Bertram Gawronski
Professor — Ph.D., Humboldt University Berlin (Germany)

Contact
- E-mail: gawronski@utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-7520
- Office: SEA 3.216
- Campus Mail Code: A8000
Interests
Social Cognition, Attitudes, Decision-Making, Moral Psychology, Meta-Theory, Psychological Measurement
Biography
Dr. Gawronski earned his M.A. in Philosophy at the Free University Berlin (Germany) in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Psychology at Humboldt University Berlin (Germany) in 2001. He was as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Würzburg (Germany) from 2001 to 2002 and at Northwestern University from 2002 to 2004. Before joining the University of Texas at Austin in 2014, he held positions as Professor of Psychology and Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology at The University of Western Ontario (Canada).
Dr. Gawronski will not accept new graduate students for the fall 2021.
Courses
PSY 355S • Social Cognition-Wb
41485 • Fall 2020
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM
Internet; Synchronous
PSY 394V • Theory/Explanatn Socl Psych
42224 • Spring 2020
Meets T 1:00PM-4:00PM SEA 5.106
PSY 355S • Social Cognition
41699 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM UTC 3.124
PSY 341K • Social Cognition
42812 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM UTC 4.110
PSY 394V • Theory, Explanation In Soc Psy
42989 • Spring 2018
Meets M 1:00PM-4:00PM SEA 5.106
PSY 341K • Social Cognition
43145 • Fall 2017
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM NOA 1.124
PSY 341K • Psychology Of Attitudes
42373 • Spring 2016
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM SEA 2.108
Wr
PSY 341K • Social Cognition
42305 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM NOA 1.124
PSY 394V • Theory & Explain In Social Psy
42950 • Spring 2015
Meets T 1:00PM-4:00PM SEA 5.106
PSY 341K • Social Cognition
43720 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM NOA 1.124
Research
Dr. Gawronski's research aims at understanding social judgments and social behavior by identifying their underlying mental processes. Central questions are concerned with the antecedents, mental underpinnings, and downstream consequences of spontaneous and deliberate responses to objects, individuals, groups, and social issues. To address these questions, his research utilizes a combination of lab and online studies, explicit and implicit measures, and computational modeling. Major lines of current research include moral judgment and decision-making, attitude formation and change, and effects of misinformation. In addition to these major themes, his work is concerned with basic questions of psychological measurement and meta-theoretical issues in the construction and evaluation of psychological theories.
Publications
Brannon, S. M., Carr, S., Jin, E. S., Josephs, R. A., & Gawronski, B. (2019). Exogenous testosterone increases sensitivity to moral norms in moral dilemma judgments. Nature Human Behavior, 3, 856-866.
Conway, P., & Gawronski, B. (2013). Deontological and utilitarian inclinations in moral decision-making: A process dissociation approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 216-235.
Galdi, S., Arcuri, L., & Gawronski, B. (2008). Automatic mental associations predict future choices of undecided decision-makers. Science, 321, 1100-1102.
Gawronski, B., Armstrong, J., Conway, P., Friesdorf, R., & Hütter, M. (2017). Consequences, norms, and generalized inaction in moral dilemmas: The CNI model of moral decision-making. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, 343-376.
Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2006). Associative and propositional processes in evaluation: An integrative review of implicit and explicit attitude change. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 692-731.
Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2011). The associative-propositional evaluation model: Theory, evidence, and open questions. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 59-127.
Gawronski, B., & Cesario, J. (2013). Of mice and men: What animal research can tell us about context effects on automatic responses in humans. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 187-215.
Gawronski, B., Rydell, R. J., De Houwer, J., Brannon, S. M., Ye, Y., Vervliet, B., & Hu, X. (2018). Contextualized attitude change. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 57, 1-52.
Gawronski, B., Rydell, R. J., Vervliet, B., & De Houwer, J. (2010). Generalization versus contextualization in automatic evaluation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 683-701.
Heycke, T., & Gawronski, B. (2020). Co-occurrence and relational information in evaluative learning: A multinomial modeling approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, 104-124.
A comprehensive publication list is available at Dr. Gawronski's lab website.
Books
Deutsch, R., Gawronski, B., & Hofmann, W. (Eds.). (2017). Reflective and impulsive determinants of human behavior. New York: Psychology Press. [order]
Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (Eds.). (2015). Theory and explanation in social psychology. New York: Guilford Press. [order]
Gawronski, B., & Payne, B. K. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of implicit social cognition: Measurement, theory, and applications. New York: Guilford Press. [order]
Gawronski, B., & Strack, F. (Eds.). (2012). Cognitive consistency: A fundamental principle in social cognition. New York: Guilford Press. [order]
Sherman, J. W., Gawronski, B., & Trope, Y. (Eds.). (2014). Dual-process theories of the social mind. New York: Guilford Press. [order]