How do people form impressions of others and how do people expect to be perceived by other people? What consequences does this have for how people feel, think and behave in social interaction? These are two main questions in my research. I examine these questions in different areas. For example, I study to what extent meta-stereotypes (i.e., stereotypes people expect that the outgroup has of their group) will influence emotions, cognitions, and behavior. Further, I study the influence of (expected) evaluation, social rejection, intergroup conflict, and power relations on (meta-)perception of people and groups. I'm interested in humility and humiliation in interpersonal and intergroup relations. Moreover, I examine charisma and minority influence.
Research Interests
Attitudes
Emotion
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Persuasion/Social Influence
Prejudice/Stereotyping
Social Cognition
Courses Taught
Advanced Social Psychology
Attitudes and Behavior
Attitudes and Survey Techniques
Testing Social Psychological Theories
Intrapersonal processes (social cognition)
Intergroup processes
Publications
In press
Koudenburg, N., Postmes, T., & Gordijn, E.H. If they were to vote, they would vote for us. Psychological Science.
Lammers, J., Galinski, A.,Gordijn, E.H.,& Otten, S. Power increases social distance. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
2011
Koudenburg, N., & Gordijn E.H. (2011). My date can call me sweet, but my colleague can’t: Meta-stereotypic behavior as a function of context and liking of the outgroup. Social cognition, 29, 212-230.
Koudenburg, N., Postmes, T., & Gordijn, E.H. (2011).
Disrupting the flow: How brief silences in group conversations affect social needs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47,512-515.
Kamans, E., Otten, S., & Gordijn, E. H.. (2011). P
ower and threat in intergroup conflict: How emotional and behavioral reactions depend on amount and content of threat.
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 14,
293-310.
2010
Gordijn, E.H. (2010).
When thinking that you are fat makes you feel worthless: Activation and application of meta-stereotypes when appearance matters. Social Cognition, 28, 20-39.
Kamans, E., Otten, S., & Gordijn, E. H., Spears, R..(2010). How group contest depends on group power and the likelihood that power determines victory and defeat.
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13,
715-724.
Van de Velde, S.W., Stapel, D.A., & Gordijn, E.H. (2010).
Imitation of Emotion: When meaning leads to aversion. European Journal of Social Psychology,
40, 536 - 542.
2009
Gordijn, E.H., & Boven, G. (2009).
Loneliness among people with HIV in relation to locus of control and negative meta-stereotyping. Basic
and Applied Social Psychology, 31, 109-116.
Kamans, Gordijn, Oldenhuis, & Otten (2009).
What (I think) you see is what you get: Influence of prejudice on reciprocating negative meta-stereotypes among Dutch Moroccan teenagers.European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 842-851.
Lammers, J., Gordijn, E.H., & Otten, S. (2009).
Iron ladies, men of steel: The effects of gender stereotyping on the perception of male and female candidates are moderated by prototypicality
. European Journal of Social Psychology,
39
, 186–195
.
2008
Gordijn, E.H., Brix, L., Wijnants, N., Koomen, W., & Finschilescu, G. (2008). The relation between prejudice, stereotypes and anticipated affect: Black and White South Africans’ perceptions and meta-perceptions. South African Journal of Psychology, 38, 589-601.
Lammers, J., Galinski, A.,Gordijn, E.H.,& Otten, S. (2008).
Legitimacy moderates the effects of power on approach. Psychological Science, 19, 558-564.
Ruys, K.I., Spears, R., & Gordijn, E.H. (2008). Similar and different at the same time: When similarity stimulates the perception of dissimilarities between people. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 576-585.
2007
Ruys, K.I., Spears, R., Gordijn, E.H., & de Vries, N.K. (2007). Automatic contrast: Evidence that automatic comparison with the social self affects evaluative responses. British
Journal of Psychology, 98,
361-374.
2006
Gordijn, E.H., Yzerbyt, V. Y., Wigboldus, D., Dumont, M. (2006). Emotional reactions to harmful intergroup behavior. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 15-30.
Ruys, K.I., Spears, R., Gordijn, E.H., & de Vries, N.K. (2006).
Two faces of (dis)similarity in affective judgments of persons: Contrast or assimilation effects revealed by morphs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90,
399-411.
Yzerbyt, V. Y., Dumont, M., Mathieu, B., Gordijn, E., & Wigboldus, D. (2006). Social comparison and group-based emotions. In S. Guimond (Ed.), Social comparison processes and levels of analysis: Understanding cognition, intergroup relations, and culture (pp. 174-205). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
2005
Judd, C. M., Park, B., Yzerbyt, V. Y., Gordijn, E., & Muller, D. (2005). They show more intergroup bias and have stronger stereotypes than do I: Evidence from ethnic, gender, and nationality intergroup contexts. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 677-704.
Muller, D., Yzerbyt, V. Y., Judd, C. M., Park, B. & Gordijn, E. H. (2005).
Autrui ne serait-il pas plus biaisé que moi ? Le cas des relations franco-américaines. Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale, 67-68, 7-21.
2004
Gordijn, E.H,, Hindriks, I., Koomen, W., Dijksterhuis, A., van Knippenberg, A. (2004).
Consequences of stereotype suppression and internal suppression motivation: A self-regulation approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 212-224.
Spears, R., Gordijn, E.H.,Dijksterhuis, A., & Stapel, D.A. (2004). Reaction in action: Intergroup contrast in automatic behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 605-616.
2003
Dumont
, M., Yzerbyt, V., Wigboldus, D., & Gordijn, E.H. (2003). Social Categorization and Fear Reactions to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1509-1520.
Yzerbyt, V. Y., Dumont, M., Wigboldus, D., & Gordijn, E. (2003). I feel for us: The impact of categorization and identification on emotions and actiontendencies. British Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 533-549.
2002
Gordijn, E.H. (2002). Meta-stereotypes and meta-prejudice: Some suggestions for future research.Revista de Psicología Social, 17, 3, 283-286.
Gordijn, E.H., De Vries, N.K. & de Dreu, C.K.W. (2002).
Minority influence on focal and related attitudes: Change in size, attribution, and information processing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28
, 1315-1326.
Yzerbyt, V. Y., Dumont, M., Gordijn, E., & Wigboldus, D. (2002). Intergroupemotions and self-categorization: The impact of perspective-taking on reactions to victims of harmful behavior. In D. Mackie & E. Smith (Eds.), From prejudice to intergroup emotions (pp. 67-88) Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
2001
Gordijn, E.H., De Vries, N.K. en Postmes, T. (2001).
Self-persuasion: an alternative paradigm for investigating minority and majority influence. In C. De Dreu & N.K. De Vries (Eds.). Group consensus: Implications for innovation. (pp. 144-159). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Gordijn, E.H., Koomen, W., Stapel, D. A. (2001). Level of prejudice in relation to knowledge of cultural stereotypes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 150-157.
Gordijn, E.H., Postmes, T. & de Vries, N.K. (2001). Devil's advocate or advocate of oneself: the effects of pro- and counter-attitudinal advocacy and numerical support on self persuasion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 395-407.
Gordijn, E.H., Wigboldus, D., & Yzerbyt, V. (2001).
Emotional consequences of categorizing victims of negative outgroup behavior as ingroup or outgroup. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 4, 317-326.
Before 2001
De Dreu, C.K.W., De Vries, N.K., & Gordijn, E.H. (1999). Convergent and divergent processing of majority and minority arguments: Effects on focal and related attitudes.
European Journal of Social Psychology
, 29, 329-348.
De Vries, N.K., De Dreu, C.K.W., Gordijn, E. & Schuurman, M. (1996).
Majority and minority influence: a dual role interpretation. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (Eds.), European Review of Social Psychology, 7 (pp. 145-172). Chichester: Wiley.
Reicher, S., Levine, M., & Gordijn, E. (1998). More on deindividuation, power relations between groups and the expression of social identity: three studies on the effects of visibility to the ingroup.
British Journal of Social Psychology, 37
, 15-40.
