Biography:
I am an Assistant Professor at
the BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway and an Associate Research Scientist at the
Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. Broadly
speaking, I research psychological processes and human behavior, with a particular
focus on non-normative behaviors. Recent topics include people's perceptions of
social outliers, what drives fanaticism, and the sharing of misinformation and
propaganda.
I received my PhD at Yale
University in 2021. Prior to that, I completed degrees in Computer Science and
Psychology at New York University.
You can find me Resume here.
Publications:
Oettingen, G., Gollwitzer, A., Jung, J., & Olcaysoy Okten, I. (2022).
Misplaced Certainty in the Context of Conspiracy Theories. Current
Opinion in Psychology.
Gollwitzer, A., Olcaysoy Okten, I., Osorio Pizarro, A., & Oettingen,
G. (2022). Discordant Knowing: A Social Cognitive Structure Underlying Fanaticism. Journal
of Experimental Psychology: General.
Marshall, J., Gollwitzer*, A., Mermin-Bunnell, N., & Mandalaywala, P.
(2022). The role of status in the early emergence of pro-White bias in rural
Uganda. Developmental Science.
*shared first-authorship
Marshall, J., Gollwitzer, A., Mermin-Bunnell, N., Shinomiya, M.,
Retelsdorf, J., & Bloom, P. (2022). How development and culture shape
intuitions about prosocial obligations. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General.
Okten, I. O., Gollwitzer,
A., & Oettingen, G. (2022). When Knowledge is Blinding: The Dangers of
Being Certain About the Future. Personality and Individual Differences.
Marshall, J., Gollwitzer, A., & Bloom, P. (2022). Why do children and
adults think other people punish? Developmental Psychology.
Gollwitzer, A., Mcloughlin, K., Martel, C., Marshall, J., Höhs, J.M.,
& Bargh, J.A. (2021). Linking Self-Reported Social Distancing to Real-World
Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Psychological and
Personality Science.
Gollwitzer, A., Martel, C., Brady, W.J., Pärnamets, P., Freedman, I.G.,
Knowles, E.D., & Van Bavel, J.J. (2020). Partisan differences in physical
distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature
Human Behaviour.
Olcaysoy Okten, I., Gollwitzer, A., & Oettingen, G. (2020). Gender
differences in preventing the spread of coronavirus. Behavioral Science
& Policy.
Gollwitzer, A., Martel, C., Bargh, J. A. & Chang, S. W. C. (2020).
Aversion towards simple broken patterns predicts moral judgment. Personality
and Individual Differences.
Underberg, J.E., Gollwitzer, A., Oettingen, G., & Gollwitzer, P.M.
(2020). The best words: Linguistic indicators of grandiose narcissism in
politics. Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
Gollwitzer, A., Marshall, J., & Bargh, J.A. (2020). Pattern deviancy aversion predicts prejudice via a dislike of
statistical minorities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Gollwitzer,
A., Martel, C., McPartland, J., & Bargh, J.A. (2019). Commentary: Reply to
Taylor et al.: Acknowledging the multidimensionality of autism when predicting
social psychological skill. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
Gollwitzer, A., Martel, C., McPartland, J., & Bargh, J.A. (2019).
Autism spectrum traits predict higher social psychological skill. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
Gollwitzer, A., & Oettingen, G. (2019). Paradoxical knowing: A
shortcut to knowledge and its antisocial correlates. Social Psychology.
Marshall, J., Gollwitzer, A., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2019). The
development of corporal third-party punishment. Cognition, 190,
221-229.
Gollwitzer, A., & Clark, M. S. (2019). Anxious attachment as an
antecedent of people's aversion towards pattern deviancy. European
Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2565
Gollwitzer, A., & Bargh, J. A. (2018). Social psychological skill and
its correlates. Social Psychology.
Gollwitzer, A., Wilczynska, M., & Jaya, E. S. (2018). Targeting
the link between loneliness and paranoia
via an interventionist-causal model framework. Psychiatry
Research.
Marshall, J., Gollwitzer, A., & Santos, L. R. (2018). Does
altercentric interference rely on mentalizing? Results from two level-1
perspective-taking tasks. PloS one.
Gollwitzer, A., Marshall, J., Wang, Y., & Bargh, J. A. (2017).
Relating pattern deviancy aversion to stigma and prejudice. Nature
Human Behavior.
Gollwitzer, A., Schwörer, B., Stern, C., Gollwitzer, P. M., & Bargh,
J. A. (2017). Up and down regulation of a highly automatic process: Implementation
intentions can both increase and decrease social projection. Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology, 70, 19-26.
Jaya, E. S., Hillmann, T. E., Reininger, K. M., Gollwitzer, A., &
Lincoln, T. M. (2016). Loneliness and psychotic symptoms: The mediating role of
depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 1-11.
Weinreich, A., & Gollwitzer, A. (2016). Automaticity and affective
responses in valence transfer: Insights from the crossmodal auditory-visual
paradigm. Psychology of Music. Advance online publication. doi:
10.1177/0305735615626519
Duckworth, A. L., Kirby, T. A., Gollwitzer, A., & Oettingen, G.
(2013). From fantasy to action: Mental Contrasting with Implementation
Intentions (MCII) improves academic performance in children. Social
Psychological and Personality Science, 4, 745-753.
Gollwitzer, A., Oettingen, G., Kirby, T., Duckworth, A. L., & Mayer,
D. (2011). Mental contrasting facilitates academic performance in school
children. Motivation and Emotion, 35, 403-412.
