Fritz Strack

     
Institution
University of Würzburg

Current Position
Professor

Highest Degree
Dr. habil. in Psychology from University of Mannheim, Germany, 1989

Research Interests
Attitudes
Emotion
Judgment/Decision Making
Motivation/Goal Setting
Person Perception
Self/Identity
Social Cognition

 
Fritz Strack
Psychologie II
Universität Würzburg
Röntgenring 10
97070 Würzburg
Germany

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Vita

Fritz Strack
My most recent research interest focuses on the interplay of reflective and impulsive determinants of social behavior. It is based on previous work on cognitive and affective processes.


Books:

  • Bless, H., Fiedler, K. & Strack, F. (2003). Social cognition: How individuals construct social reality. New York: Psychology Press.
  • Strack, F., Argyle, M., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.). (1991). Subjective well-being: An interdisciplinary perspective. New York: Pergamon Press.

Journal Articles:

  • Gawronski, B., & Strack, F. (2004). On the propositional nature of cognitive consistency: Dissonance changes explicit, but not implicit attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 535-542.
  • Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Chiu, C. Y., Farsides, T., Gelfand, M., Hong, Y. Y., Kim, U., Srack, F., Werth, L., Yuki, M., & Yzerbyt, V. (2005). Culture, essentialism, and agency: Are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups? European Journal of Social Psychology, 35(2), 147-169.
  • Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2001). The semantics of anchoring. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 86, 234-255.
  • Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (1999). Hypothesis-consistent testing and semantic priming in the anchoring paradigm: A selective accessibility model. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35, 136-164.
  • Neumann, R., & Strack, F. (2000). "Mood contagion": The automatic transfer of mood between persons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 211-223.
  • Strack, F., & Förster, J. (1998). Self reflection and recognition: the role of metacognitive knowledge in the attribution of the recollective experience. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2, 111-123.
  • Strack, F., Förster, J., & Werth, L. (2005). “Know thyself!” The role of idiosyncratic self-knowledge in recognition memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 52(4), 628-638.
  • Strack, F., & Mussweiler, T. (1997). Explaining the enigmatic anchoring effect: Mechanisms of selective accessibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 437-446.
  • Strack, F., & Neumann, R. (2000). Furrowing the brow may undermine perceived fame: The role of facial feedback in judgments of celebrity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 762-768.
  • Strack, F., & Schwarz, N. (2003). A Nobel Prize for Daniel Kahnemann and for the field of psychology. European Bulletin of Social Psychology, 15, 4-14.
  • Werth, L., Strack, F., & Förster, J. (2002). Certainty and uncertainty: The two faces of the hindsight bias. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 87, 323-341.

Other Publications:

  • Strack, F. (2001). Heuristics in social cognition. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
  • Strack, F., & Deutsch, R. (2004). Reflection and impulse as determinants of "conscious" and "unconscious" motivation. In J. P. Forgas, K. Williams, & S. Laham (Eds.), Social motivation:Conscious and Unconscious Processes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

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