Chair

Prof. Dr. Christian Unkelbach

Selected Publications

• Schneider, I. K., Stapels, J., Koole, S. L., & Schwarz, N. (in press). Too close to call: Spatial distance between options influences choice difficulty. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

• Diel, K., Grelle, S., & Hofmann, W. (in press). A motivational framework of social comparison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

• Fleischmann, A., Lammers, J., Diel, K., Hofmann, W., & Galinsky, A.D. (in press). More threatening and more diagnostic: How moral comparisons differ from social comparison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

• 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, 119, 560-581.

• Lammers, J., Gast, A., Unkelbach, C., & Galinsky, A. D. (in press). Moral character impression formation depends on the valence homogeneity of the context. Social Psychological and Personality Science.

• Schneider. I. K. & Mattes, A. M. (accepted for publication). The effect of spatial distance between objects on categorization level. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

• 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.

• Barker, P., Dotsch, R., & Imhoff, R. (2020). Assimilation and contrast in spontaneous comparisons: Heterogeneous effects of standard extremity in facial evaluations. International Review of Social Psychology, 33, 1-11.

• 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.

• Diel, K., & Hofmann, W. (2019). Inspired to perspire: The interplay of social comparison direction and standard extremity in the context of challenging exercising goals. Social Cognition, 37, 247-265.

• Lammers, J. & Baldwin, M. (2018). Past-focused temporal framing overcomes conservatives' resistance to liberal political ideas. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 14, 599-619. [data on OSF]

• Baldwin, M., & Lammers, J. (2016). Past-focused environmental comparisons promote pro-environmental outcomes for conservatives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 14953-14957.

• Alves*, H., Koch*, A. S., & Unkelbach, C. (2017). Why good is more alike than bad: Processing implications. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 72–82.  * shared first authorship

• Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2017). The "common good" phenomenon: Why similarities are positive and differences are negative. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 512–528.

• Baldwin, M., & Lammers, J. (2016). Past-focused environmental comparisons promote proenvironmental outcomes for conservatives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 14953–14957.

• Schier, U. K., Ockenfels, A., & Hofmann, W. (2016). Moral values and increasing stakes in a dictator game. Journal of Economic Psychology, 56, 107–115. doi:10.1016/j.joep.2016.06.004

• Schmitt, V., Federspiel, I. G., Eckert, J., Keupp, S., Tschernek, L., Faraut, L., Schuster, R., Michels, C., Sennhenn-Reulen, H., Bugnyar, T., Mussweiler, T., & Fischer, J. (2016). Do monkeys compare themselves to others? Animal Cognition, 19, 417-428.