Berkessel, Jana
Phone:
+49-621-181-2801
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131
Mannheim
DE
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Room: 310
68159
Mannheim
Projects collapse
Social Inequality
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Buchkapitel
Laham, Simon
(Eds.)
Berkessel, Jana,
Shigehiro Oishi
(2025):
Well-being and culture.
44-57.
Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Karakasheva, Ralitsa,
Jascha Achterberg,
Jana Berkessel,
Alessia Cottone,
Julia Dhar,
Jon Jachimowicz,
Yuna Lee,
Ashley Whillans,
Kai Ruggeri,
Ludvig Bjorndal
(2022):
Work and workplace decision-making.
2nd edition,
157-178.
London,
Routledge.
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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,
Elizabeth Hardy
(2022):
A brief history of behavioral and decision sciences.
2nd edition,
18-35.
London,
Routledge.
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Ruggeri, Kai,
Olatz Ojinaga-Alfageme,
Amel Benzerga,
Jana Berkessel,
Maja Friedemann,
Renata Hlavova,
Marvin Kunz,
Nejc Plohl,
Felicia Sundström,
Tomas Folke,
Brian Head,
Michael Howlett
(2022):
Evidence-based policy.
2nd edition,
201-225.
London,
Routledge.
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Ruggeri, Kai,
Olatz Ojinaga-Alfageme,
Amel Benzerga,
Jana Berkessel,
Renata Hlavova,
Marvin Kunz,
Nejc Plohl,
Felicia Sundström,
Tomas Folke
(2019):
Evidence-based policy.
59-79.
London,
Routledge.
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Ruggeri, Kai,
Marvin Kunz,
Jana Berkessel,
Ondrej Kácha,
Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes,
Dafina Petrova,
Filippo Cavassini,
Faisal Naru,
Elizabeth Hardy
(2019):
The science of behavior and decision-making.
59-79.
London,
Routledge.
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Ruggeri, Kai,
Jana Berkessel,
Jascha Achterberg,
Gerhard Prinz,
Alessandra Luna-Navarro,
Jon Jachimowicz,
Ashley Whillans
(2019):
Work and Workplace.
156-173.
London,
Routledge.
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Zeitschriftenartikel
Rauthmann, John,
Diana Armbruster,
Eva Asselmann,
Jana Berkessel,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Susanne Bücker,
et al.
(2025):
Die differentielle und Persönlichkeitspsychologie im Jahr 2025: Stand, Entwicklungen und Ausblick.
Psychologische Rundschau,
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Tsudaka, Gen,
Margaux Wienk,
Jana Berkessel,
Cynthia Boo
(2025):
Rugged terrain and rigid hierarchy.
Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology,
8,
(article no. 100220), pp. 1-8.
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Ruggeri, Kai,
Friederike Stock,
Alexander Haslam,
Jana Berkessel,
et al.
(2024):
A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19.
Nature,
625,
134-147.
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Peter Rentfrow
(2024):
On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence.
Psychological Science,
35,
11,
1260-1277.
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Brohmer, Hilmar,
Gabriela Hofer,
Sebastian A. Bauch,
Jana Berkessel,
et al.
(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.
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Knutson, Douglas,
M. Irgens,
K. Flynn,
et al.
(2023):
Associations Between Primary Residence and Mental Health in Global Marginalized Populations.
Community Mental Health Journal,
59,
6,
1083 - 1096.
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Ebert, Tobias,
Jana Berkessel,
Thorsteinn Jonsson
(2023):
Political person–culture match and longevity: The partisanship–mortality link depends on the cultural context.
Psychological Science,
34,
11,
1192-1205.
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Buchanan, Erin,
Savannah Lewis,
Bastien Paris,
et al.
(2023):
The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset.
Scientific Data,
10,
(article no. 87), pp. 1-15.
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Hoogeveen, Suzanne,
Jana Berkessel,
Susanne Frick,
Moritz Ingendahl,
David Izydorczyk,
Ruben Laukenmann,
Martin Schnuerch,
Marcel Raphael Schreiner,
Vera Vogel,
et al.
(2023):
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being.
Religion, Brain & Behavior,
13,
3,
237-283.
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Thorsteinn Jonsson,
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,
3,
722–733.
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Wingen, Tobias,
Jana Berkessel,
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,
1,
1-15.
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Wingen, Tobias,
Jana Berkessel
(2022):
Die Replikationskrise vermitteln, aber Vertrauen erhalten.
Psychologische Rundschau,
73,
1,
42-43.
Psychologische Rundschau.
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Massey (ed.), Douglas,
Jana Berkessel
(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).
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Dorison, Charles,
Jennifer Lerner,
Blake Heller,
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,
577–602.
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Jeff Potter,
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,
39,
(article no. e2103913118 ).
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Zickfeld, Janis,
Niels van de Ven,
Olivia Pich,
Thomas Schubert,
Jana Berkessel,
Tobias Ebert
(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).
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Wang, Ke,
Amit Goldenberg,
Charles Dorison,
et al.
(2021):
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nature Human Behaviour,
5,
8,
1089–1110.
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Herziger, Atar,
Jana Berkessel,
Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes
(2020):
Wean off green: On the (in)effectiveness of biospheric appeals for consumption curtailment.
Journal of Environmental Psychology,
69,
(article 101415).
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Wingen, Tobias,
Jana Berkessel,
Birte Englich
(2020):
No Replication, no Trust? How Low Replicability Influences Trust in Psychology.
Social Psychological and Personality Science,
11,
2,
454–463.
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Herziger, Atar,
Amel Benzerga,
Jana Berkessel,
Niken Linda Dinartika,
Matija Franklin,
Kamilla Knutsen Steinnes
(2017):
A study protocol for testing the effectiveness of user-generated content in reducing excessive consumption..
Frontiers in Psychology,
8,
1-10.
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Presentation
Berkessel, Jana
(2024):
Personal determinants of well-being across sociocultural contexts.
[53rd DGPs Congress (Heinz-Heckhausen dissertation award), Vienna, ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2024):
What makes us happy and healthy depends on where we live.
[Social psychology colloquium at the University of Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2024):
What makes us happy and healthy depends on where we live.
[Social psychology colloquium at the Leuphana University, Lüneburg, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert
(2024):
Person-culture match: Is living among similar others beneficial?.
[Research colloquium at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, ].
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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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Mona Salwender,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Dagmar Stahlberg,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Rentfrow,
Jeff Potter,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert
(2024):
Person-culture match: Is living among similar others beneficial?.
["Tupperware” research colloquium at McGill University, Montréal, (virtual colloquium), ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2023):
Zuerst die Reichen, dann die Armen: Wie sich Pandemien in der Gesellschaft ausbreiten.
[Jugendakademie Mannheim, Mannheim, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
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, ].
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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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2023):
On the unequal burden of obesity: A regional person-environment match perspective.
[Research colloquium at the FernUniversität Hagen, (online talk), ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2023):
Empirical Answers to Common Concerns about Open Science.
[Faculty Colloquium at the Technical University of Rhineland-Palatinate, Landau, ].
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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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Mona Salwender,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Dagmar Stahlberg,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Rentfrow,
Jeff Potter,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Mona Salwender,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Dagmar Stahlberg,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Rentfrow,
Jeff Potter,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Thorsteinn Jonsson,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
Thorsteinn Jonsson,
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, ].
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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, ].
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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), ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2022):
Blessed be ye poor? How national religiosity lightens the burden of lower SES.
[Social psychology research colloquium at Aarhus University, Aarhus, ].
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Wendelken, Anne,
Jana Berkessel
(2022):
Why do people desire different kinds of a good life?.
[Social psychology research colloquium at the University of Virginia, (online talk), ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Thorsteinn Jonsson,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
Andreas Nehrlich,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
Jeff Potter
(2022):
National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty.
[ European Conference on Personality, Madrid, ].
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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), ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
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), ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
Jeff Potter
(2022):
National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty.
[Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, (online), ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2021):
Open Science & Society: A social contract and how to fulfill it.
[Aarhus Reproducibility and Open Science Seminar, Aarhus University, (online talk), ].
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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, ].
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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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2021):
Science communication.
[Panel discussion at the Junior Research Programme Open Conference, Sienna, ].
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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), ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
Andreas Nehrlich,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
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), ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2021):
Socioeconomic and sociocultural antecedents of well-being.
[Social Psychology Doctoral Workshop of the German Psychological Society, (online talk), ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
Jeff Potter
(2021):
National religiosity lightens the psychological burden of lower socioeconomic status.
[Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, (virtual conference), ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
Andreas Nehrlich,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
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), ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
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), ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
Thorsteinn Jonsson,
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), ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2020):
The psychologically rich life: A text analysis approach.
[Social psychology research colloquium at the University of Virginia, (online talk), ].
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Berkessel, Jana
(2020):
Open Science & Society.
[Open Science Day, University of Mannheim, (virtual conference), ].
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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), ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
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), ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
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, ].
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Herziger, Atar,
Jana Berkessel,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Friederike Funk,
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, ].
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Wingen, Tobias,
Jana Berkessel,
Birte Englich
(2019):
Public trust in psychology in light of the replication crisis.
[International Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Tobias Ebert,
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, ].
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Berres, Sabrina,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
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, ].
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Berkessel, Jana,
Jochen E. Gebauer,
Mohsen Joshanloo,
Wiebke Bleidorn,
Peter Jason Rentfrow,
Samuel D. Gosling,
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, ].
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Bericht
Andersen, Thomas,
Amel Benzerga,
Jana Berkessel,
Kai Ruggeri
(2017):
Insights for Impact.
2,
Cambridge,
University of Cambridge.
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Thesis
Berkessel, Jana
(2022):
Personal Determinants of Well-Being Across Sociocultural Contexts.
Mannheim,
University of Mannheim.
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Web Artikel
Wingen, Tobias,
Jana Berkessel
(2020):
Trau keiner Studie, die du nicht selbst repliziert hast? Auswirkungen der Replikationskrise auf öffentliches Vertrauen in die Psychologie.
2020,
Wissenschaftskommunikation.de.
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