Prof. Dr. Herbert Bless

Project director
bless [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2007
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2038
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim
A5, 6
Building A
Room:433
68159  Mannheim

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.2016
Objective and Subjectively Experienced Financial Inequalities in Income and Wealth and Their Consequences

RP9 A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

RP9
The Psychological Consequences of Perceived Social Unfairness

Publications

Journal Articles

John, Melvin, Lucia L.-A. Boileau and Herbert Bless (2024): Effect of social class on personal control beliefs. Journal of Personality, 92, issue 4, pp. 1086-1099. more
Bless, Herbert, and Michaela Wänke (2023): The crucial role of linearity when comparing effects across studies. Nature Reviews Psychology, 2, issue 9, pp. 516–517. more
Salwender, Mona, Christiane Schoel, Herbert Bless and Dagmar Stahlberg (2023): The politics hurdle: Joint effect of organizational culture and gender on lack of fit experiences. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14, issue 1, pp. 84-92. more
Boileau, Lucia L.-A., Herbert Bless and Jochen Gebauer (2022): The "Mixed Bag” of Segregation – On Positive and Negative Associations with Migrants’ Acculturation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52, issue 3, pp. 457-471. more
Boileau, Lucia L.-A., Herbert Bless and Jochen E. Gebauer (2022): The “mixed bag” of segregation – On positive and negative associations with migrants’ acculturation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52, issue 3, pp. 457-471. more
Igou, Eric, Aidan Blake and Herbert Bless (2021): Just‑World Beliefs Increase Helping Intentions via Meaning and Affect. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22, issue 5, pp. 2235–2253. more
Ingenfeld, Julia, Tobias Wolbring and Herbert Bless (2019): Commuting and Life Satisfaction Revisited: Evidence on a Non-Linear Relations­hip. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20, issue 8, pp. 2677–2709. more
Bless, Herbert, and Nadia Granato (2018): Small and negligible? Evidence on the Relation Between Individuals’ Power in the Job Situation and their Satisfaction with Life and Job. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 40, issue 6, pp. 374-383. more
Bruk, Anna, Sabine G. Scholl and Herbert Bless (2018): Beautiful mess effect: Self-other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115, issue 2, pp. 192-205. more
Bless, Herbert, and Axel M. Burger (2017): Mood and the Regulation of Mental Abstraction. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, issue 2, pp. 159-164. more
Burger, Axel M., and Herbert Bless (2017): Cognitive consequences of formal clothing: the effects of clothing versus thinking of clothing. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 2, issue 2-3, pp. 228-252. more
Butz, Sebastian, Pascal J. Kieslich and Herbert Bless (2017): Why are conservatives happier than liberals? Comparing different explanations based on system justification, multiple group membership, and positive adjustment. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47, issue 3, pp. 362-372. more
Engel, Julia, and Herbert Bless (2017): The More Negative the More Impact: Evidence From Nationally Representative Data on the Relation Between Domain Satisfactions and General Life Satisfaction. Social Psychology, 48, issue 3, pp. 148-159. more
Bless, Herbert, and Axel M. Burger (2016): A Closer Look at Social Psychologists' Silver Bullet Inevitable and Evitable Side Effects of the Experimental Approach. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, issue 2, pp. 296-308. more
Bless, Herbert, and Axel M. Burger (2016): Assimilation and contrast in social priming. Current Opinion in Psychology, 12, pp. 26-31. more

Conference Presentations

John, Melvin, Lucia Boileau, Herbert Bless, Helen Dümmig, Elena Kippenberger and Jessica Wagner (2022): Effect of Social Class on Perceived Control. [52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs) , Hildesheim, September 10th to September 15th, 2022] more
John, Melvin, Herbert Bless and Michaela Wänke (2021): In the eye of the beholder: Subjective perceptions of inequality determine its consequences. [ESCON 2021, (virtual conference), September 13th to September 15th, 2021] more
Boileau, Lucia L.-A., Jochen E. Gebauer and Herbert Bless (2019): Immigrants' well-being: The role of context-related immigrant proportion. [17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Society for Psychology, Köln, September 16th to September 18th, 2019] more
Janson, Marc Philipp, Lena Kieserling, Hannah Mansmann-Mezger and Herbert Bless (2018): Are the consequences of income inequality dependent on gross-domestic product or not? How different methodological approaches lead to different conclusions. [51. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Frankfurt am Main, September 15th to September 20th, 2018] more
Bless, Herbert, and Nadia Granato (2014): Do positions of leadership make you happy? Gender-dependent influences of managerial positions on life satisfaction.. [17th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Amsterdam, July 09th to July 12th, 2014] more