Guillermo Willis

del Fresno-Díaz, Á., de Lemus, S., & Willis, G. B. (2024). “We are the 99%”: Exploring the impact of politicized wealth-based identity on the established middle-class. Self and Identity, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2024.2344252

Vaidis, D. C., Sleegers, W. W. A., van Leeuwen, F., DeMarree, K. G., Sætrevik, B., Ross, R. M., Schmidt, K., Protzko, J., Morvinski, C., Ghasemi, O., Roberts, A. J., Stone, J., Bran, A., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Gunsoy, C., Moussaoui, L. S., Smith, A. R., Nugier, A., Fayant, M.-P., … Priolo, D. (2024). A multilab replication of the induced-compliance paradigm of cognitive dissonance. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231213375

Willis, G. B., Uchida, Y., García‐Castro, J. D., & Takemura, K. (2024). High relational mobility is associated with perceiving more economic inequality in everyday life. Asian Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12597

García-Sánchez, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Moreno-Bella, E., Melita, D., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A., García-Castro, J. D., Rodríguez-Bailón, R. & Willis, G. (2024). Perceived economic inequality is negatively associated with subjective well-being through status anxiety and social trust. Social Indicators Research, 172, 239-260. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03306-x

García-Sánchez, E., García-Castro, J. D., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2024). Economic Inequality and Unfairness Evaluations of Income Distribution Negatively Predict Political and Social Trust: Evidence From Latin America Over 23 Years. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231221310

Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., García-Sánchez, E., Willis, G.B. and Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2024). Individual values predict desiring more economic inequality: The moderator role of social mobility. Int J Psychol, 59: 398-409. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13114

García-Castro, J. D., González, R., Frigolett, C., Jiménez-Moya, G., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., & Willis, G. (2023). Changing attitudes toward redistribution: The role of perceived economic inequality in everyday life and intolerance of inequality. The Journal of Social Psychology, 163(4), 566–581. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2021.2006126

Matamoros-Lima J, Willis GB, Moya M (2023) Rising and falling on the social ladder: The bidimensional social mobility beliefs scale. PLOS ONE 18(12): e0294676. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294676

Montoya-Lozano, M., Moreno-Bella, E., García-Castro, J. D., Wilis, G. B., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2023). Spanish adaptation of the Support for Economic Inequality Scale (S-SEIS). Psicothema, 35(3), 311-320. https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2022.226

del Fresno-Díaz, A., Estevan-Reina, L., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A., Willis, G. B., & de Lemus, S. (2023). Fighting inequalities in times of pandemic: The role of politicized identities and interdependent self-construal in coping with economic threat. Journal of Community and Applied Psychology, 33(2), 436-453. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2632

Moreno-Bella, E., Kulich, C., Willis, G. B., & Moya, M. (2023). Wage (in)equality matters: the effect of organizational economic inequality on others’ and self-ascriptions. The Journal of Social Psychology, 163(5), 716–734. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2023.2192398

Soler-Martínez, F. M., García-Sánchez, E., & Willis, G. B. (2023). Concerns about inequality in health, education and income jointly predict collective actions. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 55, 99-108. https://doi.org/10.14349/rlp.2023.v55.12

Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., & Willis, G. B. (2023). The economic inequality as normative information model (EINIM). European Review of Social Psychology, 1-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2022.2160555 

Moreno-Bella, E., Willis, G. B., Quiroga-Garza, A., & Moya, M. (2023). Economic inequality shapes the agency–communion content of gender stereotypes. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 26(5), 1075-1098. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221095338

Urbiola, A., Navas, M., Carmona, C., & Willis, G. B. (2022). Social Class also Matters: The Effects of Social Class, Ethnicity, and their Interaction on Prejudice and Discrimination Toward Roma. Race and Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-022-09368-1

García-Sánchez, E., García-Castro, J. D., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2022). Percepción de desigualdad económica en la vida cotidiana e ideología política: un estudio con jóvenes de España. Revista de Estudios Sociales, (79), 2-21. https://doi.org/10.7440/res79.2022.01

García-Sánchez, E., Castillo, J. C., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., & Willis, G. B. (2022). The Two Faces of Support for Redistribution in Colombia: Taxing the Wealthy or Assisting People in Need. Frontiers in sociology, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.773378

García-Castro, J. D., García-Sánchez, E., Willis, G. B., Castillo, J. C., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2022). Perceived economic inequality measures and their association with objective inequality and redistributive preferences. Social Psychology.https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000498

García-Sánchez, E., Correia, I., Pereira, C. R., Willis, G. B., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., & Vala, J. (2022). How fair is economic inequality? Belief in a just world and the legitimation of economic disparities in 27 European countries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(3), 382-395.doi.org/10.1177/01461672211002

Willis G. B., García-Sánchez E., Sánchez-Rodríguez Á., García-Castro J. D., Rodríguez-Bailón R. (2022). The psychosocial effects of economic inequality depend on its perception. Nature Reviews Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00044-0

Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., & Willis, G. B. (2022). Economic inequality affects perceived normative values. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25(1), 211–226. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220968141

Melita, D., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2021). Economic inequality increases status anxiety through perceived contextual competitiveness. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 637365.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.637365

Quiroga, A., Moreno-Bella, E., Matamoros-Lima, J. A., & Willis, G. B. (2021). ‘Congratulations for your day’: Benevolent attitudes during March 8 in Mexico. Journal of Gender Studies. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2021.1910802

Sánchez-Rodríguez, Ángel, Rodríguez-Bailón, R., & Willis, G. B. (2020). Efectos de la actividad económica sobre el individualismo-colectivismo. Escritos De Psicología – Psychological Writings, 13(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.24310/espsiescpsi.v13i1.10073

Moya, M., Willis, G. B., Paez, D., Pérez, J. A., Gómez, Á., Sabucedo, J. M., … Salanova, M. (2020, April 23). La Psicología Social ante el COVID19: Monográfico del International Journal of Social Psychology (Revista de Psicología Social). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fdn32

Melita, D., Velandia-Morales, A., Iruela-Toro, D., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2020). Spanish version of the Status Anxiety Scale (Versión española de la Escala de Ansiedad por el Estatus). International Journal of Social Psychology, 35(2), 342-369.https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2020.1721050

García-Castro, J. D., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., & Willis, G. B. (2020). Perceiving economic inequality in everyday life decreases tolerance to inequality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90, 104019. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104019 

Rodríguez-Bailón R., Sánchez-Rodríguez Á., García-Sánchez E., Petkanopoulou K., Willis G. B. (2020). Inequality is in the air: Contextual psychosocial effects of power and social class. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 120–125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.004

García-Sánchez, E., Osborne, D., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2020). Attitudes towards redistribution and the interplay between perceptions and beliefs about inequality. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59(1), 111– 136. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12326

Moreno-Bella, E., Willis, G. B., y Moya, M. (2020). ¿Se perciben como más masculinas las sociedades con mayor desigualdad económica? Ciencia Cognitiva, 14(1), 10-12.

Moya, M. & Willis, G. B. (2020). La Psicología Social ante el COVID-19: Número monográfico del International Journal of Social Psychology (Revista de Psicología Social). International Journal of Social Psychology, 35(3),590-599. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2020.1786792

del Fresno-Díaz, Á., Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á. & Willis. G. B. (2020). I choose to be powerful: Economic inequality encourages preferences of power over status positions. The Social Science Journal, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2021.1949547

Urbiola, A, Willis, GB, Ruiz-Romero, J, Moya, M. (2020). Más allá del concepto político: los efectos psicosociales de la perspectiva multicultural (Beyond the political concept: the psychosocial effects of the multicultural perspective). Andamios, 44, 295-314. http://dx.doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v17i44.802

Petkanopoulou, K., Rodríguez‐Bailón, R., Willis, G. B., & van Kleef, G. A. (2019). Powerless people don’t yell but tell: The effects of social power on direct and indirect expression of anger. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(3), 533–547. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2521

García-Sánchez, E., Van der Toorn, J., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., & Willis, G. B. (2019). The Vicious Cycle of Economic Inequality: The Role of Ideology in Shaping the Relationship Between “What Is” and “What Ought to Be” in 41 Countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(8), 991–1001. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550618811500

García-Castro, J. D., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2019). I know people who can and who cannot: A measure of the perception of economic inequality in everyday life. The Social Science Journal, 56(4), 599-608.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2018.09.008

Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Á., Willis, G. B., Jetten, J., & Rodríguez‐Bailón, R. (2019). Economic inequality enhances inferences that the normative climate is individualistic and competitive. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(6), 1114-1127.https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2557

Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Á., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez‐Bailón, R. (2019). Economic and social distance: Perceived income inequality negatively predicts an interdependent self‐construal. International Journal of Psychology, 54(1), 117-125.https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12437

Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., Jetten, J., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez Bailón, R. M. (2019). High economic inequality makes us feel less wealthy. International Review of Social Psychology, 32(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.333

Moreno-Bella, E., Willis, G. B., & Moya, M. (2019). Economic inequality and masculinity-femininity: The prevailing perceived traits in higher unequal contexts are masculine. Frontiers in Psychology, section Personality and Social Psychology, 10, 1590. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01590

Bukowski, M., de Lemus, S., Rodriguez-Bailon, R., Willis, G. B., & Alburquerque, A. (2019). When lack of control enhances closeness to others: The case of unemployment and economic threat. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 49(6), 1144–1160. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2563

Bukowski, M., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., de Lemus, S., Willis, G. B., Jiménez-Moya, G., & Spears, R. (2018). Coping with power asymmetries: The dynamics of emotional reactions in (il) legitimate powerless groups. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 49(1), 11-22.

García-Sánchez, E., Willis, G. B., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Palacio Sañudo, J., David Polo, J., & Rentería Pérez, E. (2018). Perceptions of economic inequality and support for redistribution: The role of existential and utopian standards. Social Justice Research, 31(4), 335-354.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-018-0317-6

Petkanopoulou, K., Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., Willis, G. B., Chryssochoou, X., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2018). Two Countries in Crisis: Economic Inequality in the EU and Disidentification With Europe in Spain and Greece. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(6), 888–906. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022117751201

García-Sánchez, E., Willis, G. B., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., García-Castro, J. D., Palacio-Sañudo, J., Polo, J., & Rentería-Pérez, E. (2018). Perceptions of economic inequality in Colombian daily life: More than unequal distribution of economic resources. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 1660.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01660

Urbiola, A., Willis, G.B., Ruiz-Romero, J., Moya, M. (2018). Does a multicultural perspective shape unbiased minds? The moderating role of outgroup threat. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 48, 608–617. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12551

Urbiola, A., Willis, G. B., Ruiz-Romero, J. & Moya, M. (2018). When implicit prejudice does not predict explicit prejudice: Spanish version of the Concern with Acting Prejudiced Scale. Revista de Psicología Social, 33(1), 51-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2017.1385239

Argüello, C., Carretero-Dios, H., Willis, G. B. & Moya, M., (2018). Joking about ourselves: Effects of disparaging humor on ingroup stereotyping. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 21(4), 568-583. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430216674339

Argüello, C., Carretero-Dios, H., Willis, G. B., & Moya, M. (2018). “It’s funny if group says so”: group norms moderates disparaging humor appreciation. Humor – International Journal of Humor Research, 31(3), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2017-0055

Urbiola, A., Willis, G. B., Ruiz-Romero, J. & Moya, M. (2018). Does a multicultural perspective shape unbiased minds? The moderating role of outgroup threat. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12551

Petkanopoulou, K., Willis, G.B., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2017). The Emotional Side of Power(lessness). In: M. Bukowski, I. Fritsche, A. Giutone & M. Kofta (Eds.), Coping with Lack of Control in a Social World (pp. 203–219). New York: Routledge. Google Scholar

Sánchez-Rodríguez, A., Willis, G. B., y Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2017). El impacto psicológico de la desigualdad económica. Ciencia Cognitiva, 11:2, 33-35.

Rodriguez‐Bailon, R., Bratanova, B., Willis, G. B., Lopez‐Rodriguez, L., Sturrock, A., & Loughnan, S. (2017). Social class and ideologies of inequality: How they uphold unequal societies. Journal of Social Issues, 73(1), 99-116.https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12206

Willis, G. B. & Moya, M. (2017). A more transparent science: Recommendations to increase the informative value of articles submitted to the Revista de Psicología Social / Una ciencia más transparente: recomendaciones para aumentar el valor informativo de los artículos enviados a la Revista de Psicología Social. Revista de Psicología Social, 32(3), 447-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2017.1352140

Urbiola, A., Willis, G., Ruiz-Romero, J., Moya, M. & Esses, V. (2017). Valuing diversity in Spain and Canada: The role of multicultural ideology in intergroup attitudes and intentions to reduce inequalities. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 56, 25-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2016.10.006

Bukowski, M., de Lemus, S., Rodriguez-Bailon, R., & Willis, G. B. (2017). Who’s to blame? Causal attributions of the economic crisis and personal control. GROUP PROCESSES & INTERGROUP RELATIONS, 20(6), 909–923. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430216638529

Willis, G.B., Carretero-Dios, H., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Petkanopoulou, K. (2016). Spanish version of the generalized sense of power scale. Revista de Psicología Social 31 (3), 554–588. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2016.1190131

Willis, G. B., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., López-Rodríguez, L., & García-Sánchez, E. (2015). Legitimacy moderates the relation between perceived and ideal economic inequalities. Social Justice Research, 28, 493-508.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-015-0253-7

Espinoza Ornelas, R., Moya, M. & Willis, G. B. (2015). Influencia del miedo a la violación sobre el sexismo benévolo en una muestra de mujeres de Ciudad Juárez. Summa Psicológica, 22(1), 71-77.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sumpsi.2015.09.001

Jiménez-Moya, G., Navarro-Mantas, L., Willis, G. B, Nonami, H. y Rodriguez- Bailón, R. (2015). Legitimidad y desempeño en el trabajo: cuando el derecho legitima y el merecimiento cualifica. Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 31, pp 59-68.

Urbiola, A., Willis, G., Ruiz-Romero, J. & Moya, M. (2014). La reducción del prejuicio hacia la población gitana en la vida real: efectos de la visita a la exposición “Vidas Gitanas (Lungo Drom)”. Psychosocial Intervention, 23, 1-. http://dx.doi.org/10.5093/in2013a26

Moya, M. y Willis, G. B. (2011). Motivación social. En M. Moya y R. Rodríguez-Bailón (Coords.), Fundamentos de Psicología Social (pp. 147-166). Madrid: Pirámide.

Willis, G. B., Rodríguez-Bailón, R. y Moya, M. (2011). Los estereotipos y su contenido en España. En E. M. Techio y M. E. Oliveira (Coords.), Cultura e produçao das diferenças (pp. 107-135). Brasilia: TechnoPolitik Editora.

Willis, G. B., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Moya, M., & Morales-Marente, E. (2010). Actitud hacia los futbolistas nacionalizados: El rol de la ideología y la conveniencia. Revista de Psicología Social, 25(3), 325-335.  https://doi.org/10.1174/021347410792675642

Morales-Marente, E., Moya, M., Palacios, M.S. & Willis, G.B. (2010). The role of psycho-political variables in the reactions to March 11, terrorist attacks in Madrid (Spain). International Review of Social Psychology, 22(3/4), 127-155. https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-psychologiesociale-2009-3-page-127.htm

Willis, G. B. y Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2008) Formándonos impresiones sobre los demás: ¿son inteligentes o cordiales? Ciencia Cognitiva: Revista Electrónica de Divulgación, 2:1, 4-6.