Bertram Gawronski

Bertram Gawronski is a Social Psychologist, a current Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology (Tier II), and, since 2008, Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Western Ontario.

According to Gawronski's CV on his current website [(Dr. Bertram Gawronski, Ph.D. Homepage: http://publish.uwo.ca/~bgawrons)] , in 1995 he graduated with a B. A. in Philosophy from the University of Wurzburg, Germany and in 1998 he completed a M. A. in Philosophy at Free University in Berlin, Germany. In 2001, he completed his Ph. D. in Psychology at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. From 2002 to 2004, Gawronski completed a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Galen Bodenhausen in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. He then accepted a tenure-track position at The University of Western Ontario in 2004.

Awards

Gawronski has won numerous awards including the Charlotte-and-Karl-Buhler Prize 2008 from the German Psychological Association, the Early Career Award 2006 from the International Social Cognition Network, and the Theoretical Innovation Prize 2006 from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Areas of Research

According to his website, Bertram Gawronski, and the Social Cognition Lab he directs, is mainly interested in the influence of automatic and controlled processes on human behavior, paying particular attention to how these processes interact to influence social behavior and what factors lead to changes in one or both kinds of processes.

Publication Outlets

Gawronski has published in all top-tier Social Psychology journals including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. In July of 2008, his co-authored paper entitled "Automatic Mental Associations Predict Future Choices of Undecided Decision Makers" was accepted at the journal Science.

See also

List of social psychologists

References