William Von Hippel
Biographic Data
| ID | 164453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Von Hippel |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Hippel |
| SIGNATURE | VON HIPPEL W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9900-0868 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors
We identify points of conflict and consensus regarding (a) controversial empirical claims and (b) normative preferences for how controversial scholarship—and scholars—should be treated. In 2021, we conducted qualitative interviews ( n = 41) to generate a quantitative survey ( N = 470) of U.S. psychology professors’ beliefs and values. Professors strongly disagreed on the truth status of 10 candidate taboo conclusions: For each conclusion, some pr…
The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism
The concept of implicit bias – the idea that the unconscious mind might hold and use negative evaluations of social groups that cannot be documented via explicit measures of prejudice – is a hot topic in the social and behavioral sciences. It has also become a part of popular culture, while interventions to reduce implicit bias have been introduced in police forces, educational settings, and workplaces. Yet researchers still have much to understa…
Cardiac responses to daily threats and challenges during wakefulness and sleep
This research examines cardiovascular response to everyday threats and challenges during wakefulness and sleep. Approximately 11,000 people, who comprised a diverse sample ethnically but not socioeconomically, completed three weekly morning and evening surveys in which they indicated whether they expected and experienced threats and challenges that day. Participants also provided measures of blood pressure on morning surveys and provided measures…
Methods for Building Community-engaged Partnerships in Ecotoxicology
Background: Ecotoxicology provides powerful tools to characterize the nature and effects of pollution, which can be impactful when used in community-engaged research (CEnR). However, academic researchers are often insufficiently informed about the communities in which they conduct research. Researchers are not usually from or familiar with the cultural nuances of these communities, which is problematic for the strength of community-engaged projec…
Fotonovelas for Farmworkers and Their Families: Evitando los Riesgos en Casa
At the request of the farmworker advocacy group, Campesinos Sin Fronteras (CSF) in Yuma County, Arizona, we created fotonovelas (comic books) to provide information and education to farmworkers and their families on the prevention of exposures to pesticides in the home. Our process included an informal needs assessment, the creation of draft scripts in English and Spanish, the recruitment of student artists to draw candidate fotonovelas , the rev…
Cooperation in the Time of Covid
Humans evolved to be hyper-cooperative, particularly when among people who are well known to them, when relationships involve reciprocal helping opportunities, and when the costs to the helper are substantially less than the benefits to the recipient. Because humans’ cooperative nature evolved over many millennia when they lived exclusively in small groups, factors that cause cooperation to break down tend to be those associated with life in larg…
Dual Mating Strategies Observed in Male Clients of Female Sex Workers
Humans have a complex and dynamic mating system, and there is evidence that our modern sexual preferences stem from evolutionary pressures. In the current paper we explore male use of a dual mating strategy: simultaneously pursuing both a long-term relationship (pair-bonding) as well as short-term, extra-pair copulations (variety-seeking). The primary constraint on such sexual pursuits is partner preferences, which can limit male behavior and hen…
Eliciting false insights with semantic priming
The insight experience (or ‘Aha moment’) generally evokes strong feelings of certainty and confidence. An ‘Aha’ experience for a false idea could underlie many false beliefs and delusions. However, for as long as insight experiences have been studied, false insights have remained difficult to elicit experimentally. That difficulty, in turn, highlights the fact that we know little about what causes people to experience a false insight. Across two …
Sex-Based Division of Labor Is a Form of Cooperation that Constrains both Males and Females
Thinking style and psychosis proneness do not predict false insights
The Couple Flourishing Measure
Couple satisfaction has been extensively investigated, but little attention has been paid to the nature and assessment of high‐quality, flourishing couple relationships. Particularly, current measures of relationship quality are insensitive at the upper end of the continuum, which in turn hinders progress toward understanding and facilitating flourishing couple relationships. Drawing on concepts developed in positive psychology, we proposed a the…
A Community-Engaged Approach to Environmental Health Research: Process and Lessons Learned
Leveraging community-engaged principles for studies of environmental contamination can expedite recruitment efforts and stimulate action to improve health outcomes
Helping behavior is non-zero-sum: Helper and recipient autobiographical accounts of help
Inequality rules: Resource distribution and the evolution of dominance- and prestige-based leadership
A Meaningful Discussion of Evolution and Meaning: Reply to Commentaries
Meaning and Evolution: Why Nature Selected Human Minds to Use Meaning
We treat meaning as nonphysical connection and potential organization. Meaning is a resource that can be used by animals to improve survival and reproduction. The evolution of brains to exploit meaning occurred in two heuristic steps. First, solitary brains developed mental representations of patterns for learning and guiding adaptive action. Second, humankind greatly expanded the usefulness of meaning by using it collectively, such as by delibe…
Perceived inability to help is associated with client‐related burnout and negative work outcomes among community mental health workers
Community mental health is a vital service, but it faces ongoing challenges from its high staff-turnover rates. The current study provides a preliminary test of a novel explanation for employee disengagement in community mental health. It is proposed that providing assistance to clients, while simultaneously feeling that only limited progress is being made, is associated with client-related burnout among community mental health providers, leading…
A Longitudinal Test of Three Theories of Overconfidence
This article presents a longitudinal test of three proposed functions of overconfidence. In a sample of 894 high school boys surveyed across two school years, we examined whether overconfidence in sporting ability and intelligence predicts improved mental health, motivation, and popularity. Both sporting and intelligence overconfidence showed positive cross-sectional associations with mental health outcomes, but there was little evidence that ove…
Self-deception facilitates interpersonal persuasion
Sensitivity to Changing Contingencies Predicts Social Success
To adapt one’s behavior to suit changing social contingencies, it is necessary to be skillful at detecting such changing contingencies in the first place. As a consequence, the ability to detect changing contingencies (reversal learning) should predict social competence across both competitive and cooperative social settings. Consistent with this possibility, Study 1 revealed that better reversal learning predicted more effective conflict managem…
A multivariate approach to human mate preferences
Sexual Regret: Evidence for Evolved Sex Differences
The evolution and psychology of self-deception
In this article we argue that self-deception evolved to facilitate interpersonal deception by allowing people to avoid the cues to conscious deception that might reveal deceptive intent. Self-deception has two additional advantages: It eliminates the costly cognitive load that is typically associated with deceiving, and it can minimize retribution if the deception is discovered. Beyond its role in specific acts of deception, self-deceptive self-e…
Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition
Part I. Introduction and Foundations. von Hippel, Haselton, Forgas, Evolutionary Psychology and Social Thinking: History, Issues, and Prospects. Dunbar, The Social Brain Hypothesis and Its Relevance to Social Psychology. Gangestad, Thornhill, The Evolution of Social Inference Processes: The Importance of Signaling Theory. Kenrick, Delton, Robertson, Vaughn Becker, Neuberg, How the Mind Warps: A Social Evolutionary Perspective on Cognitive Process…
Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition
This book seeks to combine the study of human social cognition - the way we think, decide, plan and analyze social situations - with an evolutionary framework that considers these activities in light of evolutionary adaptations for solving problems of survival faced by our ancestors over thousands of generations. The chapters report recent research and theories illustrating how evolutionary principles can shed new light on the subtle and often su…
The Linguistic Intergroup Bias As an Implicit Indicator of Prejudice
Stereotypic explanatory bias: Implicit stereotyping as a predictor of discrimination
Attributional Mediation of In-Group Bias
Interacting with sexist men triggers social identity threat among female engineers
Social identity threat is the notion that one of a person's many social identities may be at risk of being devalued in a particular context (C. M. Steele, S. J. Spencer, & J. Aronson, 2002). The authors suggest that in domains in which women are already negatively stereotyped, interacting with a sexist man can trigger social identity threat, undermining women's performance. In Study 1, male engineering students who scored highly on a subtle measu…
Sexual Regret: Evidence for Evolved Sex Differences
Inhibitory effect of schematic processing on perceptual encoding
It was hypothesized that although schemata facilitate organized conceptual processing, and hence recall, they simultaneously inhibit perceptual encoding. This inhibitory effect should emerge because schemata allow perceivers to rely on prior knowledge in place of incoming information and because schemata facilitate selective attention. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that Ss encode less relevant perceptual information when they are provided with…
Perceptions of discriminatory treatment by staff as predictors of drug treatment completion: Utility of a mixed methods approach
Adopting a mixed methods approach facilitated exploration of the impact of perceived discrimination on treatment from both clients' and health-care workers' perspectives. This methodology may also enhance interpretation and utilisation of these findings in drug treatment
Coping With Stereotype Threat: Denial as an Impression Management Strategy
Four experiments tested the hypothesis that people who are concerned with impression management cope with stereotype threat through denial. Consistent with this hypothesis, temporary employees threatened by a stereotype of incompetence (Study 1) and hostel-dwelling older adults (Study 2) were more likely to deny incompetence if they were high in impression management. African Americans (Study 3) showed a similar pattern of denying cognitive incom…
Glucose consumption decreases impulsive aggression in response to provocation in aggressive individuals
Bias and regulation of bias in intergroup interactions: Implicit attitudes toward Muslims and interaction quality
Self-deception facilitates interpersonal persuasion
Power, testosterone, and risk‐taking
Power has been found to increase risk‐taking (Anderson & Galinsky, 2006 ) but this effect appears to be moderated by individual differences in power motivation (Maner, Gailliot, Butz, & Peruche, 2007 ). Among individuals high in power motivation, the experience of power leads to more conservative decisions. As testosterone is associated with the pursuit of power and status (Dabbs & Dabbs, 2000 ), we reasoned that high‐testosterone individuals pri…
Stereotype activation, inhibition, and aging
Stereotype distinctiveness: How counterstereotypic behavior shapes the self-concept
Inhibitory effect of schematic processing on perceptual encoding
It was hypothesized that although schemata facilitate organized conceptual processing, and hence recall, they simultaneously inhibit perceptual encoding. This inhibitory effect should emerge because schemata allow perceivers to rely on prior knowledge in place of incoming information and because schemata facilitate selective attention. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that Ss encode less relevant perceptual information when they are provided with…
Interactions between overlapping multimale groups of black and white colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza) in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya
Sixteen out of 18 groups of black and white colobus monkeys, or guerezas (Colobus guereza), observed in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya, included more than one adult male. Each group overlapped in its home range with 4-7 other groups, and no group appeared to have exclusive access to any part of its home range. Groups were engaged in intergroup encounters one-quarter of observation time. Encounters often occurred around preferred feeding sites as diff…
Stereotypes
The stereotyping literature within psychology has grown considerably over the past decade. In large part, this growth can be attributed to progress in understanding the individual mechanisms that give rise to stereotypic thinking. In the current review, the recent psychological literature on stereotypes is reviewed, with particular emphasis given to the cognitive and motivational factors that contribute to stereotype formation, maintenance, appli…
Mapping cognitive structures and processes through verbal content: The thought-listing technique.
The Linguistic Intergroup Bias As an Implicit Indicator of Prejudice
Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research Partnerships Affect Studen Retention
This article evaluates the impact of a program promoting student-faculty research partnerships on college student retention. The program, built on the premise that successful retention efforts integrate students into the core academic mission of the university, targets first-year and sophomore undergraduates. Findings of a participant-control group design show that the research partnerships are most effective in promoting the retention of student…
Use of sleeping trees by black and white Colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza) in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya
Groups of black and white colobus monkeys, or guerezas (Colobus guereza), observed in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya, had weak fidelity for sleeping sites. Groups often slept in trees near commonly used food sources, which might reduce the time and energetic costs of travel. Although the home range of each group overlapped with four to seven others, groups seemed to avoid sleeping near other groups, which would give them immediate and exclusive acces…
Stereotype distinctiveness: How counterstereotypic behavior shapes the self-concept
Attributional Mediation of In-Group Bias
Stereotypic explanatory bias: Implicit stereotyping as a predictor of discrimination
Coping With Stereotype Threat: Denial as an Impression Management Strategy
Four experiments tested the hypothesis that people who are concerned with impression management cope with stereotype threat through denial. Consistent with this hypothesis, temporary employees threatened by a stereotype of incompetence (Study 1) and hostel-dwelling older adults (Study 2) were more likely to deny incompetence if they were high in impression management. African Americans (Study 3) showed a similar pattern of denying cognitive incom…
Prejudice among health care workers toward injecting drug users with hepatitis C: Does greater contact lead to less prejudice
Bias and regulation of bias in intergroup interactions: Implicit attitudes toward Muslims and interaction quality
Power, testosterone, and risk‐taking
Power has been found to increase risk‐taking (Anderson & Galinsky, 2006 ) but this effect appears to be moderated by individual differences in power motivation (Maner, Gailliot, Butz, & Peruche, 2007 ). Among individuals high in power motivation, the experience of power leads to more conservative decisions. As testosterone is associated with the pursuit of power and status (Dabbs & Dabbs, 2000 ), we reasoned that high‐testosterone individuals pri…
Stereotype activation, inhibition, and aging
Interacting with sexist men triggers social identity threat among female engineers
Social identity threat is the notion that one of a person's many social identities may be at risk of being devalued in a particular context (C. M. Steele, S. J. Spencer, & J. Aronson, 2002). The authors suggest that in domains in which women are already negatively stereotyped, interacting with a sexist man can trigger social identity threat, undermining women's performance. In Study 1, male engineering students who scored highly on a subtle measu…
The Presence of an Attractive Woman Elevates Testosterone and Physical Risk Taking in Young Men
The authors report a field experiment with skateboarders that demonstrates that physical risk taking by young men increases in the presence of an attractive female. This increased risk taking leads to more successes but also more crash landings in front of a female observer. Mediational analyses suggest that this increase in risk taking is caused in part by elevated testosterone levels of men who performed in front of the attractive female. In ad…
Glucose consumption decreases impulsive aggression in response to provocation in aggressive individuals
Perceptions of discriminatory treatment by staff as predictors of drug treatment completion: Utility of a mixed methods approach
Adopting a mixed methods approach facilitated exploration of the impact of perceived discrimination on treatment from both clients' and health-care workers' perspectives. This methodology may also enhance interpretation and utilisation of these findings in drug treatment
The evolution and psychology of self-deception
In this article we argue that self-deception evolved to facilitate interpersonal deception by allowing people to avoid the cues to conscious deception that might reveal deceptive intent. Self-deception has two additional advantages: It eliminates the costly cognitive load that is typically associated with deceiving, and it can minimize retribution if the deception is discovered. Beyond its role in specific acts of deception, self-deceptive self-e…
Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition
Part I. Introduction and Foundations. von Hippel, Haselton, Forgas, Evolutionary Psychology and Social Thinking: History, Issues, and Prospects. Dunbar, The Social Brain Hypothesis and Its Relevance to Social Psychology. Gangestad, Thornhill, The Evolution of Social Inference Processes: The Importance of Signaling Theory. Kenrick, Delton, Robertson, Vaughn Becker, Neuberg, How the Mind Warps: A Social Evolutionary Perspective on Cognitive Process…
Evolution and the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Social Cognition
This book seeks to combine the study of human social cognition - the way we think, decide, plan and analyze social situations - with an evolutionary framework that considers these activities in light of evolutionary adaptations for solving problems of survival faced by our ancestors over thousands of generations. The chapters report recent research and theories illustrating how evolutionary principles can shed new light on the subtle and often su…
Exploring the relationship between implicit self-representation and drug use
Sociological theory stresses the link between drug use and identity and the need to reconstitute this identity as separate from drug use for successful recovery. Research in implicit social cognition suggests that people's attitudes need not be available to conscious awareness to have an influence on behaviour. Combining these two ideas, this exploratory study aimed to assess the association between an individual's implicit self-representation an…
Sexual Regret: Evidence for Evolved Sex Differences
A multivariate approach to human mate preferences
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