Ralph Erber
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Research interests:
Affect and decision making, especially the role of affect regulation in the context of making decisions that carry varying levels of risk; thought suppression, especially with respect to cognitive vs. motivational explanations for the rebound following thought suppression; intimate relationships, especially the motivational underpinnings of "unwanted" relationships.
Books and such:
I'm currently working on the second edition of Intimate Relationships (with M.W. Erber) to be available late 2009 and a social psychology text with Len Newman to be published by Wiley in 2010. And of course, our edited volume "Understanding Genocide" is still available from Oxford University Press. I'm also co-editor of Psychological Inquiry (with Lenny Martin), an international journal for the advancement of theory in psychology, published by Psychology Press. If you have some wild ideas that might advance our field, please send them my way.
Primary Interests:
- Close Relationships
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Interpersonal Processes
- Social Cognition
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Books:
- Erber, R., & Erber, M. W. (2010). Intimate relationships: Issues, theories, and research (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
- Erber, R., & Gilmour, R. (Eds.). (1994). Theoretical frameworks for personal relationships. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Newman, L. S., & Erber, R. (2002). Understanding genocide: The social psychology of the Holocaust. New York: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Erber, R., & Erber, M. W. (2001). Mood and processing: A view from a self-regulation perspective. In L. L. Martin & G. L. Clore (Eds.), Theories of mood and cognition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Erber, R., & Tesser, A. (1992). Task effort and the regulation of mood: The absorption hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 28, 339-359.
- Erber, R., Wegner, D. M., & Therriault, N. (1996). On being cool and collected: Mood regulation in anticipation of social interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 757-766.
- Wegner, D. M., & Erber, R. (1992). The hyperaccessibility of suppressed thoughts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 903-912.
- Wegner, D. M., Erber, R., & Raymond, P. (1991). Transactive memory in close relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 923-929.
- Wegner, D. M., Erber, R., & Zanakos, S. (1993). Ironic processes in the mental control of mood and mood related thought. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 1093-1104.
Other Publications:
- Erber, R. (1996). The self-regulation of moods. In L. L. Martin & A. Tesser (Eds.), Striving and feeling: Interactions between goals and affect (pp. 251-275). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Erber, R., & Wegner, D. M. (1996). Ruminations on the rebound. In R. S. Wyer (Ed.), Advances in Social Cognition (pp. 73- 79). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Social Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Topics in Experimental Psychology
Ralph Erber
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
DePaul University
990 W. Fullerton, Suite 4200
Chicago, Illinois 60614
United States of America
- Phone: (773) 325-4243