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Rugged terrain and rigid hierarchy.
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Dr. Jana Berkessel
MZES Fellow
University Mannheim, MZES
Building A
A5, 6 310
68159 Mannheim
Phone: +49-621-181-2801Building A
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68159 Mannheim
E-Mail: jana.berkessel@mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Projects — current
Publication — recent
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(2024): A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19. Nature, 625, 134-147. More
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(2024): On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence. Psychological Science, 35, 11, 1260-1277. More
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(2024): Effects of the Generic Masculine and its Alternatives in Germanophone countries. A Multi-lab Replication and Extension of Stahlberg, Sczesny, and Braun (2001). International Review of Social Psychology, 37, 1, (article no. 17), pp.1-25. More
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(2023): Associations Between Primary Residence and Mental Health in Global Marginalized Populations. Community Mental Health Journal, 59, 6, 1083 - 1096. More
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(2023): Political person–culture match and longevity: The partisanship–mortality link depends on the cultural context. Psychological Science, 34, 11, 1192-1205. More
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(2023): The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific Data, 10, (article no. 87), pp. 1-15. More
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(2023): A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13, 3, 237-283. More
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(2022): Pandemics Initially Spread Among People of Higher (Not Lower) Social Status: Evidence From COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 3, 722–733. More
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(2022): Caution, preprint! Brief explanations allow non-scientists to differentiate between preprints and peer-reviewed journal articles. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 5, 1, 1-15. More
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(2022): Die Replikationskrise vermitteln, aber Vertrauen erhalten. Psychologische Rundschau, 73, 1, 42-43. Psychologische Rundschau. More
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(2022): A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, 22, (article no. e2111091119). More
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(2022): In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, 3, 577–602. More
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(2021): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, 39, (article no. e2103913118 ). More
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(2021): Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, July 2021, (article no. 104137). More
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(2021): A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 8, 1089–1110. More
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(2020): Wean off green: On the (in)effectiveness of biospheric appeals for consumption curtailment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 69, (article 101415). More
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(2020): No Replication, no Trust? How Low Replicability Influences Trust in Psychology. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11, 2, 454–463. More
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(2017): A study protocol for testing the effectiveness of user-generated content in reducing excessive consumption.. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1-10. More
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(2025): Lives well lived: An obituary-based study of the good life. [18th Conference of the Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology, and Psychological Assessment (DPPD) Section of the German Psychological Society, Kassel, 20/09/2025 - 23/09/2025]. More
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(2025): On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences Are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence.. [18th Conference of the Swiss Psychological Society, Crans-Montana, 06/09/2025 - 08/09/2025]. More
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(2025): A Phase-Sensitive Model of Regional Pandemic Spread. [2nd Regional Cultural Differences Conference (RCDC), Vancouver, 07/07/2025 - 10/07/2025]. More
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(2024): Personal determinants of well-being across sociocultural contexts. [53rd DGPs Congress (Heinz-Heckhausen dissertation award), Vienna, 15/09/2024 - 18/09/2024]. More
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(2024): What makes us happy and healthy depends on where we live. [Social psychology colloquium at the University of Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, 05/06/2024 - 05/06/2024]. More
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(2024): What makes us happy and healthy depends on where we live. [Social psychology colloquium at the Leuphana University, Lüneburg, 29/04/2024 - 29/04/2024]. More
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(2024): Person-culture match: Is living among similar others beneficial?. [Research colloquium at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 30/01/2024 - 30/01/2024]. More
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(2024): On the Effect of National Religiosity on the Well-Being Detriments of Lower SES. [Post-Doc Workshop of the Social Psychology Sub-Division of the German Psychological Society, Hagen, 24/09/2024 - 26/09/2024]. More
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(2024): On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences Are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence. [53rd DGPs Congress/15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, 15/09/2024 - 18/09/2024]. More
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(2024): Gender Differences in Agency and Communion across 137 Nations: A Competitive Test of Five Hypotheses. [21st European Conference on Personality, Berlin, 05/08/2024 - 08/08/2024]. More
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(2024): Person-culture match: Is living among similar others beneficial?. ["Tupperware” research colloquium at McGill University, Montréal, (virtual colloquium), 24/10/2024 - 24/10/2024]. More
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(2023): Zuerst die Reichen, dann die Armen: Wie sich Pandemien in der Gesellschaft ausbreiten. [Jugendakademie Mannheim, Mannheim, 26/04/2023 - 26/04/2023]. More
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(2023): Person-culture match: Is living among similar others beneficial?. [Invited talk at the guest colloquium psychology at the University of Zurich, Zurich, 20/11/2023 - 20/11/2023]. More
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(2023): Personal determinants of well-being across sociocultural contexts. [Meeting of the Personality and Diagnostics Sub-Division of the German Psychological Society (Invited talk to accept the dissertation award at the award reception), Salzburg, 23/09/2023 - 26/09/2023]. More
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(2023): On the unequal burden of obesity: A regional person-environment match perspective. [Research colloquium at the FernUniversität Hagen, (online talk), 18/01/2023 - 18/01/2023]. More
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(2023): Empirical Answers to Common Concerns about Open Science. [Faculty Colloquium at the Technical University of Rhineland-Palatinate, Landau, 03/01/2023 - 03/01/2023]. More
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(2023): On the Effect of National Religiosity on the Well-Being Detriments of Lower SES. [Post-Doc Workshop of the Personality and Diagnostics Sub-Division of the German Psychological Society (DPPD), Salzburg, 20/09/2023 - 21/09/2023]. More
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(2023): Gender Differences in Agency and Communion across 137 Nations: A Competitive Test of Five Hypotheses. [Meeting of the Personality and Diagnostics Sub-Division of the German Psychological Society (DPPD), Salzburg, 23/09/2023 - 26/09/2023]. More
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(2023): Gender Differences in The Big Two Self-Concept across 137 Nations: A Competitive Test of Five Hypotheses. [18. Tagung der Fachgruppe für Sozialpsychologie (FGSP) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Graz, 10/09/2023 - 12/09/2023]. More
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(2023): Pandemics initially spread among people of higher (not lower) social status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Poster), Atlanta, 23/02/2023 - 26/02/2023]. More
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(2023): What constitutes a psychologically rich life? A big data approach. [Pre-Conference of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, 23/02/2023 - 23/02/2023]. More
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(2022): Zuerst die Reichen, dann die Armen: Über die Verbindung zwischen sozialem Status und der Ausbreitung der COVID-19 Pandemie und der Spanischen Grippe. [Mind-Akademie 2022 (Invited popular science talk at the yearly meeting of the MIND Hochschulnetzwerk), Mannheim, 29/09/2022 - 02/10/2022]. More
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(2022): On the importance of replicability in science. [Annual Workshop of the Centre for Advanced Studies and Exploratory Research of the European Commission, (online keynote), 15/11/2022 - 17/11/2022]. More
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(2022): Blessed be ye poor? How national religiosity lightens the burden of lower SES. [Social psychology research colloquium at Aarhus University, Aarhus, 06/12/2022 - 06/12/2022]. More
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(2022): Why do people desire different kinds of a good life?. [Social psychology research colloquium at the University of Virginia, (online talk), 27/03/2022 - 27/03/2022]. More
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(2022): Pandemics initially spread among people of higher (not lower) social status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. [ 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Hildesheim, 09/09/2022 - 14/09/2022]. More
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(2022): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [Regional Cultural Differences Conference, Barcelona, 17/07/2022 - 20/07/2022]. More
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(2022): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. [ European Conference on Personality, Madrid, 11/07/2022 - 14/07/2022]. More
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(2022): On the antecedence of individual differences in well-being: A person × culture perspective. [Personality Psychology Doctoral Workshop of the German Psychological Society, (online talk), 20/03/2022 - 22/03/2022]. More
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(2022): Can money buy happiness (anywhere)? How cultural religiosity affects the well-being benefits of social class. [Pre-Conference of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online talk), 16/02/2022 - 16/02/2022]. More
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(2022): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online), 15/02/2022 - 18/02/2022]. More
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(2021): Open Science & Society: A social contract and how to fulfill it. [Aarhus Reproducibility and Open Science Seminar, Aarhus University, (online talk), 14/12/2021 - 14/12/2021]. More
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(2021): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [Health psychology colloquium at the University of Mannheim, Mannheim, 03/11/2021 - 03/11/2021]. More
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(2021): Die Rolle religiöser Normen als Richtlinien unserer Gesellschaft. [Invited Contribution to the expert exchange on the “Future of Belief” at the Bertelsmann Foundation, Gütersloh, 03/10/2021 - 03/10/2021]. More
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(2021): Science communication. [Panel discussion at the Junior Research Programme Open Conference, Sienna, 08/07/2021 - 08/07/2021]. More
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(2021): Blessed be ye poor? National religiosity lightens the burden of lower socioeconomic status in developing nations. [Social psychology research colloquium at the University of Virginia, (online talk), 17/03/2021 - 17/03/2021]. More
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(2021): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [16th Meeting of the Personality and Diagnostics Sub-Division of the German Psychological Society, (virtual conference), 11/09/2021 - 14/09/2021]. More
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(2021): Socioeconomic and sociocultural antecedents of well-being. [Social Psychology Doctoral Workshop of the German Psychological Society, (online talk), 05/09/2021 - 07/09/2021]. More
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(2021): National religiosity lightens the psychological burden of lower socioeconomic status. [Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, (virtual conference), 25/05/2021 - 26/05/2021]. More
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(2021): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (virtual conference), 10/02/2021 - 11/02/2021]. More
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(2021): Blessed be ye poor? National religiosity lightens the well-being detriments of lower SES. [“Religiosity & Spirituality” Pre-Conference of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online talk), 09/02/2021 - 09/02/2021]. More
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(2021): What constitutes a psychologically rich life? A big data approach. [“Happiness & Well-Being” Pre-Conference of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online presentation/poster), 08/02/2021 - 08/02/2021]. More
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(2020): The psychologically rich life: A text analysis approach. [Social psychology research colloquium at the University of Virginia, (online talk), 06/10/2020 - 06/10/2020]. More
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(2020): Open Science & Society. [Open Science Day, University of Mannheim, (virtual conference), 19/10/2020 - 19/10/2020]. More
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(2020): Cross-cultural differences in gender differences in agency and communion. [Computational social science research colloquium at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, (online talk), 14/07/2020 - 14/07/2020]. More
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(2020): Pandemics Initially Spread Among People of High (not Low) Social Status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. [Computational social science research colloquium at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, (online talk), 14/04/2020 - 14/04/2020]. More
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(2020): Well-being benefits of higher social class vary across countries—But why? Comparing the roles of country-Level religiosity and prosperity. [Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, 26/02/2020 - 28/02/2020]. More
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(2020): Whether social class affects self-esteem depends on the country: Testing the roles of societal religiosity and wealth. [“Self & Identity” Pre-Conference of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, 25/02/2020 - 25/02/2020]. More
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(2019): Can money buy you happiness? Using big data to test country-level moderators of the link between social class and well-being.. [Summer Forum Psychology: Big Data in Personality and Social Psychology, St. Louis, MO, 01/08/2019 - 03/08/2019]. More
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(2019): Why does the strength of the relation between social class and psychological health vary between countries? Testing two competitive explanations. [17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Society for Psychology, Cologne, 15/09/2019 - 17/09/2019]. More
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(2019): Selfishly Green: An Anti-Consumption Intervention. [Pre-Conference “Sustainability Psychology” of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR, 06/02/2019 - 06/02/2019]. More
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(2019): Does high social class necessarily predict high self-esteem? Comparing country-level moderators of the social class-self-esteem link. [Pre-Conference “Self & Identity” of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR, 06/02/2019 - 06/02/2019]. More
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(2019): Source memory for remorseful faces: How does perceiving remorse affect memory for faces and their expressions?. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR, 06/02/2019 - 08/02/2019]. More
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(2019): Public trust in psychology in light of the replication crisis. [International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, 06/03/2019 - 08/03/2019]. More
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(2019): Are obese people more likely to be single everywhere? Examining context-specificity in the association between obesity and relationship-status. [International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, 06/03/2019 - 08/03/2019]. More
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(2019): Let’s neglect what hurts my ego! A research proposal on the cognitive mechanisms underlying mnemic neglect. [8th Doctoral Workshop for General Psychology, Mannheim, 25/07/2019 - 27/07/2019]. More
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(2019): Public trust in psychology in light of the replication crisis. [Open Science in Perspective Symposium at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 25/03/2019 - 25/03/2019]. More
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(2019): Why does the strength of the relation between social class and psychological health vary between countries? Testing two competitive explanations. [17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society, Köln, 15/09/2019 - 18/09/2019]. More
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(2025): Well-being and culture. 44-57. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA , Edward Elgar Publishing. More
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(2022): A brief history of behavioral and decision sciences. 2nd edition, 18-35. London, Routledge. More
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(2020): Trau keiner Studie, die du nicht selbst repliziert hast? Auswirkungen der Replikationskrise auf öffentliches Vertrauen in die Psychologie. 2020, Wissenschaftskommunikation.de. More
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(2022): Personal Determinants of Well-Being Across Sociocultural Contexts. Mannheim, University of Mannheim. More