William von Hippel, Ph.D.

Professorial Visiting Fellow

School of Psychology

University of New South Wales

Sydney 2052 Australia 

Email: billvh@psy.uq.edu.au

Research Interests:

Prejudice and Stereotyping    

Social-Cognitive Ageing    

Self-Concept    

Social Cognition

Evolutionary Psychology

Editorial Service:

Associate Editor, Psychological Science (2002)

Associate Editor, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2002-2004)

Consulting Editor, Psychological Science, 1999-2001

Consulting Editor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001-

Consulting Editor, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2005-

Research Support:

"Will Viagra save endangered species?" Pfizer, Inc., 1/1/01 - 12/31/01 (with F. von Hippel).

"Aging, inhibition, and stereotyping and prejudice." NIA, 2/1/01 - 1/31/04.

"Viagra’s potential to reduce trade in endangered species" Pfizer, Inc., 1/9/03 – 31/8/04. von Hippel, F. A. (C.I.) & von Hippel, W. (Co-C.I.)

"Affective influences, social thinking, and behaviour: A social neuroscience approach." Australian Research Council, 1/1/04 – 31/12/06. von Hippel, W. (C.I.) & Paxinos, G. (Co-C.I.)

"Hearts and minds: Affect, thinking, and behaviour." Australian Research Council, 1/1/05 – 31/12/09. Forgas, J. P. (C.I.) & von Hippel, W. (Co-C.I.)

“Ageing, inhibition, and social control.” Australian Research Council, 1/1/07 – 31/12/09. von Hippel, W. (C.I.) & Henry, J. (Co-C.I.)

Publications:

Hilton, J. L., & von Hippel, W. (1990). The role of consistency in the judgment of stereotype-relevant behaviors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 16, 430-448.

Hilton, J. L., Klein, J. G., & von Hippel, W. (1991). Attention allocation and impression formation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17, 548-559.

von Hippel, W., Jonides, J., Hilton, J. L., & Narayan, S. (1993). Inhibitory effect of schematic processing on perceptual encoding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 921-935.

von Hippel, W., & Hawkins, C. (1994). Stimulus exposure time and perceptual memory. Perception and Psychophysics, 56, 525-535.

von Hippel, W., Hawkins, C., & Narayan, S. (1994). Personality and perceptual expertise: Individual differences in perceptual identification. Psychological Science, 5, 401-406.

Edwards, K., & von Hippel, W. (1995). Hearts and minds: The priority of affective versus cognitive factors in person perception. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 996-1011.

von Hippel, W., Sekaquaptewa, D., & Vargas, P. (1995). On the role of encoding processes in stereotype maintenance. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 27, 177-254.

Hilton, J. L., & von Hippel, W. (1996). Stereotypes. Annual Review of Psychology, 47, 237-271.

Karpinski, A. T., & von Hippel, W. (1996). The role of the Linguistic Intergroup Bias in expectancy maintenance. Social Cognition, 14, 141-163.

Cacioppo, J. T., von Hippel, W., & Ernst, J. M. (1997). Mapping cognitive structures and processes through verbal content: The thought-listing technique. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 928-940.

von Hippel, W., Sekaquaptewa, D., & Vargas, P. (1997). The Linguistic Intergroup Bias as an implicit indicator of prejudice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 33, 490-509.

Nagda, B. A., Gregerman, S. R., Jonides, J., von Hippel, W., & Lerner, J. S. (1998). Undergraduate student-faculty research partnerships affect student retention. Review of Higher Education, 22, 55-72.

von Hippel, F. A., & von Hippel, W. (1998). Solution to a conservation problem? Science, 281, 1805.

Brewer, M. B., von Hippel, W., & Gooden, M. P. (1999). Diversity and organizational identity: The problem of entree after entry. In D. Prentice & D. Miller (Eds.), Cultural divides: The social psychology of intergroup contact. Russell Sage Foundation.

Fein, S., von Hippel, W., & Spencer, S. (1999). To stereotype or not to stereotype: Motivation and stereotype activation, application, and inhibition. Psychological Inquiry, 10, 49-54.

Edwards, J. A., Weary, G., von Hippel, W., & Jacobson, J. A. (2000). The effects of depression on impression formation: The role of trait and category diagnosticity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 462-473.

von Hippel, W., Silver, L. A., & Lynch, M. E. (2000). Stereotyping against your will: The role of inhibitory ability in stereotyping and prejudice among the elderly. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 523-532.

Chatman, C., & von Hippel, W. (2001). Attributional mediation of ingroup bias. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 267-272.

von Hippel, W., Hawkins, C., & Schooler, J. W. (2001). Stereotype distinctiveness: How counter-stereotypic behavior shapes the self-concept. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 193-205.

von Hippel, F. A., & von Hippel, W. (2002). Sex, drugs, and animal parts: Will Viagra save threatened species? Environmental Conservation, 29, 277-281.

Fein, S., & von Hippel, W. (2003). Stereotypes. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 4, 232-238. London: Macmillan.

Sekaquaptewa, D., Espinoza, P., Thompson, M., Vargas, P., & von Hippel, W. (2003). Stereotypic explanatory bias: Implicit stereotyping as a predictor of discrimination. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 75-82.

von Hippel, W., & Fein, S. (2003). Prejudice. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 3, 718-721. London: Macmillan.

Forgas, J. P., Williams, K. D., & von Hippel, W. (Eds.) (2003). Responding to the social world: Implicit and explicit processes in social judgments and decisions. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Forgas, J. P., Williams, K. D., & von Hippel, W. (2003). Responding to the social world: Explicit and implicit processes in social judgments. In J. P. Forgas, K. Williams, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), Responding to the social world: Implicit and explicit processes in social judgments and decisions. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Forgas, J. P., Laham, S. M., & von Hippel, W. (2004). An evolutionary model of managing moods: Evidence for the role of homeostatic cognitive strategies in affect regulation. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 2, 43-60.

Vargas, P., Sekaquaptewa, D., & von Hippel, W. (2004). It’s not just what you think, it’s also how you think: Prejudice as biased information processing. In W. N. Lee & J. Williams (Eds.), Diversity in Advertising. New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum.

Vargas, P., von Hippel, W., & Petty, R. E. (2004). Using “partially structured” attitude measures to enhance the attitude-behavior relationship. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

von Hippel, W., Vargas, P., & Sekaquaptewa, D. (2004). Attitudinal process vs. content: The role of information processing biases in social judgment and behavior. In J. P. Forgas, K. Williams, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), Responding to the social world: Implicit and explicit processes in social judgments and decisions. New York: Cambridge University Press.

von Hippel, W. (2004). Implicit prejudice: Pentimento or Inquisition? Psychological Inquiry, 15, 302-305.

von Hippel, W., & von Hippel, F. A. (2004). Is Viagra a viable conservation tool? Response to Hoover. Environmental Conservation, 31, 1-3.

Laham, S. M., Gonsalkorale, K., & von Hippel, W. (2005). Darwinian grandparenting: Preferential investment in more certain kin. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 63-72.

von Hippel, W., & Gonsalkorale, K. (2005). "That is bloody revolting!": Inhibitory control of thoughts better left unsaid. Psychological Science, 16, 497-500.

von Hippel, W., Lakin, J. L., & Shakarchi, R. J. (2005). Individual differences in motivated social cognition: The case of self-serving information processing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1347-1357. Download the math program

von Hippel, W., von Hippel, C., Conway, L., Preacher, K. J., Schooler, J. W., & Radvansky, G. A. (2005). Coping with stereotype threat: Denial as an impression management strategy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 22-35.

von Hippel, W., & Dunlop, S. M. (2005). Aging, inhibition, and social inappropriateness. Psychology and Aging, 20, 519-523.

von Hippel, W., von Hippel, F. A., Chan, N., & Cheng, C. (2005). Exploring the use of Viagra in place of animal and plant potency products in traditional Chinese medicine. Environmental Conservation, 32, 235-238.

Williams, K. D., Forgas, J. P., & von Hippel, W. (Eds.), (2005). The social outcast: Ostracism, social exclusion, rejection, and bullying. New York: Psychology Press.

Vargas, P. T., Sekaquaptewa, D., & von Hippel, W. (in press). Armed only with paper and pencil: “Low-tech” implicit measures of attitudes, prejudice, and self-esteem. Chapter to appear in B. Wittenbrink & N. Schwarz (Eds.), Implicit Attitude Measures. Guilford Press.

von Hippel, W., Sekaquaptewa, D., & Vargas, P. T. (in press). Linguistic markers of implicit attitudes. Chapter to appear in R. E. Petty, R. H. Fazio, & P. Brinol (Eds.), Attitudes: Insights from the New Wave of Implicit Measures. Erlbaum.

von Hippel, W., Vasey, M. W., Gonda, T., & Stern, T. (in press). Executive function deficits, rumination, and late-onset depressive symptoms in older adults. Cognitive Therapy and Research.

Media Coverage:

Aging & Prejudice:
Fox News; CBS Radio; USA Today; Science Daily; Daily Telegraph; The Spectator (UK); Seattle Times; Calgary Herald; Pressetext (Austria)

Viagra & Conservation:
New York Times, “100 Ideas of the Year”; Nature; The Economist; Newsweek; US News & World Report; Esquire; National Geographic; Forbes; Der Spiegel; Stern (Germany); Los Angeles Times; Washington Post; Christian Science Monitor; Le Monde; Globe and Mail (Canada); The Times (UK); Times of India; Punjab Kesari; New Scientist; Voice of America; NPR; CBS; BBC; CBC; Discovery Channel (Canada); Thousands of outlets worldwide

Darwinian Grandparenting:
Washington Post; ABC Australia; The Australian; New Scientist; Les Débrouillards (Quebec); Die Welt; Welt am Sonntag; Frankfurter Neue Presse; Tieteen Kuvalehti (Finland); La Nacion (Argentina); Almanacco della Scienza; Italy News; Psychologie Magazine (Netherlands); Sunday Telegraph; Tampa Tribune; VN Express (Vietnam); Web India; Senior Journal; Australian Medicine

Inhibition and Social Skills:
CBS News; ABC News; WebMD; Times (UK); Health; Self; Allure; ABC Australia; Sydney Morning Herald; The Age; Beck Health & Nutrition; Hatena (Japan); Panorama (Italy); Yahoo News India & Taiwan; Forskning (Norway); Saga (UK); Live Science; Innovations Report (Germany); Science Daily; Daily Star (Bangladesh); Syria Nobles; The Indian; VN Express; Various media outlets worldwide

Ageing, Inhibition, and Social Inappropriateness:
ABC News; USA Today; Fox News; NBC News; WebMD; Forbes; Self; Prevention; Macleans (Canada); NPR; ABC Radio Australia; Radio New Zealand; CBC Radio (Canada); Sydney Morning Herald; WomensHealth.gov; Psychology Today; Seven News; Washington Times; Atlanta Journal Constitution; Daily Mail (UK); Ottawa Citizen; Montreal Gazette; Calgary Herald; El Mercurio (Chile); Si (Italy); TG Magazine (Italy); Milano Metropoli; Hindustan Times; QYL (Russia); Medicus (Russia); Urology (Ukraine); Farma Infomed (Romania); Psychologie Magazine; South Asia News; Iran Daily; The Tribune (India); Khaleej Times (UAE)

Rationalised cheating:
Sydney Morning Herald; The Australian; ABC Radio Australia; ABC News Australia; Hatena (Japan); Pathfinder (Greece); Balla (Greece); Jouw Nieuws (Netherlands); Mokslo Lietuva (Lithuania)

Current Projects:

last updated: October 2005