Research interests | Publications | Academic distinctions | Research materials

Research interests

Social emotions • Social comparison • Personal motives • Conflict and cooperation • Imitation • Virtual Reality

Publications

• 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. [preprint]

• 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. [pdf]

• Crusius, J. (in press). Soziale Vergleiche [Social comparison]. In P. Ozimek, H.-W. Bierhoff, E. Rohmann, & S. Hanke (Eds.), Angewandte Sozialpsychologie: Ein Lehrbuch. Kohlhammer. [preprint]

• Schermer, J. A., Rogoza, R., Kwiatkowska, M. M., Kowalski, C. M., Aquino, S., Ardi, R., … Crusius, J. … Krammer, G. (in press). Humor styles across 28 countries. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00552-y

• Crusius, J., & Lange, J. (2021). Counterfactual thoughts distinguish benign and malicious envy. Emotion, 21(5), 905-920. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000923 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]

• Crusius, J., Thierhoff, J., & Lange, J. (2021). Dispositional greed predicts benign and malicious envy. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, Article 110361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110361 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]

• Genschow, O., Cracco, E., Verbeke, P., Westfal, M., & Crusius, J. (2021). A direct test of the similarity assumption—Focusing on differences as compared with similarities decreases automatic imitation. Cognition, 215, Article 104824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104824 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]

• Genschow, O., Westfal, M., Cracco, E., & Crusius, J. (2021). Group membership does not modulate automatic imitation. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01526-1 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]

• Genschow, O., Westfal, M., Crusius, J., Bartosch, L., Feikes, K. I., Pallasch, N., & Wozniak, M. (2021). 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. 120(2), e1–e7. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000261 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]

• 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103374 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]

• Crusius*, J., Gonzalez*, M. F., Lange*, J., & Cohen-Charash*, Y. (2020). Envy: An adversarial review and comparison of two competing views. Emotion Review, 12(1), 3–21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073919873131 [preprint] [pdf] *equal contribution

• König, L. M., & Crusius, J. (2020). Die Wissenschaftskommunikation braucht einen Ehrenkodex [Science communication needs an honor code]. wissenschaftskommunikation.de.

• 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, 117(28), 16264–16266. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006048117 [data on OSF]

• Corcoran, K., & Crusius, J. (2019). Das tut weh, aber motiviert auch. Neid an der Universität [Hurts but also motivates: Envy in academia]. Forschung & Lehre, 26, 836–837.

• Lange, J., Redford, L., & Crusius, J. (2019). A status-seeking account of psychological entitlement. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(7), 1113–1128. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218808501  [data and materials on OSF]

• Lange, J., Blatz, L., & Crusius, J. (2018). Dispositional envy: A conceptual review. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of personality and individual differences. Volume III: Applications of personality and individual differences (pp. 424–439). SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526451248  [pdf]

• Lange, J., Paulhus, D. L., & Crusius, J. (2018). Elucidating the dark side of envy: Distinctive links of benign and malicious envy with dark personalities. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(4), 601–614. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217746340  [pdf]  [data and materials on OSF]

• Lange, J., Weidman, A. C., & Crusius, J. (2018). The painful duality of envy: Evidence for an integrative theory and a meta-analysis on the relation of envy and schadenfreude. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(4), 572–598. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000118  [preprint]  [data and materials on OSF]

• McCarthy, R. J., Skowronski, J. J., Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., … Blatz, L., … Crusius, J., … Yıldız, E. (2018). Registered Replication Report on Srull and Wyer (1979). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 321–336. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918777487  [data and materials on OSF]

• Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., Orthey, R., McCarthy, R. J., … Blatz, L., … Crusius, J., … Yıldız, E (2018). Registered Replication Report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 299–317. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918781032  [data and materials on OSF]

• Crusius*, J., & Lange*, J. (2017). How do people respond to threatened social status? Moderators of benign versus malicious envy. In R. H. Smith, U. Merlone, & M. K. Duffy (Eds.), Envy at work and in organizations (pp. 85–110). Oxford University Press.   https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190228057.003.0004   [pdf] *equal contribution

• Appel, H., Gerlach, A. L., & Crusius, J. (2016). The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression. Current Opinion in Psychology, 9, 44–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.10.006  [pdf]

• Corcoran, K., & Crusius, J. (2016). Sozialer Vergleich [Social comparison]. In D. Frey & H.-W. Bierhoff (Eds.), Sozialpsychologie - Soziale Motive und Soziale Einstellungen, Enzyklopädie der Psychologie (Vol. C/VI/2, pp. 87–106). Hogrefe. [pdf]

• Lange*, J., Crusius*, J., & Hagemeyer, B. (2016). The Evil Queen's dilemma: Linking narcissistic admiration and rivalry to benign and malicious envy. European Journal of Personality, 30(2), 168–188. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2047  [pdf]  [supplement]  [data and materials on OSF]  *equal contribution

• Appel, H., Crusius, J., & Gerlach, A. (2015). Social comparison, envy, and depression on Facebook: A study looking at the effects of high comparison standards on depressed individuals. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 34(4), 277–289. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2015.34.4.277  [pdf]

• Crusius, J., & Lange, J. (2015). Envy. In M. Altman (Ed.), Real world decision making: An encyclopaedia of behavioral economics (pp. 122-123). Greenwood.  [pdf]

• Lange, J., & Crusius, J. (2015). Dispositional envy revisited: Unraveling the motivational dynamics of benign and malicious envy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(2), 284–294. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167214564959  [pdf]  [data and materials on OSF]

• Lange, J., & Crusius, J. (2015). The tango of two deadly sins: The social-functional relation of envy and pride. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(3), 453-472. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000026  [pdf]  [data and materials on OSF]

• Open Science Collaboration (2015, August 28). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), Article aac4716. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716  [data and materials on OSF]

• Corcoran, K., & Crusius, J. (2014). Warum sozialpsychologische Forschung für die Rechtswissenschaften von Interesse ist [Why social psychological research is of interest for law]. Austrian Law Journal, 1, 40–47. https://doi.org/10.25364/1.1:2014.1.3  [pdf]

• Crusius, J., & Lange, J. (2014). What catches the envious eye? How malicious and benign envy bias attention. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.05.007  [pdf]

• Open Science Collaboration. (2014).  The reproducibility project: A model of large-scale collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility. In V. Stodden, F. Leisch, & R. D. Peng (Eds.), Implementing reproducible computational research (pp. 299–324). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315373461-11 [pdf]

• Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2013). Untangling envy. The feeling can help us even when it hurts. Scientific American Mind, 24(5), 35–37. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamericanmind1113-34  [pdf]

• Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2012). Des einen Freud, des anderen ... [One person's joy is another's ...]. Gehirn&Geist, 10, 18–23.  [pdf]

• Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2012). Social comparison in negotiation. In G. E. Bolton & R. T. A. Croson (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of economic conflict resolution (pp. 120–137). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199730858.013.0010 [pdf]

• Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2012). To achieve or not to achieve? Comparative mindsets elicit assimilation and contrast in goal priming. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42(6), 780–788. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.873  [pdf]

• Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2012). When people want what others have: The impulsive side of envious desire. Emotion, 12(1), 142–153. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023523  [pdf]

• Crusius, J., van Horen, F., & Mussweiler, T. (2012). Why process matters: A social cognition perspective on economic behavior. Journal of Economic Psychology, 33, 677–685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2011.09.004  [pdf]

• Mussweiler, T., Todd, A. R., & Crusius, J. (2012). The cognitive underpinnings of social behavior: Selectivity in social cognition. In P. Hammerstein & J. R. Stevens (Eds.), Strüngmann Forum Reports: Vol. 11. Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making (pp. 275–286). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9556.003.0022 [pdf]

• Corcoran, K., Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2011). Social comparison: Motives, standards, and mechanisms. In D. Chadee (Ed.), Theories in social psychology (pp. 119–139). Wiley-Blackwell.  [pdf]

• Hanko, K., Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2010). When I and me are different: Assimilation and contrast in temporal self-comparisons. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40(1), 160–168. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.625  [pdf]

• Schubert, T., & Crusius, J. (2002). Five theses on the book problem: Presence in books, film and VR. In F. R. Gouveia & F. Biocca (Eds.), Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on presence (pp. 53–59). Porto, Portugal: Universidad Fernando Pessoa.  [pdf]

Academic distinctions

• Chief Editor of the In-Mind Magazine (German edition)

• University of Cologne Teaching Award 2020 (together with Anne Gast, Fabia Högden, and Psychology Student Council) for introductory teaching program How does psychological science work?, Feb 2021

• Junior Start-Up Grant AI Decisions and Organizational Trust (together with Iris Schneider), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2021-2022

• Seedcorn Grant SpAM³-VR: Can Virtual Reality Elucidate Dimensions of Conceptual Space? (together with Lisa Blatz, Felix Speckmann, and Alex Koch), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2018-2019

• DFG research unit FOR 2150 Relativity in social cognition Co-Principal Investigator of Project 7 (P7, PI: Oliver Genschow) The influence of comparison processes on movement and effector compatibility effects (GE 3040/2-1), 2018

• Junior Start-Up Grant How the Belief in Free Will Shapes Envious Responding (together with Lisa Blatz), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2018-2019

• DFG research unit FOR 2150 Relativity in social cognition Co-Principal Investigator of Project 3 (P3, PI: Sascha Topolinski) Verticality and social upward/downward comparisons (TO 705/4-2), 2017

• Junior Start-Up Grant SpAM³-VR: Harnessing Virtual Reality to Investigate Dimensions of Social Judgment (together with Lisa Blatz, Alex Koch, and Felix Speckmann), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2017-2018

• Seedcorn Grant Why does entitlement foster dominance instead of prestige? (together with Jens Lange, & Liz Redford), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2017

• Junior Start-Up Grant The advantages and pitfalls of goal pursuit in envy versus admiration (together with Lisa Blatz (PI), Maayan Katzir, & Jens Lange), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2017

• UoC Advanced Postdoc Grant When Pride and Envy Collide: Societal Determinants and Consequences of Status-Related Emotions, awarded by the University of Cologne, 2015

• The causal role of counterfactual thinking in envy (CR 489/1-1), Grant awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2014

• Characterization of reward-decision, social comparison based motivation, social cognition and resting-state metabolism between healthy participants and patients with OCD and substance abuse disorder (together with Jens Kuhn, Alexander Drzezga, and Leonhard Schilbach), UoC Forum Grant awarded by the University of Cologne, 2014

Research materials

BeMaS | The Dispositional Benign and Malicious Envy Scale & Translations

PaDE | State Envy Scale and Translations