Prof. Dr. Jutta Mata

Project director
mata [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2595
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim
L13,17
68161  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim
L13,17
Room:409
68161  Mannheim

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.2308
Advancing New Methodological Approaches to Measure Social Decisions: The Case of Eating in a Family Context

A3 Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities

A3.1816
UNICON—Understanding Nutrition Inequalities in Context: Momentary and Persistent Processes

Publications

Journal Articles

Kadel, Philipp, Ira E. Herwig and Jutta Mata (In Press): Deliberate ignorance – a barrier for information interventions targeting reduced meat consumption?. Psychology & Health, (publ. online before print). more
Emmer, Christine, Julia Dorn and Jutta Mata (2024): The immediate effect of discrimination on mental health: A meta-analytic review of the causal evidence. Psychological Bulletin, 150, issue 3, pp. 215-252. more
Abou-Dakn, Michael, Ute Alexy, Kirsten Beyer, Monika Cremer, Regina Ensenauer, Maria Flothkötter, Raimund Geene, Claudia Hellmers, Christine Joisten, Berthold Koletzko, Jutta Mata, Ulrich Schiffner, Irene Somm, Melanie Speck, Anke Weißenborn and Achim Wöckel (2023): Ernährung und Bewegung im Kleinkindalter: Aktualisierte Handlungsempfehlungen des bundesweiten Netzwerks Gesund ins Leben. Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde, 171, issue Suppl. 1, pp. 7-27. more
Dallacker, Mattea, Vanessa Knobl, Ralph Hertwig and Jutta Mata (2023): Effect of longer family meals on children's fruit and vegetable intake : A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Network Open, 6, issue 4, (article no. e236331), pp. 1-10. more
Kilb, Michael, Helge Giese and Jutta Mata (2023): How eating-related social media postings influence healthy eating in senders and network members: two field experiments with intensive longitudinal data. Appetite : Multidisciplinary Research on Eating and Drinking, 182, (article no. 106430), pp. 1-12. more
Mata, Jutta, Philipp Kadel, Ronald Frank and Benjamin Schüz (2023): Education- and income-related differences in processed meat consumption across Europe: The role of food-related attitudes. Appetite : Multidisciplinary Research on Eating and Drinking, 182, (article no. 106417), pp. 1-8. more
Kilb, Michael, Oliver Dickhäuser and Jutta Mata (2022): A theory-based video intervention to enhance communication and engagement in online health communities: Two experiments. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 10, issue 1, pp. 199–228. more
Knobl, Vanessa, Mattea Dallacker, Ralph Hertwig and Jutta Mata (2022): Happy and healthy: How family mealtime routines relate to child nutritional health. Appetite: Multidisciplinary Research on Eating and Drinking, 171, (article no. 105939). more
Schneider, Sven, Jessica Markovinovic and Jutta Mata (2022): Nudging and boosting children's restaurant menus for healthier food choice: A blinded quasi-randomized controlled trial in a real life setting. BMC Public Health, 22, (article no. 78), pp. 1-11. more
Francis, Zoë, Jutta Mata, Lavinia Flückiger and Veronika Job (2021): Morning resolutions, evening disillusions: Theories of willpower affect how health behaviours change across the day. European Journal of Personality, 35, issue 3, pp. 398–415. more
Inauen, Jennifer, Nadja Contzen, Vivian Frick, Philipp Kadel, Jan Keller, Josiane Kollmann, Jutta Mata and Anne van Valkengoed (2021): Environmental issues are health issues: Making a case and setting an agenda for environmental health psychology. European psychologist, 26, issue 3, pp. 219–229. more
Mata, Jutta, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Katja Möhring, Ulrich Krieger, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel, Carina Cornesse, Annelies G. Blom and Elias Naumann (2021): Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany. Social Science & Medicine, 287, issue October 2021, (article no. 114333). more
Schüz, Benjamin, Hannah Meyerhof, Lisa Hilz and Jutta Mata (2021): Equity Effects of Dietary Nudging Field Experiments: Systematic Review. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, (article no. 668998). more
Emmer, Christine, Michael Bosnjak and Jutta Mata (2020): The association between weight stigma and mental health: a meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews, 21, issue 1, (e-only: e12935). more
Kadel, Philipp, Sven Schneider and Jutta Mata (2020): Soft drink consumption and mental health problems: Longitudinal relations in children and adolescents. Social Science & Medicine, 258, (article no. 113123). more
Schneider, Sven, Jutta Mata and Philipp Kadel (2020): Relations between sweetened beverage consumption and individual, interpersonal, and environmental factors: a 6-year longitudinal study in German children and adolescents. International journal of public health, 65, issue 5, pp. 559–570. more
Schneider, Sven, Jennifer Hilger-Kolb and Jutta Mata (2020): „So good it might become an addiction “–Ein kritischer Kommentar zur Markteinführung der neuen Coca-Cola-Freestyle-Automaten. Adipositas-Ursachen, Folgeerkrankungen, Therapie, 14, issue 3, pp. 153–157. more
Zemp, Martina, Marlene Jockers and Jutta Mata (2020): The role of constructiveness in interparental conflict for mothers' perception of children's health. Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science, 69, pp. 683–697. more
Dallacker, Mattea, Ralph Hertwig and Jutta Mata (2019): Quality matters: A meta-analysis on components of healthy family meals. Health Psychology, 38, issue 12, pp. 1137–1149. more
Scheibehenne, Benjamin, Jutta Mata and David Richter (2019): Accuracy of food preference predictions in couples. Appetite: Multidisciplinary Research on Eating and Drinking, 133, pp. 344-352. more
Sieber, Vanda, Lavinia Flückiger, Jutta Mata, Katharina Bernecker and Veronika Job (2019): Autonomous goal striving promotes a nonlimited theory about willpower. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, issue 8, pp. 1295 –1307. more
Vorderer, Peter, Christoph Klimmt, Diana Rieger, Eva Baumann, Dorothée Hefner, Karin Knop, Nicola Krömer, Jutta Mata, Thilo von Pape, Thorsten Quandt, Sabine Reich, Leonard Reinecke, Sabine Trepte, Sabine Sonnentag and Hartmut Wessler (2015): Der mediatisierte Lebenswandel - Permanently online, permanently connected. Publizistik, 60, issue 3, pp. 259-276. more

Book Chapters

Dallacker, Mattea, Jutta Mata and Ralph Hertwig (2019): Toward simple eating rules for the land of plenty. Pp. 111-127 in: Ralph Hertwig, Timothy J. Pleskac, Thorsten Pachur (Eds.) Taming uncertainty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. more
Mata, Jutta, Mattea Dallacker, Tobias Vogel and Ralph Hertwig (2019): The role of attitudes in diet, eating, and body weight. Pp. 67-91 in: Dolores Albarracin, Blair T. Johnson (Eds.) Applications. 2nd ed., New York: Routledge. more
Mata, Jutta, and Eva Baumann (2017): The dose makes the poison: Theoretical considerations and challenges of health-related POPC. Pp. 254–263 in: Peter Vorderer, Dorothée Hefner, Leonard Reinecke, Christoph Klimmt (Eds.) Permanently Online, Permanently Connected: Living and Communicating in a POPC World. London: Routledge. more

Papers / Reports

Naumann, Elias, Jutta Mata, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Katja Möhring, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel, Carina Cornesse and Annelies G. Blom (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zum Angstempfinden in der Bevölkerung; Untersuchungszeitraum 20. März bis 16. April 2020. Mannheim more
Fiedler, Klaus, Hans Hauner, Ralph Hertwig, Gerhard Huber, Jutta Mata, Frank Rösler, Jutta Roosen, Wolfgang Stroebe and Joachim von Braun (2019): Übergewicht und Adipositas: Thesen und Empfehlungen zur Eindämmung der Epidemie. Halle [Leopoldina Diskussion; 22] more

Conference Presentations

Emmer, Christine, Julia Dorn and Jutta Mata (2022): The effect of discrimination on mental health: A meta-analysis of the causal evidence. [52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs), Hildesheim, September 10th to September 15th, 2022] more
Herwig, Ira E., Helge Giese and Jutta Mata (2022): Are we (m)eating like our friends? How social friendship networks influence meat consumption. [52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs), Hildesheim, September 10th to September 15th, 2022] more
Kadel, Philipp, Ira E. Herwig and Jutta Mata (2022): Effective science communication based on psychological insights – quo vadis? Deliberate ignorance - a barrier for information interventions and a challenge for effective science communication?. [52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs), Hildesheim, September 10th to September 15th, 2022] more
Kilb, Michael, Helge Giese and Jutta Mata (2022): Public (vs. private) self-monitoring of eating via social media – effects on eating and underlying mechanisms. [52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs) , Hildesheim, September 10th to September 15th, 2022] more
Knobl, Vanessa, Lea Kahlert, Esther Tiemann and Jutta Mata (2022): „Alles in Butter?“ – Mahlzeitenatmosphäre als multifaktorielles Konstrukt. [52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Hildesheim, September 10th to September 15th, 2022] more
Mata, Jutta (2022): Breaking bread: 10 years of research on social influences in eating and obesity. [10-year anniversary of the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, September 15th to September 17th, 2022] more
Mata, Jutta (2022): How Psychology Saves Lives. [Invited talk at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, November 10th, 2022] more
Mata, Jutta, Dolores Albarracin, Urte Scholz, Rebecca Band and Annie Jung (2022): Potential of new social approaches to study and influence health behaviors. [36th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), Bratislava, August 23rd to August 27th, 2022] more
Mata, Jutta (2022): Well-being and health in adolescence. [Research and practice in dialogue – symposium and round table, Luxembourg, July 06th, 2022] more
Emmer, Christine, Frank Kalter and Jutta Mata (2020): Resiliency in the face of migration: How exercise protects against perceived discrimination and fosters well-being. [ISBNPA XChange Initiative of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity, (virtual), June 15th to June 25th, 2020] more
Emmer, Christine, Michael Bosnjak and Jutta Mata (2019): A meta-analysis of the relation between weight stigma, mental health and well-being. [8th Workshop for Doctoral Students in Experimental Psychology (A-Dok), Mannheim, July 25th to July 28th, 2019] more
Emmer, Christine, Michael Bosnjak and Jutta Mata (2019): The relation between overweight, weight-stigma, and well-being: A meta-analysis. [33rd Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), Dubrovnik, September 02nd to September 07th, 2019] more
Emmer, Christine, Michael Bosnjak and Jutta Mata (2019): The relation between overweight, weight-stigma, and well-being: A meta-analysis. [14th Congress of the Division of Health Psychology of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs), Greifswald, September 24th to September 27th, 2019] more
Mata, Jutta (2019): Health psychology in the age of social media. [Women in Data Science Conference, Mannheim, March 25th, 2019] more
Mata, Jutta (2019): Socio-economic differences in food choice: Representative surveys of 9 European countries. [33rd Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), Dubrovnik, September 03rd to September 07th, 2019] more