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Most Recent SoCCCo Publications

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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.

• De keersmaecker, J., Dunning, D. A., Pennycook, G., Rand, D. G., Sanchez, C., Unkelbach, C., & Roets, A. (2020). 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. (2020). Prevalence and frequency of self-management strategies among female cancer survivors: The neglected roles of social relations and conscious living. Supportive Care in Cancer.

• Nett, T., Dorrough, A. R., Jekel, M., & Glöckner, A. (2020). Perceived biological and social characteristics of a representative set of German first names. Social Psychology, 51(1), 17-34.