Prof. Dr. Juliane Degner
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- Social Perception and Impression Formation
- Social Categorization Processes
- Intergroup Attitudes
- Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination
Research Interests
My research is primarily focused on automatic processes of social perception and impression formation and what influence social categorization processes, stereotypes, and prejudices have on them. We also investigate the behavioral consequences for social interactions - including virtual interactions.
Please note that Prof. Degner is only available for media inquiries on the topic of intergroup attitudes (stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination). For other topics, please refer to the expert referral service of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) (ExpertInnenvermittlung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)).
Curriculum Vitae
After graduating with a diploma in psychology from Humboldt-University Berlin in 2002, I became a member of the interdisciplinary research group "Discrimination and Tolerance in Intergroup Relations" at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena where I also started working on my PhD Thesis. I finished my PhD (Dr. phil) in 2006 at Saarland University and stayed on for my postdoc years. Having spent 2008 until 2012 in the Netherlands as assistant professor of social psychology at the University of Amsterdam, I returned to Germany to take the position as full professor of social psychology at Hamburg University in April 2012.
Publications
*indicates shared first authorships |
Hemshorn de Sanchez, C. S., Mangels, J., Degner, J. & Lehmann-Willenbrock, N. (in press). Understanding Emergent Leader-Follower Patterns and the Role of Gender in Teams: A Micro-Temporal Account. Manuscript accepted for publication in Leadership & Organization Development Journal.
Joshi, N. & Degner, J. (2024). Who uses the all-time mirror on Zoom? Is self-referent gaze behavior during virtual interactions diagnostic of trait or state personality characteristics? Basic and Applied Social Psychology. paper • open data.
Wentura, D., Shi, E. & Degner, J. (2024). Examining modal and amodal language processing in proficient bilinguals. Evidence from the modality-switch paradigm. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Section Speech and Language, 18, paper • open data.
*Weber, M.-C., *Stroebele, L., Song, S.J., Offner, L., Huang, A.X., & Degner, J. (in press). The relation between contact experiences and dual identity among German residents with a Turkish or Kurdish identity. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology paper • open data
Bott, A.*, Brockmann, L.*, Denneberg, I.*, Henken, E.*, Kuper, N.*, Kruse, F., & Degner, J. (2024). Spontaneous trait inferences from behavior: A systematic meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50, 78-102. paper • open data
Diekhof, E.K., Deinert, L., Keller, J.K., & Degner, J. (2024). The COVID-19 pandemic and changes in social behavior: Protective face masks reduce deliberate social distancing preferences while leaving automatic avoidance behavior unaffected. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 9, 2. paper • open data
Sander, C. W. & Degner, J. (2023). Investigating mechanisms of political polarization: Perceivers spontaneously infer ideological categories from other people’s behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. paper • open data
Mangels, J. & Degner, J. (2023). When the Punk wishes you a great day, he still appears friendly: Stereotypes do not reliably guide spontaneous trait Inferences from behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108, 104497. paper • open data
Stelter, M.*, Essien, I.*, Rohmann, A., Degner, J. & Kemme, S. (2023). Shooter Biases and Stereotypes among Police and Civilians. Acta Psychologica, 232, 103820. paper • open data
Stelter, M., Simon., D. , Calanchini, J., Christ, O., & Degner, J. (2023). Real-life outgroup exposure, self-reported outgroup contact, and the other-race effect. British Journal of Psychology, 114, 150-171. paper • open data
Degner, J. (2022). Vorurteile: haben immer nur die anderen. Springer Sachbuch.
Bott, A.*, Brockmann, L.*, Denneberg, I.*, Henken, E.*, Kuper, N.*, Kruse, F., & Degner, J. (2022). Spontaneous trait inferences from behavior: A systematic meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. paper • open data
Essien, I., Stelter, M., Rohmann, A. & Degner, J. (2022). Beyond stereotypes: Prejudice as an important missing force explaining group disparities. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45 , e74. paper
Rohr, M., Degner, J., & Wentura D. (2022). Emotion misattribution from complex scene pictures: Evidence for implicit information extraction beyond valence. Emotion, 22, 1208–1223. paper • open data
Stelter, M.*, Essien, I.*, Sander, C., & Degner, J. (2022). Racial bias in police traffic stops: White residents' county-level prejudice and stereotypes are related to disproportionate stopping of Black drivers. Psychological Science. paper • open data
see also commentary by Payne, B. K. & Rucker, J. M. (2022). Explaining the spatial patterning of racial disparities in traffic stops requires a structural perspective: Further reflections on Stelter et al. (2022) and Ekstrom et al. (2022). Psychological Science.
Degner, J., Floether, J.-C., Essien, I. (2021). Do members of disadvantaged groups explain group status with group stereotypes? Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 750606. paper • open data
Degner, J., Steep., L, Schmidt, S., & Steinicke, F. (2021). Assessing automatic approach-avoidance behavior in immersive virtual environments. Frontiers in Virtual Reality Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour, 2, 761142. paper • open data
Essien, I., Calanchini, J., & Degner, J. (2021). Moderators of Intergroup Evaluation in Disadvantaged Groups: A Comprehensive Test of Predictions from System Justification Theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 1204–1230. paper • open data
Imhoff., R., Alexopoulos,T., Cichocka, A., Degner, J., Dixon, J., Easterbrook, M., Greenaway, K., Henry, PJ., Marshall, T., Papies, E., Rothmund, T., Schnabel, N. Smith, J. (2021). Thoroughly thought through? Experimenting with registered reports. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51, 1035-1037. paper
Kruse, F. & Degner, J. (2021). Spontaneous state inferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 121, 774–791. paper • open data
Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2021). (Eye-) Tracking the Other Race Effect: Comparison of Eye Movements during Encoding and Recognition of Ingroup faces with Proximal and Distant Outgroup Faces. Social Cognition, 39, 366–395. paper • open data
Brandt, M. J., Kuppens, T., Spears, R., Andrighetto, L., Autin, F., Babincak ...Degner, J., Essien, I., ... & Zimmerman, J. L. (2020). Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries. European Journal of Social Psychology., 50, 921-942. paper • open data
Degner, J. & Calanchini, J. (2020). Age Invariance in implicit bias: Alternate perspectives and their implications for the development of implicit cognition. Social Cognition. Special Issue: Twenty-Five Years of Research Using Implicit Measures, 38, s135-s153. paper
Essien, I., Otten, S., & Degner, J. (2020). Group Evaluations as Self-Group Distancing: Ingroup Typicality Moderates Evaluative Intergroup Bias in Stigmatized Groups. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 1108-1124. paper • open data
Degner, J. (2020). Stereotype und Vorurteile im frühen Kindesalter. InMind - The Inquisitive Mind, 1/2020. link
Degner, J. & Wentura, D. (2020). Messung von Vorurteilen. In L.-E. Petersen und B. Six (Hrsg.), Stereotype, Vorurteile und soziale Diskriminierung: Theorien, Befunde und Interventionen (2. Auflage, S. 185-200). Weinheim: Beltz.
Degner, J., Mangels, J., & Zander, L. (2019). Visualizing gendered representations of male and female teachers using a reverse correlation paradigm. Social Psychology, 50, pp. 233-251. paper • open data(1&2) • open data (3)
Stelter, M., & Degner, J. (2018). Investigating the Other-Race Effect in Working Memory. British Journal of Psychology, 109, 777–798. paper • open data
Stelter, M., & Degner, J. (2018). Recognizing Emily and Latisha: Inconsistent Effects of Name Stereotypicality on the Other-Race Effect. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(486). paper • open data
Singh, S., Steinicke, F., Stelter, M., Essien, I., & Degner, J. (2017). Das Police Officer's Dilemma in virtueller Realität. Proceedings of the GI Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Reality (GI VR/AR), 11, 125—136. *best paper award. paper
Wentura, D., Rohr, M., & Degner, J. (2017). Masked emotional priming: A double dissociation between direct and indirect effects reveals non-conscious processing of emotional information beyond valence. Consciousness & Cognition, 49, 203-214. paper
Degner, J., Essien, I., Reichardt, R. (2016). Effects of diversity versus segregation on automatic approach and avoidance behavior towards own and other ethnic groups. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 783–791. paper • open data
Degner, J. & Premraj, R. (2015). King of the Bongo Bong. Applied Reproduction, 13(4) - 9h06.
Rohr, M., Degner, J. & Wentura, D. (2015). The “Emotion Misattribution” Procedure: Processing beyond good and bad under masked and unmasked presentation conditions. Cognition and Emotion, 29, 196-219. paper
Degner, J. & Dalege, J (2013). The apple does not fall far from the tree, or does it? Parent-child similarity in intergroup attitudes. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 1270-1304. paper
Dunham, Y. & Degner, J. (2013). From categories to exemplars (and back again). In Banaji, M. R. & Gelman, S. A (eds.). Navigating the social world: What infants, children, and other species can teach us. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bluemke, M., Degner, J., Lotz, J., Ritzenhöfer, L., & Shelliem, L. (2013). Intended and unintended reverberation of traditional and pro-age commercials as a function of viewer age. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27, 474-482 . paper
Opitz, B., & Degner, J., (2012). Emotionality in a second language: It's a matter of time. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1961–196. paper
Degner, J., Doycheva, C., & Wentura, D. (2012). It matters how much you talk: On the automaticity of affective connotations of first and second language words. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15, 181-189. paper
Rohr, M., Degner, J., & Wentura, D. (2012). Masked emotional priming beyond global valence activation. Cognition and Emotion, 26, 224-244. paper
Degner, J. & Premraj, R. (2011). Isn't she lovely? Applied Reproduction, 26(12) - 5h33.
Degner, J. (2011). Affective priming with auditory speech stimuli. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26, 1710-1735. paper
Degner, J. & Wentura, D. (2011). Types of automatically activated prejudice: Assessing possessor- versus other-relevant valence in the evaluative priming task. Social Cognition, 29, 183-211. paper
Degner, J. & Wentura, D. (2010). Automatic Prejudice in Childhood and Early Adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 356-374. paper
Dunham, Y., & Degner, J. (2010). Origins of intergroup bias: Developmental and social cognitive research on intergroup attitudes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 563-568. paper
Wentura, D. & Degner, J. (2010). Automatic evaluation isn’t that crude! Moderation of masked affective priming by type of valence. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 609-628. paper
Wentura, D. & Degner, J. (2010). A Practical Guide to Sequential Priming and Related Tasks. In B. Gawronski, & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of implicit social cognition: Measurement, theory, and applications. New York, NY : Guilford Press. (pp. 95 - 116). peprint
Degner, J. (2009). On the (Un)Controllability of affective priming: Strategic manipulation is feasible but can possibly be prevented. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 327-354. paper
Degner, J., Meiser, T., & Rothermund, K. (2009). Kognitive und sozial-kognitive Determinanten: Stereotype und Vorurteile. In A. Beelmann & K. J. Jonas (Hrsg.). Diskriminierung und Toleranz. Psychologische Grundlagen und Anwendungsperspektiven (pp.75-93). Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
Degner, J. & Wentura, D. (2009). Not Everybody likes the thin and despises the fat: Own weight matters in the automatic activation of weight-related social evaluations. Social Cognition, 27, 202-220. paper
Degner, J. & Wentura, D. (2008). The Extrinsic Affective Simon Task as an instrument for indirect assessment of prejudice. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 1033-1043. paper
Degner, J. & Wentura, D. (2008). Messung von Vorurteilen. In L.-E. Petersen & B.Six (Hrsg.): Stereotype, Vorurteile und soziale Diskriminierung - Theorien, Befunde und Interventionen. (S. 149-158). Weinheim: Beltz.
Degner, J., Wentura, D., Gniewosz, B., & Noack, P. (2007). Hostility-related prejudice against Turks in adolescents: Masked affective priming allows for a differentiation of automatic prejudice. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29, 245-256. paper
Stahl, C. & Degner, J. (2007). Assessing automatic activation of valence: A multinomial model of EAST performance. Experimental Psychology, 54, 99-112. paper
Degner, J. (2006). Die indirekte Erfassung von Einstellungen gegenüber Übergewichtigen Menschen mit dem affektiven Priming. Kassel : University Press.
Degner, J., Wentura, D., & Rothermund, K. (2006). Indirect assessment of attitudes with response time based measures. Chances and problems. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 37, 131-139. paper
Wentura, D. & Degner, J. (2006). Indirekte Messung von Einstellungen mit kognitionspsychologischen Verfahren: Chancen und Probleme. In E.H. Witte (Hrsg.): Evolutionäre Sozialpsychologie und automatische Prozesse. (S.50-66). Lengerich: Pabst.
Wentura, D. & Degner, J. (2006). Sozialpsychologie kognitiver Prozesse. In K. Pawlik (Hrsg.): Handbuch Psychologie.