Prof. Dr. Gerald Echterhoff, (PhD)

• Books
• Articles
• Working Papers

Books

Books (Monographs)

• Back, Mitja, Echterhoff, Gerald, Müller, Olaf Pollack Detlef, and Schlipphak, Bernd. 2022. essentials, 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, GR, and Echterhoff, G. 2010. Grounding sociality: Neurons, mind, and culture., edited by Semin Gün Refik and Gerald Echterhoff. Washington, D.C.: Psychology Press.

2002

• Echterhoff, G, and Saar, M. 2002. Maurice Halbwachs und das Paradigma des kollektiven Gedächtnisses, Kontexte und Kulturen des Erinnerns,, edited by Gerald Echterhoff and Michael Eggers. Konstanz: UVK Verlag.
• listed, Noauthors. 2002. Der Stoff, an dem wir hängen,, edited by Gerald Echterhoff and Martin Saar.

Articles

Research Articles (Journals)

2024

• Stecker, J., Bollwerk, M., Schlipphak, B., Hellmann, J.H., Echterhoff, G., and Back, M.D. Forthcoming. “Feeling threatened by middle eastern immigrants: The role of RWA, SDO, subjective societal status, and religiosity in Germany.” Personality Science, № (in press)
• Stanke, Franziska, Fetz, Karolina, Kuper, Niclas, and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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, and 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, JH, Back, M, Kärtner, J, Morina, N, and 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., and 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, JH, Back, MD, Esses, V, and 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, and 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., and 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, and 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
• Knausenberger, J, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and Tory, Higgins E. 2018. “Shared reality: Construct and mechanisms.” Current Opinion in Psychology, № 23: A1–A4. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.09.003.
• Knausenberger, Judith, and 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, and Higgins, ET. 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, and Higgins, ET. 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, and 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, JH, Knausenberger, J, Echterhoff, G, and Back, MD. 2017. “Woher kommt die Angst vor Fremden und einer sogenannten Islamisierung?” Pax Christi-Korrespondenz, № 8: 13–21.

2016

• Lindner, I., Schain, C., and Echterhoff, G. 2016. “Other-self confusions in action memory: The role of motor processes.” Cognition, № 149

2015

• Lindner, I, and 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, JH, and 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, and Hellmann, JH. 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, Hinrich, Hellmann Jens, and 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
• Kopietz, René, and 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.
• Echterhoff, G., Kopietz, and 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, and Echterhoff, Gerald. Forthcoming. “How selfish is memory for cheaters? Evidence for moral and egoistic biases.” Cognition, № 132
• Pfundmair, M., Aydin, N., Frey, D.H., and 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., and 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., and 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, and 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., and 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.
• G., Echterhoff. 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., and 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): 354–5. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X12002567.

2012

• Echterhoff, G, and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, Hinrich, Hellmann Jens, Tory, Higgins Edward, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, Tory, Higgins Edward, and 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, and 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, and 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., and Echterhoff, G. Forthcoming. “Saying-is-believing phenomena in applied contexts.” contribution to the 13th European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2013), Stockholm
• Cécile, Schain, Gerald, Echterhoff, and Isabel, Lindner. 2013. “Can your indecent acts become mine? False memories of self-performance from observing others’ negative actions.” contribution to the 55. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Wien

2012

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

2011

• Schain Cécile, Echterhoff Gerald, and Lindner Isabel, Davidson Patrick. 2011. “Observation Inflation: The inadvertent formation of shared action memory.” contribution to the 13. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Hamburg

2008

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

2007

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

Research Article (Book Contributions)

2016

• Kopietz, R., and Echterhoff, G. 2016. “Einstellungen [Attitudes].” in Soziale Motive und soziale Einstellungen (Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Serie Sozialpsychologie, Vol. 2), edited by D. Frey and H.-W. Bierhoff.

2015

• Echterhoff, G. 2015. “Shared reality theory.” in Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of social theory, edited by BS Turner. New York City: John Wiley & Sons.
• Kopietz, R, and Echterhoff, G. Forthcoming. “Einstellungen.” in Band Sozialpsychologie, Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, edited by D Frey and H-W Bierhoff. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

2014

• Kopietz, René, and Echterhoff, Gerald. 2014. “Einstellungen.” in Sozialpsychologie - Soziale Motive und Soziale Einstellungen, Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, edited by Frey Dieter Bierhoff Hans-Werner. Göttingen: Hogrefe. doi: 10.1026/00564-000.

2010

• Echterhoff, Gerald, and Tory, Higgins Edward. 2010. “How communication shapes memory: Shared reality and implications for culture.” in Grounding sociality: Neurons, mind, and culture, edited by Semin Gün Refik and Gerald Echterhoff. Washington, D.C.: Psychology Press.
• Refik, Semin Gün, and Echterhoff, Gerald. 2010. “From neurons to shared cognition and culture.” in Grounding sociality: Neurons, mind, and culture, edited by Semin Gün Refik and Gerald Echterhoff. Washington, D.C.: Psychology Press.

Working Papers

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