A5019516390- Cultural Differences and Values
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Media Influence and Health
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- earthquake and tectonic studies
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
TU Dresden
2023-2025
University of Cologne
2017-2024
Cologne Institute for Economic Research
2017-2024
University of Amsterdam
2011-2022
Utrecht University
2022
Richard Wolf (Germany)
2021
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2011-2020
University of Toronto
2020
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2017
University of Southern California
2015-2016
Self-control leads to positive life outcomes, but it is poorly understood. While previous research has focused on self-control failure, success remains unexplored. The current studies aim shed more light the mechanisms of by focusing resolution response conflict as a key component in success. Trait was measured, and participants reported magnitude they experienced about healthy unhealthy foods Study 1 (N = 146; Mage 33.03; 59 females, 83 males, 4 unknown). process assessed 2 118; 21.45; 68...
Ambivalence is a presumably unpleasant experience, and coming to terms with it an intricate part of human existence. It argued that ambivalent attitude holders cope their ambivalence through compensatory perceptions order. We first show leads increase in (visual) order (Study 1). In Study 2 we conceptually replicate this finding by showing also increases belief conspiracy theories, cognitive form perception. Furthermore, effect mediated the negative emotions are elicited ambivalence. 3...
The positive effects of trust are manifold. Recent research has shown that levels may even influence physical health. current work explores this issue and aims to shed light on the mechanisms underlying relationship between health in a 5‐wave longitudinal data set. Results showed was positively related health: Participants report fewer problems when they their partner more, replicating earlier findings. More importantly, symptoms anxiety depression mediate effect self‐reported Finally,...
Previous work showed that concrete experiences of weight influence people’s judgments how important certain issues are. In line with an embodied simulation account but contrary to a metaphor-enriched perspective, this shows perceived importance object influences perceptions weight. Two studies manipulated information about book’s importance, after which, participants estimated its Importance caused perceive the book be heavier. This was not merely semantic association, because were affected...
Ambivalence refers to a psychological conflict between opposing evaluations, often experienced as being torn alternatives. This dynamic aspect of ambivalence is hard capture with outcome-focused measures, such response times or self-report. To gain more insight into it unfolds, the current work uses an embodied measure pull, drawing on research in systems. In three studies, using different materials, we tracked people's mouse movements they chose negative and positive evaluations attitude...
Individuals with low (rather than high) self-esteem often struggle existential concerns. In the present research, we examined whether these concerns may be alleviated by seemingly trivial experiences of both real and simulated interpersonal touch. A brief touch on shoulder a female experimenter led individuals to experience less death anxiety (Study 1) more social connectedness after reminder 2). Reminding increased their desire for touch, as indicated higher value estimates teddy bear, toy...
Previous work has shown that a stooped posture may activate negative mood. Extending this work, the present experiments examine how body influences recovery from pre-existing In Experiment 1 (n = 229), participants were randomly assigned to receive either or neutral mood induction, after which instructed take stooped, straight, control while writing down their thoughts. Stooped (compared straight postures) led less in condition, and more condition. Furthermore, thoughts overall compared...
Thriving in increasingly complex and ambiguous environments requires creativity the capability to reconcile conflicting demands. Recent evidence with Western samples has suggested that paradoxical frames, or mental templates encourage individuals recognize embrace contradictions, could produce creative benefits. We extended timely, but understudied, topic by studying nuances of for whom why advantages frames emerge. suggest people endorsing a middle ground approach are less likely scrutinize...
The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) is a picture set used by researchers to select pictures that have been prerated on valence. Researchers rely the ratings in IAPS accurately reflect degree which elicit affective responses. Here we show this may not always be safe assumption. More specifically, scale measure valence ranges from positive negative, implying and negative feelings are end-points of same construct. This makes interpretation midpoint, or neutral ratings, especially...
Most people automatically withdraw from socially threatening situations. However, high in trait anger could be an exception to this rule, and may even display eagerness approach hostile To test hypothesis, we asked 118 participants complete approach-avoidance task, which made or avoidance movements towards faces with angry happy expression, a direct averted eye gaze. As expected, higher predicted faster (than avoidance) faces. Crucially, effect occurred only for gaze, presumably because they...
Researchers have long worried about a phenomenon where study participants give higher ratings on self-report scales the first time they take survey compared to subsequent times, particularly for negative subjective experiences. Recent experimental evidence, using samples of U.S. college students, suggests that this initial elevation is due an upward bias in people’s responses. Such potentially undermines validity many research findings. However, more recent studies found little evidence...
People in close relationships can, and often do, experience ambivalence (i.e., mixed feelings) toward their romantic partner. Although is common consequential, research on this phenomenon fragmented. The present work examines how four different types of objective, subjective, implicit-explicit, implicit ambivalence) relate to well-being. In intensive studies ( N = 1,134) internal meta-analyses, was related lower personal relational well-being, but association only statistically significant...
Prior research exploring the relationship between evaluations and body movements has focused on one-sided evaluations. However, people regularly encounter objects or situations about which they simultaneously hold both positive negative views, results in experience of ambivalence. Such experiences are often described physical terms: For example, say "wavering" two sides an issue "torn." Building this observation, we designed studies to explore ambivalence side-to-side movement, wavering. In...
Romantic relationships can be rewarding and costly at the same time, making it no surprise that partners often feel ambivalent (simultaneously positive negative) feelings toward one another. Although research has shown individual who experiences ambivalence their romantic partner is likely to endure aversive effects, not much known about how this affects partner, target of feelings. To address gap, we investigated perceiving a feels oneself associated with one's own personal relationship...
The present approach exploits the biomechanical connection between articulation and ingestion-related mouth movements to introduce a novel psychological principle of brand name design. We constructed names for diverse products with consonantal stricture spots either from front rear mouth, thus inwards (e.g., BODIKA), or front, outwards KODIBA). These muscle dynamics resemble oral kinematics during ingestion (inwards), which feels positive, expectoration (outwards), negative. In 7 experiments...
The complexity of societal risks such as pandemics, artificial intelligence, and climate change may lead laypeople to rely on experts authorities when evaluating these threats. While Siegrist Cvetkovich showed that competence-based trust in correlates with perceived benefits only people feel unknowledgeable, recent research has yielded mixed support for this foundational work. To address discrepancy, we conducted a direct-replication study (preregistered; 1,070 participants, 33 risks, 35,310...
People use spatial distance to talk and think about differences between concepts, it has been argued that using space different categories provides a scaffold for the categorization process. In current study, we investigated possibility response keys can influence times in binary classification tasks. line with hypothesis facilitate selection key-press version of Stroop task, our results showed responses on incongruent trials were significantly facilitated when participants performed task...
People in close relationships often need to sacrifice their own preferences and goals for the partner or relationship.But what are consequences of such sacrifices relationship partners?In this work we provide a systematic investigation romantic relationships, both person who gives up as well recipient these benefits.In 5 studies combining experience sampling experimental methods, examined whether performing receiving is linked ambivalence, that is, mixed feelings toward partner.In last 3...