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Prof. Dr. Thomas Mussweiler (chair)
Research interests Awards and distinctions 5 Key publicationsAll publications
| Phone | +49 (0) 221 470 7916 |
| Fax | +49 (0) 221 470 1216 |
| thomas.mussweiler [at] uni-koeln.de | |
| Room | 2A11 (2nd floor) |
| Office hours | on demand |
Research interests: | go top |
Judgment and decision making
Comparison processes
The self
Social comparison
Automaticity
Judgmental anchoring
Judgmental correction
Stereotyping
Negotiation
Behavioral economics
Awards and distinctions | go top |
Gottfried Wilhelm-Leibniz-Award, German Research Foundation (DFG), 2006 [link]
European Young Investigator Award (EURYI), European Science Foundation (ESF), 2004 [link]
Charlotte and Karl Bühler Award, German Psychological Association (DGPs), 2004 [link]
Jos Jaspars Award, European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP), 2002 [link]
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award, German Research Foundation (DFG), 2001 [link]
Career development grant (Emmy Noether), German Research Foundation (DFG), 2000-2005 [link]
Postdoctoral Fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG), 9/1/98 - 31/8/2000
Fulbright Scholar (1991/1992)
5 Key publications | go top |
Mussweiler, T. (2003). Comparison processes in social judgment: Mechanisms and consequences. Psychological Review, 110, 472-489. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Damisch, L. (2008). Going back to Donald - How comparisons shape judgmental priming effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95,1295-1315. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Epstude, K. (2009). Relatively fast! Efficiency advantages of comparative thinking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138,1-21. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., Rüter, K., & Epstude, K. (2004). The man who wasn’t there. Subliminal social standards influence self-evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 689-696. (pdf)
Galinsky, A. D., & Mussweiler, T. (2001). First offers as anchors: The role of perspective-taking and negotiator focus. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 657-669. (pdf)
All publications | go top |
Smeesters, D., Mussweiler, T., & Mandel, N. (in press). The effects of thin and heavy media images on overweight and underweight consumers: Social comparison processes and behavioral implications. Journal of Consumer Research. (pdf)
Damisch, L., Stoberock, B., & Mussweiler, T. (in press). Keep your fingers crossed! How superstition improves performance. Psychological Science.
Corcoran, K., Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (in press). Social Comparison. In D. Chadee (Ed.). Theories in Social Psychology.
Hanko, K., Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2010). When I and me are different: Assimilation and contrast in temporal self-comparisons. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 160-168.
Mussweiler, T. (2009). Comparison. In F. Strack & J. Förster (Eds.), Social Cognition - The Basis of Human Interaction (pp.139-156).
New York: Psychology Press
Mussweiler, T., & Epstude, K. (2009). Relatively fast! Efficiency advantages of comparative thinking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138,1-21. (pdf)
Corcoran, K., & Mussweiler, T. (2009). Comparative thinking styles in group and person perception: One mechanism - many effects. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 3, 244-259.
Corcoran, K., & Mussweiler, T. (2009). The efficiency of social comparisons with routine standards. Social Cognition, 27, 939-948. (pdf)
Damisch, L., & Mussweiler, T. (2009). On the relativity of athletic performance: a comparison perspective on performance judgments in sports. In M. Raab, J.G. Johnson, & H.R. Heekeren (Eds.), Mind and Motion: The Bidirectional Link between Thought and Action. Progress in Brain Research (Vol.174). Elsevier
Epstude, K., & Mussweiler, T. (2009). What you feel is how you compare: How comparisons influence the social induction of affect.
Emotion, 9, 1-14.
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Corcoran, K., Hundhammer, T., & Mussweiler, T. (2009). A tool for thought! When comparative thinking reduces stereotyping effects. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1008-1011.
Galinsky, A., Ku, G., & Mussweiler, T. (2009). To Start Low or to Start High? The Case of Auctions vs. Negotiations.
Current Directions in Psychological Science,18, 357-361.
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Corneille O., Yzerbyt, V.Y., Pleyers, G., & Mussweiler, T. (2009). Beyond awareness and resources: Evaluative conditioning may be sensitive to processing goals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 279-282. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Damisch, L. (2008). Going back to Donald - How comparisons shape judgmental priming effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95,1295-1315. (pdf)
Lindner, M.*, Hundhammer, T.*, Ciaramidaro, A., Linden, D., Mussweiler, T. (2008). The neural substrates of person comparison - An fMRI study. NeuroImage,40, 963-971.
*equally contributing authors
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Mussweiler, T.,& Gentner, D.(2007). On Apples and Oranges: Structural Alignment in the Selection of Social Comparison Standards. Journal of Cognitive Science, 8, 1-38. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T.(2007). Assimilation and Contrast as Comparison Effects: A Selective Accessibility Model. In D.A. Stapel & J. Suls (Eds.), Assimilation and Contrast in Social Psychology (pp. 165-185).
New York: Psychology Press
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Keil, A., Mussweiler, T., & Epstude, K. (2006). Alpha-band activity reflects reduction of mental effort in a comparison task: A source space analysis. Brain Research 1121,117-127. (pdf)
Damisch, L., Mussweiler, T., & Plessner, H. (2006). Olympic medals as fruits of comparison? Assimilation and contrast in sequential performance judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied,12,166-178 (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. (2006). Sozialer Vergleich. In H.-W. Bierhoff & D. Frey (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Psychologie Band III: Handbuch der Sozialpsychologie und Kommunikationspsychologie (S.103-112). Göttingen: Hogrefe. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. (2006). Doing is for thinking ! Stereotype activation by stereotypic movements. Psychological Science, 17, 17-21. (pdf)
Englich, B., Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2006). Playing dice with criminal sentences: The influence of irrelevant anchors on experts´ judicial decision making. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 188-200. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., Rüter, K., & Epstude, K. (2006). The Why, Who and How of Social Comparison: A Social-Cognition Perspective. In S. Guimond (Ed.), Social comparison processes and social psychology (pp. 33-54). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (pdf)
Werth, L., Mayer, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2006). Der Einfluss des regulatorischen Fokus auf integrative Verhandlungen. [How regulatory focus influences integrative negotiations.] Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 37, 13-18. (pdf)
Englich, B., Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2005). The last word in court: A hidden disadvantage for the defense. Law and Human Behavior, 29 (6), 705-722. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Englich, B. (2005). Subliminal anchoring : Judgmental consequences and underlying mechanisms. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 98, 133-143. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., Epstude, K., & Rüter, K. (2005). The knife that cuts both ways: Comparison processes in social perception. In J. Krueger, M. D. Alicke, & D. Dunning (Eds.), The Self in Social Judgment (pp. 109-130). New York: Psychology Press. (pdf)
Galinsky, A.D., Leonardelli, G.J., Okhuysen, G.A., & Mussweiler, T. (2005). The role of regulatory focus in negotiations: Promoting distributive and integrative success. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1087-1098. (pdf)
Rüter, K., & Mussweiler, T. (2005). Bonds of Friendship - Comparative Self-Evaluations Evoke the Use of Routine Standards. Social Cognition, 23, 137-160. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., Rüter, K., & Epstude, K. (2004). The ups and downs of social comparison: Mechanisms of assimilation and contrast. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 832-844. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2004). The Euro in the common European market: A single currency increases the comparability of prices. Journal of Economic Psychology, 25, 557-563. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., Rüter, K., & Epstude, K. (2004). The man who wasn´t there. Subliminal social standards influence self-evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 689-696. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., Englich, B., & Strack, F. (2004). Anchoring effect. In: R. Pohl (Ed.), Cognitive illusions - A handbook on fallacies and biases in thinking, judgement, and memory. London, UK: Psychology Press (pp. 183 -200). (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. & Englich, B. (2004). Sicherheit im Umgang mit dem Euro – Evidenz für eine schnelle Gewöhnung an die neue Währung [Certainty in dealing with the Euro – Evidence for a rapid adaptation to the new currency]. Wirtschaftspsychologie, 4, 66-70. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. (2003). Comparison processes in social judgment: Mechanisms and consequences. Psychological Review, 110, 472-489. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. (2003). When egocentrism breeds distinctness: Comparison processes in social prediction. Psychologcial Review, 110, 581-584. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. & Rüter, K. (2003). What friends are for! The use of routine standards in social comparison. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 467-481. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. (2003). "Everything is relative". Comparison processes in social judgment. European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 719-733. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Englich B. (2003). Adapting to the Euro: Evidence from bias reduction. Journal of Economic Psychology, 24, 285-292. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. & Schneller, K. (2003). "What goes up must come down" – How charts influence decisions to buy and sell stocks. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 4, 121-130. (pdf)
Schneller, K., &. Mussweiler, T. (2003). Preise haben kein Gedächtnis! Und Investoren? Zum Einfluss von Höchst- und Tiefstständen im Kursverlauf auf Investitionsentscheidungen von Aktienanlegern. [Prices have no memory! And Investors? On the influence of highs and lows in charts on investing decisions]. Wirtschaftspsychologie, 5, 24-30. (pdf)
Galinsky, A. D., Mussweiler, T., & Medvec, V. H. (2002). Disconnecting outcomes and evaluations: The role of negotiator focus. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1131-1140. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. & Galinsky, A. D. (2002). Strategien der Verhandlungsführung: Der Einfluss des ersten Gebotes [Strategies of negotiation: The impact of the first offer]. Wirtschaftspsychologie, 4(2), 21-27. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2002). I know you are but what am I? Self-evaluative consequences of judging ingroup and outgroup members. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 19-32. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. (2002). The malleability of anchoring effects. Experimental Psychology, 49, 67-72. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2001). The semantics of anchoring. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 86, 234-255. (pdf)
Galinsky, A. D., & Mussweiler, T. (2001). First offers as anchors: The role of perspective-taking and negotiator focus. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 657-669. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. (2001). "Seek and Ye shall find": Antecedents of assimilation and contrast in social comparison. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 499-509. (pdf)
Buunk, A. P., & Mussweiler, T. (2001). New directions in social comparison research. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 467-475. (pdf)
Englich, B., & Mussweiler, T. (2001). Sentencing under uncertainty: Anchoring effects in the court room. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 1535-1551. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. (2001). Focus of comparison as a determinant of assimilation versus contrast in social comparison. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27,38-47. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. (2001). The durability of anchoring effects. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 431-442. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2001). Considering the impossible: Explaining the effects of implausible anchors. Social Cognition, 19, 145-160. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Förster, J. (2000). The sex-aggression link: A perception-behavior dissociation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 507-520. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., Gabriel, S., & Bodenhausen, G.V. (2000). Shifting social identities as a strategy for deflecting threatening social comparisons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 398-409. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2000). The "relative self": Informational and judgmental consequences of comparative self-evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 23-38. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2000). The use of category and exemplar knowledge in the solution of anchoring tasks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 1038-1052. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2000). Consequences of social comparison: Selective accessibility, assimilation, and contrast. In J. Suls & L. Wheeler (Eds.), Handbook of social comparison: Theory and research (pp. 253-270). New York:Plenum. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., Strack, F., & Pfeiffer, T. (2000). Overcoming the inevitable anchoring effect: Considering the opposite compensates for selective accessibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1142-1150. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Neumann, R. (2000). Sources of mental contamination: Comparing the effects of self-generated versus externally-provided primes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 194-206. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., & Strack, F. (2000). Numeric judgment under uncertainty: The role of knowledge in anchoring. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 495-518. (pdf)
Bodenhausen, G. V., & Mussweiler, T., Gabriel, S., Moreno, K. (2000). Affective influence on stereotyping and intergroup relations. In J. P. Forgas (Ed.), Handbook of affect and social cognition (pp. 319-343). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T. & Strack, F. (1999). Hypothesis-consistent testing and semantic priming in the anchoring paradigm: A selective accessibility model. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35, 136-164. (pdf)
Mussweiler, T., Förster, J., & Strack, F. (1997). Der Ankereffekt in Abhängigkeit von der Anwendbarkeit ankerkonsistenter Information: Ein Modell selektiver Zugänglichkeit. [The anchoring effect and the applicability of anchor-consistent information: A selective accessibility model.] Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 44 (4), 589-615.
Strack, F., & Mussweiler, T. (1997). Explaining the enigmatic anchoring effect: Mechanisms of selective accessibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 437 - 446. (pdf)
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