Publications

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Five Key Publications

Hofmann, W., Friese, M., & Strack, F. (2009). Impulse and self-control from a dual-systems perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 162-176. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Gschwendner, T., Wiers, R., Friese, M., & Schmitt, M. (2008). Working memory capacity and self-regulation: Towards an individual differences perspective on behavior determination by automatic versus controlled processes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 962-977. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., De Houwer, J., Perugini, M., Baeyens, F., & Crombez, G. (2010). Evaluative conditioning in humans: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 390-421. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Rauch, W., & Gawronski, B. (2007). And deplete us not into temptation: Automatic attitudes, dietary restraint, and self-regulatory resources as determinants of eating behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 497-504. [PDF] *

* Ranked #4 of the Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Articles Published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology between 2005 and 2009.

Hofmann, W., Gawronski, B., Gschwendner, T., Le, H., & Schmitt, M. (2005). A meta-analysis on the correlation between the Implicit Association Test and explicit self-report measures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1369-1385. [PDF]

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In Press

Hofmann, W., Koningsbruggen, G. M., Stroebe, W., Ramanathan, S., & Aarts, H. (in press). As pleasure unfolds: Hedonic responses to tempting food. Psychological Science.

Nederkoorn, C. , Houben, K., Hofmann, W., Roefs, A., & Jansen, A. (in press). Control yourself or just eat what you like? Weight gain over a year is predicted by an interactive effect of response inhibition and preference for high-fat foods. Health Psychology.

Hofmann, W., Schmeichel, B. J., Friese, M, & Baddeley,  A. D.  (in press). Working memory and self-regulation. In: K. D. Vohs, & R. F. Baumeister. Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications. Volume 2. New York: Guilford Press. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Förster, G., Stroebe, W., & Wiers, R. W. (in press). The great disinhibitor: Alcohol, food cues, and eating behavior. In: V. R. Preedy, R. R. Watson, & C. R. Martin (Eds.), International Handbook of Behavior, Diet, and Nutrition. New York:  Springer. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Friese, M., Müller, J., & Strack, F. (in press). Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach, in meiner Brust – Psychologische und philosophische Erkenntnisse zum Konflikt zwischen Impuls und Selbstkontrolle [Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast. Psychological and philosophical insights into the conflict between impulse and self-control], Psychologische Rundschau. [PDF]

2010

Hofmann, W., De Houwer, J., Perugini, M., Baeyens, F., & Crombez, G. (2010). Evaluative conditioning in humans: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 390-421. [PDF]

Hofmann, W. & Wilson, T. D. (2010). Consciousness, introspection, and the adaptive unconscious. In: B. Gawronski, & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition: Measurement, Theory, and Applications (pp. 197-215). New York: Guilford Press. [PDF]

Wiers, R. W., Houben, K., Roefs, A., De Jong, P., Hofmann, W., & Stacy, A. (2010). Implicit cognition in health psychology: Why common sense goes out of the window. In: B. Gawronski, & B. K. Payne (Eds.), Handbook of Implicit Social Cognition: Measurement, Theory, and Applications (pp. 463-488). New York: Guilford Press. [PDF]

Friese, M., Bargas-Avila, J., Hofmann, W., & Wiers, R. W. (2010). Here’s looking at you, Bud: Alcohol-related memory structures predict eye movements for social drinkers with low executive control. Social and Personality Psychology Science, 1, 143-151. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., & Baumert, A. (2010). Immediate affect as a basis for intuitive moral judgment: An adaptation of the affect misattribution procedure. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 522-535. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Deutsch, R., Lancaster, K., & Banaji, M. R. (2010). Cooling the heat of temptation: Mental self-control and the automatic evaluation of tempting stimuli. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 17-25. [PDF]

Wiers, R. W. & Hofmann, W. (2010). Implicit cognition and health psychology: Changing perspectives and new interventions. European Health Psychologist, 12, 4-6. [PDF]

Rasch, B., Friese, M., Hofmann, W., & Naumann, E. (2010). Quantitative Methoden [Quantitative methods]. Volume 1. (3rd Edition). Berlin: Springer. [Link]

Rasch, B., Friese, M., Hofmann, W., & Naumann, E. (2010). Quantitative Methoden [Quantitative methods]. Volume 2. (3rd Edition). Berlin: Springer. [Link]

2009

Hofmann, W., Friese, M., & Roefs, A. (2009). Three ways to resist temptation: The independent contributions of executive attention, inhibitory control, and affect regulation on the impulse control of eating behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 431-435. [PDF]

Friese, M. & Hofmann, W. (2009). Control me, or I will control you: Impulses, trait self-control, and the guidance of behavior. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 795-805. [PDF]

Wiers, R. W., Beckers, L., Houben, K., & Hofmann, W. (2009). A short fuse after alcohol: Implicit power associations predict aggressiveness after alcohol consumption in young heavy drinkers with limited executive control. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 93, 300-305. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Gschwendner, T., & Schmitt, M. (2009). The road to the implicit self not taken: Discrepancies between self- and observer-inferences about implicit dispositions from nonverbal behavioral cures. European Journal of Personality, 23, 343-366. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Friese, M., & Strack, F. (2009). Impulse and self-control from a dual-systems perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 162-176. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Friese, M., & Gschwendner, T. (2009). Men on the ‘pull’: Automatic approach-avoidance tendencies and sexual interest behavior. Social Psychology, 40, 73-78. [PDF]

Friese, M., Wänke, M., & Hofmann, W. (2009). Unscrambling self-regulatory behavior determination: The interplay of impulse strength, reflective processes, and control resources. In: J. Forgas, R. F. Baumeister, & D. M. Tice (Eds.). The psychology of self-regulation. Cognitive, affective, and motivational processes (pp. 53-71). New York: Psychology Press. [PDF]

Friese, M., Hofmann, W., & Wänke, M. (2009). The impulsive consumer: Predicting consumer behavior with implicit reaction time measures. In: M. Wänke (Ed.). Frontiers of Social Psychology: The Social Psychology of Consumer Behavior (pp. 335-364). Psychology Press: New York. [PDF]

2008

Hofmann, W., Friese, M., & Wiers, R. W. (2008). Impulsive versus reflective influences on health behavior: A theoretical framework and empirical review. Health Psychology Review, 2, 111-137. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Gschwendner, T., Wiers, R., Friese, M., & Schmitt, M. (2008). Working memory capacity and self-regulation: Towards an individual differences perspective on behavior determination by automatic versus controlled processes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 962-977. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., & Friese, M. (2008). Impulses got the better of me: Alcohol moderates the influence of the impulsive vs. reflective system on eating behavior. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 420-427. [PDF]

Friese, M., Hofmann, W., & Wänke, M. (2008). When impulses take over: Moderated predictive validity of implicit and explicit attitude measures in predicting food choice and consumption behavior. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 397-419. [PDF]

Friese, M., Hofmann, W., & Schmitt, M. (2008). When and why do implicit measures predict behavior? Empirical evidence for the moderating role of opportunity, motivation, and process reliance. European Review of Social Psychology, 19, 285-338 . [PDF]

Friese, M., & Hofmann, W. (2008). What would you have as a last supper? Thoughts about death influence evaluation and consumption of food products. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1388-1394. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Strack, F., & Deutsch, R. (2008). Free to buy? Explaining self-control and impulse in consumer behavior. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 18, 22-26. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Gschwendner, T., Castelli, L., & Schmitt, M. (2008). Implicit and explicit attitudes and interracial interaction behavior: The moderating role of situationally available control resources. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations,11, 69-87. [PDF]

Hofmann, W. & Schmitt, M. (2008). Editorial: Advances and Challenges in the Indirect Measurement of Individual Differences at Age 10 of the Implicit Association Test. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 24, 207-209. [PDF]

Gschwendner, T., Hofmann, W. & Schmitt, M. (2008). Convergent and predictive validity of implicit and explicit anxiety measures as a function of specificity similarity and content similarity. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 24, 254-262. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., & Windschitl, P. (2008). Judging a group from sampling members: How the encoding of subgroups affects the perceived size and influence of a social group. Journal of Social Psychology, 148, 91-104. [PDF]

Hofmann, W. & Baumert, A. (2008). Hitler als Figur der psychologischen Medienforschung. In: R. Rother & K. Herbst-Meßlinger (Hrsg.). Hitler darstellen. Zur Entwicklung und Bedeutung einer filmischen Figur (S. 133-144). München: Richard Boorberg Verlag. [PDF]

Gschwendner, T., Hofmann, W., & Schmitt, M. (2008). Differential stability: The effects of acute and chronic construct accessibility on the temporal stability of the Implicit Association Test. Journal of Individual Differences, 29, 70-79. [PDF]

2007

Hofmann, W., Rauch, W., & Gawronski, B. (2007). And deplete us not into temptation: Automatic attitudes, dietary restraint, and self-regulatory resources as determinants of eating behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 497-504. [PDF]

Schmitt, M., Baumert, A., & Hofmann W. (2007) Person, Situation oder Interaktion? Eine zeitlose Streitfrage. [Person, situation, or interaction? A timeless controversy. In: Frankenberger, R., Frech, S., & Grimm, D. (Eds.). Politische Psychologie und politische Bildung. Schwalbach: Wochenschau. [PDF]

2006

Gawronski, B., Hofmann, W., & Wilbur, C. (2006). Are implicit attitudes unconscious? Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 485-499. [PDF]

Gschwendner, T., Hofmann, W., & Schmitt, M. (2006). Synergistic moderator effects of situation and person factors of awareness and adjustment on the consistency of implicit and explicit attitudes. Journal of Individual Differences, 27, 47-56. [PDF]

Gschwendner, T., Hofmann, W., & Schmitt, M. (2006). Implizit-explizit-Moderation: Empirische Befunde über den Zusammenhang zwischen impliziten und expliziten Messverfahren. [Implicit-explicit moderation: Empirical findings on the relationship between implicit and explicit measures]. Psychologische Rundschau, 57, 13-33. [PDF]

Schmitt, M. & Hofmann, W. (2006). Situationsbezogene Diagnostik [Situation-focused diagnostics]. In: F. Petermann & M. Eid (Hrsg.). Handbuch der Psychologischen Diagnostik (S. 476-484).Göttingen: Hogrefe. [PDF]

Gschwendner, T., Hofmann, W. & Schmitt, M. (2006). Ein Modell des Zusammenhangs impliziter Reaktionszeitverfahren mit Fragebogenmaßen [A model of the relationship between implicit reaction time measures and questionnaire data]. In: T. M. Ortner, R. T. Proyer, & K. D. Kubinger (Hrsg.). Theorie und Praxis Objektiver Persönlichkeitstests (S.70-87). Bern: Huber. [PDF]

2005

Hofmann, W., Gschwendner, T., Nosek, B. A., & Schmitt, M. (2005). What moderates implicit-explicit consistency? European Review of Social Psychology, 16, 335-390. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Gawronski, B., Gschwendner, T., Le, H., & Schmitt, M. (2005). A meta-analysis on the correlation between the Implicit Association Test and explicit self-report measures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1369-1385. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Gschwendner, T., & Schmitt, M. (2005). On implicit-explicit consistency: The moderating role of individual differences in awareness and adjustment. European Journal of Personality, 19, 25-49. [PDF]

Hofmann, W., Baumert, A., & Schmitt, M. (2005). Heute haben wir Hitler im Kino gesehen: Evaluation der Wirkung des Films der Untergang auf Schüler und Schülerinnen der neunten und zehnten Klasse [Today we saw Hitler at the cinema: Evaluation of the effects of the film "Der Untergang" (downfall) on ninth and tenth grade students]. Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie, 17, 132-146. [PDF]

Beyond 2005

Hofmann, W. (2004). Zusammenprall der Zeitkulturen: Das ostdeutsche Lebenstempo und Zeitempfinden vor und nach der Wiedervereinigung. [Clash of time cultures: East-German life pace and time experience before and after the reunification]. In H. Rosa (Ed.), Fast forward. Standpunkte junger Forschung, S 57-72. Hamburg: Edition Körber. [PDF]

Fiedler, K., Blümke, M., Friese, M., & Hofmann, W. (2003). On the different uses of linguistic abstractness: From LIB to LEB and beyond. European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 441-453. [PDF]

Harvey, J., & Hofmann, W. (2002). Teaching about loss. A special opportunity for psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 29, 319-320. [PDF]

Harvey, J., & Hofmann, W. (2001). Teaching about Loss. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 6, 263-268. [PDF]