My current work concerns automatic and controlled processes in stereotyping with a focus on meta-stereotypes. More specifically, I study to what extent meta-stereotypes (i.e., stereotypes people expect that the outgroup has of their group) will influence emotions, cognitions, and behavior. Moreover, I study the antecedents of meta-stereotyping, such as the influence of (expected) evaluation and power relations. Other research interests include emotions in intergroup processes, minority influence, and charismatic leadership.

Primary Interests:

Attitudes and Beliefs
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Person Perception
Persuasion, Social Influence
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Attitudes and Beliefs
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Person Perception

Persuasion, Social Influence
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Journal Articles:

Gordijn, E. H. (2010). When thinking that you are fat makes you feel worthless: Activation and application of meta-stereotypes when appearance matters. Social Cognition, 28, 20-39.
Gordijn, E. H., Brix, L., Wijnants, N., Koomen, W., & Finschilescu, G. (2008). The relation between prejudice, stereotypes and anticipated affect: Black and White South Africans’ perceptions and meta-perceptions. South African Journal of Psychology, 38, 589-601.
Gordijn, E. H., De Vries, N. K. & de Dreu, C. K. W. (2002). Minority influence on focal and related attitudes: Change in size, attribution, and information processing. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1315-1326.
Gordijn, E. H., Hindriks, I., Koomen, W., Dijksterhuis, A., & van Knippenberg, A. (2004). Consequences of stereotype suppression and internal suppression motivation: a self regulation approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 212-224.
Gordijn, E. H., Koomen, W., & Stapel, D. A. (2001). Level of prejudice in relation to knowledge of cultural stereotypes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 150-157.
Gordijn, E. H., Postmes, T., & de Vries, N. K. (2001). Devil's advocate or advocate of oneself: the effects of pro- and counter-attitudinal advocacy and numerical support on self persuasion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 395-407.
Gordijn, E. H., Wigboldus, D., & Yzerbyt, V. (2001). Emotional consequences of categorizing victims of negative outgroup behavior as ingroup or outgroup. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 4, 317-326.
Gordijn, E. H., Yzerbyt, V. Y., Wigboldus, D., Dumont, M. (2006). Emotional reactions to harmful intergroup behavior. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 15-30.
Kamans, E., Otten, S., & Gordijn, E. H.. (2011). Power and threat in intergroup conflict: How emotional and behavioral reactions depend on amount and content of threat. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 14, 293-310.
Kamans, E., Otten, S., & Gordijn, E. H., Spears, R..(2010). How group contest depends on group power and the likelihood that power determines victory and defeat. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13, 715-724.
Koudenburg, N., & Gordijn E. H. (2011). My date can call me sweet, but my colleague can’t: Meta-stereotypic behavior as a function of context and liking of the outgroup. Social cognition, 29, 212-230.
Koudenburg, N., Postmes, T., & Gordijn, E. H. (2011). Disrupting the flow: How brief silences in group conversations affect social needs. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 512-515.
Lammers, J., Galinski, A., Gordijn, E. H., & Otten, S. (in press). Power increases social distance. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Lammers, J., Galinski, A., Gordijn, E. H., & Otten, S. (2008). Legitimacy moderates the effects of power on approach. Psychological Science, 19, 558-564.
Lammers, J., Gordijn, E. H., & Otten, S. (2008). Looking through the eyes of the powerful. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1229-1238.
Ruys, K. I., Spears, R., & Gordijn, E. H. (2008). Similar and different at the same time: When similarity stimulates the perception of dissimilarities between people. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 576-585.
Ruys, K. I., Spears, R., Gordijn, E. H., & de Vries, N. K. (2007). Automatic contrast: Evidence that automatic comparison with the social self affects evaluative responses. British Journal of Psychology, 98, 361-374.
Ruys, K. I., Spears, R., Gordijn, E. H., & de Vries, N. K. (2006). Two faces of (dis)similarity in affective judgments of persons: Contrast or assimilation effects revealed by morphs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 399-411.
Spears, R., Gordijn, E. H., Dijksterhuis, A., & Stapel, D. A. (2004). Reaction in action: Intergroup contrast in automatic behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 605-616.
Van de Velde, S. W., Stapel, D. A., & Gordijn, E. H. (2010). Imitation of emotion: When meaning leads to aversion. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 536-542.

Courses Taught:

Advanced Social Psychology
Attitudes and Behavior
Attitudes and Survey Techniques
Intergroup processes
Intrapersonal processes
Testing Social Psychological Theories

Advanced Social Psychology
Attitudes and Behavior
Attitudes and Survey Techniques

Intergroup processes
Intrapersonal processes
Testing Social Psychological Theories

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Ernestine Gordijn
Social and Organizational Psychology
University of Groningen
Grote Kruisstraat 2/1
9712 TS Groningen
The Netherlands

Phone: (+31) 503636395