Roland Imhoff

8.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
124 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Roland Imhoff is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Imhoff has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 43 papers in Social Psychology and 40 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Roland Imhoff's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (48 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (36 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (30 papers). Roland Imhoff is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (48 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (36 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (30 papers). Roland Imhoff collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Roland Imhoff's co-authors include Pia Lamberty, Martin Bruder, Rainer Banse, Nick Neave, Alexander F. Schmidt, Michał Bilewicz, Alex Koch, Hans‐Peter Erb, Ron Dotsch and Sara Jahnke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Roland Imhoff

115 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Measuring Individual Differences in Generic Beliefs in Co... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2013 2020 2022 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Measuring Individual Differences in Generic Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures: Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire
    2013 609 citations Roland Imhoff et al. profile →
  2. Speaking (Un–)Truth to Power: Conspiracy Mentality as A Generalised Political Attitude
    2013 483 citations Roland Imhoff et al. profile →
  3. A Bioweapon or a Hoax? The Link Between Distinct Conspiracy Beliefs About the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak and Pandemic Behavior
    2020 418 citations Roland Imhoff, Pia Lamberty Social Psychological and Personality Science profile →
  4. Tearing apart the “evil” twins: A general conspiracy mentality is not the same as specific conspiracy beliefs
    2022 108 citations Roland Imhoff et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roland Imhoff Germany 31 3.5k 1.5k 1.1k 926 678 124 4.7k
Aleksandra Cichocka United Kingdom 33 4.4k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 981 1.1× 745 1.1× 95 5.1k
Robbie M. Sutton United Kingdom 40 4.9k 1.4× 1.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 547 0.6× 1.0k 1.5× 97 6.2k
Stefan Stieger Austria 34 2.2k 0.6× 758 0.5× 943 0.8× 1.3k 1.4× 366 0.5× 135 4.3k
Eran Halperin Israel 41 3.9k 1.1× 876 0.6× 2.5k 2.2× 707 0.8× 213 0.3× 192 5.4k
Gordon Hodson Canada 46 4.5k 1.3× 1.4k 0.9× 3.5k 3.1× 942 1.0× 167 0.2× 145 6.9k
Mark J. Brandt Netherlands 33 2.5k 0.7× 984 0.6× 1.7k 1.5× 268 0.3× 250 0.4× 118 3.8k
Maria Paola Paladino Italy 31 2.6k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 2.7k 2.4× 555 0.6× 125 0.2× 65 4.4k
Gráinne M. Fitzsimons United States 31 2.1k 0.6× 468 0.3× 2.1k 1.9× 624 0.7× 238 0.4× 64 4.4k
Steve Loughnan United Kingdom 31 1.7k 0.5× 1.4k 1.0× 1.9k 1.7× 736 0.8× 216 0.3× 72 5.2k
Michał Bilewicz Poland 30 2.0k 0.6× 554 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 305 0.3× 152 0.2× 124 2.8k

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All Works

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Bräscher, Anne‐Kathrin, et al.. (2025). Owners of a conspiratorial heart? Investigating the longitudinal relationship between loneliness and conspiracy beliefs. British Journal of Social Psychology. 64(2). e12865–e12865.
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Gollwitzer, Mario, et al.. (2024). How the pandemic affected psychological research. Royal Society Open Science. 11(11). 241311–241311. 1 indexed citations
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Imhoff, Roland. (2024). On the Usefulness of the Conspiracy Mentality Concept. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 232(1). 59–63. 7 indexed citations
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Imhoff, Roland, et al.. (2022). Too great to be guilty? Individuals high in collective narcissism demand closure regarding the past to attenuate collective guilt. European Journal of Social Psychology. 52(4). 748–771. 13 indexed citations
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Alper, Sinan & Roland Imhoff. (2022). Suspecting Foul Play When It Is Objectively There: The Association of Political Orientation With General and Partisan Conspiracy Beliefs as a Function of Corruption Levels. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 14(5). 610–620. 29 indexed citations
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Imhoff, Roland, et al.. (2022). Three Fish at One Hook? Future-Oriented, Reconciliatory, and Defensive Claims for Historical Closure as Expressions of the Same Defensive Desire. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 50(3). 351–370. 5 indexed citations
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Imhoff, Roland, et al.. (2021). Combined Anchoring: Prosecution and defense claims as sequential anchors in the courtroom. Legal and Criminological Psychology. 26(2). 215–227. 1 indexed citations
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Nicolás, Gandalf, Susan T. Fiske, Alex Koch, et al.. (2021). Relational versus structural goals prioritize different social information.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 122(4). 659–682. 17 indexed citations
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Oeberst, Aileen, et al.. (2021). Believe It or Not – No Support for an Effect of Providing Explanatory or Threat-Related Information on Conspiracy Theories’ Credibility. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 34(1). 5 indexed citations
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Hirschberger, Gilad, et al.. (2021). Making sense of the past to understand the present: Attributions for historical trauma predict contemporary social and political attitudes. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 25(2). 509–526. 7 indexed citations
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Imhoff, Roland, et al.. (2019). In search of Experimental Evidence for Secondary Antisemitism. 3. 6 indexed citations
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Imhoff, Roland, et al.. (2018). (Pre)occupations: A data-driven model of jobs and its consequences for categorization and evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 77. 76–88. 20 indexed citations
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Imhoff, Roland & Pia Lamberty. (2018). How paranoid are conspiracy believers? Toward a more fine‐grained understanding of the connect and disconnect between paranoia and belief in conspiracy theories. European Journal of Social Psychology. 48(7). 909–926. 155 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Alexander F., et al.. (2014). Validation of direct and indirect measures of preference for sexualized violence.. Psychological Assessment. 26(4). 1173–1183. 21 indexed citations
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Blaison, Christophe, et al.. (2012). The affect misattribution procedure: Hot or not?. Emotion. 12(2). 403–412. 64 indexed citations
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Imhoff, Roland. (2010). Zwei Formen des modernen Antisemitismus? Eine Skala zur Messung primären und sekundären Antisemitismus. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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