Arne Roets
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My research focuses on the following topics:
(1) Motivated Social cognition: Motivational determinants of judgment and decision making, especially the impact of the Need for Cognitive Closure and stressors on decision making and (social) judgment
(2) Political psychology: Ideology; political extremism; political cognition
(3) Racism/prejudice: Dispositional and situational determinants of racism
(4) Personality: Openness to experience; relationship between personality and ideology
(5) Implications of motivated cognitive processes in clinical psychology
>> For an "all-in-one" overview of much of my work:
Roets, A., Kruglanski, A. W., Kossowska, M., Pierro, A., & Hong, Y-y. (2015). The Motivated Gatekeeper of Our Minds: New Directions in Need for Closure Theory and Research. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 52, 221-283.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Health Psychology
- Intergroup Relations
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Person Perception
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
Journal Articles:
- Dhont, K., Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Opening Closed Minds: The Combined Effects of Intergroup Contact and Need for Closure on Prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 514-528.
- Richter, M., Baeriswyl, E., & Roets, A. (2012). Personality effects on cardiovascular reactivity: Need for closure moderates the impact of task difficulty on engagement-related myocardial beta-adrenergic activity. Psychophysiology, 49, 704-707.
- Roets, A., Schwartz, B., & Guan, Y. (2012). The tyranny of choice: a cross-cultural investigation of maximizing-satisficing effects on well-being. Judgment and Decision Making, 17, 689-704.
- Roets, A., & Soetens, B. (2010). Need and ability to achieve closure: Relationships with symptoms of psychopathology. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 155-160.
- Roets, A. & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Allport’s Prejudiced personality today: Need for closure as the motivated cognitive basis of prejudice. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 349-354.
- Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Item selection and validation of a brief, 15-item version of the Need for Closure Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 90-94.
- Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2011). The role of need for closure in essentialist entitativity beliefs and prejudice: An epistemic needs approach to racial categorization. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 52-73.
- Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2008). Why some hate to dilly-dally and others do not: The arousal-invoking capacity of decision-making for low- and high-scoring need for closure individuals. Social Cognition, 26, 333-346.
- Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2007). Separating ability from need: Clarifying the dimensional structure of the need for closure scale. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 266-280.
- Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Cornelis, I. (2006). Does materialism predict racism? Materialism as a distinctive social attitude and a predictor of prejudice. European Journal of Personality, 20, 155-168.
- Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Cornelis, I. (2006). The dimensional structure of the Need for Cognitive Closure Scale: Relationships with “seizing” and “freezing” processes. Social Cognition, 24, 22-45.
- Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Dhont, K. (2012). Is sexism a gender issue? A motivated social cognition perspective on men’s and women’s sexist attitudes toward the own and other gender. European Journal of Personality, 26, 350-359.
- Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Kruglanski, A. W. (in press). When motivation backfires: Optimal levels of motivation as a function of cognitive capacity in information relevance perception and social judgment. Motivation and Emotion.
- Van Hiel, A., Cornelis, I., & Roets, A. (2010). To have or to be? A comparison of materialism-based theories and self-determination theory as explanatory frameworks of prejudice. Journal of Personality, 78, 1037-1070.
- Roets, A., Kruglanski, A. W., Kossowska, M., Pierro, A., & Hong, Y-y. (in press). The Motivated Gatekeeper of Our Minds: New Directions in Need for Closure Theory and Research. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 52. doi:10.1016/bs.aesp.2015.01.001
- Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., Cornelis, I., & Soetens, B. (2008). Determinants of task performance and invested effort: A need for closure by relative cognitive capacity interaction analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 779-792.
Courses Taught:
- Political Psychology
- Social Cognition and Group Processes
- Social Psychology
Arne Roets
School of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Ghent University
H. Dunantlaan 2
9000 Gent
Belgium
- Phone: +32 9 264 91 41
- Fax: +32 9 264 64 99