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Prof. Dr. Gerald Echterhoff

Professor of Psychology
School of Humanities & Social Sciences - SHSS
http://www.jacobs-university.de/shss
Mailing Address:

Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen
Germany

Telephone: +49 421 200-3421
Fax: +49 421 200-3303
Email: g.echterhoff@jacobs-university.de
Office: Research IV, Room 46
Link to Homepage: http://geraldechterhoff.com
Research Interests:
  • Social influences on memory
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Motivation-cognition interface
  • Misinformation effects in eyewitness memory
  • Social cognition and judgment
  • Metacognition
  • Language and thought
  • Intergroup relations
  • Research Methods
  • Cultural and political contexts of remembering (Memory for "September 11")
University Education:
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.
2001/02 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 degree), with honors ("mit Auszeichnung")
Research and Teaching Positions:
2008 Visiting Professor ("W3-Lehrstuhlvertretung"), Department of Psychology, University of Cologne (on leave from Bielefeld University)
2004/08 Assistant Professor/Lecturer (Wiss. Assistent, C1), Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, German
2002/04 Research and Teaching Associate (Wiss. Angestellter), Psychological Institute, University of Cologne, Germany
1997-2000 Ph.D. Program in Psychology (experimental cognitive), New School for Social Research, dissertation research
2001/02 Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting Scholar), Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York City
Courses (selected)
Introduction to Social Psychology (Lecture)
Memory in a Social Context
Introduction to the Psychology of Memory (Lecture Class and Seminars)
Interpersonal Communication: Models and Current Research
Social Cognition and Attribution
Statistics (Lecture Class and Seminars)
 
Other Professional Activities:

 

Guest Editor for a Special Issue on "Social Influence on Memory" in Social Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 3, 2009. Read the Editorial

 

Guest Editor for a Special Issue on -Shared Reality: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences- in Social Cognition (scheduled to appear in 2010)

 

Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA

 

Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)

 

Reviewer in the 7th Framework Program of the European Union (EU)

 

Faculty member of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)
Funded Projects:
 

(selected)

Other Projects

  • Shared Memories, Shared Beliefs: The Formation and Use of Joint Representations in Social Interaction, chair and organizer (with Gün R. Semin, Amina Memon & Anna E. Clark) of a Small Group Meeting funded by the European Association for Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP), to be held in September 2007 in Rapallo, Italy

     

  • Grounding Sociality: Neurons, Minds and Culture, chair and organizer (with Gün R. Semin) of an Expert Meeting funded by the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) as part of the Research Networking Programmes of the European Science Foundation (ESF), to be held in September 2007 in Rapallo, Italy

     

  • Workshops on Project and time management: Planning and psychological strategies for study success

     

  • Shared Reality in Cognition and Communication, chair and organizer of the 2nd Meeting of a Transatlantic Research Group (with E. Tory Higgins, John M. Levine, Gün R. Semin, Curtis Hardin, Stacey Sinclair, William Hirst), Columbia University, New York City, December 2004, supported by the Association for the Promotion of Science and Research in Germany

     

  • Shared Reality in Communication: Current Projects and Perspectives for Future Research, chair and organizer of the 1st Meeting of a Transatlantic Research Group (with E. Tory Higgins and John M. Levine), Columbia University, New York City, December 2004, supported by the Association for the Promotion of Science and Research in Germany

     

  • Contexts and Cultures of Memory, chair and organizer of an interdisciplinary symposium (with Martin Saar), January 2000, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, supported by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

     

  • Selecting the "Stuff" of Research: Theory of Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities [Der Stoff, an dem wir hängen: Faszination und Selektion von Material in the Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften], chair and organizer of an interdisciplinary workshop (with Michael Eggers), July 1998, Cologne, Germany

Publications:

(selected; for full list click here)

Selected Journal Articles
Lindner, I., Echterhoff, G., Davidson, P. S. R., & Brand, M. (in press). Observation inflation: Your actions become mine. Psychological Science. PDF preprint (for personal use only)

 

Echterhoff, G., Higgins, E. T., & Levine, J. M. (in press). Shared reality: Experiencing commonality with others' inner states about the world. Perspectives on Psychological Science. PDF preprint (for personal use only)

 

Hirst, W., & Echterhoff, G. (in press). Collaborative remembering and shared memory. Annual Review of Psychology.

 

Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., Hellmann, J., & Higgins, E. T. (in press). Shared reality effects on memory: Communicating to fulfill epistemic needs. Social Cognition. PDF preprint (for personal use only)

 

Bohner, G., Echterhoff, G., Glass, C., Patrzek, J., & Lampridis, E. (in press). Distress in response to infidelities committed by the partners of close others: Siblings versus friends. Social Psychology. PDF preprint (for personal use only)

 

Echterhoff, G. (in press). Shared reality: Antecedents, processes, consequences. Social Cognition.

 

Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., Niemeier, S., Hellmann, J. H., & Memon, A. (2009). Audience-congruent biases in eyewitness memory and judgment: Influences of a co-witness - liking for a suspect. Social Psychology, 40, 138-149. PDF (for personal use only)

 

Echterhoff, G., Higgins, E. T., Kopietz, R. & Groll, S. (2008). How communication goals determine when audience tuning biases memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 3-21. PDF (for personal use only)

 

Hirst, W., & Echterhoff, G. (2008). Creating shared memories in conversation: Toward a psychology of collective memory. Social Research, 75, 183-216. PDF (for personal use only)

 

Echterhoff, G., Groll, S., & Hirst, W. (2007). Tainted truth: Overcorrection for misinformation influence on eyewitness memory. Social Cognition, 25, 367-409.   PDF (for personal use only)

 

Echterhoff, G., & Hirst, W. (2006). Thinking about memories for everyday and shocking events: Do people use ease-of-retrieval cues in memory judgments? Memory & Cognition, 34, 763-775. PDF (for personal use only)

 

Echterhoff, G., Higgins, E. T. & Groll, S. (2005). Audience-tuning effects on memory: The role of shared reality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 257-276. PDF  (for personal use only)

 

Echterhoff, G., Hirst, W. & Hussy, W. (2005). How eyewitnesses resist misinformation: Social postwarnings and the monitoring of memory characteristics. Memory & Cognition, 33, 770-782. PDF (for personal use only)

 

Selected Books
Semin, G., & G. Echterhoff (Eds.) (in press). Grounding sociality: Neurons, minds, and culture. New York: Psychology Press.

 

Hussy, W., Schreier, M., & Echterhoff, G. (2010). Forschungsmethoden in Psychologie und Sozialwissenschaften [Research methods in psychology and the social sciences]. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.

 

Verlagsinformationen über das Buch
Umfangreiche Lehr- und Lernmaterialien

 

Echterhoff, G. & Neumann, B. (2006). Projekt- und Zeitmanagement: Organisatorische und psychologische Strategien für erfolgreiches Studieren [Project and time management: Planning and psychological strategies for study success] (Reihe Uni-Wissen). Stuttgart, Germany: Klett.

 

Echterhoff, G. & Saar, M. (Eds.). (2002). Kontexte und Kulturen des Erinnerns: Maurice Halbwachs und das Paradigma des kollektiven Gedächtnisses [Contexts and cultures of remembering: Maurice Halbwachs and the paradigm of collective memory]. Constance, Germany: Universitätsverlag Konstanz.

 

Selected Chapters
Echterhoff, G. (2008). Language and memory: Social and cognitive processes. In A. Nünning & A. Erll (Eds.), Cultural memory studies. An international and interdisciplinary handbook (pp. 263-274). Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. PDF (for personal use only)

 

Echterhoff, G., & Neumann, B. (2007). Projekt- und Zeitmanagement in der Promotionsphase: Organisatorische und psychologische Strategien [Managing dissertation projects: Psychological strategies for successful planning and performance]. In A. Nünning & R. Sommer (Eds.), Metzler Handbuch Promotion. Stuttgart, Germany: Metzler. PDF (for personal use only)

 

Echterhoff, G. & Hirst, W. (2002). Remembering in a social context: A conversational view of the study of memory. In G. Echterhoff & M. Saar (Eds.), Kontexte und Kulturen des Erinnerns: Maurice Halbwachs und das Paradigma des kollektiven Gedächtnisses (pp. 75-101). Constance, Germany: Universitätsverlag Konstanz. PDF (for personal use only)