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

• Lammers, J., & Crusius, J. (in press). Teaching simple heuristics can reduce the exponential growth bias in judging historic CO2 emission growth. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12392
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• König, L. M., Altenmüller, M. S., Fick, J., Crusius, J., Genschow, O., & Sauerland, M.(in press). How to communicate science to the public? Recommendations for effective written communication derived from a systematic review. Zeitschrift für Psychologie.
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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
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• Schermer, J. A., Rogoza, R., Kwiatkowska, M. M., Kowalski, C. M., Aquino, S., Ardi, R., … Crusius, J. … Krammer, G. (2023). Humor styles across 28 countries. Current Psychology, 42(19), 16304-16319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00552-y
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• 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, 34(2), 387-440,. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2022.2161043
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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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• Genschow, O., Westfal, M., Cracco, E., & Crusius, J. (2022). Group membership does not modulate automatic imitation.Psychological Research, 86, 780–791. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01526-1
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• Crusius, J., Corcoran, K., & Mussweiler, T. (2022). Social comparison: Theory, research, and applications. In D. Chadee (Ed.), Theories in social psychology (2nd ed., pp. 165-187). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394266616.ch7
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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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• Crusius, J., & Lange, J. (2021). Counterfactual thoughts distinguish benign and malicious envy. Emotion, 21(5), 905-920. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000923
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• 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
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• 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
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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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• 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
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• 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 
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• König, L. M., & Crusius, J. (2020). Die Wissenschaftskommunikation braucht einen Ehrenkodex [Science communication needs an honor code]. wissenschaftskommunikation.de. https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/die-wissenschaftskommunikation-braucht-einen-ehrenkodex-43679

• 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
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• 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. https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/neid-tut-weh-motiviert-aber-auch-2086

• 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
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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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• 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
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• 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
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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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• 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
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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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• 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
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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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• 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
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• 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
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• Open Science Collaboration (2015, August 28). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), Article aac4716. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716
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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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• 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
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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. (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
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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). 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
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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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• 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
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• 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
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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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• Chief Editor of the In-Mind Magazine (German edition)

• Editor of (ParenThesis) - Zur Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Wissenschaft [A blog on compatibility of parenthood and careers in science]

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• UoC Advanced Postdoc GrantWhen 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

Oct, 20 2023 | WSJ
Turn your envy into a super power | The Wall Street Journal | by Kara Cutruzulla

Feb, 18 2023 | DER SPIEGEL
Ist es schlimm, seine Freundinnen zu beneiden? [Is it bad to envy your friends?] | Der Spiegel | Interview with Jan Crusius by Helene Flachsenberg

Oct, 20 2022 | The Atlantic
Envy, the Happiness Killer | The Atlantic | by Arthur C. Brooks

Sep, 23 2022 | ZDF
Was macht Neid mit uns? [What does envy do to us?] | ZDF Terra X with Jan Crusius | by Jasmina Neudecker

Nov, 25 2021 | WDR 5
Darauf bin ich stolz! [This is what I'm proud about!] | Radio feature about the benefits of pride with Jan Crusius | by Andi Ueding

May 04, 2021 | DER TAGESSPIEGEL
Neidrepublik Deutschland? : Was der Umgang mit dem Glück der anderen über uns aussagt [What dealing with the luck of the others tells about us] | Interview with Jan Crusius

Apr 20, 2021 | DEUTSCHLANDFUNK NOVA
Corona-Impfung: So kommen wir mit dem Impfneid klar [Corona vaccination: How to deal with with vaccination envy] | Radio interview

Jul 20, 2020 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Overcoming Psychological Biases Is the Best Treatment against COVID-19 Yet | Media Coverage of Lammers, Crusius & Gast, PNAS | By Lydia Denworth

BeMaS Benign and Malcious Envy | Dispositional Envy Scale

PaDE Episodic Envy Scale | State Envy Scale and Translations