Contact

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Department of Social and Legal Psychology
Binger Str. 14-16
Room 01-121
55122 Mainz
veheidri@uni-mainz.de
Phone: +49 6131 39-29969
Consultation hour by appointment via email

• Social categorization / Multiple categorizations
• Category-related beliefs (blindness, essentialism, descriptive/prescriptive social inequality)
• Perception and reproduction of discrimination
• Influence of perpetrator/victim stereotypes on the perception and evaluation of criminal incidents

• Seminar: Selected Topics in Social Psychology

• Kazarovytska, F., Árnadóttir, K., D’Ottone, S. A., Halabi, S., Clarke, E. J. R., Sharma, S., Heidrich, V., & Imhoff, R. (2026). Do people across the world want to remember positive ingroup histories? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000513
• Heidrich, V., Flade, F., & Imhoff, R. (2026). Face the difference: Metacontrast as an affordance to spontaneous social categorization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 130(6), 1102–1120. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000478
• Heidrich, V. & Imhoff, R. (2025). Through the lens of race: Accounting for majority-minority relations in cross-race categorization and individuation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Article 104763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104763
• Imhoff, R.*, Müller, B.*, & Heidrich, V. (2024). Do They Look the Same Unless They are Angry? Investigating the other-race Effect in the Presence of Angry Expressions. Psychological Science, 35, 405-414. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976231218640

• Imhoff, R., & Heidrich, V. (2025). Austauschbare Unterscheidungen. Kognitive Humandifferenzierung im Vergleich. In S. Hirschauer, P. Hofmann, A. Friedrichs, & G. Schabacher (Hrsg.) Humandifferenzierung im Vergleich (pp. 124-147). Weilerswist: Velbrück.