Dr. Jana Berkessel

Jana Berkessel
MZES Fellow
jana.berkessel [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
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+49-621-181-2801
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+49-621-181-2803
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+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
Postfach
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:310
68159  Mannheim

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.1806
A Sociocultural Motives Perspective on Self-Concept and Personality
A2.2207
Does (National) Religiosity Ease the Psychological Burden of Lower SES?

Publications

Journal Articles

Ruggeri, Kai, Friederike Stock, Alexander Haslam, Jana Berkessel and et al.Boggio (2024): A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19. Nature, 625, pp. 134-147. more
Buchanan, Erin, Savannah Lewis, Bastien Paris, Jana Berkessel and et al. (2023): The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific Data, 10, (article no. 87), pp. 1-15. more
Ebert, Tobias, Jana Berkessel and Thorsteinn Jonsson (2023): Political person–culture match and longevity: The partisanship–mortality link depends on the cultural context. Psychological Science, 34, issue 11, pp. 1192-1205. more
Knutson, Douglas, M. Irgens, K. Flynn, Jana Berkessel and et al. (2023): Associations Between Primary Residence and Mental Health in Global Marginalized Populations. Community Mental Health Journal, 59, issue 6, pp. 1083 - 1096. more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Jochen E. Gebauer, Thorsteinn Jonsson and Shigehiro Oishi (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, issue 3, pp. 722–733. more
Dorison, Charles, Jennifer Lerner, Blake Heller, Jana Berkessel and et al. (2022): In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, 3, pp. 577–602. more
Massey (ed.), Douglas, Jana Berkessel and et al. (2022): A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, issue 22, (article no. e2111091119). more
Wingen, Tobias, Jana Berkessel and Simone Dohle (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, issue 1, pp. 1-15. more
Wingen, Tobias, and Jana Berkessel (2022): Die Replikationskrise vermitteln, aber Vertrauen erhalten. Psychologische Rundschau, 73, issue 1, pp. 42-43. more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2021): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, issue 39, (article no. e2103913118 ). more
Wang, Ke, Amit Goldenberg, Charles Dorison, Jana Berkessel and et al. (2021): A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, issue 8, pp. 1089–1110. more
Zickfeld, Janis, Niels van de Ven, Olivia Pich, Thomas Schubert, Jana Berkessel, Tobias Ebert and et al. (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, issue July 2021, (article no. 104137). more
Herziger, Atar, Jana Berkessel and Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes (2020): Wean off green: On the (in)effectiveness of biospheric appeals for consumption curtailment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 69, (article 101415). more
Wingen, Tobias, Jana Berkessel and Birte Englich (2020): No Replication, no Trust? How Low Replicability Influences Trust in Psychology. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11, issue 2, pp. 454–463. more
Herziger, Atar, Amel Benzerga, Jana Berkessel, Niken Linda Dinartika, Matija Franklin and Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes (2017): A study protocol for testing the effectiveness of user-generated content in reducing excessive consumption.. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, pp. 1-10. more
Hoogeveen, Suzanne, Jana Berkessel, Tobias Ebert, Susanne Frick, Moritz Ingendahl, David Izydorczyk, Ruben Laukenmann, Martin Schnuerch, Marcel Schreiner, Vera Vogel and et al. A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, (publ. online before print). more

Book Chapters

Karakasheva, Ralitsa, Jascha Achterberg, Jana Berkessel, Alessia Cottone, Julia Dhar, Jon Jachimowicz, Yuna Lee, Ashley Whillans, Kai Ruggeri and Ludvig Bjorndal (2022): Work and workplace decision-making. Pp. 157-178 in: Kai Ruggeri (Ed.) Psychology and Behavioral Economics: Applications for Public Policy. 2nd edition, London: Routledge. more
Ruggeri, Kai, Jana Berkessel, Philipe Bujold, Maja Friedemann, Hannes Jarke, Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes, Mary MacLennan, Sahana Quail, Felice Tavera, Sanne Verra, Faisal Naru, Filippo Cavassini and Elizabeth Hardy (2022): A brief history of behavioral and decision sciences. Pp. 18-35 in: Kai Ruggeri (Ed.) Psychology and Behavioral Economics: Applications for Public Policy. 2nd edition, London: Routledge. more
Ruggeri, Kai, Olatz Ojinaga-Alfageme, Amel Benzerga, Jana Berkessel, Maja Friedemann, Renata Hlavova, Marvin Kunz, Nejc Plohl, Felicia Sundström, Tomas Folke, Brian Head and Michael Howlett (2022): Evidence-based policy. Pp. 201-225 in: Kai Ruggeri (Ed.) Psychology and Behavioral Economics: Applications for Public Policy. 2nd edition, London: Routledge. more
Berkessel, Jana, Jascha Achterberg, Gerhard Prinz, Alessandra Luna-Navarro, Jon Jachimowicz and Ashley Whillans (2019): Work and Workplace. Pp. 156-173 in: Kai Ruggeri (Ed.) Behavioral Insights for Public Policy: Concepts and Cases. London: Routledge. more
Kunz, Marvin, Jana Berkessel, Ondrej Kácha, Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes, Dafina Petrova, Filippo Cavassini, Faisal Naru and Elizabeth Hardy (2019): The science of behavior and decision-making. Pp. 59-79 in: Kai Ruggeri (Ed.) Behavioral Insights for Public Policy: Concepts and Cases. London: Routledge. more
Ojinaga-Alfageme, Olatz, Amel Benzerga, Jana Berkessel, Renata Hlavova, Marvin Kunz, Nejc Plohl, Felicia Sundström and Tomas Folke (2019): Evidence-based policy. Pp. 59-79 in: Kai Ruggeri (Ed.) Behavioral Insights for Public Policy: Concepts and Cases. London: Routledge. more

Thesis

Berkessel, Jana (2022): Personal Determinants of Well-Being Across Sociocultural Contexts. Mannheim: University of Mannheim. (Dissertation) more

Papers / Reports

Andersen, Thomas, Amel Benzerga and Jana Berkessel (2017): Insights for Impact. Cambridge [The Annual Report of the Policy Research Group at the Department of Psychology; 2] more

Web Publications

Wingen, Tobias, and Jana Berkessel (2020): Trau keiner Studie, die du nicht selbst repliziert hast? Auswirkungen der Replikationskrise auf öffentliches Vertrauen in die Psychologie, 2020, https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/trau-keiner-studie-die-du-nicht-selbst-repliziert-hast-35991/ more

Conference Presentations

Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert and Andreas Nehrlich (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, March 07th to March 09th, 2019] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (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, August 02nd to August 04th, 2019] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (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, February 07th, 2019] more
Berkessel, Jana, Friederike Funk and Mirella Walker (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, February 07th to February 09th, 2019] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (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, September 16th to September 18th, 2019] more
Berres, Sabrina, and Jana Berkessel (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, July 26th to July 28th, 2019] more
Herziger, Atar, Jana Berkessel and Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes (2019): Selfishly Green: An Anti-Consumption Intervention. [Pre-Conference “Sustainability Psychology” of the Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR, February 07th, 2019] more
Wingen, Tobias, Jana Berkessel and Birte Englich (2019): Public trust in psychology in light of the replication crisis. [International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, March 07th to March 09th, 2019] more