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Argaman, Y., Sznycer, D., Crusius, J., van Leeuwen, F., Ohtsubo, Y., Ishihara, H., Zhuang, J.-Y., Zhou, Q.-J., Castelain, T., Neto, F., Neto, J., & Kron, A. (2026). Cross-cultural evidence that shame is a defense against reputational damage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(13), Article e2526787123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2526787123 [open access][data, materials, code & preregistration]
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König, L. M., Altenmüller, M. S., Fick, J., Crusius, J., Genschow, O., & Sauerland, M. (2025). How to communicate science to the public? Recommendations for effective written communication derived from a systematic review. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 233(1), 40–51. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000572 [full text][preprint][data][preregistration]
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Lange, J., & Crusius, J. (2024). Dispositional Benign and Malicious Envy Scale (BeMaS). In C. U. Krägeloh, M. Alyami, & O. N. Medvedev (Eds.), International handbook of behavioral health assessment. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89738-3_66-1 [full text]
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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, 34(2), 387–440. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2022.2161043 [open access]
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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 [open access][data]
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Appel, H., Crusius, J., & Gerlach, A. L. (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 [full text]
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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 [full text]
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). Universidad Fernando Pessoa. [full text]
