In press

• Araya, C., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). The impact of co-opetition on cognitive flexibility: A replication study of (Landkammer & Sassenberg, 2016). Social Psychology.
• Bibic, K., Frenzel, S. B., Kerschreiter, R. Wilson-Lemoine, J. E., Steffens, N. K., Haslam, S. A., Monzani, L., Akfirat, S. A., Ballada, C. J. A., Bazarov, T., Aruta, J. J. B. R., Avanzi, L., Bunjak, A., Černe, M., Edelmann, C. M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., García-Ael, C., Giessner, S., ... van Dick, R. (in press). The value of leaders we trust and leaders who make us stronger: Exploring the distinct contributions of different components of identity leadership to group member outcomes. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
• Frenzel, S. B., Pummerer, L., Utz, S., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). Conspiracy beliefs predict perceptions of procedural justice. Scientifc Reports.
• Heimrich, J., Junker, N. M., van Dick, R., Mojzisch, A., Knoll, M., Frenzel, S. B., & Häusser, J. A (in press). How Extraversion and Need‐to‐Belong Relate to the Emergence and Maintenance of Identification With a New Group. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 55 (7), 533-551. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.70006    
• 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
• Pummerer, L., Winter, K., Sassenberg, K, & Fischer, H. (in press). “Knowing what I don’t know” - Belief in conspiracy theories relates to lower metacognitive sensitivity: A signal detection theoretic approach. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2025.2563541  
• 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.
• Winter, K., Pummerer, L., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). Not that different after all: Pro-environmental social norms predict pro-environmental behavior (also) among those believing in conspiracy theories. British Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70030 

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.
• Buttlar, B.*, Hahn, L.*, & Chambon, M. (2025). A Matter of Preparation: Investigating the Differential Effects of Processing and Cooking on Meat-Related Perceptions and Conflict. Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, 4, e17919. *shared first authorship https://doi.org/10.5964/phair.17919
• 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
• Hahn, L., Glöckner, A., Gollwitzer, M., Hellmann, J., Lange, J., Schindler, S., & Sassenberg, K. (2025). A Cross-Sectional Study of the Completeness of Preregistrations by Psychological Authors From German-Speaking Institutions. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8 (3). https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251357568
• Sanborn, A. N., Zhu, J.-Q., Spicer, J., León-Villagra, P., Castillo, L., Falbén, J. K., Li, Y.-X., Tee, A., & Chater, N. (2025). Noise in cognition: Bug or feature? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 20 (3), 572-589. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916241258951

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), 126226. https://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
• Golubickis, M., Persson, L. M., Falbén, J. K., Seoq, S. H., Jalalian, P., Sharma, Y., Ivanova, M., & Macrae, C. N. (2024). Facial misfits accelerate stereotype-based associative learning. Scientific Reports, 14, 19320. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67770-8
• Golubickis, M., Tan, L. B. G., Jalalian, P., Falbén, J. K., & Macrae, C. N. (2024). Brief mindfulness- based meditation enhances learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 2312-2324. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241228859
• 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 *shared first authorship
• 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
• Jonas, M., & Rosman, T. (2024). All research summaries are scientific, but some are more scientific than others? — Indications for a mediation of the relationship between author and text scientificness through perceived scientificness. Collabra: Psychology, 10 (1): 123196. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.123196
• Li, Y.-X., Falbén, J. K., Castillo, L., Spicer, J., Zhu, J.-Q., Chater, N., & Sanborn, A. N. (2024). Utility does not influence mental simulations. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46, 1832-1838. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ps2t4sz
• 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

• Falbén, J. K., Golubickis, M., Tsamadi, D., Persson, L. M., & C. N. Macrae (2023). The power of the unexpected: Prediction errors enhanced stereotype- based learning. Cognition, 235, 105386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105386
• 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
• Jonas, M., Kerwer, M., Chasiotis, A., & Rosman, T. (2023). Indicators of trustworthiness in lay-friendly research summaries: Scientificness surpasses easiness. Public Understanding of Science, 33 (1), 37-57. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231176377
• Jonas, M., & Rosman, T. (2023). Is the Influence of Author and Text Scientificness on Trustworthiness Mediated by Lay Readers’ Perceived Scientificness? Preregistration of Hypotheses and Design. PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12869
• 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
• Persson, L. M., Falbén, J. K., Tsamadi, D., & Macrae, C. N. (2023). People perception and stereotype-based responding: Task context matters. Psychological Research, 87, 1219-1231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01724-5
• Rosman, T. & Grösser, S. (2023). Belief updating when confronted with scientific evidence: Examining the role of trust in science. Public Understanding of Science, 33 (3), 308-324. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231203538
• Schmidt, K., Edelsbrunner, P. A., Rosman, T., Cramer, C., & Merk, S. (2023).  When perceived informativity is not enough. How teachers perceive and interpret statistical results of educational research. Teaching and Teacher Education, 130, 104134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104134
• Sharma, Y., Persson, L. M., Golubickis, M., Jalalian, P., Falbén, J. K., & Macrae, C. N. (2023). Facial first impressions are not mandatory: A priming investigation. Cognition, 241, 105620 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105620
• Svensson, S., Golubickis, M., Johnson, S., Falbén, J. K., Sahraie, A., & Macrae, C. N. (2023). Self-Relevance and the Activation of Attentional Networks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 1120-1130. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221112238
• 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