Publications

Complete list of publications

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Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg

Dr. Lena Hahn

Dr. Claudia Araya

Dr. Svenja Frenzel

Latest publications

In press

  • Gieselmann, M., Hagedorn, J. & Sassenberg, K. (in press). Do perceived benefits compensate for low provider trustworthiness in disclosure decisions? An experimental investigation. Journal of Media Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000440
  • Pummerer, L., Ditrich, L., Winter, K., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). Belief in a norm-consistent climate policy conspiracy theory and non-normative collective action. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13094 

  • Scholl, A., Rapp. H., van Kleef, G., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). On the road to power: Showing benevolence and integrity fuels power granting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

 

2025

  • Baylat, M., Woltin, K.-A., Barbedor, J., Sassenberg, K. & Yzerbyt, V. (2025). Followers' locomotion mode predicts preferring assertive leaders: Regulatory fit by means of valued social characteristics of others. European Journal of Social Psychology, 55, 259-273. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3141.
  • Gieselmann, M., Erdsiek, D., Rost, V., & Sassenberg, K. (2025). Do managers accept artificial intelligence? Insights into the role of business area and AI functionality. Journal of Economic Psychology, 10: 102804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2025.102804

 

2024

  • Beylat, M., Sassenberg, K., Yzerbyt, V. & Woltin, K. A. (2024). Followers’ regulatory mode and leadership style preferences: Does the task time perspective moderate their relation? Collabra, 10 (1), 126226https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.126226
  • Baylat, M., Woltin, K. A., Yzerbyt, V. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). With whom do people compare at work? The role of regulatory mode and social comparison motives. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 54 (6), 319-331. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13032
  • Ditrich, L., Reinhardt, J., Roth, G. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). Integrative emotion regulation relates to sympathy and support for outgroups –  Independent of situational outgroup behaviour. PLoS ONE, 19, e0296520. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296520
  • Ditrich, L. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). #Stand with Ukraine: Analysing the links between Germans’ emotions and their readiness to protest in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 54, 731-743. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13066
  • Ditrich, L. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). Threat and reactions to violated expectations in groups: Adding control to the equation. European Review of Social Psychology, 35, 1-44. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2023.2211463 
  • Doré, A., Grammes, J., Egri, E., Priesterroth, L., Frenzel, S. B., Spörkel, O. & Kubiak, T. (2024). Identification with characters of a national narrative health communication campaign targeting type 2 diabetes. Health Communication, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2378256
  • Gieselmann, M., Hagedorn, J. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). Do perceived benefits compensate for low provider trustworthiness in disclosure decisions? An experimental investigation. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000440
  • Glöckner, A., Gollwitzer, M., Hahn, L., Lange, J., Sassenberg, K. & Unkelbach, C. (2024). Quality, replicability, transparency in research in social psychology: Implementation of recommendations in Germany. Social Psychology, 55, 134-147. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000548
  • Hahn, L., Buttlar, B., Künne, R. & Walther, E. (2024). Introducing the trier univalence neutrality ambivalence (TUNA) database: A picture database differentiating complex attitudes. PLoS ONE, 19 (5), e0302904. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302904
  • Hahn, L. & Walther, E. (2024). Ambivalence towards the implementation of preventive measures in (un-)vaccinated German citizens. European Journal of Health Psychology, 31 (1), 4-15. https://doi.org/10.1027/2512-8442/a000137
  • Hampel, N., Ditrich, L., Scholl, A. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). Enactive mastery experience improves attitudes toward digital technology via self-efficacy – A pre-registered quasi-experiment. Behaviour and Information Technology, 43 (2), 298-311. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2022.2162436 
  • Hoch, E., Scheiter, K. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). Promotion focus, but not prevention focus of teachers and students matters when shifting towards technology-based instruction in schools. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 22030. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73463-z
  • Pummerer, L., Fock, L., Winter, K. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). Conspiracy beliefs and majority influence. The Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2397491
  • Pummerer, L., Gkinopoulos, T., Douglas, K. M., Jolley, D. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying appraisal theories to understanding emotional and behavioral reactions to conspiracy theories. Psychological Inquiry, 35, 159-178.https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2025.2454118
  • Pummerer, L., Gkinopoulos, T., Douglas, K., Jolley, D., & Sassenberg, K. (2024). The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Highlighting core concepts and potential extensions. Psychological Inquiry, 35, 233-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2025.2454118
  • Sassenberg, K. & Winter, K. (2024). Intraindividual conflicts reduce the polarization of attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33, 190-197. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214241242452
  • Tschopp, M. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). The impact of human-AI relationship perception on voice shopping intentions. Human-Machine Communication, 8, 101-117. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.8.5
  • Winter, K., Hornsey, M. J., Pummerer, L. & Sassenberg, K. (2024). Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms. Nature Communications, 15, 8888. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53278-2

 

2023

  • Araya, C., Oberauer, K. & Saito, S. (2023). Hebb Repetition Effects in Complex and Simple Span Tasks Are Based on the Same Learning Mechanism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001290
  • Frenzel, S. B., Junker, N. M., Häusser, J. A., Erkens, V. A. & van Dick, R. (2023). How team identification relates to lower burnout – Emotional and instrumental support as two different social cure mechanisms. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62 (2), 673-691. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12588
  • Henk, K., Rosing, F., Wolff, F., Frenzel, S. B., van Dick, R., Erkens, V. A., Häusser, J. A., Mojzisch, A. & Boer, D. (2023). An examination and extension of the Peltzman effect during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4, 100091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100091
  • Kohrs, F. E., Auer, S., Bannach-Brown, A., Fiedler, S., Haven, T. L., Heise, V., Holman, C., Azevedo, F., Bernard, R., Bleier, A., Bössel, N., Cahill, B. P.,..., Hahn, L.,... & Weissgerber, T. L. (2023). Eleven strategies for making reproducible research and open science training the norm at research institutions. eLife, 12, e89736. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89736 
  • van Dick, R., Frenzel, S. B., Erkens, V. A., Häusser, J. A., Haslam, S. A., Mojzisch, N. K. & Junker, N. M. (2023). Reduced loneliness mediates the effects of multiple group identifications on well-being. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62 (4), 1693-1714. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12651