Prof. Dr. Michaela Wänke

Project director
michaela.waenke [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-1620
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
A 5, 6, Building B
Room:118
68159  Mannheim

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.2016
Objective and Subjectively Experienced Financial Inequalities in Income and Wealth and Their Consequences
A2.2405
Social Class and Level of Construal: How Socio-Economic Background Influences the Abstraction Level of Social Constructions

Publications

Journal Articles

Unkelbach, Fabienne, Tatjana Brütting, Nina Schilling and Michaela Wänke (2025): Looking Competent Does Not Appeal to All Voters Equally: The Role of Social Class and Politicians’ Facial Appearance for Voting Likelihood. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 51, issue 1, pp. 66-80. more
Kutzner, Florian, Florian K. G. Ermark, Julian Fornoff and Michaela Wänke (2024): Effects of verbatim repetition of the headline message on the proceed button on click-through rates in online retail. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, (article no.1187798), pp. 1-8. more
Bless, Herbert, and Michaela Wänke (2023): The crucial role of linearity when comparing effects across studies. Nature Reviews Psychology, 2, issue 9, pp. 516–517. more
Halicki, Katharina T., and Michaela Wänke (2023): When she is standing left, she might be blamed. Responsibility attribution for sexualized violence moderated by rape myth acceptance and benevolent sexism. Violence against Women, 29, issue 2, pp. 300-320. more
Ingendahl, Moritz, Ira Theresa Maschmann, Nina Embs, Amelie Maulbetsch, Tobias Vogel and Michaela Wänke (2023): Articulation Dynamics and Evaluative Conditioning: Investigating the Boundary Conditions, Mental Representation, and Origin of the In-Out Effect. Cognition and Emotion, 37, issue 6, pp. 1074-1089 . more
Ingendahl, Moritz, Tobias Vogel, Alexander Maedche and Michaela Wänke (2023): Brand placements in video games: How local in-game experiences influence brand attitudes. Psychology & Marketing , 40, issue 2, pp. 274-287. more
Ingendahl, Moritz, Johanna Woitzel, Nadja Propheter, Michaela Wänke and Hans Alves (2023): From Deviant Likes to Reversed Effects: Re-Investigating the Contribution of Unaware Evaluative Conditioning to Attitude Formation. Collabra: Psychology, 9, issue 1, (article no. 87462), pp.1-25. more
Landwehr, Jan R., and Michaela Wänke (2023): Face-to-face: Three facial features that may turn the scale in close electoral races. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108, (article no. 104488), pp. 1-10. more
van Horen, Femke, Michaela Wänke and Thomas Mussweiler (2023): When it pays to be clear: the appeal of concrete communication under certainty. International Journal of Advertising, 43, issue 3, pp. 533-553. more
Ingendahl, Moritz, Tobias Vogel and Michaela Wänke (2022): The articulatory in-out effect: Driven by articulation fluency?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 99, (article no 104273), pp. 1-7. more
Paunov, Yavor, Tobias Vogel, Moritz Ingendahl and Michaela Wänke (2022): Transparent by choice: Proactive disclosures increase compliance with digital defaults. Frontiers in Psychology , 13, (article no 981497), pp. 1-8. more
Halicki, Katharina T., Moritz Ingendahl, Maren Mayer, Melvin John, Marcel Raphael Schreiner and Michaela Wänke (2021): From which direction does the Empire strike (back)?. Frontiers in Psycholoy, 12, (article no. 625554), pp. 1-10. more
Halicki, Katharina T., Caterina Suitner, Tobias Vogel and Michaela Wänke (2021): What is agentic about the Spatial Agency Bias? How passive voice moderates the positioning bias. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51, issue 1, pp. 166-177. more
Ingendahl, Moritz, Tim Schöne, Michaela Wänke and Tobias Vogel (2021): Fluency in the in-out effect: The role of structural mere exposure effects. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, (article no. 104079), pp. 1-7. more
Kutzner, Florian, Celina Kacpersky, Diana Schramm and Michaela Wänke (2021): How far can we get with eco driving tech?. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 76, (article no 101626), pp. 1-5. more
Paunov, Yavor, Michaela Wänke and Tobias Vogel (2020): Combining defaults and transparency information to increase policy compliance. Social Psychology , 51, issue 5, pp. 354-359 . more
Vogel, Tobias, Rita R. Silva, Aurelia Thomas and Michaela Wänke (2020): Truth is in the mind, but beauty is in the eye: Fluency effects are moderated by a match between fluency source and judgment dimension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, issue 8, pp. 1587–1596. more
Genschow, Oliver, Johannes Schuler, Emiel Cracco, Marcel Brass and Michaela Wänke (2019): The Effect of Money Priming on Self-Focus in the Imitation-Inhibition Task. Experimental Psychology, 66, issue 6, pp. 423-436. more

Conference Presentations

Wänke, Michaela, Lucia Boileau, Adrian Heinze and Fabienne Unkelbach (2024): Election Posters of Right and Left Candidates Emphasize Different Personal Traits. [24 Hours of Political Psychology Conference (5th Annual Meeting of the German Political Psychology Network), Wien, September 19th to September 20th, 2024] more
Wänke, Michaela, and Monika Undorf (2024): The Divided Tribes of Fluency or: What is Fluency Anyhow?. [53rd DGPs Congress/15th ÖGP Conference, Wien, September 16th to September 19th, 2024] more
John, Melvin, Herbert Bless and Michaela Wänke (2021): In the eye of the beholder: Subjective perceptions of inequality determine its consequences. [ESCON 2021, (virtual conference), September 13th to September 15th, 2021] more