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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 
2010
van Ulzen.
N. R., Lamoth,
C. J. C, Daffertshofer,
A.,
Semin,
G. R. and Beek,
P. J. (2010). Stability and variability of acoustically specified
coordination patterns while walking side-by-side: Does the sea-gull
effect hold? Neuroscience
Letters, 427, 79-83.
Semin, G. R. (in press). Culturally Situated
Linguistic Ecologies and Language Use: Cultural Tools at the
Service of Representing and Shaping Situated Realities. In
Advances in
Cultural Social Psychology, Vol. 1
Semin, G. R. & Echterhoff, G. (in press).
From Neurons to Shared Cognition and Culture. In Semin, G. R. &
Echterhoff, G. (eds.) From Neurons to
Shared Cognition and Culture.
Psychology Press.
Semin, G. R. (in press). The Linguistic Category
Model. In P. A. M. Van Lange, A. Kruglanski, & E. T. Higgins
(Eds.), Handbook of
theories of social psychology. London,
England: Sage.
The Chicago Social Brain Network and Semin, G.
R. (in press). 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
LancianoT., Curci, A. & Semin, G. R. (in
press). The emotional and reconstructive determinants of emotional
memories: an experimental approach to flashbulb memory
investigation. Memory,
Semin, G. R. (in press). Sociality in Extremis -
removing the boundaries between self and other. In Semin, G. R.
& Echterhoff, G. (eds.) Grounding
Sociality: From Neurons to Shared Cognition and
Culture. Psychology
Press.
Semin, G. R. & Echterhoff, G. (in press).
Grounding
Sociality: From Neurons to Shared Cognition and
Culture. New York:
Psychology Press
Klein, O, Ventura, P., Fernandes, T.,
Garcia-Marques,L. Licata,L., Semin, G. R. (in press). Effects of
schooling and literacy on linguistic abstraction.
European
Journal of Social Psychology,
Jiga-Boy, G. M., Clark, A. E., & Semin, G.
R. (in press). So much to do and so little time: Effort and
perceived temporal distance. Psychological
Science
Louwerse, M., Lin K, Drescher, A. & Semin,
G. R. (in press). Linguistic Cues Predict Fraudulent Events in a
Corporate Social Network. Proceedings of the Cognitive
Science
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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