Cognition
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Rainer Greifeneder
Department of Microsociology and Social Psychology
University of Mannheim, A5
68131 Mannheim
Germany
Phone: ++49 (0)621 181-1975
Fax: ++49 (0)621 181-2038