Prof. Dr. Gerald Echterhoff

2007 Habilitation at the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Sciences at Bielefeld University (cumulative habilitation, title: „Memory in Context: Social, Communicative und Societal Influences“), including venia legendi for psychology.

2001-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York City

2000 Ph.D. in Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York City

1997-2000 Ph.D. Program in Psychology (experimental cognitive), New School for Social Research, dissertation research

1998 M.A. (Master of Arts) in General Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York City

1996 Diploma in Psychology (Dipl.-Psych.), University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln) (roughly equivalent to a Master's degree), with honors (“mit Auszeichnung”)

2008-2010 Professor of Psychology, Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

2008 Visiting Professor ("W3-Lehrstuhlvertretung"), Department of Psychology, University of Cologne (on leave from Bielefeld University)

2004-2008 Assistant Professor/Lecturer (“Wiss. Assistent, C1”), Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany

2002-2004 Research and Teaching Associate (“Wiss. Angestellter”), Psychological Institute, University of Cologne, Germany

2001-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting Scholar), Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York City

• Processes and Effects of Audience Tuning: Shared Reality with Ingroup- and Outgroup Members
  supported by a grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG), 2007-2009, volume approx. € 77.500; Collaborators: Prof. E. Tory Higgins, Prof. John M. Levine. Research associate: TBA. This research in the news: Shankar Vedantam's column in the Washington Post
• 'It happened as I said': Effects of Retellings on Eyewitnesses’ Event Memory
  German-British collaborative research grant under the bilateral agreement between the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), (DFG EC 317/3), Co-Investigator: Professor Dr. Amina Memon (University of Aberdeen), volume approx. € 190.000. Research associates: Dipl.-Psych. René Kopietz, Dipl.-Psych. Jens Hellmann, Dipl.-Psych. Sarah Niemeier (associated employee). Press coverage on this German-British collaboration in the Times Higher Education
• Grounding Sociality: Neurons, Minds, and Culture
  supported by the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) in the Research Networks Programme in Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation (ESF), co-principal investigator: Prof. Gün R. Semin (University of Utrecht). Current report
• Audience-tuning effects on Memory: Memory Processes and Socially Shared Reality
  supported by a grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG), 2005-2007,  volume approx. € 65.000. Research associate: Dipl.-Psych. René Kopietz, Collaborators: Prof. E. Tory Higgins, Prof. John M. Levine, Dipl.-Psych. Stephan Groll
• Transatlantic relations from a social psychological perspective: Explicit and implicit forms of intergroup perceptions of Americans and Germans
  supported by a grant from the Foundation for German-American Academic Relations in collaboration with Prof. Frank Siebler
• Memory and motivated self perception: When do people use ease of retrieval and other cues in self-inferences?
  in collaboration with Prof. Rasyid Bo Sanitioso (Université Paris V, René Descartes)
• The construction of attitudes towards nations versus groups: Influences of priming with person vs. non-person exemplars
  in collaboration with Prof. Gerd Bohner and Prof. Frank Siebler (University of Tromsø).
• The impact of stress on eyewitness memory in the postevent misinformation paradigm
  in collaboration with Prof. Oliver Wolf (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
• Toward a social psychology of intercultural communication: Processes, barriers, interventions
  supported by the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) under the Research Networks Programme in Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation (ESF), fellow principal investigators: Olivier Klein (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Karen Douglas & Robbie Sutton (both University of Kent).

• Associate Editor for the international journal Social Psychology , beginning January 2012
• Guest Editor for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT),
  the European Science Foundation (ESF),
  the German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development,
  and various scientific journals (e.g., Psychological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Social Cognition, Social Psycholgy, European Journal of Social Psychology, Memory & Cognition, Memory, Acta Psychologica, Journal of Personality).
• Guest Editor for a Special Issue on “Shared Reality: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences” in Social Cognition (2010)
• Guest Editor (with William Hirst) for a Special Issue on „Social Influence on Memory“ in Social Psychology -- Guest Editorial. (2009)
• Workshops on "Psychological strategies for academic success: Project and time management"

• Introduction to Social Psychology (Lecture)
• Social Influence
• Attitudes and Social Cognition
• Memory in a Social Context
• Interpersonal Communication and Interaction
• Social Cognition and Attribution
• Statistics (Lecture Class and Seminars)