School of Psychology - Directory - People - Professor Bill von Hippel
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School of Psychology
The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072

BA Yale University
PhD University of Michigan
Editorial Board: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Social Cognition; Social Psychological and Personality Science
Current Grants:
“Ageing and self-regulation.” Australian Research Council, 1/1/10 – 31/12/14. Henry, J.D. & von Hippel, W.
“Self-deception as a tool for deceiving others.” Australian Research Council, 1/1/12 – 31/12/14. von Hippel, W. & Trivers, R.
“The role of implicit identity and implicit beliefs in recovery from mental illness.” Australian Research Council 1/7/12 – 30/6/15. von Hippel, C., Brener, L., von Hippel, W., & Rose, G.

Evolutionary Psychology, Executive Functioning, Social Cognitive Aging, Stereotyping & Prejudice
Laham, S. M., Gonsalkorale, K., & von Hippel, W. (2005). Darwinian grandparenting: Preferential investment in more certain kin. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 63-72. (View)
von Hippel, W., & Dunlop, S. M. (2005). Aging, inhibition, and social inappropriateness. Psychology and Aging, 20, 519-523. (View)
von Hippel, W., & Gonsalkorale, K. (2005). “That is bloody revolting!” Inhibitory control of thoughts better left unsaid. Psychological Science, 16, 497-500. (View).
von Hippel, W., Lakin, J. L., & Shakarchi, R. J. (2005). Individual differences in motivated social cognition: The case of self-serving information processing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1347-1357. (View).
von Hippel, W., von Hippel, C., Conway, L., Preacher, K. J., Schooler, J. W., & Radvansky, G. A. (2005). Coping with stereotype threat: Denial as an impression management strategy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 22-35. (View).
von Hippel, W., von Hippel, F. A., Chan, N., & Cheng, C. (2005). Exploring the use of Viagra in place of animal and plant potency products in traditional Chinese medicine. Environmental Conservation, 32, 235-238. (View).
Robinson, M. D., & von Hippel, W. (2006). Rose-colored priming effects: Life satisfaction and affective priming. Journal of Positive Psychology, 1, 187-197. (View).
Brener, L., von Hippel, W., & Kippax, S. (2007). Health care workers and discrimination towards injecting drug users with hepatitis C: Does greater contact lead to less prejudice? International Journal of Drug Policy, 18, 381-387. (View).
Forgas, J. P., Haselton, M., & von Hippel, W. (Eds.), (2007). The evolution of the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and social cognition. New York: Psychology Press.
von Hippel, W. (2007). Aging, executive functioning, and social control. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 240-244. (View).
von Hippel, W., Brener, L., & von Hippel, C. (2008). Implicit prejudice toward injecting drug users predicts intentions to change jobs among drug and alcohol nurses. Psychological Science, 19, 7-11. (View).
von Hippel, W., Henry, J. D., & Matovic, D. (2008). Aging and social satisfaction: Offsetting positive and negative effects. Psychology and Aging, 23, 435-439. (View).
von Hippel, W., Vasey, M. W., Gonda, T., & Stern, T. (2008). Executive function deficits, rumination and late-onset depressive symptoms in older adults. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 32, 474-487. (View).
Donohoe, M. L., von Hippel, W., & Brooks, R. C. (2009). Beyond waist-hip ratio: Experimental multivariate evidence that average female torsos are most attractive. Behavioral Ecology, 20, 716-721.
Gonsalkorale, K., von Hippel, W., Sherman, J. W., & Klauer, K. C. (2009). Bias and regulation of bias in intergroup interactions: Implicit attitudes toward Muslims and interaction quality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 161-166. (View).
Henry, J. D., von Hippel, W., & Baynes, K. (2009). Social inappropriateness, executive control, and aging. Psychology and Aging, 24, 239-244. (View).
Logel, C., Walton, G. M., Spencer, S., Iserman, E., von Hippel, W., & Bell, A. (2009). Interacting with sexist men triggers social identity threat among female engineers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1089-1103. (View).
Radvansky, G. A., Lynchard, N., A., & von Hippel, W. (2009). Aging and stereotype suppression. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 16, 22-32.
Stewart, B. D., von Hippel, W., & Radvansky, G. A. (2009). Age, race, and implicit prejudice: Using process dissociation to separate the underlying components. Psychological Science, 20, 164-168. (View).
von Hippel, W., Ng, L., Abbott, L., Caldwell, S., Gill, G., & Powell, K. (2009). Executive functioning and gambling: Performance on the Trail Making Test is associated with gambling problems in older adult gamblers. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 16, 654-670. (View)
Brener, L., von Hippel, W., Kippax, S., & Preacher, K. J. (2010). The role of physician and nurse attitudes in the health care of injecting drug users. Substance Use and Misuse, 45, 1007-1018.
Brener, L., von Hippel, W., von Hippel, C., Resnick, I., & Treloar, C. (2010). Perceptions of discriminatory treatment by staff as predictors of drug treatment completion. Drug and Alcohol Review, 29, 491-497.
Denson, T. F., von Hippel, W., Kemp, R. I., & Teo, L. S. (2010). Glucose consumption decreases impulsive aggression in response to provocation in aggressive individuals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 1023-1028.
Radvansky, G. A., Copeland, D. E., & von Hippel, W. (2010). Stereotype activation, inhibition, and aging. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 51-60.
Ronay, R. & von Hippel, W. (2010). Power, testosterone, and risk-taking. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 23, 473-482. (View).
Ronay, R. & von Hippel, W. (2010). The presence of an attractive woman elevates testosterone and physical risk-taking in young men. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 57-64. (View)
Unkelbach, C., von Hippel, W., Forgas, J. P., Robinson, M. D., Shakarchi, R. J., & Hawkins, C. (2010). Good things come easy: Subjective exposure frequency and the faster processing of positive information. Social Cognition, 28, 539-556.
von Hippel, W. (2010). Performance sapped by stereotypes. Book Review of C. M. Steele, Whistling Vivaldi: And other clues to how stereotypes affect us. Science, 329, 1469-1470.
von Hippel, W., & Henry, J. D. (2011). Aging and self-regulation. In K. D. Vohs & R. F. Baumeister (Eds.), Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications (2nd Ed). NY: Guilford.
von Hippel, W. & Trivers, R. (2011). The evolution and psychology of self-deception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 1-56. (View)
Brener, L., von Hippel, W., & von Hippel, C. (in press). Exploring the relationship between implicit self-representation and drug use. Addiction Research and Theory.
Denson, T. F., Jacobson, M., von Hippel, W., Kemp, R. I., & Mak, T. (in press). Caffeine expectancies but not caffeine reduce depletion-induced aggression. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Denson, T.F., Ronay, R., von Hippel, W., & Schira, M.M. (in press). Endogenous testosterone and cortisol modulate neural responses during induced anger control. Social Neuroscience.
von Hippel, W., & Henry, J. D. (in press). Social cognitive aging. To appear in S. Fiske & C. N. Macrae (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Cognition. London: Sage.