Herbert Bless

12.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
109 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Herbert Bless is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Herbert Bless has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 44 papers in Social Psychology and 25 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Herbert Bless's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (41 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (27 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (20 papers). Herbert Bless is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (41 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (27 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (20 papers). Herbert Bless collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Herbert Bless's co-authors include Norbert Schwarz, Fritz Strack, Johannes Keller, Gerd Bohner, Michaela Wänke, Rainer Greifeneder, Gerald L. Clore, Diane M. Mackie, Klaus Fiedler and et al and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Current Directions in Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Herbert Bless

105 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Herbert Bless Germany 42 2.8k 2.6k 2.0k 1.5k 1.3k 109 7.0k
Thomas Mussweiler Germany 47 3.6k 1.3× 2.5k 1.0× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 109 8.6k
Thomas K. Srull United States 32 3.2k 1.1× 2.4k 0.9× 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 55 6.7k
David M. Sanbonmatsu United States 29 2.5k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 1.0k 0.8× 88 5.8k
Jens Förster Germany 47 2.6k 0.9× 3.5k 1.3× 2.1k 1.1× 3.2k 2.1× 2.5k 1.9× 114 8.8k
Neal J. Roese United States 39 1.9k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 1.2k 0.9× 84 6.2k
Donna M. Webster United States 17 3.1k 1.1× 2.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.5× 946 0.6× 944 0.7× 18 6.2k
Joseph P. Forgas Australia 52 4.0k 1.4× 5.0k 1.9× 2.0k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 2.2k 1.7× 176 10.4k
David L. Hamilton United States 44 5.3k 1.9× 4.0k 1.5× 1.7k 0.8× 933 0.6× 1.0k 0.8× 109 8.1k
Daniel M. Oppenheimer United States 28 1.6k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 1.9k 0.9× 649 0.4× 1.3k 1.0× 80 6.5k
James Y. Shah United States 27 2.7k 1.0× 3.2k 1.2× 942 0.5× 3.2k 2.1× 1.3k 1.0× 40 6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Herbert Bless

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Fields of papers citing papers by Herbert Bless

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Herbert Bless

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bless, Herbert, et al.. (2023). Effect of social class on personal control beliefs. Journal of Personality. 92(4). 1086–1099. 3 indexed citations
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Grüning, David Joachim, et al.. (2021). Too Good to be Liked? When and How Prosocial Others are Disliked. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 701689–701689. 1 indexed citations
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Igou, Eric R., et al.. (2020). Just-World Beliefs Increase Helping Intentions via Meaning and Affect. Journal of Happiness Studies. 22(5). 2235–2253. 20 indexed citations
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Scholl, Sabine, et al.. (2018). Beautiful mess effect: Self–other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 115(2). 192–205. 30 indexed citations
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Greifeneder, Rainer & Herbert Bless. (2010). The fate of activated information in impression formation: Fluency of concept activation moderates the emergence of assimilation versus contrast. British Journal of Social Psychology. 49(2). 405–414. 8 indexed citations
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Bless, Herbert. (2010). Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 42). 1 indexed citations
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Bless, Herbert & Eric R. Igou. (2005). Mood and the use of general knowledge structures in judgment and decision making.. 193–210. 5 indexed citations
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Kemmelmeier, Markus, Herbert Bless, Norbert Schwarz, & Gerd Bohner. (2004). What research participants learn from rewards: A conversational logic analysis of rewarding reasoning performance. PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 22(2). 267–287. 3 indexed citations
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Bless, Herbert, et al.. (2003). Mood and the reliance on the ease of retrieval heuristic.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 85(1). 20–32. 129 indexed citations
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Wänke, Michaela, et al.. (2003). Der Einfluss von “Karrierefrauen” auf das Frauenstereotyp. 34(3). 187–196. 4 indexed citations
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Bless, Herbert & Carolyn Yoon. (2002). Processes Underlying Direction and Magnitude of Context Effects: Advances in Theory and Implications for Consumer Settings. Advances in consumer research. 29(1). 86.
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Wänke, Michaela, Herbert Bless, & Norbert Schwarz. (1999). Assimilation and Contrast in Brand and Product Evaluations: Implications For Marketing. ACR North American Advances. 7 indexed citations
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Bless, Herbert, et al.. (1996). Mood and the use of scripts: Does a happy mood really lead to mindlessness?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 71(4). 665–679. 422 indexed citations
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Bodenhausen, Galen V., Norbert Schwarz, Herbert Bless, & Michaela Wänke. (1995). Effects of Atypical Exemplars on Racial Beliefs: Enlightened Racism or Generalized Appraisals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 31(1). 48–63. 161 indexed citations
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Bless, Herbert, et al.. (1994). Need for cognition: eine Skala zur Erfassung von Engagement und Freude bei Denkaufgaben: Need for cognition: a scale measuring engagement and happiness in cognitive tasks. PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 25. 116 indexed citations
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Bless, Herbert, et al.. (1994). Need for Cognition : eine Skala zur Erfassung von Freude und Engagement bei Denkaufgaben. 6 indexed citations
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Bless, Herbert, Gerd Bohner, & Norbert Schwarz. (1992). Gut gelaunt und leicht beeinflussbar? Stimmungseinflüsse auf die Verarbeitung persuasiver Kommunikation. Psychologische Rundschau. 43(1). 1–17. 3 indexed citations
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Schwarz, Norbert & Herbert Bless. (1992). Assimilation and Contrast Effects in Attitude Measurement: an Inclusion/Exclusion Model. ACR North American Advances. 25 indexed citations
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Bless, Herbert, Diane M. Mackie, & Norbert Schwarz. (1992). Mood effects on attitude judgments: Independent effects of mood before and after message elaboration.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 63(4). 585–595. 139 indexed citations
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Bless, Herbert, et al.. (1991). Need for cognition: eine Skala zur Erfassung von Engagement und Freude bei Denkaufgaben. Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). 17. 49 indexed citations

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