Publications

  • Hellmann, J. H., Echterhoff, G., Kopietz, R., Niemeier, S. and Memon, A. (2011), Talking about visually perceived events: Communication effects on eyewitness memory. European Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.796.
  • Kopietz, R., Hellmann, J. H., Higgins, E. T., & Echterhoff, G. (2010). Shared-reality effects on memory: Communicating to fulfill epistemic needs. Social Cognition, 28, 353-378. doi: 10.1521/soco.2010.28.3.353
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., Niemeier, S., Hellmann, J. H., & Memon, A. (2009). Audience-congruent biases in eyewitness memory and judgment: Influences of a co-witness’ liking of a suspect. Social Psychology, 3, 133-144. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335.40.3.138
  • Echterhoff, G., Higgins, E. T., Kopietz, R., & Groll, S. (2008). How communication goals determine when audience tuning biases memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 3-12. doi: 10.1037/0096-3445.137.1.3
  • Hellmann, J. H., Kopietz, R., & Echterhoff, G. (2007). Shared memories, shared beliefs: The formation and use of joint representations in social interaction. European Bulletin of Social Psychology, 19, 40-46.
  • Higgins, E. T., Echterhoff, G., Crespillo, R., & Kopietz, R. (2007). Communication effects on social knowledge: Sharing reality with individual vs. group audiences. Japanese Psychological Research, 49, 89-99. doi: 10.1111./j.1468-5884.2007.00336.x

Submitted / Under Review

  • Echterhoff, G., Kopietz, R., & Higgins, E. T. (submitted). Adjusting shared-reality experience: How changes in the communicator-audience relationship impact memory. Social Cognition.

Unpublished Manuscripts or Manuscripts in Preparation

  • Hellmann, J. H., Rees, J. H., Kopietz, R., & Echterhoff, G. (in preparation). The role of centrality of recalled information in judgments of eyewitness memory certainty. University of Münster.
  • Kopietz, R., & Echterhoff, G. (unpublished). Remembering the FIFA World Cup 2006: How people establish shared representations of the past. Bielefeld University.
  • Kopietz, R., & Echterhoff, G. (unpublished). Thinking back to collectively shocking events: How people judge their memories for “September 11″. Bielefeld University.
  • Echterhoff, G., Kopietz, R., & Sanitioso, R. B. (unpublished). The interplay of memory cues and motivation in self-perception: When are self-judgments based on ease of recall? University of Münster
  • Kopietz, R., Songphatanayothin, C., Gregg, A. P., & Sedikides, C. (in preparation). Self-protection as a universal phenomenon: Mnemic neglect in Thailand. University College London.
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., & Hellmann, J. H. (in preparation). When easy equals good: Ease-of-retrieval effects on eyewitness’ memory judgments. Jacobs University Bremen.
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., & Higgins, E. T. (in preparation). Audience-tuning effects in intergroup communication: The role of epistemic authority. University of Münster.
  • Pierucci, S., Kopietz, R., Klein, O., & Bratanova, B. (in preparation). Communicating with the devil: How the audience’s appropriateness affects audience-tuning effects on memory. University of Brussels.

Chaired Symposia

  • Upcoming: Gebauer, J. & Kopietz, R. (2012). Self-enhancement: A powerful process driving positive illusions, mate appeal, memory bias, and self-reported prosociality 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Mannheim, Germany.
  • Kopietz, R. & Hellmann, J. H. (2009). Effekte adressatenorientierter Kommunikation. Aktuelle Erweiterungen des Geltungsbereichs. 51. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Jena, Germany.
  • Kopietz R., & Berthold A. (2008). Biases in intergroup communications. 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Marburg, Germany.
  • Branscombe, N. R., Kopietz, R., & Klein, O. (2008). When the past meets the present: Collective memory and collective emotions. 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
  • Echterhoff, G., & Kopietz, R. (2007). Social and motivational biases in memory and judgment. 49. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Trier, Germany.
  • Kopietz R., & Groll, S. (2006). Adressatenorientierte Kommunikation: Voraussetzungen, Prozesse und Konsequenzen. 44. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Nürnberg, Germany.

Papers Presented

  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., Hellmann, J. H., & Higgins, E. T. (2012). Sharing is believing. 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA.
  • Kopietz, R. (2011). Person perception revisited: The impact of perceptual fluency on perceptions of out-group members Invited talk at the Unité de Psychologie Sociale of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Colloquium chaired by Olivier Klein).
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., & Hellmann, J. H. (2011). “Kurz und gut?!” Der Einfluss von Abrufleichtigkeit auf Gedächtnisurteile von Augenzeugen. 13. Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., Hellmann, J. H., Niemeier, S., & Memon, A. (2011). Audience-tuning effects for visually perceived events: Implications for eyewitness memory research. 16th EASP General Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., Higgins, E. T., & Crespillo, R. (2011). Audience-tuning effects on memory: Overcoming intergroup barriers to shared reality. 2011 Meeting of the Society for Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, New York, USA.
  • Kopietz, R. (2010). Achieving shared representations of the past. Invited talk at Stockholm University (Seminar chaired by Torun Lindholm), Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Kopietz, R., & Echterhoff, G. (2010). Making a long vs. short statement: When easy is true. ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Kopietz, R. (2010). Communicating to fulfill epistemic needs. 2010 Social Cognition meeting UK, University College London, UK.
  • Kopietz, R. (2009). Shared-reality effects on memory: Communicating to fulfill epistemic needs. Invited talk at the Unité de Psychologie Sociale of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Colloquium chaired by Olivier Klein).
  • Kopietz, R. (2009). “Kurz und gut?!” Der Einfluss von Abrufleichtigkeit auf Gedächtnisurteile von Augenzeugen. [“In a nutshell” Ease-of-retrieval effects on eyewitnesses’ memory judgments].Invited talk at the University of Basel (Colloquium chaired by Michaela Wänke).
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., & Higgins, E. T. (2009). Audience-tuning effects on speakers’ memory: The motivation to create a shared reality with the audience. 21st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Kopietz. R. & Illies, D. J. (2009). Auf einer Wellenlänge? Erste Befunde zu Effekten adressatenorientierter Kommunikation im Internet. 51. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Jena, Germany.
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., & Higgins, E. T. (2008). When does communication affect communicators’ memory? The role of encoding differences in audience-tuning effects. XXIX. International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., & Higgins, E. T. (2008). Audience tuning effects on memory: The role of resource depletion in intergroup communication. 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Marburg, Germany.
  • Kopietz, R., & Echterhoff, G. (2008). Collective memory for the World Cup 2006 in Germany: How people construct perceptions of sharedness and shared relevance. 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
  • Kopietz, R. (2007). Audience-tuning effects in intergroup communication: When saying isn’t necessarily believing. Invited talk at the Unité de Psychologie Sociale of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Colloquium chaired by Olivier Klein).
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., Higgins, E. T., & Klein, K. (2007). How communication goals determine when audience tuning biases memory: Shared reality or self-inference processes?EAESP Small Group Meeting on Shared Memories, Shared Beliefs: The Formation and Use of Joint Representations in Social Interaction, Rapallo, Italy.
  • Kopietz, R., & Echterhoff, G. (2007). Making a brief vs. long report: The role of retrieval ease in eyewitness testimony. Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie, Freiburg, Germany.
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., Higgins, E. T., & Groll, S. (2007). When and how audience tuning biases memory: Shared reality versus other communication goals. 49. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Trier, Germany.
  • Kopietz, R., & Echterhoff, G. (2006). Der Einfluss adressatenorientierter Kommunikation auf Erinnerungen: Der moderierende Effekt von Kommunikationsmotiven. 44. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Nürnberg, Germany.
  • Kopietz, R., & Echterhoff, G. (2006). Is saying really believing, regardless of who we say it to? Audience tuning effects after communicating with in- vs. outgroup members. 9th Jena Workshop on Intergroup Relations: Current Research on Group Perception and Intergroup Behavior – the Role of Motivational Processes (EAESP Medium sized meeting), Oppurg castle, Germany.
  • Groll, S., & Kopietz, R. (2006). Audience-tuning effects on memory: The role of shared reality.Shared Reality in Cognition and Communication, Small Group Meeting, Columbia University, New York City, USA. [joint talk]
  • Kopietz, R. (2006). Metacognition and memory: The use of content vs. feeling based cues in memory judgments. SoDoc 2006 – PhD Workshop of the Social Psychology Division of the German Psychological Society, Jena, Germany.
  • Kopietz, R., Echterhoff, G., & Otte, T. A. (2006). Soziale Realitätsbildung mit Eigen- und Fremdgruppenmitgliedern: Differentielle Effekte und Prozesse der adressatenorientierten Kommunikation. 48. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Mainz, Germany.