Lehrstuhlinhaber

Prof. Dr. Herbert Bless

Bild: Herbert Bless

Professur für Mikrosoziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Universität Mannheim
Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
A 5, 6
Gebäudeteil A – Raum A 433
68159 Mannheim

Tel.: +49 621 181-2007
Fax: +49 621 181-2038
E-Mail: blessuni-mannheim.de
Web: sowi.uni-mannheim.de/bless

Sprechstunde:
Während der Vorlesungszeit Do 10:30–11:30 Uhr (außerhalb der Vorlesungszeit nach Vereinbarung). Bitte beachten Sie, dass für die Sprechstunde eine Anmeldung erforderlich ist (über das Sekretariat des Lehrstuhls).

Publikationen
Bless, H., & Wänke, M. (2023). The crucial role of linearity when comparing effects across studies. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00220-w
John, M., Boileau, L.L.-A., & Bless, H. (in press). Effect of social class on personal control beliefs. Journal of Personality.
Salwender, M., Schoel, C., Bless, H., & Stahlberg, D. (2023). The Politics Hurdle: Joint Effect of Organizational Culture and Gender on Lack of Fit Experiences. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(1), 84–92.
Boileau, L.L.-A, Bless, H., & Gebauer, J.E. (2022). Mixed Bag” of Segregation – On Positive and Negative Associations with Migrants’ Acculturation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(3), 457–471.
Bruk, A., Scholl, S. G., & Bless, H. (2022). You and I Both: Self-Compassion Reduces Self–Other Differences in Evaluation of Showing Vulnerability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin., 48(7), 1054-1067. doi:10.1177/01461672211031080.
Igou, E.R., Blake, A.A., Bless, H. (2021). Just-World Beliefs Increase Helping Intentions via Meaning and Affect. Journal of Happiness Studies. 22(5), 2235-2253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00317-6
Boileau, L.L.-A, Grüning. D.J., & Bless, H. (2021). Too good to be liked? When and how prosocial others are disliked. Frontiers in Psychology.
Ingenfeld, J., Wolbring, T., & Bless, H. (2019). Commuting and Life Satisfaction Revisited: Evidence on a Non-Linear Relationship. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20, 2677-2709. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-018-0064-2
Bless, H. & Granato, N. (2018). Small and Negligible: Evidence on the Relation Between Individuals' Power in the Job Situation and Their Satisfaction with Life and Job. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 40:6, 374–383, DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2018.1510779
Bruk, A., Scholl, S.G., & Bless, H. (2018)., Beautiful Mess Effect: Self-Other Differences in Evaluation of Showing Vulnerability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 115, 192–205.
Greifeneder, R., Bless, H., & Fiedler, K. (2018), Social cognition: How individuals construct social reality. New York: Routledge.
Burger, A. M., & Bless, H. (2017). Cognitive consequences of formal clothing: The effects of clothing versus thinking of clothing. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology.
Engel, J. & Bless, H. (2017). The more negative the more impact: Evidence from nationally representative data on the relation between domain satisfactions and general life satisfaction. Social Psychology, 48, 148–159.
Butz, S., Kieslich, P. J., & Bless, H. (2017). Why are conservatives happier than liberals? Comparing different explanations based on system justification, multiple group membership, and positive adjustment. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 362–372.
Bless, H., & Burger, A. M. (2017). Mood and the regulation of mental abstraction. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 159–164.
Bless, H., & Burger, A. M. (2016). Assimilation and contrast in social priming. Current Opinion in Psychology, 12, 26–31.
Scholl, S. & Bless, H. (2016). Urteilsheuristiken [Judgmental heuristics]. In D. Frey & H.W. Bierhoff (Eds.). Enzyklopädie der Psychologie: Sozialpsychologie, Band 1 Selbst und soziale Kognition [Encyclopaedia of Psychology: Social Psychology], S.387–407.Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Burger, A. M., & Bless, H. (2016). Stimmung und Informationsverarbeitung [Mood and Information Processing]. In D. Frey & H.-W. Bierhoff (Eds.). Enzyklopädie der Psychologie: Sozialpsychologie, Band 2 Sozial Motive und soziale Einstellungen [Encyclopaedia of Psychology: Social Psychology], S.654–674. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Burger, A. M., & Bless, H. (2016). Affect and the weight of idealistic and pragmatic concerns in decision situations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 323–340.
Bless, H., & Burger, A. M. (2016). A closer look at social psychologists' silver bullet: Inevitable and evitable side effects of the experimental approach. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 296–308.
Scholl, S. G., Greifeneder, R. & Bless, H. (2014). When fluency signals truth: Prior successful reliance on fluency moderates the impact of fluency on truth judgments. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 27, 268–280. Link
Greifeneder, R., Bless, H., & Scholl, S. G. (2013). About swift defaults and sophisticated safety nets: A process perspective on fluency’s validity in judgment. In C. Unkelbach & R. Greifeneder (Eds.), The experience of thinking (pp. 220–233). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Greifeneder, R., Bless, H., & Pham, M. T. (2011). When do people rely on affective and cognitive feelings in judgment? A review. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 107–141. doi:10.1177/1088868310367640. Lead article. Link
Greifeneder, R., Müller, P., Stahlberg, D., Van den Bos, K., & Bless, H. (2011). Beyond procedure''s content: Cognitive subjective experiences in procedural justice judgments. Experimental Psychology, 58, 341–352. doi:10.1027/1618-3169/a000101. Link
Greifeneder, R., Müller, P., Stahlberg, D., Van den Bos, K., & Bless, H. (2011). Guiding Trustful Behavior: The Role of Accessible Content and Accessibility Experiences. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24: 498–514. doi: 10.1002/bdm.705
Keller, J., Bless, H., Blomann, F, & Kleinböhl, D. (2011). Physiological aspects of flow experiences: Skills-demand-compatibilitiy effects on heart rate variability and salivary cortisol. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 4, 849–852.
Müller, P., Greifeneder, R., Stahlberg, D., van den Bos, K. & Bless, H. (2010). Shaping Cooperation Behavior: The Role of Accessibility Experiences and Uncertainty. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 178–187.
Greifeneder, R., & Bless, H. (2010). The fate of activated information in impression formation: Fluency of concept activation moderates the emergence of assimilation versus contrast. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 405–414.
Bless, H. & Schwarz, N. (2010). Mental Construal and the Emergence of Assimilation and Contrast Effects: The Inclusion/Exclusion Model. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 319–373.
Greifeneder, R., Bless, H. & Wänke, M. (2009). Markentransfer: Erfolgs- und Misserfolgsfaktoren auf der Basis sozialpsychologischer Forschung. Wirtschaftspsychologie, 10, 40–52.
Igou, E.R., & Bless, H. (2009). On undesirable consequences of thinking: Framing effects as a function of substantive processing. Journal of Behaviroal Decision Making.
Bless, H., Keller, J., & Igou, E.R. (2009). Metacognition. In F. Strack & J.Förster (Eds.), Social Cognition – the Basis of Human Interaction (pp. 157–177).
Keller, J., & Bless, H. (2009). Predicting future affective states: How ease of retrieval and faith in intuition moderate the impact of activated content. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 467–476.
Keller, J., & Bless, H. (2008). Expectancy effects on cognitive test performance: Regulatory focus as a catalyst. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 187–212.
Keller, J., & Bless, H. (2008). Flow and regulatory compatibility: An experimental test of the flow model of intrinsic motivation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 196–209.
Greifeneder, R., & Bless, H. (2008). Availability. In W. Donsbach (Hrsg.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication (Vol. 1, S. 279–281). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Bless, H. & Greifeneder, R. (2008). Brands and successful brand extensions: A social psychology perspective on economic questions. In M. Wänke (Hrsg.), The social psychology of consumer behaviour (109–130). New York: Psychology Press.
Greifeneder, R., & Bless, H. (2008). Depression and reliance on ease-of-retrieval experiences. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38(2), 213–230.
Koriat, A., Nussinson, R., Bless, H., & Shaked, N. (2008). Information-based and experience-based metacognitive judgments: Evidence from subjective confidence. In J. Dunlosky & R.A. Bjork (eds.), A Handbook.of Memory and Metamemory (pp. 117- 135). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Keller, J. & Bless, H. (2007). Stereotype Threat as the Consequence of Communicating Positive or Negative Group-Based Stereotypic Expectancies: Regulatory focus as a Crucial Moderator. In Y. Kashima, K. Fiedler, & P. Freytag (Eds.), Stereotype Dynamics: Language-Based Approaches to Stereotype Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Greifeneder, R., Bless, H. & Kuschmann, T. (2007). Extending the brand image on new products: The facilitative effect of happy mood states. Journal of Consumer Behavior, 6, 19–31.
Greifeneder, R., & Bless, H. (2007). Relying on accessible content versus accessibility experiences: The case of processing capacity. Social Cognition, 25(6), 853–881.
Bless, H., Greifeneder, R., & Wänke, M. (2007). Marken als psychologische Kategorien: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer sozial-kognitiven Sichtweise. In A. Florack, M. Scarabis, & E. Primosch, (Eds.), Psychologie der Markenführung (pp. 31–40). München: Vahlen.
Schwarz, N., & Bless, H. (2007). Mental construal processes: The inclusion/exclusion model. In D. A. Stapel & J. Suls (Eds.), Assimilation and contrast in Social Psychology (pp. 119–141). New York: Psychology Press.
Igou, E.R., & Bless, H. (2007). Conversational expectations as a basis for order effects in persuasion. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 26, 260–273.
Bless, H. & Greifeneder, R. (2007). Contrast effects. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Hrsg.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (Vol. 1, S. 180–182). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Keller, J., & Bless, H. (2006). Regulatory fit and cognitive performance: The interactive effects of chronic and situationally induced self-regulatory mechanisms on test performance. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 393–405.
Greifeneder, R. & Bless, H. (2006). Gedankenlosigkeit. In H.W. Bierhoff & D. Frey (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Psychologie: Sozialpsychologie und Kommunikationspsychologie (280–286). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Bless, H., & Keller, J. (2006). Urteilsheuristiken. In H.W. Bierhoff & D. Frey (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Psychologie: Sozialpsychologie und Kommunikationspsychologie (294–300). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Bless, H., & Igou, E.R. (2006). Stimmung und Informationsverarbeitung. In H.W. Bierhoff & D. Frey (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Psychologie: Sozialpsychologie und Kommunikations-psychologie (423–429). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Bless, H., & Fiedler, K. (2006). Mood and the regulation of information processing and behavior. In J.P. Forgas, K.D. Williams & W. van Hippel (Eds.), Hearts and minds: Affective influences on social cognition and behavior (pp. 65–84). NE York: Psychology Press.
Wänke, M. & Bless, H. (2005). Einstellungsmessung in der Marktforschung. In D. Frey, L. von Rosenstiel & C. Graf Hoyos (Hrsg.), Wirtschaftspsychologie (Band II) (S. 60–65). Weinheim: Beltz-Verlag.
Keller, J., & Bless, H. (2005) When negative expectancies turn into negative performance: The role of ease of retrieval. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 535–541.
Igou, E. & Bless, H. (2005). The conversational basis for the dilution effect. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 24, 25–35.
Bless, H. & Wänke, M. (2005). Marken und Markenerweiterungen aus einer kognitionspsychologischen Perspektive. In D. Frey, L. von Rosenstiel & C. Graf Hoyos (Hrsg.), Wirtschaftspsychologie (Band II) (246–250). Weinheim: Beltz-Verlag.
Bless, H. & Igou, E.R. (2005). Mood and the use of general knowledge structures in judgment and decision making. In T.Betsch & S. Haberstroh (Eds.), The routines of decision making (193–210). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Kemmelmeier, M., Bless, H. Schwarz, N., & Bohner, G. (2004). What research participants learn from rewards: A conversational logic analysis of rewarding reasoning performance. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition, 22, 267–287.
Keller, J. & Bless, H. (2004). Evolutionary thought and psychological essentialism: The belief in genetic predispositions and its relationship to basic processes of social cognition. Journal of Culture and Evolutionary Psychology, 2, 123–141.
Bless, H., Fiedler, K., & Strack, F. (2004). Social Cognition: How individuals construct social reality. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Abele, S., Bless, H. & Ehrhart (2004). Social Information Processing in Strategic Decision-making: Why Timing Matters. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 92, 28–46.
Wänke, M., Bless, H. & Wortberg, S. (2003). Der Einfluss von „Karrierefrauen“ auf das Frauenstereotyp: Moderatoren von Stereotypenänderung und Subtyping. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 34, 187–196.
Schwarz, N., Bless, H., Wänke, M. & Winkielman (2003). Accessibility revisited. In G.V. Bodenhausen & A.J. Lambert (Eds.), Foundations of Social Cognition: A Festschrift in Honor of Robert S. Wyer, Jr. (pp. 51.77). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Ruder, M. & Bless, H. (2003). Mood and the reliance on the ease of retrieval heuristic. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 20–32.
Igou, E.R. & Bless, H. (2003). Inferring the importance of arguments: Order effects and conversational rules. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 91–99
Florack, A., Bless, H. & Piontkowski, U. (2003). When people accept cultural diversity. Affect as determinant. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 27, 627–640.
Bless, H., Schwarz, N. & Wänke, M. (2003). The size of context effects in social judgments. In J.P. Forgas, K.D. Williams & W. van Hippel (Eds.), Responding to the social world: Implicit and explicit processes in social judgments (pp. 180–197). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Walther, E., Bless, H., Strack, F., Rackstraw, P., Wagner, D. & Werth., L. (2002). Conformity effects in memory as a function of group size, dissenters and uncertainty. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 793–810.
Igou, E.R., Bless, H. & Schwarz, N. (2002). Repetition may decrease the informative function of response scales. Communications Monographs, 69, 179–187.
Bless, H. & Schwarz, N. (2002). Konzeptgesteuerte Informationsverarbeitung. In D. Frey & M. Irle (Hrsg.). Theorien der Sozialpsychologie, Bd. III (2. Auflage, S. 257–278). Bern: Huber.
Bless, H. & Igou, E.R. (2002). Die Rolle kognitiv verfügbarer Information bei der Eindrucksbildung. In Janetzko, D., Meyer, H.A. & Hildebrandt, M. (Hrsg.), Das Experimentalpsychologische Praktikum im Labor und WWW (pp.153–161). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Bless, H. (2002). Where has the feeling gone? The signal function of affective states. Psychological Inquiry, 13, 28–31.
Igou, E.R., Bless, H. & Schwarz, N. (2002). Making sense of standardized survey questions: The influence of reference periods and their repetition. Communications Monographs, 69, 179–187.
Wänke, M., Bless, H. & Igou, E.R. (2001). Next to a star: Paling, shining, or both? Turning inter-exemplar contrast into inter-exemplar assimiliation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 14–29.
Florack, A., Scarabis, M. & Bless, H. (2001). Der Einfluß wahrgenommener Bedrohung auf die Nutzung automatischer Assoziationen bei der Personenbeurteilung. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 32, 249–259.
Florack, A., Scarabis, M. & Bless, H. (2001). When do associations matter? The use of automatic associations towards ethnic groups in person judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 518–524.
Fiedler, K. & Bless, H. (2001). Social cognition: The construction of social reality. In W. Stroebe, M. Hewstone & G. Stephenson (Eds.), Introduction to social psychology (4th edition, pp. 115–149). New York, NY: Springer.
Bless, H. & Wänke, M. (2001). Die Bedeutung von Marken aus der Perspektive menschlicher Informationsverarbeitung. Wirschaftspsychologie, 3, 28–34.
Bless, H., Strack, F. & Walther, E. (2001). Memory as a target of social influence? Memory distortions as a function of social influence and meta-cognitive knowledge. In J.P. Forgas, & K.D. Williams (Eds.), Social Influence: Direct and indirect processes (pp. 167–183). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Bless, H., Schwarz, N., Bodenhausen, G.V. & Thiel, L. (2001). Personalized versus generalized benefits of stereotype disconfirmation: Tradeoffs in the evaluation of atypical exemplars and their social groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 386–397.
Bless, H. (2001). The consequences of mood on the processing of social information. In A. Tesser & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook in Social Psychology (pp. 391–412). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
Bless, H. (2001). The relation between mood and the use of general knowledge structures. In L.L. Martin & G.L. Clore (Eds.), Mood and social cognition: Contrasting theories (pp. 9–29). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Wänke, M. & Bless, H. (2000). The effects of subjective ease of retrieval on attitudinal judgments: The moderating role of processing motivation. In In H. Bless & J.P. Forgas, (Eds), The message within: The role of subjective experience in social cognition and behavior (143–161). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Hertel, G. & Bless, H. (2000). ‘Online‘ und erinnerungsgestützte Urteilsbildung: Auslösefaktoren und empirische Unterscheidungsmöglichkeiten. Psychologische Rundschau, 51, 19–28.
Fiedler, K. & Bless, H. (2000). The formation of beliefs in the interface of affective and cognitive processes. In N. Frijda, A. Manstead & S. Bem (Eds.), The influence of emotions on beliefs (pp. 144–170). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bless, H. & Wänke, M. (2000). Can the same information be typical and atypical? How perceived typicality moderates assimilation and contrast in evaluative jugdments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 306–314.
Bless, H. & Ruder, M. (2000). Informationsverarbeitung und Stimmung. In J. Otto, H. Euler & H. Mandl (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Emotionspsychologie (pp. 306–314). München: Psychologie Verlags Union.
Bless, H., Igou, E.R., Schwarz, N. & Wänke, M. (2000). Reducing context effects by adding context information: The direction and size of context effects in political judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1036-1045.
Bless, H. & Forgas, J.P. (2000), (Eds.). The message within. The role of subjective experience in social cognition and behavior. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Bless, H. & Forgas, J.P. (2000). The message within: Toward a social psychology of subjective experiences. In H. Bless & J.P. Forgas, (Eds), The message within: The role of subjective experience in social cognition and behavior (pp. 372 -392). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Bless, H., Bohner, G., Schwarz, N. & Strack, F. (2000). Mood and Persuasion: A cognitive response analysis. In G. Parrott (Ed.), Emotions in social psychology. Philadelphia. Psychology Press. [reprint of a manuscript published in 1990 in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin]
Bless, H. (2000). The interplay of affect and cognition: The mediating role of general knowledge structures. In J.P. Forgas (Ed.), Feeling and thinking: Affective influences on social cognition (pp. 201–222). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Prof. Dr. Herbert Bless

Publikationen