Most Recent SoCCCo Publications

• 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., 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.

• 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. (in press). Attitudes from mere co-occurrences are guided by differentiation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

• Genschow, O., & Alves H. (in press). The submissive chameleon: Third-party inferences from observing mimicry. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 

• Genschow, O., Schuler, J., Cracco, E., Brass, M., & Wänke, M. (in press). The effect of money priming on self-focus in the imitation-inhibition task: A registered report. Experimental Psychology.

• Genschow, O., Hawickhorst, E., Rigoni, D., Aschermann, E. & Brass, M. (in press). Professional judges’ disbelief in free will and punishment. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

• Hütter, M., & Genschow, O. (in press). 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.

• 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. (in press). Q-SpAM: How to efficiently measure similarity in online research. Sociological Methods and Research.

• Sparks, J., Daly, C., Wilkey, B., Molden, D. C., Finkel, E. J., & Eastwick, P. W. (in press). Negligible evidence that people desire partners who uniquely fit their ideals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

• Ruszpel, B., & Gast, A. (in press). Memory and preparedness in evaluative conditioning in a smell-taste paradigm. A registered report. Cognition and Emotion.

• 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.

• Sparks, J. (in press). Going beyond a positive-negative dichotomy in judgment and decision making research: Insights for framing, counterfactual thinking, and ambivalence. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

• Phills, C. E.*, Hahn, A.*, & Gawronski, B. (in press). The bidirectional causal relationship between implicit stereotypes and prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. *equal contribution

• 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.

• Wingen, T., Berkessel, J., & Englich, B. (in press). 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. (in press). Is there evidence for unaware evaluative conditioning in a valence contingency learning task? Cognition and Emotion.

• 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.

• Posten, A-.C., Bliesener, T., Dahle, K.-P., & Orth, C. (in press). Zur Expertise forensischer Sachverständiger - Ein Positionspapier [On the expertise of forensic expert witnesses - A position paper]. Psychologische Rundschau.

• Crusius, J.*, Gonzalez, M. F.*, Lange, J.*, & Cohen-Charash, Y.* (in press). Envy: An adversarial review and comparison of two competing views. Emotion Review. *equal contribution

• 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.

• Waubert de Puiseau, B., Glöckner, A., & Towfigh, E. V. (2019). Integrating theories of law obedience: How utility-theoretic factors, legitimacy, and lack of self-control influence decisions to commit low-level crimes. Judgment and Decision Making, 14, 318–334.

• Jekel, M.*, Fiedler, S.*, Allstadt Torras, R., Mischkowski, D., Dorrough, A. R., & Glöckner, A. (in press). How to teach open science principles in the undergraduate curriculum - the Hagen Cumulative Science Project. Psychology Learning & Teaching. *shared first authorship

• Kannegießer, A., Orth, C., Posten, A.-C., & Hoese, M. (2019). Neue Föderative Gutachtenstandards - Die Quadratur des Kreises? [New federal standards for expert witness reports - squaring the circle?] Praxis der Rechtspsychologie, 29, 147–151.

• Gerten, J., & Topolinski, S. (in press). Shades of surprise: Assessing surprise as a function of degree of deviance and expectation constraints. Cognition.

• Fleischmann, A., & Burgmer, P. (in press). Abstract thinking increases support for affirmative action. Sex Roles.

• Mischkowski, D., Thielmann, I., & Glöckner, A. (2019). Minimizing inequality versus maximizing joint gains: On the relation between personality traits and different prosocial motivations. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 153–157.  [data and materials on OSF]

• Mischkowski, D., Stone, R., & Stremitzer, A. (in press). Promises, expectations, and social cooperation. The Journal of Law and Economics.

• Fleischmann, A., & Lammers, J. (in press). Power and moral thinking. Current Opinion in Psychology.

• Posten, A.-C., & Mussweiler, T. (in press). Egocentric foundations of trust. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

• Alves, H., & Mata, A. (in press). The redundancy in cumulative information and how it biases impressions. Journal of Personality and 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.

• De keersmaecker, J., Dunning, D. A., Pennycook, G., Rand, D. G., Sanchez, C., Unkelbach, C., & Roets, A. (in press). Investigating the robustness of the illusory truth effect across individual differences in cognitive ability, need for cognitive closure, and cognitive style [preprint]. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

• Sieverding, M., Ungar, N., Fleischmann, A., Lee, M., Zhang, H., Mohnke, M., … Weidner, G. (in press). Prevalence and frequency of self-management strategies among female cancer survivors: The neglected roles of social relations and conscious living. Supportive Care in Cancer.

• Garcia-Marques, T., Silva, R. R., Mello, J., & Hansen, J. (2019). Relative to what? Dynamic updating of fluency standards and between-participants illusions of truth. Acta Psychologica, 195, 71–79.

• 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.

• Ecker, Y., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2019). Conceptual overlap between stimuli increases misattribution of internal experience. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 83, 1-10.

• Genschow*, O., Hansen*, J., Wänke, M., & Trope, Y. (in press). Psychological distance modulates goal-based versus movement-based imitation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.  [preprint, data, and materials on OSF]  * shared first authorship

• Högden, F., Stahl, C., & Unkelbach, C. (in press). Similarity-based and rule-based generalization in the acquisition of attitudes via evaluative conditioning. Cognition & Emotion.

• Genschow, O., Rigoni, D., & Brass, M. (in press). The hand of god or the hand of Maradona? Believing in free will increases perceived intentionality of others’ behavior. Consciousness and Cognition.  [preprint, data, and materials on OSF]

• Benedict, T., Richter, J., & Gast, A. (in press). The influence of misinformation manipulations on evaluative conditioning. Acta Psychologica.

• Nett, T., Dorrough, A. R., Jekel, M., & Glöckner, A. (in press). Perceived biological and social characteristics of a representative set of German first names. Social Psychology.  [data and materials on OSF]

• Fleischmann, A., & Gast, A. (Eds.) (2019). Männer können nicht zuhören, Frauen können nicht einparken? Psychologische Forschung zu Geschlechterunterschieden und -stereotypen [Men don’t listen, women cannot park? Psychological research about gender differences and stereotypes] [Special Issue]. Das In-Mind Magazin, 10 (1).

• Dorrough, A. R., Nater, C., & Leszczyńska, M. (2019). Die Frauenquote greift in mehreren europäischen Ländern: Was sind die positiven und negativen Nebenwirkungen? Das In-Mind Magazin, 10 (1).