George Bizer
I’m a social psychologist with very broad interests. Some areas I’ve explored include:
– Situational and dispositional predictors of persuasion
– Message framing
– individual differences including social-norm espousal and emotional responses to unfairness
– Teaching of psychology
– Psychological effects of social-media usage
– Political psychology
– Pricing and behavioral economics
Union College is a liberal-arts institution with fantastic students who want to get involved in undergraduate research. For this reason, lots of my recent publications have been driven by student interests and theses. I’m never quite sure what I’ll be studying next!
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Political Psychology
Research Group or Laboratory:
- Social Psychology Laboratory Group
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Journal Articles:
- Bizer, G. Y. (2020). Who's bothered by an unfair world? The emotional response to unfairness scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 159, 8.
- Bizer, G. Y. (2019). The use of published articles with questionable conclusions in a research methods course. Teaching of Psychology, 46, 236-239.
- Bizer, G. Y. (2005). A business-game demonstration for the undergraduate industrial/organizational course. Teaching of Psychology, 32, 187-189.
- Bizer, G. Y., Hart, J., & Jekogian, A. M. (2012). Belief in a just world and social dominance orientation: Evidence for a mediational pathway predicting negative attitudes and discrimination against individuals with mental illness. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 428-432.
- Bizer, G. Y., Kozak, S. M., & Holterman, L. A. (2009). The persuasiveness of the straw man rhetorical technique. Social Influence, 4, 216-230.
- Bizer, G. Y., Larsen, J. T., & Petty, R. E. (2011). Exploring the valence-framing effect: Negative framing enhances attitude strength. Political Psychology, 32, 59-80.
- Bizer, G. Y., Magin, R. A., & Levine, M. R. (2014). The Social-Norm Espousal Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 58, 106-111.
- Bizer, G. Y., Žeželj, I. L., & Luguri, J. B. (2013). When are support and opposition not opposites? Depth of processing as a moderator of the valence-framing effect. British Journal of Social Psychology, 52, 191-201.
- Chen, M., Bizer, G. Y., & Hoerl, R. W. (2023). Student evaluations of teaching as a predictor of teaching effectiveness in a selective liberal-arts college. College Teaching.
- Competiello, S. C., Bizer, G. Y., & Walker, D. C. (2023). The power of social media: Stigmatizing content affects perceptions of mental health care. Social Media and Society, 9(4).
- Hart, J., Nailling, E., Bizer, G. Y., & Collins, C. K. (2015). Attachment theory as a framework for explaining engagement with Facebook. Personality and Individual Differences, 77, 33-40.
- Huppertz, J. W., Bowman, A. R., Bizer, G. Y., Sidhu, M. S., & McVeigh, C. (2017). Hospital advertising, competition, and HCAHPS: Does it pay to advertise? Health Services Research, 52, 1590-1611.
Other Publications:
- Bizer, G. Y. (2020). Attitude strength. In R. L. Clark, K. N. Foster, S. J. Best, & B. Radcliff (Eds.), Polling America: An encyclopedia of public opinion (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood.
- Bizer, G. Y. (2017). Using the heat hypothesis to explore the statistical methods of correlation and regression. In W. E. Addison & J. R. Stowell (Eds.), Activities for Teaching Statistics and Research Methods in Psychology (pp. 39-42). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
- Bizer, G. Y. (2007). Political psychology. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Courses Taught:
- Introductory Psychology
- Research Methods in Psychology
- Social Psychology
- The Psychology of Sports (seminar)
- The Seven Deadly Sins (seminar)
George Bizer
Department of Psychology
Union College, Bailey Hall
Schenectady, New York 12308
United States of America
- Phone: (518) 388-6228
