People and Research

My primary areas of research are cognitive styles and social cognition. Especially, I'm interested in hw subtle cues in our environment and cognitive processes influence social judgments. How, for example, does the linguistic syntax of statements or the presentation context affect ratings of truth? How do mindsets, such as an exploratory state or abstract/concrete mindsets, influence time estimations or attractiveness ratings? Additionally, my recent studies investigated the impact of certain concepts (such as money or reminders of one's own death) on cognitive styles, social judgments, and behavior. 

Select Publications

• Hansen, J., Winzeler, S., & Topolinski, S. (2010). When the death makes you smoke: A terror management perspective on the effectiveness of cigarette on-pack warnings. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 226-228.
• Dechêne, A., Stahl, C., Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2010). The truth about the truth: A meta-analytic review of the truth effect. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 14, 238-257.
• Dechêne, A., Stahl, C., Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2009). Mix me a list: Context moderates the truth effect and the mere-exposure effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1117-1122.
• Hansen, J. & Wänke, M. (2009). Liking what's familiar: The importance of unconscious familiarity in the mere-exposure effect. Social Cognition, 27, 161-182.
• Hansen, J., Strick, M., van Baaren, R. B., Hooghuis, M., & Wigboldus, D. (2009). Exploring memory for product names advertised with humour. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 8, 135-148.
• Hansen, J. & Wänke, M. (2009). Think of capable others and you can make it! Self-efficacy mediates the effect of stereotype activation on behavior. Social Cognition, 27, 76-88.
• Hansen, J. & Wänke, M. (2008). It's the difference that counts: Expectancy/experience discrepancy moderates the use of ease of retrieval in attitude judgments. Social Cognition, 26, 447-468.
• Hansen, J., Dechêne, A., & Wänke, M. (2008). Discrepant fluency increases subjective truth. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 687-691.
• Herzog, S. M., Hansen, J., & Wänke, M. (2007). Temporal distance and ease of retrieval. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 483–488.