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Overview

Eva Jonas is affiliated with the University of Salzburg in Austria and specializes primarily in psychology and social sciences. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including social psychology, sociology and political science, applied psychology, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics addressed by their work include:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Coaching Methods and Impact
  • Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy

Eva Jonas has authored numerous papers, with recent notable publications including:

  • "Between Conspiracy Beliefs, Ingroup Bias, and System Justification: How People Use Defense Strategies to Cope With the Threat of COVID-19," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Existential threat as a challenge for individual and collective engagement: Climate change and the motivation to act," 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "Exploring the landscape of psychological threat: A cartography of threats and threat responses," 2021, Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • "From anxiety to action-Experience of threat, emotional states, reactance, and action preferences in the early days of COVID-19 self-isolation in Germany and Austria," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • ""One of these things is not like the others": The associations between dark triad personality traits, work attitudes, and work-related motivation," 2023, Personality and Individual Differences

Frequent publication venues for their work comprise Frontiers in Psychology, Organisationsberatung Supervision Coaching, Coaching | Theorie & Praxis, Journal of Environmental Psychology, and Consulting Psychology Journal.

Collaborative work is a significant aspect of Eva Jonas's research, with frequent co-authors including Johannes Klackl, Sandra J. Diller, Christina Mühlberger, Janine Stollberg, and Chiara Annika Jutzi.

Best Publications

  • Confirmation bias in sequential information search after preliminary decisions: an expansion of dissonance theoretical research on selective exposure to information.

    Eva Jonas;Stefan Schulz-Hardt;Dieter Frey;Norman Thelen

  • Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach

    Eva Jonas;Ian McGregor;Johannes Klackl;Dmitrij Agroskin

  • The Scrooge Effect: Evidence that Mortality Salience Increases Prosocial Attitudes and Behavior

    Eva Jonas;Jeff Schimel;Jeff Greenberg;Tom Pyszczynski

  • Terror management and religion : Evidence that intrinsic religiousness mitigates worldview defense following mortality salience

    Eva Jonas;Peter Fischer

  • Psychological motives and political orientation--the left, the right, and the rigid: comment on Jost et al. (2003).

    Jeff Greenberg;Eva Jonas

  • The Role of Control Motivation in Mortality Salience Effects on Ingroup Support and Defense

    Immo Fritsche;Eva Jonas;Thomas Fankhänel

  • Understanding psychological reactance: New developments and findings

    Christina Steindl;Eva Jonas;Sandra Sittenthaler;Eva Traut-Mattausch

  • The power of we: Evidence for group-based control

    Immo Fritsche;Immo Fritsche;Eva Jonas;Catharina Ablasser;Magdalena Beyer

  • Selective exposure to information: the impact of information limits

    Peter Fischer;Eva Jonas;Dieter Frey;Stefan Schulz-Hardt

  • Psychological Defense in Anticipation of Anxiety Eliminating the Potential for Anxiety Eliminates the Effect of Mortality Salience on Worldview Defense

    Jeff Greenberg;Andy Martens;Eva Jonas;Donna Eisenstadt

  • Focus theory of normative conduct and terror-management theory: the interactive impact of mortality salience and norm salience on social judgment.

    Eva Jonas;Andy Martens;Daniela Niesta Kayser;Immo Fritsche

  • Mortality salience and the desire for offspring

    Immo Fritsche;Eva Jonas;Peter Fischer;Nicolas Koranyi

  • Existential threat and compliance with pro-environmental norms

    Immo Fritsche;Eva Jonas;Daniela Niesta Kayser;Nicolas Koranyi

  • Collective Reactions to Threat: Implications for Intergroup Conflict and for Solving Societal Crises

    Immo Fritsche;Eva Jonas;Thomas Kessler

  • Giving Advice or Making Decisions in Someone Else’s Place: The Influence of Impression, Defense, and Accuracy Motivation on the Search for New Information

    Eva Jonas;Stefan Schulz-Hardt;Dieter Frey

  • Information search and presentation in advisor–client interactions

    Eva Jonas;Dieter Frey

  • Connecting terror management and dissonance theory: Evidence that mortality salience increases the preference for supporting information after decisions

    Eva Jonas;Jeff Greenberg;Dieter Frey

  • Culture, Self and the Emergence of Reactance: Is there a "Universal" Freedom?

    Eva Jonas;Verena Graupmann;Daniela Niesta Kayser;Mark Zanna

  • Die Theorie der kognizierten Kontrolle

    Dieter Frey;Eva Jonas

  • Confirmation Bias: Why Psychiatrists Stick to Wrong Preliminary Diagnoses

    R. Mendel;E. Traut-Mattausch;E. Jonas;S. Leucht

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Frey
Dieter Frey Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Tobias Greitemeyer
Tobias Greitemeyer University of Innsbruck
Jeff Greenberg
Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona
Simone Kauffeld
Simone Kauffeld Technische Universität Braunschweig
Hongfei Du
Hongfei Du Beijing Normal University
Mark P. Zanna
Mark P. Zanna University of Waterloo
Frank H. Wilhelm
Frank H. Wilhelm University of Salzburg
Daan Scheepers
Daan Scheepers Leiden University
Kai Sassenberg
Kai Sassenberg Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Eddie Harmon-Jones
Eddie Harmon-Jones University of New South Wales

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