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Eight Research Groups study a broad array of topics in Social Cognition.
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The Social Cognition Center Cologne (SoCCCo) provides a dynamic research environment for the psychological study of human social behavior with an emphasis on underlying social cognitive processes. Eight research groups study a broad array of topics in social cognition, ranging from the dynamics of self-control to the ubiquity of social comparison and the intricacies of processing valenced information. SoCCCo aims to conduct high-quality research, and provide a dynamic and inspiring research environment for all researchers regardless of seniority, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, or disabilities. For more information on our ideals, click here.
SoCCCo PIs | Anne Gast • Andreas Glöckner • Joris Lammers • Christian Unkelbach • Angela Dorrough
Most Recent SoCCCo Publications
- García Ferrés, E., Van Berkel, L., Baldwin, M., & Lammers, J. (2024). Temporal comparisons shape system justification processes. Political Psychology.
- Schulte, A., Baldwin, M., & Lammers, J. (2024). Highlighting the old in the'new normal': Appealing to conservatives’ focus on the past decreases opposition to COVID-19 measures. Social Psychology, 55(2).
- Schulte, A., & Lammers, J. (2024). The Cognitive-Motivational Roots of Conservatives' Desire for the Past. Social Cognition, 42(3), 233-259.
- Andrighetto, G., Szekely, A., Guido, A., Gelfand, M., Abernathy, J., Arikan, G., ... & Eriksson, K. (2024). Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1436. [data and materials on OSF]
- Andersson, P. A., Vartanova, I., Västfjäll, D., Tinghög, G., Strimling, P., Wu, J., ... & Eriksson, K. (2024). Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especially in high individual autonomy societies. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 5591. [data and materials on OSF]
- Saxler, F. M., Dorrough, A. R., Froehlich, L., Block, K., Croft, A., Meeuussen, L., Olsson, M., Schader, T., Schuster, C., van Grootel, S., van Laar, C., Atkinson, C., Benson-Greenwald, T., Birneanu, A., Cavojova, V., Cheryan, S., Chung, A. L. K., Danyliuk, I., Dar-Nimrod, I., , . . . Martiny, S. E. (2024). Did Descriptive and Prescriptive Norms About Gender Equality at Home Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Cross-National Investigation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Advance online publication. [data and materials on OSF]
- Dorrough, A. R., Köbis, N., Irlenbusch, B., Shalvi, S., & Glöckner, A. (2023). Conditional bribery: Insights from incentivized experiments across 18 nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(18), e2209731120.
- Ecker, Y., Gilead, M. & Imhoff, R. (2023). An Examination of the Motivations to Maintain, Approach, and Avoid by Proximity to the Ideal State. Social Cognition, 41(1), 88–102.
- Allstadt Torras, R. C. (2023). Aufnahme und Analyse von Akteninformation. Psychologische Begutachtung, 1–12.
- Allstadt Torras, R. C., Scheel, C. & Dorrough, A. R. (2023). The stereotype content model and mental disorders: Distinct perceptions of warmth and competence. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1069226.
- Kurdoglu, R. S., Jekel, M., & Ateş, N. Y. (2023). Eristic reasoning: Adaptation to extreme uncertainty. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1004031.
- Pittelkow, M.-M., Field, S. M., Isager, P. M., Van’T Veer, A. E., Anderson, T., Cole, S. N., Dominik, T., Giner-Sorolla, R., Gok, S., Heyman, T., Jekel, M., Luke, T. J., Mitchell, D. B., Peels, R., Pendrous, R., Sarrazin, S., Schauer, J. M., Specker, E., Tran, U. S., … Van Ravenzwaaij, D. (2023). The process of replication target selection in psychology: What to consider? Royal Society Open Science, 10: 210586.
- Scharf, S. E., Jekel, M., & Glöckner, A. (2022). Awareness of option attractiveness increases the attraction search effect: Modelling the awareness effect in an extended iCodes model. Decision, 9, 43–59. [data and materials on OSF]
- Schäfer, S. J., Simsek, M., Jaspers, E., Kros, M., Hewstone, M., Schmid, K., Fell, B. F., Dorrough, A. R., Glöckner, A., & Christ, O. (2022). Dynamic contact effects: Individuals’ positive and negative contact history influences intergroup contact effects in a behavioral game. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123, 107–122. [data and materials on OSF]
- Ecker, Y., Gilead, M. & Imhoff, R. (2022). The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state. Motivation and Emotion.
- Zalmanson, L., Oestreicher-Singer, G. & Ecker, Y. (2022). The Role of Social Cues and Trust in Users’ Private Information Disclosure. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 46(2), 1109–1134.
- Sperlich, L. M. & Unkelbach, C. (2022). When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 103, Article 104377.
- Walkowitz, G., Belianin, A. & Dorrough, A. R. (2022). Editorial: Inter-cultural cooperation: The role of attitudes, (shared) expectations, and behavioral standards. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 1044588.
- Mousavi, D., Schulte, A., & Lammers, J. (2022). Stressing the advantages of female leadership can place women at a disadvantage: A replication and extension of Lammers and Gast (2017). Social Psychology, 53(4), 257–262.
- Liu, S., Zhu, J.J., Liu, Y.T., Wilbanks, D., Jackson, J. C., Mu Y. (2022) Perception of strong social norms during the COVID-19 pandemic is linked to positive psychological outcomes. BMC Public Health, 22, Article 1403.
- Wang, J., Liu, S., & Zeng X.H. (2022). Effects of humor styles and individual authenticity on depression among college students. Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science, 31(5), 450-454.
- Wingen, T., Lecuona, O., & Dohle, S., (in press). Attitudes towards science during the COVID-19 pandemic: A psychological network approach. European Journal of Health Communication. Preprint:
- Wingen, T. (2022). How to start a replication crisis. Nature Reviews Psychology.
- Frank, C., Dorrough, A. R., & Schneider, I. K. (2022). Ambivalence and adherence to preventive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: Data from the U.S. and Germany. Data in Brief, 42, Article 108124.
- Leising, D., Thielmann, I., Glöckner, A., Gärtner, A., & Schönbrodt, F. (2022). Ten steps toward a better personality science – a Rejoinder to the Comments. Personality Science, 3, 1-15. [data and materials on OSF]
- Leising, D., Thielmann, I., Glöckner, A., Gärtner, A., & Schönbrodt, F. (2022). Ten steps toward a better personality science – How quality may be rewarded more in research evaluation. Personality Science, 3, 1-44.
- Rosner, A., Basieva, I., Barque-Duran, A., Glöckner, A., von Helversen, B., Khrennikov, A., & Pothos, E. M. (2022). Ambivalence in decision making: an eye tracking study. Cognitive Psychology, 134, 101464. [data and materials on OSF]
- Lange, J., Unkelbach, C., Glöckner, A., Gollwitzer, M., Kaiser, F. G., & Sassenberg, K. (2022). Das Zusammenspiel von Theorie und Methodik. Psychologische Rundschau, 73, 18–52.
- Anderl, C., Dorrough, A. R., Rohrbeck, M., & Glöckner, A. (2021). The effects of trait social anxiety on affective and behavioral reactions to others' resource allocations. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 35(2), Article e2259. [data and materials study 1 on OSF] [data and materials study 2 on OSF]
- Anvari, F., Kievit, R., Lakens, D., Pennington, C. R., Przybylski, A. K., Tiokhin, L., Wiernik, B.M., & Orben, A. (in press). Not all effects are indispensable: Psychological science requires verifiable lines of reasoning for whether an effect matters. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
- Anvari, F., Verdeș, D. D., & Marchiori, D. (2022). Percent framing attenuates the magnitude effect in a preference-matching task of intertemporal choice. PloS one, 17(1), Article e0262620.
- Parsons, S., Azevedo, F., Elsherif, M., Guay, S., Shahim, O. N., … Wingen, T., … Aczel, B. (2022) A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms. Nature Human Behavior, 6, 312-318.
- Wingen, T., & Berkessel, J. B. (2022). Die Replikationskrise vermitteln, aber Vertrauen erhalten [Teaching the replication crisis but maintaining trust]. Psychologische Rundschau, 73(1), 42-43.
- Wingen, T., Berkessel, J. B., & Dohle, S. (2022). Caution, preprint! Brief explanations allow non-scientists to differentiate between preprints and peer-reviewed journal articles. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
- Kwasnicka, D., Keller, J., Perski, O., Potthoff, S., ten Hoor, G. A., Ainsworth, B., Crutzen, R., Dohle, S., van Dongen, A., Heino, M.,Henrich, J. F., Knox, L., König, L. M., Maltinsky, W., McCallum, C.,Nalukwago, J., Neter, E., Nurmi, J., Spitschan, M., Van Beurden, S. B., Van der Laan, L. N., Wunsch, K., Levink, J. J. J., Sanderman, R. (2022). White Paper: Open Digital Health – accelerating transparent and scalable health promotion and treatment. Health Psychology Review, 1-17.
- Dorrough, A. R., Leszczyńska, M., Werner*, S., Schaeffer*, L., Simandi*, F., Galley*, A.-S., Akin*, E., Bachmann*, J., Bruske*, M., & Burghardt*, U. (2022). Equal performance, different grade: Women’s performance in discussion perceived worse than men’s. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(2). *The 3rd-10th author were students under the supervision of the first author.
- Funk, F.* & Mischkowski, D.* (2022). Examining consequentialist punishment motives in one-shot social dilemmas. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. *shared first authorship
- Schneider, I. K., Dorrough, A. R., & Frank, C. (2022). Ambivalence and self-reported adherence to recommendations to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Social Psychology, 52(6), 362-374.
- Zorn, T. J., Mata, A., & Alves, H. (2022). Attitude similarity and interpersonal liking: A dominance of positive over negative attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 100, Article 104281.
- Richter, J., Seffen, A., Benedict, T., & Gast, A. (2021). No evidence of consolidation of evaluative conditioning during waking rest and sleep. Cognition and Emotion, 35(5), 844-858.
- Liu, S., Zhang, R.Y., & Kishimoto, T. (2021). Analysis and prospect of clinical psychology based on topic models: hot research topics and scientific trends in the latest decades. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 26(4), 395-407.
- Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2021). Monetary incentives do not reduce the repetition-induced truth effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
- Speckmann, F. (2021). Web scraping: A useful tool to broaden and extend psychological research. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 229(4), 241-244.
- Speckmann, F. & Unkelbach, C. (2021). Moses, money, and multiple-choice: The Moses Illusion in a multiple-choice format with high incentives. Memory & Cognition, 49, 843-862.
- Anvari, F., & Marchiori, D. (2021). Priming exploration across domains: does search in a spatial environment influence search in a cognitive environment?. Royal Society Open Science, 8(8), Article 201944.
- Dohle, S., Schreiber, M., Wingen, T., & Baumann, M. (2021). Blaming others for their illness: The influence of health-related implicit theories on blame and social support. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 1-10.
- Lange, J., & Crusius, J. (in press). How envy and being envied shape social hierarchies. In S. Protasi (Ed.), The moral psychology of envy. Rowman & Littlefield.
- Mischkowski, D. (2021). Schau, ich lasse dir die Wahl! – Sozial achtsames Verhalten als Zeichen für Prosozialität und Perspektivübernahme im Alltag. In-Mind Magazin, 4/2021.
- Hellmann, D. M., Dorrough, A. R., & Glöckner, A. (2021). Prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. The role of responsibility and vulnerability. Heliyon.
- Mischkowski, D., Glöckner, A., & Lewisch, P. (2021). Information search, coherence effects, and their interplay in legal decision making. Journal of Economic Psychology.
- Westfal, M., Crusius, J., & Genschow, O. (2021). Imitation and interindividual differences: Belief in free will is not related to automatic imitation. Acta Psychologica, 219, Article 103374.
- Schneider, I. K., & Mattes, A. M. (2021). The effect of spatial distance between objects on categorization level. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
- Anvari, F., & Lakens, D. (2021). Using anchor-based methods to determine the smallest effect size of interest. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 96, Article 104159.
- Schäfer, S. J., Simsek, M., Jaspers, E., Kros, M., Hewstone, M., Schmid, K., Fell, B. F., Dorrough, A. R., Glöckner, A., & Christ. O. (2021). Dynamic contact effects: Individuals’ positive and negative contact history influences intergroup contact effects in a behavioral game. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Anderl, C., Dorrough, A. R., Rohrbeck, M., & Glöckner, A. (2021). The effects of trait social anxiety on affective and behavioral reactions to others' resource allocations. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 35(2), Article e2259.
- Alves, H., Ugurlar, P., & Unkelbach, C. (in press). Typical is trustworthy – Evidence for a generalized heuristic. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
- Ruessmann, J., & Unkelbach, C. (in press). Rational dictators in the dictator game are seen as cold and agentic but not intelligent. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- De Souter, L., Braem, S., Genschow, O., Brass, M., & Cracco, E. (2021). Social group membership does not modulate automatic imitation in a contrastive multi-agent paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(4), 746-759.
- Unkelbach, C. & Speckmann, F. (2021). Mere Repetition Increases Belief in Factually True COVID-19-Related Information. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(2), 241-247.
- Nicolas, G., Fiske, S. T., Koch, A., Imhoff, R., Unkelbach, C., Terache, J., Carrier, A., Yzerbyt, V. (in press). Relational versus structural goals prioritize different social Information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Genschow, O., Cracco, E., Verbeke, P., Westfal, M., & Crusius, J. (in press). A direct test of the similarity assumption - Focusing on differences as compared with similarities decreases automatic imitation. Cognition. [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]
- Crusius, J., Corcoran, K., & Mussweiler, T. (in press). Social comparison: A review of theory, research, and applications. In D. Chadee (Ed.), Theories in social psychology (2nd ed.). Wiley.
- Wingen, T., & Dohle, S. (2021). Exploring negative beliefs about power: The role of autonomy and influence. Social Psychology, 52(4).
- Genschow, O., Westfal, M., Cracco, E., & Crusius, J. (2021). Group membership does not modulate automatic imitation. Psychological Research.
- Lecuona, O., Suero, M., Wingen, T., & de Rivas, S. (2021). Does “open” rhyme with “special”? Comparing personality, sexual satisfaction, dominance and jealousy of monogamous and non-monogamous practitioners. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
- Stoker, J.I., Garretsen, H., & Lammers, J. (in press). Leading and working from home in times of COVID-19: On the perceived changes in leadership behaviors. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.
- Van Dessel, P., Cone, J., & Gast, A. (in press). Powerful effects of diagnostic information on automatic and self-reported evaluation: The moderating role of memory recall. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- Weiss, A., Dorrough, A. R., & Schmitz*, L. (2021). Analytic atheism in a low-religiosity culture: Examining the relationship between analytic thinking and religious belief in Germany. Personality and Individual Differences, 178, Article 110854. *The 3rd author was a student under the supervision of the second author.
- Eriksson, K., Strimling, P., Gelfand, M., Wu, J., Abernathy, J., Akotia, C. S.,… Dorrough, A. R., Glöckner, A.,… Van Lange, P. A. M. (2021). Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies. Nature Communications, 12, Article 1481.
- Schneider, I. K., & Mattes, A. (2021). Mix is different from Nix: Mouse tracking differentiates ambivalence from neutrality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Crusius, J. (in press). Soziale Vergleiche [Social comparison]. In P. Ozimek, H.-W. Bierhoff, E. Rohmann, & S. Hanke (Eds.), Angewandte Sozialpsychologie. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
- Diel, K., Grelle, S., & Hofmann, W. (in press). A motivational framework of social comparison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Dohle, S., Duncan, M. J., & Bucher, T. (in press). Development and validation of the Diet-related Beliefs of Exercisers Scale (DBES). Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology.
- Fleischmann, A. & Van Berkel, L. (in press). Gender disparities in middle authorship. Social Psychological Bulletin.
- Moran, T., Hughes, S. J., Hussey, I., Vadillo, M., Olson, M., Aust, F., Bading K., Balas, R., Benedict, T., Corneille, O., Douglas, S. B., Ferguson, M. J., Fritzlen, K. A., Gast, A., Gawronski, B., Giménez-Fernández, T., Hanusz, K., Heycke, T., Högden, F., Hütter, M., Kurdi, B., Mierop, A., Richter, J., Sarzyńska-Wawer, J., Smith, C. T., Stahl, C., Thomasius, P., Unkelbach, C., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Incidental attitude formation via the surveillance task: A registered replication report of Olson and Fazio (2001). Psychological Science.
- Genschow, O., Westfal, M., Crusius, J., Bartosch, L., Feikes, K. I., Pallasch, N., & Wozniak, M. (in press). Does social psychology persist over half a century? A direct replication of Cialdini et al.’s (1975) classic door-in-the-face technique. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Crusius, J., & Lange, J. (in press). Counterfactual thoughts distinguish benign and malicious envy. Emotion.
- Fleischmann, A., Lammers, J., Conway, P., & Galinsky, A.D. (2020). Kant be compared: People high in social comparison orientation make fewer—not more—deontological decisions in sacrificial dilemmas. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
- Hahn, A., & Goedderz, A. (in press). Trait-unconsciousness, state-unconsciousness, preconsciousness, and social miscalibration in the context of implicit evaluations. Social Cognition.
- Schreiber, M., Job, V., & Dohle, S. (in press). Is your health malleable or fixed? The influence of implicit theories on health-related attitudes and behaviour. Psychology & Health.
- Amit, E., Han, E. Posten, A.-C., & Sloman, S. (in press). How people judge institutional corruption. Connecticut Law Review.
- Posten, A.-C., & Kitzig, C. (in press). Strategische Merkmalsnutzung zur Erkennung und Tarnung von Lügen aus der Perspektive von Laien [Strategic cue application to detect and disguise lies from lay people’s perspective]. Praxis der Rechtspsychologie.
- Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Gast, A., Roets, A., & Smith, C. T. (in press). On the effectiveness of approach-avoidance instructions and training for changing evaluations of social groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Koch, A., Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2020). Q-SpAM: How to efficiently measure similarity in online research. Sociological Methods and Research.
- Ruszpel, B., & Gast, A. (in press). Memory and preparedness in evaluative conditioning in a smell-taste paradigm. A registered report. Cognition and Emotion.
- Lange, J., Dalege, J., Borsboom, D., Van Kleef, G. A., & Fischer, A. H. (in press). Toward an integrative psychometric model of emotions. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
- Ecker, Y., & Bar-Anan, Y. (in press). Sensory preconditioning of evaluation requires accurate memory of the co-occurrence between the neutral stimuli. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Ecker, Y., & Bar-Anan, Y. (in press). The misattributing personality: The relationship between priming in the affect misattribution procedure, need for closure and body awareness. Social Cognition.
- Ruessmann, J. K., & Topolinski, S. (in press). Economic decisions for others are more favorable for close than distant clients. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- Benedict, T., & Gast, A. (in press). Evaluative conditioning with fear- and disgust-evoking stimuli: No evidence that they increase learning without explicit memory. Cognition and Emotion.
- Gerten, J., & Topolinski, S. (in press). Shades of surprise: Assessing surprise as a function of degree of deviance and expectation constraints. Cognition.
- Van Dessel, P., Cone, J., Gast, A., & De Houwer, J. (in press). The impact of valenced verbal information on implicit and explicit evaluation: The role of information diagnosticity, primacy, and memory cueing. Cognition and Emotion.
- Diel, K., & Hofmann, W. (in press). Inspired to perspire: The predicted interplay of social comparison direction and standard extremity in the context of challenging exercising goals. Social Cognition.
- Jekel, M. (in press). Empirical content as a criterion for evaluating models. Cognitive Processing.
- Högden, F., Stahl, C., & Unkelbach, C. (in press). Similarity-based and rule-based generalization in the acquisition of attitudes via evaluative conditioning. Cognition & Emotion.
- Ecker, Y., Imhoff, R., & Lammers, J. (2021). Self-control failure increases a strategic preference for submission as means to avoid future failure. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Lammers, J. & Imhoff, R. (2021). A chronic lack of perceived low personal control increases women and men’s self-reported preference for high-status characteristics when selecting romantic partners in simulated dating situations. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
- Fleischmann, A., Lammers, J., Diel, K., Hofmann, W., & Galinsky, A. D. (2021). More threatening and more diagnostic: How moral comparisons differ from social comparisons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Olsson, M. I. T, Froehlich, L., Dorrough, A. R., & Martiny, S. E. (2021). The hers and his of prosociality across 10 countries. British Journal of Social Psychology, 60(4), 1330-1349.
- Genschow, O., & Groß-Bölting, J. (2021). The role of attention in anticipated action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(3), 323-330.
- Genschow, O., & Vehlow, B. (2021). Free to blame? Belief in free will is related to victim blaming. Consciousness and Cognition, 88, 103074.
- Froehlich, L., Dorrough, A. R., Glöckner, A. & Stürmer, S. (2021). Similarity predicts cross-national social preferences. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(8), 1486-1498.
- Crusius, J., Thierhoff, J., & Lange, J. (2021). Dispositional greed predicts benign and malicious envy. Personality and Individual Differences.
- Schneider, I. K., Novin, S., van Harreveld, F., & Genschow, O. (2020). Benefits of being ambivalent: The relationship between trait ambivalence and attribution biases. British Journal of Social Psychology.>
- Dohle*, S., Wingen*, T., & Schreiber, M. (2020). Acceptance and adoption of protective measures during the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of trust in politics and trust in science. Social Psychological Bulletin, 15(4), e4315
*shared first authorship
- Weiss, A., Michels, C., Burgmer, P., Mussweiler, T., Ockenfels, A., & Hofmann, W. (2020). Trust in everyday life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Dorrough, A. R., & Glöckner, A. (2020). Sex differences concerning prosocial behavior in social dilemmas are (partially) mediated by risk preferences but not social preferences. An in-depth analysis across 10 countries. Social Psychology, 52(2), 61-74.
- Dorrough, A. R., Olsson, M. I. T., Fröhlich, L., Glöckner, A., & Martiny, S. E. (2020). Does she compensate the victim while he punishes the perpetrator? No gender differences in anonymous economic games across 11 nations. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
- Fröhlich, L., Olsson, M. I. T., Dorrough, A. R., & Martiny, S. E. (2020). Gender at work across nations: Men and women working in male‐dominated and female‐dominated occupations are differentially associated with agency and communion. Journal of Social Issues.
- Wingen, T., Englich, B., Estal Muñoz, V., Mareva, S., & Kassianos, A. P. (2021). Exploring the relationship between social class and quality of life: The mediating role of power and status. Applied Research in Quality of Life.
- Hofmann, W., Dohle, S., & Diel, K. (2020). Changing behavior using integrated self-control theory. In M. S. Hagger, L. D. Cameron, K. Hamilton, N. Hankonen, & T. Lintunen (Eds.), The handbook of behavior change (pp. 150-163). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Bucher, T., Frey, E., Wilczynska, M., Deroover, K., & Dohle, S. (2020). Consumer perception and behaviour related to low-alcohol wine: Do people overcompensate? Public Health Nutrition, 23(11), 1939-1947.
- Lammers, J., Crusius, J., & Gast, A. (2020). Correcting misperceptions of exponential coronavirus growth increases support for social distancing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 202006048.
- Schreiber, M., Bucher, T., Collins, C., & Dohle, S. (2020). The Multiple Food Test: Development and validation of a new tool to measure food choices and applied nutrition knowledge, Appetite, 150, 104647.
- Alves, H. Högden, F., Gast, A., Aust, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2020). Attitudes from mere co-occurrences are guided by differentiation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Genschow, O., & Alves H. (2020). The submissive chameleon: Third-party inferences from observing mimicry. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Genschow, O., Hawickhorst, E., Rigoni, D., Aschermann, E. & Brass, M. (2020). Professional judges’ disbelief in free will and punishment. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
- Hütter, M., & Genschow, O. (2020). What is learned in approach-avoidance tasks? On the scope and generalizability of approach-avoidance effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
- Goedderz, A. & Hahn, A. (2020). Haben wir alle versteckte Vorurteile? Implizite Einstellungen und ihre Bedeutung in der Gesellschaft [Do we all have hidden prejudices? Implicit attitudes and their relevance in society]. In-Mind Magazin, 1/2020.
- Kranz, D. & Goedderz, A. (2020). Coming home from a stay abroad: Associations between young people’s reentry problems and their cultural identity formation. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 74, 115–126.
- Righetti, F., Schneider, I. K., Ferrier, D., Spiridonova, T., Xiang, R., & Impett, E. A. (2020). The bittersweet taste of sacrifice: Consequences for ambivalence and mixed reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
- Schneider, I. K., Stapels, J., Koole, S. L., & Schwarz, N. (2020). Too close to call: Spatial distance between options influences choice difficulty. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 87, 103939.
- Phills, C. E.*, Hahn, A.*, & Gawronski, B. (2020). The bidirectional causal relationship between implicit stereotypes and prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. *equal contribution
- Wingen, T., Berkessel, J., & Englich, B. (2020). No replication, no trust? How low replicability influences trust in psychology. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
- Schneider, I. K., Gillebaart, M., & Mattes, A. (2020). Meta-analytic evidence for ambivalence resolution as a key process in effortless self-control. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Gast, A., Richter, J., & Ruszpel, B. (2020). Is there evidence for unaware evaluative conditioning in a valence contingency learning task? Cognition and Emotion.
- Crusius, J.*, Gonzalez, M. F.*, Lange, J.*, & Cohen-Charash, Y.* (2020). Envy: An adversarial review and comparison of two competing views. Emotion Review. *equal contribution
- Fleischmann, A., & Burgmer, P. (2020). Abstract thinking increases support for affirmative action. Sex Roles.
- Fleischmann, A., & Lammers, J. (2020). Power and moral thinking. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 23-27.
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SoCCCo in the Media
May 07, 2024 | DEB SEMINAR
Modeling Social Preferences in Cross-National Interactions | Interview with Andreas Glöckner on social preferences in cross-national interactions by Yefim Roth
May 07, 2024 | DEB SEMINAR
Modeling Social Preferences in Cross-National Interactions | Talk of Andreas Glöckner on social preferences in cross-national interactions
Jan 26, 2024 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Hate Speech: Darum reagieren Menschen in Krisensituationen oft aggressiv. | Interview with J. Lammers | By Sarah Langer
Jul 14, 2023 | EXPRESS - DIE WOCHE
Köln, warum bist du so dreckig? [Warum so viel Müll herumliegt] [PDF] | Interview with Andreas Glöckner on waste pollution in Cologne by Alexander Büge
Mar 26, 2023 | SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
Wie sich Menschen in Fehlurteilen verheddern | Interview with Andreas Glöckner on cognitive biases by Sebastian Herrmann
May 28/29, 2022 | SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
Verzerrte Welt [Besser denken: Welche Muster menschliche Wahrnehmung, Meinungen und Entscheidungen prägen - und wie man sie überwinden kann] | Interview with Andreas Glöckner on perception and decision making by Sebastian Herrmann
Jan 4, 2022 | KÖLNER STADT-ANZEIGER
Wie kann man gute Vorsätze einhalten? [How can you keep New Year's resolutions?] | Podcast with Simone Dohle | by Sarah Brasack
Nov 29, 2021 | SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
Wie man bessere Entscheidungen trifft [How to make better decisions] | Interview with Andreas Glöckner on decision making by Lara Fritzsche
Nov 26, 2021 | KÖLNER STADT-ANZEIGER
Interview zu Solidarität Bei der Flut geglänzt, in der Corona-Pandemie versagt? [Interview on solidarity shone in the flood, failed in the Corona pandemic?] | Interview with Andreas Glöckner on solidarity in the German flood and in the COVID-19 Pandemic by Lydia Schauff
Nov, 25 2021 | WDR 5
Darauf bin ich stolz! [This is what I'm proud about!] | Radio feature about the benefits of pride with Jan Crusius | by Andi Ueding
Oct 7, 2021 | dpa
Schlechte Vorbilder: Immer mehr Politiker brechen die Corona-Regeln [Bad role models: Increasingly more politicians are breaking the Corona rules] | Andreas Glöckner on politicians and their function as role models concerning COVID-19 rules | published in e.g. t-online, Stern, Saechsische, Volksstimme
Aug 12, 2021 | SOLO - THE SINGLE PERSON'S GUIDE TO A REMARKABLE LIFE
Attachment Theory | Podcast with Iris Schneider as guest co-host | By Peter McGraw
Jul 15, 2021 | SOLO - THE SINGLE PERSON'S GUIDE TO A REMARKABLE LIFE
Waiting – Part 2 | Podcast with Iris Schneider as guest co-host | By Peter McGraw
Jul 8, 2021 | SOLO - THE SINGLE PERSON'S GUIDE TO A REMARKABLE LIFE
Waiting – Part 1 | Podcast with Iris Schneider as guest co-host | By Peter McGraw
June 2, 2021 | FAZ
Was andere machen, bestimmt unser Verhalten mit [We tend to do what others do] | Simone Dohle on social norms, habits, and COVID-19 preventive behaviors | By Julia Anton
Jun 1, 2021 | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
The Surprising Benefits of Being Ambivalent | Blog article with Iris Schneider | By Susan Krauss Whitbourne
May 31, 2021 | Spiegel Online
Warum wir uns an Lockerungen gewöhnen müssen [Why we need to get used to the 'new normal'] | Simone Dohle on the psychological consequences of reopening after COVID-19 | By Heike Klovert
May 04, 2021 | DER TAGESSPIEGEL
Neidrepublik Deutschland? Was der Umgang mit dem Glück der anderen über uns aussagt [Envy republic Germany? What dealing with the luck of the others tells about us] | Interview with Jan Crusius | by Maria Fiedler
Apr 22, 2021 | DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR (Zeitfragen)
Was hinter der irrationalen Angst vor Astrazeneca steckt [Biased risk perception and AstraZeneca vaccine fears] | Interview with Simone Dohle | by Sven Kästner
Apr 20, 2021 | DEUTSCHLANDFUNK NOVA
Corona-Impfung: So kommen wir mit dem Impfneid klar [Corona vaccination: How to deal with with vaccination envy] | Radio interview with Jan Crusius
Apr 12, 2021 | OPINION SCIENCE
Ambivalence with Iris Schneider | Podcast with Iris Schneider | By Andy Luttrell
Mar 10, 2021 | PSYCHE
The fence is uncomfortable, but it affords the best view | Popular Science Piece by Iris Schneider | Edited by Christian Jarrett
Mar 8, 2021 | MT/SPROUT
Ambivalente leiders maken minder denkfouten | Interview with Iris Schneider | By Charlotte Post
Feb 11, 2021 | PSYPOST
New psychology research indicates that ambivalent people make less biased judgments | Blog Post about the work of Iris Schneider | By Eric W. Dolan
Jan 26, 2021 | University of Cologne
University of Cologne Teaching Award awarded to Jan Crusius and Anne Gast. Laudation video.
Dec 9, 2020 | wissenschaftskommunikation.de
Die Wissenschaftskommunikation braucht einen Ehrenkodex [Science communication needs an honor code]. Op-ed by Laura König and Jan Crusius
Jul - Aug, 2020 Le Temps | Forbes | Le Monde | WZ | Psychology Today | Scientific American | WirtschaftsWoche | The Hill | BBC News | Corriere della Sera | News coverage of Correcting misperceptions of exponential coronavirus growth increases support for social distancing by Joris Lammers, Jan Crusius, and Anne Gast
Jul 27, 2020 | WDR 5 (Sendung „Neugier genügt“)
Wieso fällt Fleischverzicht oft schwer? [Why is it often hard to abstain from consuming meat?] | Radio interview with Simone Dohle
Jul 23, 2020 | KÖLNER STADTANZEIGER
Trotz Tönnies-Skandal - Warum es vielen so schwer fällt, kein Fleisch zu essen [Despite the Tönnies scandal - Why many people find it difficult to abstain from consuming meat] | Interview with Simone Dohle | By Elisa Sobkowiak
Jul 13, 2020 | UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN
Fleischverzicht ist keine Alles-oder-Nichts-Entscheidung, sondern ein Prozess [Abstaining from meat is no all-or-nothing decision, it is a process] | Simone Dohle on meat consumption
Jun 25, 2020 | Perspective Daily
Wir alle empfinden Neid. Ist das so schlimm? [We all feel envy. Is that so bad?] | Article about research by Jan Crusius | by Lara Malberger
May 25, 2020 | RTL aktuell
Forschungsprojekt zur Unterstützung im Umgang mit den psychologischen Belastungen durch COVID-19 [Research project to support coping with COVID-19 stress] | News coverage of research by Andreas Glöckner
May 19, 2020 | WDR
Warum wir wütend werden, wenn andere die Regeln brechen [Why we get angry when others break the rules] | Interview with Andreas Glöckner on social distancing norms by Anastasiya Polubotko
May 11, 2020 | Radio Eins
Die neue Sorglosigkeit [The new nonchalance] | Interview with Andreas Glöckner on Corona risk fatigue
May 11, 2020 | rtl.de | ntv.de | stern.de
Persönlichkeitstest zum Coronavirus: Welcher „Corona-Typ“ sind Sie [Personality test about Coronavirus: Which "Corona type" are you?] | rtl.de | ntv.de | stern.de | News coverage of a research project of Andreas Glöckner
May 08, 2020 | FORUM - Das Wochenmagazin
Ist doch alles gut gegangen – bisher [But all went well - so far] | Interview with Andreas Glöckner on Corona risk fatigue | By Volker Thomas
Apr 24, 2020 | dpa
Vom Ermüden der Risikowahrnehmung [On fatigue of risk perception] | Andreas Glöckner on Coronavirus risk perception and trust in science | published in e.g. Süddeutsche Zeitung, Stern, Die Zeit, MSN, Augsburger Allgemeine
Apr 22, 2020 | University of Cologne
Isoliert, aber nicht allein. Ein Gespräch über die besondere Verbundenheit in digitalen Netzen [Isolated but not alone: A conversation about the social connections in social networks] | Interview with Jan Crusius by Frieda Berg
Mar 23, 2020 | In-Mind Magazin
Coronavirus: Warum die Dynamik der Ansteckungsgefahr so schwer zu begreifen ist [Corona virus: Why the dynamic growth of the Corona virus is hard to grasp] | By Jan Crusius
Mar 19, 2020 | In-Mind Magazin
Corona-Krise: Warum tätigen Menschen Hamsterkäufe? [Corona crisis: Why do people engage in panic-buying and hoarding?] | By Oliver Genschow
Feb 19, 2020 | Wissenschaftskommunikation.de
Trau keiner Studie, die du nicht selbst repliziert hast? [Don't trust any study you didn't replicate yourself?] | Invited guest article on the link between replicability and trust in science | By Tobias Wingen and Jana Berkessel
November 11, 2019 | Junior Researcher Programme News
How does the replication crisis affect public trust in psychology? | Blog post covering a publication by Tobias Wingen, Jana Berkessel, & Birte Englich | By Junior Researcher Programme
October 31, 2019 | BPS Research Digest
The replication crisis lowers public’s trust in psychology. But can that trust be build back up? Blog post covering a publication by Tobias Wingen, Jana Berkessel, & Birte Englich | By Matthew Warren
Aug 31, 2019 | Forschung & Lehre
Neid an Hochschulen - Neid tut weh, motiviert aber auch [Envy in academia - It's painful, but can motivate] | By Katja Corcoran & Jan Crusius
May 8, 2019 | wissenschaftskommunikation.de
„Es gibt oft keine einfachen Antworten“ [Often, there are no easy answers] | Interview with Oliver Genschow and Jan Crusius about the science communication project In-Mind Magazine | By Joachim Retzbach
Apr 17, 2019 | SPSP's Character & Context
Does power corrupt? How powerful people react in moral dilemmas | Blog post covering a publication by Alexandra Fleischmann, Joris Lammers, Paul Conway, and Adam D. Galinsky | By Alexandra Fleischmann
Mar 6, 2019 | LTO
Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der Justiz: Berlin will mehr Frauen in Prüfungskommissionen [Gender equality in the judiciary: Berlin calls for more female examiners in law state exams] | A study by Towfigh, Traxler, & Glöckner influences politics
Dec 30, 2018 | BR
Intuition: Wegweiser in einer komplexen Welt [Intuition: Guidance in a complex world] | A radio contribution on intuition by Andreas Glöckner and others | By Rita Homefeldt
Oct 10, 2018 | FAZ
Politiker und Brillen: Auge um Auge [Politicians and glasses: An eye for an eye] | Press coverage of a publication by Alexandra Fleischmann, Joris Lammers, and colleagues | By Thomas Diel
Oct 2, 2018 | University of Cologne
Politiker und Politikerinnen mit Brille werden im Experiment häufiger gewählt [Politicians wearing glasses get elected more often in an experimental setting] | Press release on a publication by Alexandra Fleischmann, Joris Lammers, and colleagues | By Frieda Berg
Sep 17, 2018 | DGPs
In-Mind erhält den Förderpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie [In-Mind is awarded the prize for promoting psychology by the German Psychological Association (DGPs)] | Oliver Genschow and Jan Crusius accept the prize as members of the editorial board of the In-Mind Online Magazine | By Anne Klostermann
July 10, 2018 | SPEKTRUM
Neid - Die Kirschen in Nachbars Garten [Envy—The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence] | Jan Crusius and Jens Lange on the (in)evitability of painful social comparisons | By Theodor Schaarschmidt
July, 2018 | MEIN ERBE TUT GUTES
Gutes tun steckt an [Doing good is contagious] | Alexandra Fleischmann on the influence of social comparison on moral behavior | By Angelika S. Friedl
July, 2018 | PSYCHOLOGIE HEUTE
Gemeinsam im Stress [Together under stress] | Jan Crusius on stress evoked by social comparison | By Frank Luerweg
Apr 13, 2018 | SPEKTRUM
Dürfen wir stolz sein? [Is it OK to be proud?] | Jan Crusius on functions of pride and its interplay with envy | By Theodor Schaarschmidt