- Anthony Hermann
- Assistant Professor
- Smullin 252
- 503-370-6427 voice
- 503-370-6512 fax
- ahermann@willamette.edu
- Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
Anthony Hermann
Professor Hermann received a B.A. degree in speech communication from California State University, Fresno and a B.S. in psychology from Northern Michigan University in Marquette MI. He completed an M.A.(1997) and a Ph.D. (2002) in Social Psychology at The Ohio State University. After teaching at Kalamazoo College for a year, Professor Hermann joined the faculty at Willamette University in 2003. His teaching interests include personality psychology, industrial & organizational psychology, statistics, and social psychology. Most of his research focuses on self-evaluations are maintained and how they are related to interpersonal processes. He has become particularly interested in how people typically perceive others’ evaluations (perceived esteem) and the degree to which many phenomena that are associated with self-esteem can be explained by these social evaluations. He is also conducts research on how to effectively communicate expectations between students and college instructors and how such communication affects classroom outcomes. Click here for his website.
Recent Publications
Hermann, A. D., Lucas, G. M., & Friedrich, J. (in press). Individual differences in perceived esteem across cultures. Self and Identity
Hermann, A. D. & Foster D. A. (in press). Fostering approachability and classroom participation during the first day of class: Evidence for a reciprocal interview activity Active Learning in College Education
Case, K. A., Bartsch, R. A., McEnery, L., Hall, S. P., Hermann, A. D., & Foster, D. A. (in press). Establishing a comfortable classroom from day one: Student perceptions of the reciprocal interview. College Teaching
Hermann, A. D. (in press). Learned helplessness. In R. F. Baumeister and K. Vohs (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Sage Publications.
Wheeler, S. C., Brinol, P., & Hermann, A. D. (2007). Resistance to persuasion as self-regulation: Ego-depletion and its effects on attitude change processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 150-156
Olson, M. A., Fazio, R. H., & Hermann, A. D. (2007). Reporting tendencies underlie discrepancies between implicit and explicit measures of self-esteem. Psychological Science, 18, 287–291
Wheeler, S. C., Briñol, P., & Hermann, A. D. (2004). Undermining self-regulation ability as a means of reducing resistance to persuasion. Advances in Consumer Research, 31, 31-32.
Leonardelli, G. J., Hermann, A.D., & Arkin, R.M. (2003). The shape of self-evaluation: Implicit theories of intelligence and judgments of intellectual ability. Journal of Research in Personality, 37 , 141-168.
Hermann, A.D., Leonardelli, G., & Arkin, R.M., (2002). Self-doubt and self-esteem: A threat from within. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28 , 395-408.