SoDoc 2011

21 Feb 2011 11:50 Gerald Echterhoff will serve as teacher at the SoDoc Workshop 2011, supported by Social Psychology Division (Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie) of the German Psychological Association (DGPs), June 16-19, at LMU Munich. More information:
http://www.psy.lmu.de/sodoc2011

Research on gender differences in Psychology Today

21 Feb 2011 11:50 Research on gender differences in reactions to a partner's infidelity (Bohner, Echterhoff, Glass, Patrzek, & Lampridis, 2010) has been featured in the February issue of the US-based magazine Psychology Today under the title "Infraction Reactions" (p. 28 of the print issue).

TV interview on plagiarism and academic dishonesty

19 Feb 2011 12:35 Gerald Echterhoff was interviewed on plagiarism and academic dishonesty in the news show "Aktuelle Stunde" on WDR television (February 19, 2011). Link to "Aktuelle Stunde":
http://www.wdr.de/mediathek/html/regional/rueckschau/aktuelle_stunde.xml

TV interview on social and political identity

21 Jan 2011 12:35 Gerald Echterhoff was interviewed in a TV feature (WDR Lokalzeit) regarding the social and political identity of Northrhine-Westfalia (most populated federal state of Germany formed from historically disparate entities).

Grounding Sociality

09 Dec 2010 12:35 The volume "Grounding Sociality: Neurons, Mind, and Culture" (edited by Gün R. Semin and Gerald Echterhoff) published by Psycholgy Press / Taylor & Franis is out now. You can order the book following:
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781848728998/

research on false memories attracts high media interest

15 Sept 2010 10:15 Our first demonstration of false memories of performing an action from mere action observation (Lindner, Echterhoff et al., 2010) has been published in the highest ranked journal for empirical psychology, Psychological Science. In August it was the most widely read article ever published in the journal http://pss.sagepub.com/reports/most-read.
The research has been covered in various newspapers and media outlets, including:

USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/mentalhealth/2010-09-15-falsememories15_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

The Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-false-memories-20100914,0,5600584.story

The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704476104575439871734269054.html?KEYWORDS=false+memory

Bloomberg Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/643173.html

Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100914131006.htm

and Men's Health.
http://blogs.menshealth.com/health-headlines/how-our-memory-plays-tricks-on-us/2010/09/21

Special Issue on Shared Reality published

21 June 2010 12:15 A special issue on the topic of socially shared reality
http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/toc/soco/28/3,
pdf fileedited by Gerald Echterhoff, has just been published in the journal Social Cognition
(Impact Factor 2008 = 1.92). Read the introduction to the issue:

Expert Meeting on Intercultural Communication
from a Social-psychological Perspective

26 April 2010 17:40 First European Social Cognition Network Expert Meeting was held from 3rd to 5th February at the University of Kent, Canterbury. The meeting attended by eminent social psychologists specializing pdf filein communication and culture, was very inspiring and successful.
For detailed information please see:

new book on research methods out now

28 Jan 2010 12:52 Forschungsmethoden in Psychologie und Sozialwissenschaften - für Bachelor
by Walter Hussy, Margrit Schreier, & Gerald Echterhoff
Follow the link and have a look into the table of contents!
http://www.springer.com/psychology/book/978-3-540-95935-9

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