Prof. Dr. Gerald Echterhoff, (PhD)

• Books
• Articles
• Working Papers

Books

Books (Monographs)

• Back M, Echterhoff G, Müller O, Pollack D, Schlipphak B. 2022. Von Verteidigern und Entdeckern. Ein neuer Identitätskonfikt in Europa. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-36808-1.
• Back, Mitja; Echterhoff, Gerald; Müller, Olaf, Pollack, Detlef; Schlipphak, Bernd. 2022. Von Verteidigern und Entdeckern: Ein neuer Identitätskonflikt in Europa. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-36808-1.

Books (Edited Collections)

2010

• Semin Gün Refik, Echterhoff Gerald (Eds.): 2010. Grounding sociality: Neurons, mind, and culture. 1^st Ed. Washington, D.C.: Psychology Press.

2002

• Echterhoff Gerald, Eggers Michael (Hrsg.): 2002. Kontexte und Kulturen des Erinnerns. Konstanz: UVK Verlag.
• Echterhoff Gerald, Saar Martin (Hrsg.): 2002. Der Stoff, an dem wir hängen.

Articles

Research Articles (Journals)

2024

• Stecker, J., Bollwerk, M., Schlipphak, B., Hellmann, J. H., Echterhoff, G., Back, M. D. 2024. ‘Feeling threatened by middle eastern immigrants: The role of RWA, SDO, subjective societal status, and religiosity in Germany.’ Personality Science (in press). [accepted / in Press (not yet published)]
• Stanke, Franziska; Fetz, Karolina; Kuper, Niclas; Echterhoff, Gerald. 2024. ‘Discriminatory, yet Socially Accepted? Targets’ Perceptions of Subtle and Blatant Expressions of Ethno-Racial Prejudice.’ Frontiers in Social Psychology 2: 1343514. doi: 10.3389/frsps.2024.1343514.

2023

• Schlechter, P., Hellmann, J. H., Kamp, S., Echterhoff, G., Wanninger, K., Wagner, U., Knausenberger, J. 2023. ‘Improving Attitudes Toward Psychotherapy in Residents and Syrian Refugees in Germany: An Interview Vignette Intervention Study.’ Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 54, № 4: 490–509. doi: 10.1177/00220221231171060.
• Zhang, H.; Liub, Y., Wang, X.; Cuib, Z.; Wang, H.; Liu, X.; Wagner, U.; Echterhoff, G. 2023. ‘Benefits of collaborative remembering in older and younger couples: The role of conversation dynamics and gender.’ Memory 31, № 3: 1–15. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2023.2166963.
• Knausenberger, Judith; Hellmann, Jens H.; Echterhoff, Gerald. 2023. ‘Residents’ attitudes toward refugee integration: The role of shared identity and refugees’ perceived openness to novel experiences.’ Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology 5. doi: 10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100160.
• Shteynberg, G.; Hirsh, J. B.; Wolf, W.; Bargh, J.; Boothby, E.; Colman, A. M.; Echterhoff, G.; Rossignac-Milon, M. 2023. ‘Theory of collective mind.’ Trends in Cognitive Sciences 27, № 11: 1019–1031. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.06.009.

2020

• Back, Mitja/ Echterhoff, Gerald/ Hellmann J H, Forthmann B, Knausenberger J, Hellmann D F, Rees J H, Gansel E. 2020. ‘Support for refugee integration in West and East Germany: Results from two lost letter studies.’ Social Psychology 51: 106–115. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000397.
• Echterhoff, G; Hellmann, J H; Back, M; Kärtner, J; Morina, N; Hertel, G. 2020. ‘Psychological antecedents of refugee integration (PARI).’ Perspectives on Psychological Science 15: 856–879. doi: 10.1177/1745691619898838.
• Echterhoff, G.; Hellmann, J. H.; Back, M. D.; Kärtner, J.; Morina, N.; Hertel, G. 2020. ‘Psychological antecedents of refugee integration (PARI).’ Perspectives on Psychological Science 15, № 4: 856–879. doi: 10.1177/1745691619898838.

2019

• Echterhoff G, Hellmann J H, Back M D, Esses V, Wagner U. 2019. ‘Editorial special issue on “The social psychology of forced migration and refugee integration”.’ European Journal of Social Psychology 49: 1337–1343. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2613.
• Schmalbach B, Hennemuth L, Echterhoff G. 2019. ‘A Tool for Assessing the Experience of Shared Reality: Validation of the German SR-t.’ Frontiers in Psychology 10. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00832.
• Knausenberger, J.; Wagner, U.; Higgins, E. T.; Echterhoff, G. 2019. ‘Epistemic authority in communication effects on memory: Creating shared reality with experts on the topic.’ Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 8, № 4: 439–449. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.07.002.

2018

• Hirst W, Echterhoff G. 2018. ‘There is more to episodic memory than epistemic assertion: The role of social bonds and interpersonal connection.’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences 41. [online first]
• Knausenberger J, Echterhoff, G. 2018. ‘Recovering from social exclusion: The interplay of subtle Facebook reminders and collectivistic orientation.’ Computers in Human Behavior 78: 298–305. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.012.
• Giesen A, Echterhoff G. 2018. ‘Do I really feel your pain? Comparing the effects of observed and personal ostracism.’ Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 44: 550–561. doi: 10.1177/0146167217744524.
• Echterhoff G, Schmalbach B. 2018. ‘How shared reality is created in interpersonal communication.’ Current Opinion in Psychology 23: 57–61. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.122.005.
• Wagner Ullrich, Echterhoff Gerald. 2018. ‘When does Oxytocin affect human memory endocing? The role of social context and individual attachment style.’ Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12: 349.
• Echterhoff Gerald, Higgins E. Tory. 2018. ‘Shared reality: Construct and mechanisms.’ Current Opinion in Psychology 23: A1–A4. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.09.003.
• Knausenberger Judith, Echterhoff Gerald. 2018. ‘I belong but I’m still sad: Reminders of Facebook increase feelings of belonging but do not facilitate coping with sadness.’ PloS one 13, № 12: e0209889. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209889.

2017

• Echterhoff G, Kopietz R, Higgins E T. 2017. ‘Shared reality in intergroup communication: Increasing the epistemic authority of an out-group audience.’ Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 146: 806–825.
• Echterhoff G, Higgins E T. 2017. ‘Creating shared reality in interpersonal and intergroup communication: The role of epistemic processes and their interplay.’ European Review of Social Psychology 28: 175–226. doi: 10.1080/10463283.2017.1333315.
• Wagner U, Giesen A, Knausenberger J, Echterhoff G. 2017. ‘The joint action effect on memory as a social phenomenon: The role of cued attention and psychological distance.’ Frontiers in Psychology 8: 1697. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01697.
• Hellmann J H, Knausenberger J, Echterhoff G, Back M D. 2017. „Woher kommt die Angst vor Fremden und einer sogenannten Islamisierung?“ Pax Christi-Korrespondenz 8: 13–21.

2016

• Lindner, I., Schain, C., Echterhoff, G. 2016. ‘Other-self confusions in action memory: The role of motor processes.’ Cognition 149.

2015

• Lindner I, Echterhoff, G. 2015. ‘Imagination inflation in the mirror: Can imagining others’ actions induce false memories of self-performance? .’ Acta Psychologica 158: 51–60. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.03.008.
• Knausenberger J, Hellmann J H, Echterhoff, G. 2015. ‘When virtual contact is all you need: Subtle reminders of Facebook preempt social-contact restoration after exclusion.’ European Journal of Social Psychology 45: 279–284. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2035.
• Bebermeier S, Echterhoff G, Bohner G, Hellmann J H. 2015. ‘The Generalization of Shared Reality: When Communication about One Target Shapes Evaluations of Other Targets.’ European Journal of Social Psychology 45: 623–640. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2115.

2014

• Echterhoff Gerald. 2014. ‘Achieving commonality in interpersonal communication: Shared reality and memory processes.’ Asian Journal of Social Psychology 17: 104–107. doi: 10.1111/ajsp.12048.
• Knausenberger Judith, Hellmann Jens Hinrich, Echterhoff Gerald. 2014. ‘When virtual contact is all you need: Subtle reminders of Facebook preempt social-contact restoration after exclusion.’ European Journal of Social Psychology 44. [online first]
• Kopietz René, Echterhoff Gerald. 2014. ‘Remembering the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany: Epistemic and social consequences of perceived memory sharedness.’ Memory Studies 7. doi: 10.1177/1750698014530620. [online first]
• Echterhoff, G., Kopietz, R. 2014. ‘Contribution to Alogna et al. Registered replication report: Schooler & Engstler-Schooler (1990).’ Perspectives on Psychological Science 9: 556–578. doi: 10.1177/1745691614545653.
• Echterhoff Gerald. 2014. ‘How communication on the Internet affects memory and shared reality: Talking heads online.’ Psychological Inquiry 24: 297–300.
• Bell Raoul, Schain Cecilé, Echterhoff Gerald. 2014. ‘How selfish is memory for cheaters? Evidence for moral and egoistic biases.’ Cognition 132. [accepted / in Press (not yet published)]
• Pfundmair, M., Aydin, N., Frey, D.H., Echterhoff, G.,. 2014. ‘The interplay of oxytocin and collectivistic orientation shields against negative effects of ostracism.’ Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 55: 246–251. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2014.07.016.
• Pierucci, S., Echterhoff, G., Marchal, C., Klein, O.,. 2014. ‘Creating shared reality about ambiguous sexual harassment: The role of stimulus ambiguity in audience-tuning effects on memory.’ Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 3, № 4: 300–306. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.07.007.
• Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G.,. 2014. ‘Remembering the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany: Epistemic and social consequences of perceived memory sharedness.’ Memory Studies 7, № 3: 298–313. doi: 10.1177/1750698014530620.

2013

• Hellmann JH, Echterhoff G, Thoben DF. 2013. ‘Metaphor in embodied cognition is more than just combining two related concepts: a comment on Wilson and Golonka.’ Frontiers in Psychology 4: 201. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00201.
• Hellmann J.H., Thoben D.F., Echterhoff G. 2013. ‘The sweet taste of revenge: Gustatory experience induces metaphor-consistent judgments of a harmful act.’ Social Cognition 31, № 5: 531–542. doi: 10.1521/soco.2013.31.5.531.
• Echterhoff G. 2013. ‘How Communication on the Internet Affects Memory and Shared Reality: Talking Heads Online.’ Psychological Inquiry 24, № 4: 297–300. doi: 10.1080/1047840X.2013.842878.
• Echterhoff G., Kopietz R., Higgins E.T. 2013. ‘Adjusting shared reality: Communicators' memory changes as their connection with their audience changes.’ Social Cognition 31, № 2: 162–186. doi: 10.1521/soco.2013.31.2.162.
• Echterhoff G. 2013. ‘The role of action in verbal communication and shared reality.’ Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36, № 4: 354. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X12002567.

2012

• Echterhoff G, Wolf OT. 2012. ‘The stressed eyewitness: the interaction of thematic arousal and post-event stress in memory for central and peripheral event information.’ Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 6: 57. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00057.
• Lindner I., Schain C., Kopietz R., Echterhoff G. 2012. ‘When do we confuse self and other in action memory? Reduced false memories of self-performance after observing actions by an out-group vs. in-group actor.’ Frontiers in Psychology 3, № null. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00467.
• Hirst W., Echterhoff G. 2012. ‘Remembering in conversations: The social sharing and reshaping of memories.’ Annual Review of Psychology 63: 55–79. doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100340.
• Schain C., Lindner I., Beck F., Echterhoff G. 2012. ‘Looking at the actor's face: Identity cues and attentional focus in false memories of action performance from observation.’ Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48, № 5: 1201–1204. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.04.003.
• Schain Cécile, Lindner Isabel, Beck Frauke, Echterhoff Gerald. 2012. ‘Looking  at  the  Actor's  Face:  Identity  Cues  and  Attentional  Focus  in  False  Memories  of  Action   Performance  from  Observation  .’ Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48: 1201–1204.
• Hirst William, Echterhoff Gerald. 2012. ‘Remembering in conversations: The social sharing and reshaping of memories.’ Annual Review of Psychology 63, № 1. doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100340.

2011

• Echterhoff Gerald. 2011. ‘The pervasiveness of memory.’ Culture & Psychology 17, № 1: 3–9. doi: 10.1177/1354067X10388856.
• Hellmann JH, Echterhoff G, Kopietz R, Niemeier S, Memon A. 2011. ‘Talking about visually perceived events: Communication effects on eyewitness memory.’ European Journal of Social Psychology 41, № 5: 658–671. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.796.

2010

• Bohner G, Echterhoff G, Glaß C, Patrzek J, Lampridis E. 2010. ‘Distress in response to infidelities committed by the partners of close others.’ Social Psychology 41, № 4: 223–229. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000030.
• Kopietz Rene, Hellmann Jens Hinrich, Higgins Edward Tory, Echterhoff Gerald. 2010. ‘Shared-reality effects on memory: Communicating to fulfill epistemic needs.’ Social Cognition 28, № 3: 353–378. doi: 10.1521/soco.2010.28.3.353.

2009

• Echterhoff G, Higgins ET, Levine JM. 2009. ‘Shared reality: Experiencing commonality with others' inner states about the world.’ Perspectives on Psychological Science 4, № 5: 496–521. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01161.x.
• Echterhoff Gerald, Hirst William. 2009. ‘Social influence on memory.’ Social Psychology 40, № 3: 106–110. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335.40.3.106.
• Echterhoff G, Lang S, Krämer N, Higgins ET. 2009. ‘Audience-tuning effects on memory: The role of audience status in sharing reality.’ Social Psychology 40, № 3: 150–163. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335.40.3.150.
• Kopietz R, Echterhoff G, Niemeier S, Hellmann JH, Memon A. 2009. ‘Audience-Congruent Biases in Eyewitness Memory and Judgment Influences of a Co-Witness' Liking for a Suspect.’ Social Psychology 40, № 3: 138–149. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335.40.3.138.

2008

• Hirst William, Echterhoff Gerald. 2008. ‘Creating shared memories in conversation: Toward a psychology of collective memory.’ Social Research: An International Quarterly of Social Sciences 75, № 1: 183–216.
• Echterhoff G, Higgins ET, Kopietz R, Groll S. 2008. ‘How communication goals determine when audience tuning biases memory.’ Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 137, № 1: 3–21. doi: 10.1037/0096-3445.137.1.3.

2007

• Echterhoff Gerald, Groll Stephan, Hirst William. 2007. ‘Tainted truth: Overcorrection for misinformation influence on eyewitness memory.’ Social Cognition 25, № 3: 367–409. doi: 10.1521/soco.2007.25.3.367.
• Higgins ET, Echterhoff G, Crespillo R, Kopietz R. 2007. ‘Effects of communication on social knowledge: Sharing reality with individual versus group audiences.’ Japanese Psychological Research 49, № 2: 89–99. doi: 10.1111./j.1468-5884.2007.00336.x.

2006

• Echterhoff Gerald, Hirst William. 2006. ‘Thinking about memories for everyday and shocking events: Do people use ease-of-retrieval cues in memory judgments?’ Memory & Cognition 34, № 4: 763–775. doi: 10.3758/BF03193424.
• Echterhoff Gerald, Bohner Gerd, Siebler Frank. 2006. „''Social Robotics'' und Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion.“ Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie 37, № 4: 219–231. doi: 10.1024/0044-3514.37.4.219.

2005

• Echterhoff Gerald, Higgins Edward Tory, Groll Stephan. 2005. ‘Audience-tuning effects on memory: The role of shared reality.’ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 89, № 3: 257-276. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.89.3.257.
• Echterhoff Gerald, Hirst William, Hussy Walter. 2005. ‘How eyewitnesses resist misinformation: Social postwarnings and the monitoring of memory characteristics.’ Memory & Cognition 33, № 5: 770–782. doi: 10.3758/BF03193073.

2004

• Echterhoff Gerald, Hussy Walter. 2004. ‘Strategies of source attribution: Semantic features and trace strength as cues to the origin of memories.’ Swiss Journal of Psychology 63, № 2: 93–106. doi: 10.1024/1421-0185.63.2.93.

Abstracts in Digital Collections (Conferences)

2013

• Hellmann J. H., Echterhoff G. ‘Saying-is-believing phenomena in applied contexts.’ contributed to the 13th European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2013), Stockholm, 2013. [accepted / in Press (not yet published)]
• Schain Cécile, Echterhoff Gerald, Lindner Isabel. ‘Can your indecent acts become mine? False memories of self-performance from observing others’ negative actions. .’ contributed to the 55. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Wien, 2013.

2012

• Hellmann, J. H., Echterhoff, G. ‘Social Scatteredness: Zur Verfügung stehender Raum und sozialer Status.’ präsentiert auf der 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Bielefeld, 2012.
• Schain Cécile, Lindner Isabel, Echterhoff Gerald. ‘Did I actually do this? Mechanisms underlying false memories of action performance from observation. .’ präsentiert auf der 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bielefeld, 2012.
• Lindner Isabel, Kopietz René, Schain Cécile, Echterhoff Gerald. ‘Observation Deflation: Fewer false memories of self-performance after observing actions by an out-group versus in-group actor.’ contributed to the 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bielefeld, 2012.
• Schain Cécile, Lindner Isabel, Echterhoff Gerald. ‘Did I actually do this? Mechanisms underlying false memories of action performance from observation. .’ contributed to the 14. European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference (ESCON), Estoril, Portugal, 2012.
• Schain Cécile, Lindner Isabel, Echterhoff Gerald. ‘Deine Handlungen werden zu meinen. Falsche Erinnerungen an Alltagshandlungen durch Beobachtung.’ präsentiert auf der 1. Doktoranden-Workshop der Allgemeinen Psychologie, Würzburg, 2012.
• Schain Cécile, Echterhoff Gerald, Lindner Isabel. ‘Did I do this before? Mechanisms underlying false memories of action performance from observation. .’ contributed to the 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Mannheim, 2012.

2011

• Schain Cécile, Echterhoff Gerald, Lindner Isabel, Davidson Patrick. ‘Observation Inflation: The inadvertent formation of shared action memory. .’ präsentiert auf der 13. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Hamburg, 2011.

2008

• Hellmann, J. H., Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G. ‘Ease of recall in memory judgments: How detailed recall undermines the confidence of eyewitnesses.’ contributed to the XXIXth International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, 2008.

2007

• Hellmann JH, Echterhoff G, Kopietz R, Memon A. ‘The role of uncertainty for audience-tuning effects on memory.’ contributed to the EAESP Small Group Meeting on Shared Memories, Shared Beliefs: The Formation and Use of Joint Representations in Social Interaction, Rapallo, Italien, 2007.

Research Article (Book Contributions)

2016

• Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G. 2016. „Einstellungen [Attitudes].“ In Soziale Motive und soziale Einstellungen (Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Serie Sozialpsychologie, Vol. 2), herausgegeben von Frey, D. Bierhoff, H.-W., 581–616.

2015

• Echterhoff G. 2015. ‘Shared reality theory.’ In Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of social theory, edited by Turner B S, 1–15. New York City: John Wiley & Sons. [online first]
• Kopietz R, Echterhoff G. 2015. „Einstellungen.“ In Band Sozialpsychologie, herausgegeben von Frey D, Bierhoff H-W, 1–20. Göttingen: Hogrefe. [accepted / in Press (not yet published)]

2014

• Kopietz René, Echterhoff Gerald. 2014. „Einstellungen.“ In Sozialpsychologie - Soziale Motive und Soziale Einstellungen, herausgegeben von Bierhoff Hans-Werner, Frey Dieter, 1–37. Göttingen: Hogrefe. doi: 10.1026/00564-000.

2010

• Echterhoff Gerald, Higgins Edward Tory. 2010. ‘How communication shapes memory: Shared reality and implications for culture.’ In Grounding sociality: Neurons, mind, and culture, edited by Semin Gün Refik, Echterhoff Gerald, 115–148. 1^st Ed. Washington, D.C.: Psychology Press.
• Semin Gün Refik, Echterhoff Gerald. 2010. ‘From neurons to shared cognition and culture.’ In Grounding sociality: Neurons, mind, and culture, edited by Semin Gün Refik, Echterhoff Gerald, 1–9. 1^st Ed. Washington, D.C.: Psychology Press.

Working Papers

• Back M D, Echterhoff G, Müller O, Pollack D, Schlipphak B. 2021. Of Defenders and Explorers: An identity conflict over belonging and threat , 2021. doi: 10.17879/97049506223.
• Back M, Echterhoff G, Müller O, Pollack D, Schlipphak B. 2021. Von Verteidigern und Entdeckern: Ein Identitätskonflikt um Zugehörigkeit und Bedrohung . Münster, 2021. doi: 10.17879/97049506223.