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Hans Alves

Publications (selection)

(2025)

Koch, A., Dotsch, R., Imhoff, R., Unkelbach, C., & Alves, H. (2025).

"Ideological Beliefs as Cues to Exploitation-Exploration Behavior." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 117, 104718.
(2024)

Alves, H., Yzerbyt, V., & Unkelbach, C. (2024).

"Attitude Formation in More- and Less-Complex Social Environments." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 01461672241235387. Advance online publication.

Baldwin, M., Alves, H., & Unkelbach, C. (2024).

"A Cognitive–Ecological Approach to Temporal Self-Appraisals." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(5), 779–803.
(2023)

Unkelbach, C., Alves, H., Baldwin, M., Crusius, J., Diel, K., Galinsky, A. D., Gast, A., Hofmann, W., Imhoff, R., Genschow, O., Lammers, J., Pauels, E., Schneider, I., Topolinski, S., Westfal, M., & Mussweiler, T. (2023).

"Relativity in Social Cognition: Basic Processes and Novel Applications of Social Comparisons." European Review of Social Psychology, 34(2), 387–440.
(2022)

Alves, H., Uğurlar, P., & Unkelbach, C. (2022).

"Typical is Trustworthy—Evidence for a Generalized Heuristic." Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(2), 446–455.

Zorn, T. J., Mata, A., & Alves, H. (2022).

"Attitude Similarity and Interpersonal Liking: A Dominance of Positive Over Negative Attitudes." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 100, 104281.
(2021)

Florack, A., Koch, T., Haasova, S., Kunz, S., & Alves, H. (2021).

"The Differentiation Principle: Why Consumers Often Neglect Positive Attributes of Novel Food Products." Journal of Consumer Psychology, 31(4), 684–705.

Kunz, S., Florack, A., Campuzano, I., & Alves, H. (2021).

"The Sustainability Liability Revisited: Positive Versus Negative Differentiation of Novel Products by Sustainability Attributes." Appetite, 167, 105637.

Unkelbach, C., Koch, A., & Alves, H. (2021).

"Explaining Negativity Dominance Without Processing Bias." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(6), 429–430.
(2020)

Alves, H., Högden, F., Gast, A., Aust, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2020).

"Attitudes from Mere Co-Occurrences Are Guided by Differentiation." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(3), 560–581.

Genschow, O. & Alves, H. (2020).

"The Submissive Chameleon: Third-Party Inferences From Observing Mimicry." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 88, 103966.

Unkelbach, C., Alves, H., & Koch, A. (2020).

"Negativity Bias, Positivity Bias, and Valence Asymmetries: Explaining the Differential Processing of Positive and Negative Information." In B. Gawronski (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 62, pp. 115–187). Academic Press.
(2019)

Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2019).

"The Differential Similarity of Positive and Negative Information – an Affect-Induced Processing Outcome?" Cognition and Emotion, 33(6), 1224–1238.

Alves, H., & Mata, A. (2019).

"The Redundancy in Cumulative Information and How It Biases Impressions." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117(6), 1035–1060.

Unkelbach, C., Koch, A., & Alves, H. (2019).

"The Evaluative Information Ecology: On the Frequency and Diversity of “Good” and “Bad.”" European Review of Social Psychology, 30(1), 216–270.
(2018)

Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2018).

"A Cognitive-Ecological Explanation of Intergroup Biases." Psychological Science, 29(7), 1126–1133.

Alves, H. (2018).

"Sharing Rare Attitudes Attracts." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(8), 1270-1283.
(2017)

Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2017).

"Why Good Is More Alike Than Bad: Processing Implications." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(2), 69–79.

Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2017).

"The “Common Good” Phenomenon: Why Similarities Are Positive and Differences Are Negative." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(4), 512–528.
(2016)

Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2016).

"My Friends Are All Alike—The Relation Between Liking and Perceived Similarity in Person Perception." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 62, 103–117.

Hansen, J., Alves, H., & Trope, Y. (2016).

"Psychological Distance Reduces Literal Imitation: Evidence from an Imitation-Learning Paradigm." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(3), 320–330.

Koch, A., Imhoff, R., Dotsch, R., Unkelbach, C., & Alves, H. (2016).

"The ABC of Stereotypes About Groups: Agency/Socioeconomic Success, Conservative – Progressive Beliefs, and Communion." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(5), 675–709.

Koch, A., Alves, H., Krüger, T., & Unkelbach, C. (2016).

"A General Valence Asymmetry in Similarity: Good Is More Alike Than Bad." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(8), 1171–1192.
(2015)

Alves, H., Unkelbach, C., Burghardt, J., Koch, A., Krüger, T., & Becker, V. D. (2015).

"A Density Explanation of Valence Asymmetries in Recognition Memory." Memory & Cognition, 43(6), 896–909.

Pressemitteilungen

Für ihr Paper „Negativity bias, positivity bias, and valence asymmetries: Explaining the differential processing of positive and negative information“ haben …

Hans Alves wurde vom Europäischen Forschungsrat (ERC) mit einem Starting Grant in Höhe von 1,4 Millionen Euro ausgezeichnet. Mit diesem …

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