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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rainer Banse

Professor of Social and Legal Psychology

Managing Director of the Department of Psychology

Office hours

winter semester 2025

appointment by mail.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rainer Banse

+49 228 73-4439

Room 0.003

Kaiser-Karl-Ring 9

53111 Bonn

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Curriculum vitae

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  • 2023
    On 29.05.2023, the Western University of Timisoara (Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara) awarded Prof. Dr. Rainer Banse the title doctor honoris causa
  • 2012 - 2021
    Member of the Correctional Services Advisory and Accreditation Panel, National Offender Management Service, Ministry of Justice, UK
  • Since 2007
    Professor of Social and Legal Psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  • 2003 - 2007
    Senior Lecturer at the University of York, UK
  • 2001
    Habilitation in Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 1995 - 2003
    University Assistant (C1, C2), Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 1995
    Dr. en psychologie, Université de Genève, Schweiz
  • 1989 - 1994
    Assistant, Université de Genève, Schweiz
  • 1988 - 1989
    Research Assistant, University of Giessen
  • 1988
    Graduate psychologist, University of Giessen

Research Projects

DFG project (BA 1603/5-1) "Mindset, partnership and birth"

Duration:

2015 - 2021

Head:

Prof. Dr. Rainer Banse, Dr. Lisa Hoffmann

Funder:

DFG

DFG project (BA 1603/4-1) "Cultural influences on the determinants of marital satisfaction""

Duration:

2014 - 2021

Head:

PD Dr. Ina Grau, Prof. Dr. Rainer Banse

Funder:

DFG

Publications (selection):

in press

Pache, M., Miketta, L., Banse, R., Elchinova, M., Mohammad, T., & Hess, U. (in press). The Nonverbal Emotion Assessment Tool (NEAT): An intercultural validation. Emotion.

2025

Grau, I., Miketta, L., Ebbeler, C., & Banse, R. (2025). Cultural Differences in Correlations With Marital Satisfaction: The Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model in 65 Countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 56(5). https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221251323216

Oberlader, V. , Quinten, L., Schmidt, A. F., & Banse, R. (2025). How can I reduce bias in my work? Discussing debiasing strategies for forensic psychological asssessments. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 56(3), 211–221. https://doi.org/10.1037/pro0000615

Sorrentino, A., Prott, K., Hoffmann, L., Heidemeyer, P., Grau, I., & Banse, R. (2025). A New Measure of Authoritarianism: Development and Validation of the Short Modern Comprehensive F Scale in Germany and the U.S. Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 7, Article e16537. https://doi.org/10.5964/miss.16537

Toma, R. A., Răducan, R. M, Matichescu, M. L., & Banse, R. (2025). Climate Counts: A Multilevel Validation of the EssenCES in Romanian Correctional Settings. Frontiers in Psychology, Sec. Legal and Forensic Psychology, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1666516

Walther, E., Grozeva, N., Sonnicksen, J., Wesser-Saalfrank, A., & Banse, R. (2025). The joint influence of individual deprivation and right-wing authoritarianism on radical political preferences in Germany and the US. Personality and Individual Differences, 246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113291.

2024

Babchishin, K. M., Holmes, E. J., Banse, R., Huppertz, L., Seto, M. C. (2024) Characteristics and risk factors for sibling incest. PLoS ONE 19(12): e0314550. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314550

2023

Banse, R., Schmidt, A. F. & Mokros, A. (2023). Vorschläge zur Evaluation der Wirksamkeit von Komponenten komplexer Behandlungsmaßnahmen für Straftäter. In: J. Endres & Suhling, S. (Hrsg.) Behandlung im Strafvollzug. Springer.

Hoffmann, L., Hilger, N., & Banse, R. (2023). The mindset of birth predicts birth outcomes: Evidence from a prospective longitudinal study. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Oberlader, V. A., Banse, R., Beier, S., & Schmidt, A. F. (2023). Law-abiding versus criminal identity and self-efficacy: A quantitative approach to unravel psychological factors supporting desistance from crime. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1-24.

2022

Toma, R. A., Kube, S., Hurezan, L., & Banse, R. (2022). Predictive Validity of the Static-99R in Romania. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 49(9), 1276-1294. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548221107875  

2021

Hoffmann, L., & Banse, R. (2021). Psychological aspects of childbirth: Evidence for a birth‐related mindset. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51(1), 124-151. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.271

2019

Eickmeier, K., Hoffmann, L., & Banse, R. (2019). The 5-Factor Disgust Scale: Development and validation of a comprehensive measure of disgust propensity. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 35(3), 403–413. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000401 

Grau, I., Ebbeler, C. & Banse, R. (2019). Cultural Differences in Careless Responding. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 50(3), 336-357.

2017

Asendorpf, J.B., Banse, R., Neyer, F.J. (2017). Psychologie der Beziehung (2. vollständig überarbeitete Auflage). Hogrefe Verlag.

Banse, R. (2017). Qualitätssicherung von rechtspsychologischen Sachverständigengutachten durch ein moderiertes Peer-Reviewverfahen: Ein Vorschlag zur Diskussion. Praxis der Rechtspsychologie, 27(2), 113 - 130.

Ebbeler, C., Grau, I. & Banse, R. (2017). Cultural and individual factors determine physical aggression between married partner: Evidence from 34 countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48, 1098-1118. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022117719497

2016  

Dombert, B., Schmidt, A. F., Banse, R., Briken, P., Hoyer, J., Neutze, J., Osterheider, M. (2016). How common is males’ self-reported sexual interest in prepubescent children? Journal of Sex Research, 53(2), 214-223.

Oberlader, V. A., Naefgen, C., Koppehele-Gossel, J., Quinten, L., Banse, R., & Schmidt, A. F. (2016). Validity of Content-Based Techniques to Distinguish True and Fabricated Statements: A Meta-Analysis. Law and Human Behavior, 40(4), 440-457. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000193  

Associate Editor
British Journal of Social Psychology 2007-2008
European Psychologist 2012-2018

Consulting Editor
European Journal of Personality
Interpersona
Psychological Science 2009-2010

Guest editorships
Special Issue “Personality, implicit self-concept, and automaticity” to appear in 2007 in the European Journal of Personality: (with Marco Perugini).

Special Issue "Measuring attitudes with the Implicit Association Test (IAT)" of Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 48(2), 2001: (with Henning Plessner).

Czech Science Foundation
Economic and Social Research Council
Flamish Research Fund
German Research Fund (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
National Science Foundation
Nuffield Foundation
Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (FFG)
Swiss National Science Foundation
The Israel Science Foundation
University of Ottawa's Medical Research Fund

Acta Psychologica
Aggression and Violent Behavior
Asian Journal of Criminology
British Journal of Health Psychology
British Journal of Social Psychology
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
Cognition
Cognition and Emotion
Diagnostica
Emotion
European Journal of Personality
European Journal of Psychological Assessment
Experimental Psychology
International Review of Social Psychology
Interpersona
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Journal of Environmental Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Individual Differences
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Journal of Research in Personality
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Justice Quarterly
Organizational Research Methods
Personality and Individual Differences
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Personality and Social Review
PLoSONE
Psychiatry Research
Psychologische Rundschau
Psychology and Aging
Psychological Methods
Psychological Science
Psychophysiology
Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale/International Review of Social
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
Sciences
Sex Roles
Sexual Aggression
Social Cognition
Social Methods & Research
Social and Personality Psychology Compass
Social and Personality Psychology Science
Swiss Journal of Psychology
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour