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Roberto Gonzalez Gutierrez

Full Professor

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Social Psychology, Intergroup Relations, Contact, Prejudice, Social Identity, Social Norms, Social Change, Acculturation, Intergroup Contact and Help, Collective Actions, Measurement and Methodology.

Educación

  •  Ph.D. in Social Psychology, UNIVERSITY OF KENT. Reino Unido, 2000
  •  Licentiate (Licenciado) in Psychology, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1992
  •  Psychologist (Professional Title), PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1992

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Faculty of Social Sciences

    Santiago, Chile

    2000 - 2004

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Faculty of Social Sciences

    Santiago, Chile

    2004 - 2010

  •   Full Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Faculty of Social Sciences

    Santiago, Chile

    2010 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Supervisor of Postdoctoral positions
2017 Postdoctoral María Chayinska: “‘Change we can believe in’: How fostering beliefs about group malleability can contribute to conflict resolution in the South of Chile”. Postdoctoral project funded by FONDECYT.
2015 Postdoctoral Gloria Jiménez-Moya: “How confronting prejudice affects social relationships”. Postdoctoral project funded by FONDECYT.
2014 Postdoctoral Paula Luengo. Postdoctoral project funded by the Centre of Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies, COES (FONDAP).
2014 Postdoctoral Monica Gerber: “Justifying the use of violence committed by and against Mapuche people in Chile: the role of procedural justice, legitimacy, and identity in shaping attitudes towards intergroup violence”. Postdoctoral project funded by FONDECYT.

Thesis advisor for Graduate Students
2019 Thesis Project to obtain the degree of PhD in Psychology at P. Catholic University of Chile. Title: Pending. Student: Victor Jiménez.
2019 Thesis Project to obtain the degree of PhD in Psychology at P. Catholic University of Chile. Title: Pending. Student: Claudia Amo.
2017 Thesis to obtain the degree of PhD in Psychology at P. Catholic University of Chile. Title: Predictors of positive and negative intergroup contact. Student: Camila Salazar.
2016 Thesis to obtain the degree of PhD in Psychology at P. Catholic University of Chile. Title: Prejudice Reduction towards gay men and lesbian women through imagined contact in simple of heterosexual youngsters. Student: Fabiola Gómez.
2014 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Education, Faculty of Education. P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Design and evaluation of a curricular intervention of an educative program aimed to Foster the promotion of intergroup friendship among indigenous and non-indigenous children in Chile. Student: Cecilia Inostroza.
2014 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Education, Faculty of Education. P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Design and evaluation of the implementation of an educational intervention aimed to Foster the promotion of intergroup friendship among indigenous and non-indigenous children in Chile. Student: Angélica Gómez.
2011 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Chile as a host society: intergroup emotions, representations and relative fit of acculturative strategies as predictors of prejudice toward Peruvian immigrants. Student: Bárbara Cohen
2011 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Nationalism, perceived intergroup conflict and prejudice toward Peruvian immigrants: the meditational role of intergroup threat, anxiety and empathy. Student: Daniel Miranda.
2009 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: University students’ participation in organization of Social voluntarism: psychological and socialization antecedents. Student: María Paz Cadena.
2004 to 2008 Thesis to obtain the degree of Doctor in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Evaluation of a model of intergroup attitudes in an acculturative context: perspectives from the Latin-American migrants and the Chilean Society. Student: David Sirlopú.
2004 to 2006 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Analysis of the attitudes and stereotypes of Chileans towards the government and citizens of the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the invasion to Irak. Student: Carla Yovane
2004 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: The relationship between intergroup emotions (collective guilt and shame) and reparation attitudes in political and ethnical scenarios. Student: Belky Vargas Ponce
2004 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: The role of the contact hypothesis in the promotion of positive interethnic attitudes in high school students from the IX Region. Student: Johana Contreras
2001-2003 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Contact Hypothesis and norms in the reduction of prejudice. Student: Andrés Millar.
2001-2003 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Implicit and explicit children’s attitudes towards the Mapuche ethnicity. Student: Gabriela Ordóñez.
2001-2003 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Implicit and explicit attitudes towards disabled people. Student: David Sirlopú.

Receives foreign undergraduate and graduate students in research activities in Chile

2008-2019 Receives a graduate student from the Psychology Department at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Masi Noor; Linda Tipp, Sam Person, Sharon Cohen, Sabina Cehajic). Receives a graduate student from the Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Manisha Gupta, Rachel Steel, Daniel Chapman). Receives Kristiane Kaufman, from Bielefeld University, Germany and graduate student Dana Indreica from Kolenzx-Landau, Germany. Receives Master Student Tabea Hässler University of Colon, Germany, and supervises her Master Thesis. Receives graduate students Juan Diego García, from Universidad de Granada, Spain and Elaine Smith from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
2004-2008 Annually receives, as part of an international collaborative program funded by the British Council, a graduate student from the Psychology Department at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Masi Noor, Sharon Cohen, Sabina ?ehaji? and Sam Pherson). Performs with them research activities (study design, data collection, data processing, and publishing).
2006 Receives an undergraduate student from the Psychology Department at Dresden University, Germany (Caroline Roggendorf). Performs with her research activity (study design, data collection, data processing, and publishing).
2002-2004 Receives, as part of an international collaborative program funded by CONICYT, undergraduate and graduate students from the Psychology Department at Bielefeld University, Germany (graduate student, Heidi Mescher, undergraduate student, Friederike Habelan). Performs with them research activities (study design, data collection, data processing, and publishing).



 

Article (106)

Innovation across cultures: Connecting leadership, identification, and creative behavior in organizations
Is Support for Feminism Enough for Change? How Sexism and Gender Stereotypes Might Hinder Gender Justice
Maternal Education and Children's School Achievement: The Roles of Values, Parenting, and Behavior Regulation
Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries.
Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance
Need Satisfaction in Intergroup Contact: A Multinational Study of Pathways Toward Social Change
Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations
Psychology and Indigenous People
REPLY TO KOMATSU ET AL.: From local social mindfulness to global sustainability efforts?
REPLY TO NIELSEN ET AL.: Social mindfulness is associated with countries' environmental performance and individual environmental concern
Validación de la Versión Abreviada de la Escala de Homonegatividad Moderna en Jóvenes Chilenos
A longitudinal study of the bidirectional causal relationships between online political participation and offline collective action
Changing attitudes toward redistribution: The role of perceived economic inequality in everyday life and intolerance of inequality
Ethnicity or Policy? The Conditioning of Intergroup Trust in the Context of Ethnic Conflict
Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout and the Mediating Role of Team Identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development Project
International optimism: Correlates and consequences of dispositional optimism across 61 countries
Materialist and Post-materialist Concerns and the Wish for a Strong Leader in 27 Countries
Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe
The intergenerational transmission of participation in collective action: The role of conversation and political practices in the family
The Role of Family in the Intergenerational Transmission of Collective Action
Understanding Change in Social-Movement Participation: The Roles of Social Norms and Group Efficacy
Who in the World Is Trying to Change Their Personality Traits? Volitional Personality Change Among College Students in Six Continents
YOUTH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Challenges for Social Cohesion in Latin America
A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change
Happiness around the world: A combined etic-emic approach across 63 countries
Situational experience around the world: A replication and extension in 62 countries
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
Don't forget the group! The importance of social norms and empathy for shaping donation behaviour
Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader
Responding to natural disasters: Examining identity and prosociality in the context of a major earthquake
With a little help from our friends: The impact of cross-group friendship on acculturation preferences
Being oneself through time: Bases of self-continuity across 55 cultures
Cultural Values Moderate the Impact of Relative Deprivation
Cultural Values Moderate the Impact of Relative Deprivation
How Much Is Enough in a Perfect World? Cultural Variation in Ideal Levels of Happiness, Pleasure, Freedom, Health, Self-Esteem, Longevity, and Intelligence
How Much Is Enough in a Perfect World? Cultural Variation in Ideal Levels of Happiness, Pleasure, Freedom, Health, Self-Esteem, Longevity, and Intelligence
Identity leadership going global: Validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory across 20 countries
Identity leadership going global=> Validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory across 20 countries
Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings
On the Justification of Intergroup Violence: The Roles of Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, and Group Identity in Attitudes Toward Violence Among Indigenous People
On the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Environmentalism: A 25-Nation Study
On the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Environmentalism=> A 25-Nation Study
Regaining In-Group Continuity in Times of Anxiety About the Group’s Future A Study on the Role of Collective Nostalgia Across 27 Countries
When non-activists care=> Group efficacy mediates the effect of social identification and social change beliefs on the legitimacy of collective action.
When nonactivists care: Group efficacy mediates the effect of social identification and perceived instability on the legitimacy of collective action
Being oneself through time=> Bases of self-continuity across 55 cultures
Conservatives Are More Reluctant to Give and Receive Apologies Than Liberals
Conservatives Are More Reluctant to Give and Receive Apologies Than Liberals
Ethnic Identity Development and Acculturation Preferences Among Minority and Majority Youth: Norms and Contact
Ethnic Identity Development and Acculturation Preferences Among Minority and Majority Youth=> Norms and Contact
Racial phenotypicality bias in educational expectations for both male and female teenagers from different socioeconomic backgrounds
Racial phenotypicality bias in educational expectations for both male and female teenagers from different socioeconomic backgrounds
To know you is to love you: Effects of intergroup contact and knowledge on intergroup anxiety and prejudice among indigenous Chileans
Beyond the 'East-West' Dichotomy: Global Variation in Cultural Models of Selfhood
Beyond the 'east-west' dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.
Civic engagement and giving behaviors: The role of empathy and beliefs about poverty
Civic engagement and giving behaviors=> The role of empathy and beliefs about poverty
Emergent social identity and observing social support predict social support provided by survivors in a disaster: Solidarity in the 2010 Chile earthquake
Emergent social identity and observing social support predict social support provided by survivors in a disaster=> Solidarity in the 2010 Chile earthquake
Group Norms and Emergent Social Identity Predict Solidarity in a Disaster: Collective Behaviour in the 2010 Chile Earthquake
How School Norms, Peer Norms, and Discrimination Predict Interethnic Experiences Among Ethnic Minority and Majority Youth
How School Norms, Peer Norms, and Discrimination Predict Interethnic Experiences Among Ethnic Minority and Majority Youth
Individual and culture-level components of survey response styles: A multi-level analysis using cultural models of selfhood
Individual and culture-level components of survey response styles: A multi-level analysis using cultural models of selfhood.
Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie
Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie
Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie.
Social Identities and Conflict in Chile: The Role of Historical and Political Processes
Effects of ingroup norms on domain-specific acculturation preferences: Experimental evidence from two cultural contexts
Understanding the social licence to operate of mining at the national scale: a comparative study of Australia, China and Chile
Cultural Bases for Self-Evaluation Seeing Oneself Positively in Different Cultural Contexts
Pancultural Nostalgia: Prototypical Conceptions Across Cultures
What Makes a Group Worth Dying for? Identity Fusion Fosters Perception of Familial Ties, Promoting Self-Sacrifice
Children's theories of the military coup in Chile 25 years after the events [Teorías Infantiles del Golpe de Estado en Chile 25 Años Después]
Consensus and dissent in historical memory and in attitudes toward reparation in three generations of chileans [Consenso y disenso en la memoria histórica y en las actitudes hacia la reparación en tres generaciones de chilenos]
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups
Identidad Social y Emociones Intergrupales: Antecedentes de las Actitudes de Perdón y Reparación Política en Chile
Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap
On the relation between social class and prejudice: The roles of education, income, and ideological attitudes
Social identities and intergroup emotions: The background of forgiveness attitudes and political reparation in chile [Identidad social y emociones intergrupales : Antecedentes de las actitudes de perdón y reparación política en chile]
Why does ingroup essentialism increase prejudice against minority members?
Culture and the Distinctiveness Motive: Constructing Identity in Individualistic and Collectivistic Contexts
Implicit and explicit attitudes toward people with Down syndrome: A study in schools with and without integration programmes in Chile
Implicit and explicit attitudes toward people with Down syndrome: A study in schools with and without integration programmes in Chile [Actitudes implícitas y explícitas hacia personas con síndrome de Down: Un estudio en colegios con y sin programas de integración de Chile]
Implicit and explicit attitudes toward people with Down syndrome: A study in schools with and without integration programmes in Chile Actitudes implícitas y explícitas hacia personas con síndrome de Down: Un estudio en colegios con y sin programas de integración de Chile
Is support for multiculturalism threatened by ... threat itself?
Predictors of majority members' acculturation preferences: Experimental evidence
How minority members' perceptions of majority members' acculturation preferences shape minority members' own acculturation preferences: Evidence from Chile
Indigenous Rights in Chile: National Identity and Majority Group Support for Multicultural Policies
Prejudice among Peruvians and Chileans as a Function of Identity, Intergroup Contact, Acculturation Preferences, and Intergroup Emotions
System-perpetuating asymmetries between explicit and implicit intergroup attitudes among indigenous and non-indigenous Chileans
The Category-Focus Implicit Association Test
Antecedents and consequences of acculturation preferences of non-indigenous Chileans in relation to an indigenous minority: Longitudinal survey evidence
Relación entre orientación política y condición socioeconómica en la cultura política chilena: una aproximación desde la psicología política
What do I Care? Perceived Ingroup Responsibility and Dehumanization as Predictors of Empathy Felt for the Victim Group
Confianza en instituciones políticas en Chile: un modelo de los componentes centrales de juicios de confianza
Interparty attitudes in chile: Coalitions as superordinate social identities
Nuestra culpa: Collective guilt and shame as predictors of reparation for historical wrongdoing
On positive psychological outcomes: What helps groups with a history of conflict to forgive and reconcile with each other?
Promoting Positive Attitudes Toward People With Down Syndrome: The Benefit of School Inclusion Programs
Situational flexibility of in-group-related attitudes: A single category IAT study of people with dual national identity
Trust in Political Institutions in Chile: A Model of the Main Components of Trust Judgments
Forgiveness and reparation in Chile: The role of cognitive and emotional intergroup antecedents
Dual identities in intergroup contact: Group status and size moderate the generalization of positive attitude change
Identidad y actitudes políticas en jóvenes universitarios: el desencanto de los que no se identifican políticamente
Generalization of positive attitude as a function of subgroup and superordinate group identifications in intergroup contact

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Las experiencias de contacto entre grupos religiosos: Desafíos para la convivencia y el diálogo interreligioso
Youth Civic Engagement: Challenges for Social Cohesion in Latin America
Relaciones intergrupales

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Citizens of the World: Political Engagement and Policy Attitudes of Millennials across the Globe.

Proyecto (24)

Consecuencias psicológicas de la participación en movimientos sociales
Centro de Estudio de Conflicto y Cohesión Social en Chile
Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios Interculturaes e Indígenas
La amistad intergrupal; estudio longitudinal acerca de su formación, desarrollo y consecuencias sociales.
Cambio en la Identidad Religiosa=> Una comprensión desde la experiencia personal de jóvenes chilenos
El enraizamiento cultural como condición de desarrollo=> Factores protectores y de riesgo que influyen en el desempeño educacional y ocupacional de personas Mapuches
Inglaterra=> Motivated identity construction in culturalc ontext. Participan 35 países en un estudio transcultural
Overcoming 'competitive victimhood' to foster intergroup forgiveness and reconciliation attitudes in the post-Pinochet Chile.
Sterotype Content Model
Desarrollo de pruebas estandarizadas y de una metodología de valor agregado para evaluar el progreso de los aprendizajes en Matemática y Lenguaje de estudiantes de segundo ciclo de enseñanza básica (5º a 8º)
Inmigrantes en Chile=> Antecedentes psicológicos de las preferencia aculturativas de lso Chilenos.
Jóvenes, cultura, valores y crediilidad=> un estudio de seguimiento ene studiantes universitarios
Estudio cualitativo=> Jovénes Cultura y Religión
Estudio psicosocial de la cultura política de tres generaciones de Chilenos
Prejuicio implícito y explícito en Chile y Alemania=> evaluación y cambio.
Contacto intergrupal y reducción de prejuicio=> Análisis de factores psicológicos mediadores.
Mecanismos de comunicación y mediación computacional para establecer vínculos entre extraños que se encuentran en un entorno restringido.
Prejuicios y comportamientos discriminatorios hacia minorías=> Mejormaiento de las actitudes intergrupales encontextos interétnicos en Chile
Estudio de actitudes implícitas y explícitas=> el rol de los procesos normativos y de Contacto Intergrupal=> Etnia Mapuche y personas discapacitadas
Estudio de las transformaciones en la construcción de identidad y de proyecto vital a través de la exploración de diferentes escenarios de la vida cotidiana personal
The Contact Hypothesis and Levels of Categorisation=> Maintaining a Dual Identity as a strategy for reducing Intergroup Bias
Estudio longitudinal de las cogniciones y afectos de niños y jóvenes chilenos referidos al mundo político.
La agresividad juvenil en Chile desde una perspectiva psicosocial
Consecuencias psicológicas de los procesos de diferenciación intergrupal en grupos Profesionales

Review (2)

Co-benefits of addressing climate change can motivate action around the world
Development and validation of a scale of support for violence in the context of intergroup conflict (SVIC): The case of violence perpetrated by Mapuche people and the police in Chile
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Roberto Gonzalez

Full Professor

School of Psychology

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

13
Siugmin Lay

Researcher

Centro de Medición MIDE UC

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

12
Jorge Manzi

Director Centro

Centro de Medición MIDE UC

PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

9
Andres Haye

Associate Professor

Psychology

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

9
David Sirlopú

Investigador

Facultad de Psicología y Humanidades

Universidad San Sebastián

Concepción, Chile

6
Diego Carrasco

Assistant Research Professor

Facultad de Ciencias Sociales

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

6
Pablo De Tezanos Pinto

Profesor Asistente

Psicología

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

5
Héctor Carvacho

Profesor Asistente

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Chile

4
Gloria Jimenez

Assistant Professor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

4
Monica Gerber

Associate Professor

Faculty of Psychology

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

3
José Saiz

Profesor Titular Adjunto

Psicología

Universidad de La Frontera

Temuco, Chile

3
PATRICIO SAAVEDRA

Profesor Asistente

Instituto de Ciencias Sociales

Universidad de O'Higgins

Rancagua, Chile

3
Carolina Segovia

Profesora Asociada

Departamento de Estudios Políticos

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago, Chile

3
Sergio Salgado

Profesor Asociado (Planta académica)

Administración y Economía

Universidad de La Frontera

Temuco, Chile

2
Christian Berger

Subdirector de Investigación y Postgrado

Psicologia

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Nicolás Didier

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Adminsitración y Gestión Pública

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Daniel Miranda

Investigador

Psicología

P. Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Patricio Navia

Full Professor

Political Science

UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES

Santiago, Chile

1
David Torres

Profesor Asociado

Psicología

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
NEREA ALDUNATE

Profesora Investigadora

Facultad de Gobierno

Universidad del Desarrollo

Santiago, Chile

1
Cristóbal Moya

Research Fellow

Faculty of Political and Social Sciences

Zeppelin University

Friedrichshafen, Alemania