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Head of Department
Dr. Eric R. Igou
Lecturer
Postal Address:
Department of Psychology
CS2-033
University of Limerick
Limerick
Ireland
Telephone: 00353 (0) 61 234657
Email: eric.igou@ul.ie |
Biographical Details
I joined the University of Limerick in 2008 to become part of a newly formed and growing Department of Psychology. I received my PhD from University of Heidelberg in 2000. Since then I worked at the University of Mannheim, the New School University (fellowship), New York University (fellowship), Tilburg University (tenured), and now the University of Limerick.
Research
In general terms, I investigate context effects in judgments and decision making from a social cognitive perspective. More specifically, I am interested in:
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assimilation and contrast effects in social judgments
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impact of conversational rules on information processing
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affective forecasting: how lay theories about the progression of affect (continuity vs. decrease) and how different perspectives (self vs. other) influence affective forecasts (i.e., predictions that people make about affective states)
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mood and self-regulation: how positive mood influences goal pursuit
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framing effects: effects of decision frames (gains vs. losses) on decisions
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impact of construal levels (high vs. low) on judgements
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judgements as a function of subjective experiences (ease vs. difficulty of retrieval)
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effects of existential concerns (through mortality and life salience) on worldview defense (e.g., ideological judgments)
Current Postgraduate Students
Current & former members of the Social Cognition and Decision Making Lab
Publications
Van Tilburg, W. A. P., & Igou, E. R. (in press). On boredom and social identity: A pragmatic meaning-regulation approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Van Tilburg, W. A. P., & Igou, E. R. (in press). On boredom: Lack of challenge and meaning as distinct boredom experiences. Motivation & Emotion.
Van Tilburg, W. A. P., & Igou, E. R. (in press). On the meaningfulness of existence: When life salience boosts adherence to worldviews. European Journal of Social Psychology.
Igou, E. R., Van Dongen, F., & Van Tilburg, W. A. P. (in press). Preferences. To appear in: V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (Vol. 2). Academic Press.
Van de Calseyde, P. P. F. M., & Igou, E. R. (in press). Hier Niet, Daar Wel: De Invloed van Afstand op Inactie Inertie. In B. Derks, R.-J. Renes, K. Ruys, N. van de Ven, & M. Vliek (Eds.), Jaarboek Sociale Psychologie 2010. Groningen: ASPO Pers.
Igou, E. R. (2011). Judgments and decisions based on attempts to disambiguate the given information: Effects of decision frames, non-diagnostic information, and information order. Discussion paper at the webconference workshop: Decision Making for a Social World, hosted by the International Cognition and Culture Institute. http://www.cognitionandculture.net/Social-decisions-workshop/judgments-and-decisions.html
Igou, E. R. (2010). The When and Why of Risky Choice Framing Effects: A Constructive Processing Perspective. In G. Keren, Perspectives on Framing. New York: Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis Group.
Shani, Y., Igou, E. R., & Zeelenberg, M. (2009). Different ways of looking at unpleasant truths: How construal levels influence information search. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 110, 36-44.
Bless, H., Keller, J., & Igou, E. R. (2009). Metacognition. In J. Förster & F. Strack (Eds.), Social Cognition, The Basis of Human Interaction. Frontiers of Social Psychology (pp. 157-178). New York: Psychology Press.
Igou, E. R. (2008). How long will I suffer versus how long will you suffer? A self-other effect in affective forecasting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 899-917.
Igou, E. R., & Bless, H. (2007). On Undesirable Consequences of Thinking: Framing Effects as a Function of Substantive Processing. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20, 125-142.
Igou, E. R. (2007). Additional thoughts on conversational and motivational sources of the dilution effect. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 26, 61-68.
Igou, E. R., & Bless, H. (2007). Conversational Expectations as a Basis for Order Effects in Persuasion. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 26, 260-273.
Trope, Y., Igou, E. R., & Burke, C. (2006). Mood as Resource in Structuring Goal Pursuit. In J. Forgas (Ed.) Affect in social thinking and behavior (pp. 217-234). New York: Psychology Press.
Gervey, B., Igou, E. R., & Trope, Y. (2005). The Role of Positive Mood in Pursuing Primary Self-Evaluation Goals. Motivation & Emotion, 29, 269-296.
Igou, E. R., & Bless, H. (2005). The Conversational Basis for the Dilution Effect. The Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 24, 25-35.
Bless, H., & Igou, E. R. (2005). Mood and the use of general knowledge structures in judgment and decision making. In T. Betsch & S. Haberstroh (Eds.), The routines of decision making (pp. 193-210). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Bless, H., & Igou, E. R. (2005). Stimmung und Informationsverarbeitung. In H.-W. Bierhoff & D. Frey (Eds.), Handbuch für Sozialpsychologie und Kommunikationspsychologie (pp. 423-429). Hogrefe.
Igou, E. R. (2004). Lay Theories in Affective Forecasting: The Progression of Affect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 528-534.
Igou, E. R., & Bless, H. (2003). Inferring the Importance of Arguments: Order Effects and Conversational Rules. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 91-99.
Bless, H., & Igou, E. R. (2002). Die Rolle kognitiv verfügbarer Information bei der Eindrucksbildung [The role of accessible information in impression formation]. In D. Janetzko, H. A. Mayer & M. Hildebrandt (Eds.), Das experimentalpsychologische Praktikum. Computergestützte Versuchssteuerung im Labor und WWW. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Igou, E. R., Bless, H., & Schwarz, N. (2002). Making Sense of Standardized Survey Questions: The Influence of Reference Periods and Their Repetition. Communication Monographs, 69, 179-187.
Igou, E. R. (2001). Determinanten der Wichtigkeit von Information: Eine kommunikative Perspektive zur Erklärung von Primacy und Recency Effekten bei Urteilen und Entscheidungen [Determinants of the importance of information: A conversational perspective for the explanation of primacy and recency effects in judgments and decisions]. Psychologia Universalis, Neue Reihe, 24. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
Wänke, M, Bless, H., & Igou, E. R. (2001). Next to a star: Paling, shining or both? Turning inter-exemplar contrast into inter-exemplar assimilation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 14-29.
Bless, H., Igou, E. R., Schwarz, N., & Wänke, M. (2000). Reducing context effects by adding context information: The direction and size of context effects in political judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1036-1045.
Agudelo, D., Böhne, J., Crawford, M. Galliker, M. Hemmati-Weber, M., Horlacher, K. D., Hüneke, H., Igou, E. R., Rodewald, R., & Sommer J. (1994). Das Psychologiestudium der Zukunft oder: Was wir noch immer zu träumen wagen. Journal für Psychologie, 2, 71-79. (Authors appear on article as Heidelberger Arbeitsgruppe zur Erneuerung der Psychologie, above listed in alphabetical order of author names.)
Personal Homepage
http://igou.socialpsychology.org/
