Gerd Bohner


Gerd Bohner is a professor of social psychology at Bielefeld University.

Academia

Bohner studied psychology at Heidelberg University and obtained his PhD in 1990. Since 2001, he has been head of the Social Psychology Unit at Bielefeld University's Department of Psychology. From 2007 to 2009 he served as Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science. Currently he is a board member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence. Before joining Bielefeld University, Bohner was senior lecturer and later professor at the University of Kent. His main research areas include attitudes, social judgement, social influence, marketing and advertising psychology, relations between groups, sexual violence, and sexual harassment. He was founding editor-in-chief of the academic journal Social Psychology and editor of the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie.

Selected publications