Forschungsbereiche am Lehrstuhl Emotion & Motivation

  • Soziale Vergleiche und soziale Emotionen
  • Persönliche Motive und Überzeugungen
  • Leistungsmotivation
  • Konflikt, Kooperation, Imitation
  • Freiheitsempfinden
  • Soziale Ungleichheit & Armut
  • Autoritarismus
  • Populismus
  • Virtuelle Realität
  • Offene Wissenschaft
  • Wissenschaftskommunikation
  • Genschow, O., Sauerland, M., Crusius, J., & Friese, M. (2023). Wissenschaftskommunikation wissenschaftlich arbeitender Psycholog_innen im deutschsprachigen Raum [Science communication from scientifically active psychologists in the German-speaking countries: An empirical evaluation of the current situation]. Psychologische Rundschau, 74(2), 107–120. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000606
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  • Unkelbach, C., Alves, H., Baldwin, M., Crusius, J., Diel, K., Galinsky, A. D., Gast, A., Hofmann, W., Imhoff, R., Genschow, O., Lammers, J., Pauels, E., Schneider, I. K., Topolinski, S., Westfal, M., & Mussweiler, T. (2023). Relativity in social cognition: Basic processes and novel applications of social comparisons. European Review of Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2022.2161043
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  • Neerdaels, J., Tröster, C., & Van Quaquebeke, N. (2022). It’s (a) shame: Why poverty leads to support for authoritarianism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221141509

  • Kloidt, B., Blatz, L., Flemming, M., Von Spee, L., & Giersdorf, M. (2022). Herausforderungen bei der autismusspezifischen Diagnostik im Kleinkindalter. Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie. https://doi.org/10.1024/1422-4917/a000890
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  • Lange, J., & Crusius, J. (2022). How envy and being envied shape social hierarchies. In S. Protasi (Ed.), The moral psychology of envy (pp. 41-59). Rowman & Littlefield.
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  • Crusius, J., Corcoran, K., & Mussweiler, T. (2022). Social comparison: A review of theory, research, and applications. In D. Chadee (Ed.), Theories in social psychology (2nd ed., pp. 165-187). Wiley.
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  • Crusius, J. (2022). Soziale Vergleiche [Social comparisons]. In P. Ozimek, H.-W. Bierhoff, E. Rohmann, & S. Hanke (Eds.), Angewandte Sozialpsychologie: Ein Lehrbuch (pp. 27-41). Kohlhammer.
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  • 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
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  • Schermer, J. A., Rogoza, R., Kwiatkowska, M. M., Kowalski, C. M., Aquino, S., Ardi, R., … Crusius, J. … Krammer, G. (2019). Humor styles across 28 countries. Current Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00552-y
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • Crusius, J., & Lange, J. (2015). Envy. In M. Altman (Ed.), Real world decision making: An encyclopaedia of behavioral economics (pp. 122-123). Greenwood.
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2012). Des einen Freud, des anderen ... [One person's joy is another's ...]. Gehirn&Geist, 10, 18–23.
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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