Most Recent SoCCCo Publications

• 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. (in press). 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.

• Mischkowski, D. (in press). Schau, ich lasse dir die Wahl! – Sozial achtsames Verhalten als Zeichen für Prosozialität und Perspektivübernahme im Alltag. InMind.

• 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.

• 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. (in press). Mere repetition increases belief in factually true COVID-19-related information. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

• 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. (in press). Exploring negative beliefs about power: The role of autonomy and influence. Social Psychology.

• 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. (in press). 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. (in press). Analytic atheism in a low-religiosity culture: Examining the relationship between analytic thinking and religious belief in Germany. Personality and Individual Differences. *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. (in press). Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies. Nature Communications.

• 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. (in press). 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.

• Funk, F.* & Mischkowski, D.* (in press). Examining consequentialist punishment motives in one-shot social dilemmas. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. *shared first authorship

• 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.

• Dorrough, A. R., Leszczyńska, M., Werner*, S., Schaeffer*, L., Simandi*, F., Galley*, A.-S., Akin*, E., Bachmann*, J., Bruske*, M., & Burghardt*, U. (2021). Equal performance, different grade: Women’s performance in discussion perceived worse than men’s. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. *The 3rd-10th author were students under the supervision of the first author.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. (2020). 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.  [data and materials on OSF]