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

Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Jochen E. Gebauer and Peter Rentfrow (2024): On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence. Psychological Science. more
Ruggeri, Kai, Friederike Stock, Alexander Haslam, Jana Berkessel and et al. (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 Raphael 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

Berkessel, Jana, and Shigehiro Oishi (2025): Well-being and culture. Handbook of Ethics and Social Psychology. more
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, Mona Salwender, Jochen E. Gebauer, Dagmar Stahlberg, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (2024): Gender Differences in Agency and Communion across 137 Nations: A Competitive Test of Five Hypotheses. [21st European Conference on Personality, Berlin, August 06th to August 09th, 2024] more
Berkessel, Jana (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, September 25th to September 27th, 2024] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Jochen E. Gebauer and Peter Rentfrow (2024): On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences Are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence. [53rd DGPs Congress/15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, September 16th to September 19th, 2024] more
Berkessel, Jana, and Tobias Ebert (2024): Person-culture match: Is living among similar others beneficial?. ["Tupperware” research colloquium at McGill University, Montréal, (virtual), October 25th, 2024] more
Berkessel, Jana, and Tobias Ebert (2024): Person-culture match: Is living among similar others beneficial?. [Research colloquium at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, January 31st, 2024] more
Berkessel, Jana (2024): Personal determinants of well-being across sociocultural contexts. [53rd DGPs Congress (Heinz-Heckhausen dissertation award), Vienna, September 16th to September 19th, 2024] more
Berkessel, Jana (2024): What makes us happy and healthy depends on where we live. [Social psychology colloquium at the University of Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, June 06th, 2024] more
Berkessel, Jana (2024): What makes us happy and healthy depends on where we live. [Social psychology colloquium at the Leuphana University, Lüneburg, April 30th, 2024] more
Berkessel, Jana (2023): Empirical Answers to Common Concerns about Open Science. [Faculty Colloquium at the Technical University of Rhineland-Palatinate, Landau, January 04th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana, Mona Salwender, Jochen E. Gebauer, Dagmar Stahlberg, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (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, September 24th to September 27th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana, Mona Salwender, Jochen E. Gebauer, Dagmar Stahlberg, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling (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, September 11th to September 13th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana (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, September 21st to September 22nd, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana (2023): On the unequal burden of obesity: A regional person-environment match perspective. [Research colloquium at the FernUniversität Hagen, (online talk), January 19th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Jochen E. Gebauer, Thorsteinn Jonsson and Shigehiro Oishi (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, February 24th to February 27th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana, and Tobias Ebert (2023): Person-culture match: Is living among similar others beneficial?. [Invited talk at the guest colloquium psychology at the University of Zurich, Zurich, November 21st, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana (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, September 24th to September 27th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Thorsteinn Jonsson and Shigehiro Oishi (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, February 24th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana (2023): Zuerst die Reichen, dann die Armen: Wie sich Pandemien in der Gesellschaft ausbreiten. [Jugendakademie Mannheim, Mannheim, April 27th, 2023] more
Berkessel, Jana (2022): Blessed be ye poor? How national religiosity lightens the burden of lower SES. [Social psychology research colloquium at Aarhus University, Aarhus, December 07th, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (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), February 17th, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2022): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. [ European Conference on Personality, Madrid, July 12th to July 15th, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2022): National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. [Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online), February 16th to February 19th, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana (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), March 21st to March 23rd, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana (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), November 16th to November 18th, 2022] 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. [ 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Hildesheim, September 10th to September 15th, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Andreas Nehrlich, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo and Peter Jason Rentfrow (2022): Taking the weight off obesity: A regional person-environment fit perspective on the consequences of obesity. [Regional Cultural Differences Conference, Barcelona, July 18th to July 21st, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana (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, September 30th to October 03rd, 2022] more
Wendelken, Anne, and Jana Berkessel (2022): Why do people desire different kinds of a good life?. [Social psychology research colloquium at the University of Virginia, (online talk), March 28th, 2022] more
Berkessel, Jana (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), March 18th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (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), February 10th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana (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, October 04th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (2021): National religiosity lightens the psychological burden of lower socioeconomic status. [Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, (virtual conference), May 26th to May 27th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana (2021): Open Science & Society: A social contract and how to fulfill it. [Aarhus Reproducibility and Open Science Seminar, Aarhus University, (online talk), December 15th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana (2021): Science communication. [Panel discussion at the Junior Research Programme Open Conference, Sienna, July 09th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana (2021): Socioeconomic and sociocultural antecedents of well-being. [Social Psychology Doctoral Workshop of the German Psychological Society, (online talk), September 06th to September 08th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana (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, November 04th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Andreas Nehrlich, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo and Peter Jason Rentfrow (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), September 12th to September 15th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Andreas Nehrlich, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo and Peter Jason Rentfrow (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), February 11th to February 12th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana, Tobias Ebert, Thorsteinn Jonsson and Shigehiro Oishi (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), February 09th, 2021] more
Berkessel, Jana (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), July 15th, 2020] more
Berkessel, Jana (2020): Open Science & Society. [Open Science Day, University of Mannheim, (virtual conference), October 20th, 2020] more
Berkessel, Jana, and Tobias Ebert (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), April 15th, 2020] more
Berkessel, Jana (2020): The psychologically rich life: A text analysis approach. [Social psychology research colloquium at the University of Virginia, (online talk), October 07th, 2020] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (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, February 27th to February 29th, 2020] more
Berkessel, Jana, Jochen E. Gebauer, Mohsen Joshanloo, Wiebke Bleidorn, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter (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, February 26th, 2020] more
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, and Tobias Wingen (2019): Public trust in psychology in light of the replication crisis. [Open Science in Perspective Symposium at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, March 26th, 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 Psychological Society, Köln, September 16th to September 19th, 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