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GÜN R. SEMIN
Academy
Professor, The Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences
Research
Interests:
A puzzle
that has occupied me ever since I started with psychology is how it
is possible to understand social behavior by explaining individual
processes. Another puzzle has been why one should focus on stills
when human behavior is a movie: behavior is self evidently dynamic
and highly responsive to contextual variations. Finally, I have
been puzzled how it is possible to think that all there might be to
psychological processes is some symbolic computation taking place
somewhere between the ears.
I have
come to conceptualize the social in terms
of jointly recruited processes rather than individual ones (Semin
& Cacioppo, 2008); that social behavior is situated and
psychological processes are embodied (Semin, 2007; Smith &
Semin, 2004). Within these broad parameters my empirical research
is primarily driven by an interest in communication, social
cognition, and language and the diverse uses that language
can be put to in social interaction (ranging from the regulation of
prejudice to that of interpersonal relationships) as well as the
embodied grounding of meaning and communication.
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Publications:
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publications prior to 1997 Vita (pdf)
2010
Semin, G. R. (2010). Language as
Tool. In P. A. M. Van Lange, A. Kruglanski, & E. T. Higgins
(Eds.), Handbook of theories of social psychology. London,
England: Sage. (in press)
The Chicago Social Brain Network
and Semin, G. R. (2010). The suspension of individual consciousness
and the dissolution of ‘Self and Other’ boundaries. In The Chicago
Social Brain Network (Eds.), Belief in Unseen Powers: Gravity,
Gods, and Minds. FT Press: Pearson Education, Inc (in
press)
Lanciano, T., Curci, A. &
Semin, G. R. (in press). The emotional and reconstructive
determinants of emotional memories: an experimental approach to
flashbulb memory investigation. Memory, (in
press)
2009
Schubert,
T. & Semin, G. R. (2009). Embodiment as a Unifying Perspective
for Psychology. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39,
1135-1141.
Ijzerman,
H. & Semin, G. R. (2009). The Thermometer of Social Relations:
Mapping Social Proximity on Temperature. Psychological
Science,20,
1214-1220. (pdf)
Foroni, F. & Semin, G. R. (2009). Language
that puts you in touch with your bodily feelings. The multimodal
responsiveness of affective expressions. Psychological Science,
20, 974-980. (pdf)
Lee, A. Y. & Semin, G. R. (2009). Culture
through the Lens of Self-Regulatory Orientations. In Wyer et al
(Eds.). Understanding Culture: Theory, Research and
Application (pp. 271-288).
New
York: Psychology Press. (pdf)
Semin, G. R. (i2009). Language,
Culture, Cognition – how do they intersect? In Wyer et al (Eds.).
Understanding Culture: Theory, Research and
Application.
New
York: Psychology Press (pp. 259-270). (pdf)
Semin,
G. R. (2009). Linguistic Category Model. In J. Levine & M.
Hogg (eds). Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup
Relations. California: Sage.
Semin, G. R. (2009). Language and social cognition. F.
Strack & J. Förster (Ed.). Social Cognition – the
Basis of Human Interaction (269-290). Psychology
Press.(pdf)
Semin,
G. R. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2009). From Embodied Representation to
Co-Regulation. In J. A. Pineda (Ed.). “Mirror Neuron
Systems: The
Role of Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition (107-120)”
Humana Press.
2008
Fockenberg, D. A., Koole, S. L.,
& Semin, G. R. (2008). Priming in concert: assimilation and contrast with
multiple affective and gender primes. Social Cognition, 26,
647-669
G.R. Semin & E.R. Smith (Eds.) (2008), Embodied
grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific
approaches. New York: Cambridge University Press.
van
Ulzen, N. R., Lamoth, C. J., Daffertshofer, A., Semin, G. R. &
Beek, P. J. (2008). Characteristics of instructed and uninstructed
interpersonal coordination while walking in pairs. Neuroscience
Letters, 432, 88-93
Semin, G. R. (2008). Language puzzles: A prospective
retrospective on the Linguistic Category Model. Journal of
Language and Social Psychology. Special issue on the Linguistic
Category Model, 27,
197-209.
Clark, A. E., & Semin, G. R. (2008). Receivers’
expectations for abstract vs. concrete construals: Evidence for
conversational relevance as a determinant of construal level.
Journal of Language and Social Psychology. Special issue on
the Linguistic Category Model, 27,
155-167.
Semin,
G. R. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). In search for a conceptual
location to share cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
31, 37-38.
Semin, G.
R. & Cacioppo, J. T. (2008). Grounding Social Cognition:
Synchronization, Entrainment, and Coordination. In G.R. Semin &
E.R. Smith (Eds.), Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive,
affective, and neuroscientific approaches
(pp.119-147).
New York: Cambridge University Press.
Semin, G. R. & Smith, E. R .
(2008). Introducing Embodied Grounding.In G.R. Semin & E.R. Smith (Eds.),
Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and
neuroscientific approaches (pp.1-8). New York: Cambridge
University Press.
van
Ulzen, N. R., Semin, G. R., Oudejans, R. D. R. & and. Beek, P.
J. (2008, in press) Affective and contextual stimulus properties
influence size perception independently. Psychological
Research, 72, 304-310.
2007
Semin,
G. R. (2007). Il linguaggio: [(che cos’è) + (a cosa serve)]?
Psicologia Sociale, 5, 1-20.
Smith,
E. R. & Semin, G. R. (2007). Situated social cognition.
Current Directions In Psychological Science, 16,
132-135.
Semin, G.
R. (2007). Stereotypes in the wild. In Y. Kashima, K. Fiedler and P. Freytag (Eds.),
Stereotype dynamics: Language-based approaches to stereotype
formation, maintenance, and transformation (pp.11-28). Mahwah,
NJ: Laurence Erlbaum.
Reitsma-van Rooijen, M., Semin, G. R., & van
Leeuwen, E. (2007). The effects of linguistic abstraction on
interpersonal distance. European Journal of Social
Psychology, 37,
817-823 (pdf)
Stapel, D. & Semin, G. R. (2007). The magic spell
of language. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
93,23-33. (pdf)
Semin, G. R. (2007). Grounding communication:
Synchrony. In A. Kruglanski and E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Social
Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles 2nd Edition, (pp.
630-649). New York: Guilford Publications. (pdf)
Kruglanski, A. W. & Semin, G. R. (2007). The
epistemic bases of interpersonal communication. In M. Hewstone,
H. A. W. Schut, J. B. F. de Wit, K. van den Bos, & M.
S. Stroebe (Eds.)The Scope of Social Psychology: Theory and
Applications (pp. 107-120). New York: Psychology
Press.
Semin, G. R. (2007). Implicit indicators of social
distance and proximity. In K. Fiedler (Ed.), Social
Communication: Frontiers of Social Psychology (pp. 389-409).
New York: Psychology Press.
2006
DeCoster, J., Banner, M. J., Smith, E. R., &
Semin, G. R. (2006). On the inexplicability of the implicit:
differences in the information provided by implicit and explicit
tests. Social Cognition,24, 5-21
Smith, E. R. & Semin, G. R. (2006). Socially
situated cognition as a bridge. In P. A. M. van Lange (Ed.).
Bridging Social psychology: Benefits of transdisciplinary
approaches (pp. 145-150). Mahwah, New Jersey, London: Laurence
Erlbaum Publishers..
Beukeboom,
C. J. & Semin, G. R. (2006). How Mood Turns on Language.
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,
42, 553-566. (pdf)
Semin, G.
R. (2006). Modeling the Architecture of Linguistic Behavior:
Linguistic
Compositionality,
Automaticity, and Control. Psychological Inquiry,
17, 246-255.
Fockenberg, D. A., Koole, S. L., & Semin, G. R. (2006). Backward
Affective Priming:Even
When the Prime is Late, People Still Evaluate.
Journal of
ExperimentalSocialPsychology,
42, 799-806.
Wigboldus, D., Spears, R. & Semin, G. R., (2006).
Communicating expectancies about others European Journal of
Social Psychology, 36, 815-824.
2005
Beukeboom, C. J. & Semin, G. R., (2005). Mood and
representations of behavior: The how and why. Cognition and
Emotion, 19, 1242-1251.
Cacioppo, J. T. Berntson, G. G. & Semin, G. R.
(2005). Scientific Symbiosis: The Mutual Benefit of Iteratively
Adopting the Perspective of Realism and Instrumentalism.
American Psychologist, 60, 347-348.
Wigboldus, D., Spears, R. & Semin, G. R., (2005).
When Do We Communicate Stereotypes? Influence of the Social Context
on the Linguistic Expectancy Bias. Group Processes and
Interpersonal Relations, 8,215-230.
Semin, G. R., Higgins, E. T., Gil de Montes, L.,
Estourget, Y., & Valencia, J. (2005). Linguistic signatures of
regulatory focus: How abstraction fits promotion more than
prevention. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
89, 36-45
ter Doest, L. T., & Semin, G. R. (2005). Retrieval
Contexts and the Concreteness Effect: Dissociations in Memory for
Concrete and Abstract Words. European Journal of Cognitive
Psychology, 17, 859-881.
2004
Smith, E. R. & Semin, G. R. (2004). Socially
situated cognition: Cognition in its social context. Advances in
Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 53-117
(SPSP Theoretical Innovation Prize, 2005)
Semin, G. R. (2004). Language and social cognition. In
M. B. Brewer & M. Hewstone (Eds.), Social Cognition,
(pp. 222-243). Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Semin, G. R. (2004). Cultivating research excellence
behind the dykes. U. Bauman, R. Bromme, K. Fiedler, G. Guttmann, R
P. Königs, A. Mummendey, M. Perez, S. Schulz-Hjardt, G. R. Semin,
& H. Spada (Eds.) In Doktorandinnen- und
Doktorandenausbildung in der Psychologie: Bilanz und Ausblick.
(pp. 68-70). Fürstentum Lichtenstein: Universitätsverlag für
Humanwissenschaften.
Cacioppo, J. T. & Semin, G. R. & Berntson, G.
G. (2004). Realism, Instrumentalism, and Scientific Symbiosis:
Psychological Theory as a Search for Truth and the Discovery of
Solutions. American Psychologist, 59, 214–223
Semin, G. R. (2004). The language of self and others
in contexts. J. T. Jost, M. R. Banaji, & D. Prentice (Eds.)
The Ying and Yang of social cognition: Perspectives on the
social psychology of thought systems. (pp. 143-160). Washington
DC: APA Press
2003
Semin, G. R., de Montes, G. L., & Valencia, J. F.
(2003). Communication
constraints on
the Linguistic Intergroup Bias Journal of
Experimental
Social
Psychology, 39, 142-148.
de Montes, G. L., Semin, G. R., & Valencia, J. F.
(2003). Communication
patterns in
interdependent relationships. Journal of Language
and
Social
Psychology, 22, 1 - 22
2002
Semin, G. R. & Smith, E. R. (2002). Interfaces of
social psychology with
situated and
embodied cognition. Cognitive Systems Research,
3,
385-396.(pdf)
Semin, G. R., Görts, C., Nandram, S., &
Semin-Goossens, A. (2002).
Cultural
perspectives on the linguistic representation of emotion
and
emotion events.
Cognition and Emotion, 16, 11-28
Fiedler, K., & Semin, G. R. (2002).Das Linguistische Kategorienmodell.
In
D. Frey and M. Irle (Eds). "Theorien der Sozialpsychologie"
(pp. 334-
351).
Huber.
ter Doest, L. T., Semin, G. R. & Sherman, S. J.
(2002). Linguistic
Abstraction and
Inconsistency Processing: Structural Effects of
Language in
Social Cognition. Journal of Language and Social
Psychology,
21
2001
Higgins, E. T. & Semin, G. R. (2001).
Communication and social
psychology. In N.
J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (editors).
International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. (pp.
2296-2299).
Oxford: Pergamon.
Manstead, A. S. R., and Semin, G. R. (2001).
Methodology in social
psychology: Tools
to test theories. In M. Hewstone, and Stroebe, W.
(Eds.),
Introduction to Social Psychology 3rd
Ed. Oxford: Blackwell,
(pp.
73-115)
Semin, G. R. (2001). Language and social cognition.
A., Tesser, & N.,
Schwarz (Eds)
Handbook of Social Psychology, Vol. 1(pp.
159-180)
Intraindividual
Processes. Oxford: Blackwell.
Semin, G. R. (2001). Language and social inferences.
In N. J. Smelser
and Paul B. Baltes (editors). International Encyclopedia of the
Social
and Behavioral
Sciences (pp. 8312-8315). Oxford: Pergamon.
2000
Semin, G. R., & Marsman, G. J. (2000). The
mnemonic functions of
interpersonal
verbs: Spontaneous trait inferences. Social
Cognition,
18,
75-96
Semin, G. R. (2000). Language as a cognitive and
behavioral structuring
resource:
Question-answer exchanges. In W. Stroebe & M.
Hewstone
(Eds.).
European Review of Social
Psychology(pp.75-104).
Chichester:
Wiley.
Semin, G. R. (2000). Agenda 2000:
Communication: Language as an
implementational device for cognition. European Journal of
Social
Psychology, 30, 595-612.(pdf)
Wigboldus, D., Semin, G. R., & Spears, R. (2000).
How do we communicate
stereotypes?
Linguistic bases and inferential consequences.
Journal
of Personality
and Social Psychology, 78,5-18.(pdf)
Uleman, J., Rhee, E., Bardoliwalla, N., Semin, G. R.,
& Toyama, M. (2000).
The relational
self: Closeness to in-groups depends on who they are,
culture, and the
type of closeness. Asian Journal of Cultural
Psychology,
3, 1-17.
(This paper received the Misumi Award from the
Japanese Group Dynamics Association and the Asian Association of
Social Psychology -2001).
1999
Werkman, W. M., Wigboldus, D. H., & Semin, G. R.
(1999). Children’s
communication of
the Linguistic Intergroup Bias and its impact upon
cognitive
inferences. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29,
95
-104
Semin, G. R. & Smith E. R. (1999). Revisiting the
past and back to the
future: memory
systems and the linguistic representation of social
events.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76,
877-892.
(pdf)
Wigboldus, D., Spears, R., & Semin, G. R. (1999).
Categorization, content
and the context
of communicative behavior. In N. Ellemers, R. Spears,
& B.
Doosje (eds.), Social Identity. (pp. 147-163). Oxford:
Blackwell.
Semin, G. R. (1998). Cognition, language. and
communication. In S. R.
Fussell and R. J.
Kreuz (Eds). Social and cognitive psychological
approaches to
interpersonal communication (pp. 229-257). Hillsdale,
NJ:
Laurence Erlbaum(pdf)
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