Contact


Department of Social and Legal Psychology
JGU Mainz
Binger Str. 14-16
Room 01-101
55122 Mainz
roland.imhoff@uni-mainz.de
Phone: +49 6131 39-39291
Consultation hour by appointment via email

Since 10/2015Professor of social and legal psychology (W2) at the Psychological Institute of Gutenberg University Mainz
09/2012 – 09/2015Junior professor (W1) for social psychology: Social cognition at the Department of Psychology, University of Cologne
04/2010 – 08/2012Research associate at the Department of Social and Legal Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn
10/2006 – 3/2010Doctoral scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V. and graduate assistant at the Department of Social and Legal Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn
3/2005Diplom in psychology
  • Conspiracy mentality
  • Data-driven approaches to the content-based description of stereotypes
  • Prejudice, stigmatization, and labeling effects
  • Representations of history and intergroup relations
  • Implicit social cognition
  • Automatic processes of sexual interest
  • Associate editor
    Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Editorial board
    British Journal of Social Psychology
    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
    Social Psychology
    Journal of Sex Research

External Funding Acquired

  • DFG Material Resources Grant “Secondary Antisemitism – Underlying Psychological Processes” (IM 147/1-1) (€ 120,600)
  • German-Israeli Foundation Research Funding “Seventy Years Later: Historical Representations of the Holocaust and their Effects on German-Israeli Relations” (I-1218-358.4/2012) – (€165,000) – with Gilad Hirschberger and Katja Hanke
  • University of Cologne Advanced Postdoctoral Researcher Grant: “Content and Application of Fundamental Stereotype Dimensions” (€ 169,260)
  • DFG Material Resources Grant “Taking a Measure of Comparative Thinking” (IM 147/3-1) (€ 139,800) within the research unit “Relativity in Social Cognition: Antecedents and Consequences of Comparative Thinking” (FOR 2150) – with Ron Dotsch and Daniël Wigboldus
  • DFG Material Resources Grant “Taking a Measure of Comparative Thinking” (IM 147/3-2) (€ 244,800) within the research unit “Relativity in Social Cognition: Antecedents and Consequences of Comparative Thinking” (FOR 2150) – with Ron Dotsch
  • CRC Subproject “B01 Cognitive Human Differentiation. The Situational Emergence and Disappearance of Relevant Categorizations” (€ 458,220) within the DFG Collaborative Research Center “Human Differentiation” (SFB 1482)
  • DFG Material Resources Grant “German Victimhood Memories: The Role of (Motivated) Memory Distortion and Transmission” (IM 147/6-1) (€ 259,720)