2026 Johannes Hewig: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	38	8966	8377	422	415	122	4721

Overview

Johannes Hewig is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with an emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional subfields include Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, as well as Safety Research.

Their work covers various topics related to neural and behavioral psychology studies, the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, experimental behavioral economics studies, personality traits and psychology, behavioral health and interventions, social and intergroup psychology, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Psychophysiology, F1000Research, Psychology Archives, Neuroscience Bulletin, and Current Psychology.

Johannes Hewig has collaborated regularly with several co-authors. Notable collaborators include Johannes Rodrigues, Martin Weiß, Patrick Mussel, Philipp Ziebell, and John J. B. Allen.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Hewig include:

EPOS: EEG Processing Open-Source Scripts, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
It's costly punishment, not altruistic: Low midfrontal theta and state anger predict punishment, 2020, Psychophysiology
Age-Related Differences in Emoji Evaluation, 2020, Experimental Aging Research
Smiling as negative feedback affects social decision-making and its neural underpinnings, 2020, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
Transcranial focused ultrasound modulates the emergence of learned helplessness via midline theta modification, 2023, Journal of Affective Disorders

Best Publications

A revised film set for the induction of basic emotions.

Johannes Hewig;Dirk Hagemann;Jan Seifert;Mario Gollwitzer

356
Citations
Why humans deviate from rational choice

Johannes Hewig;Nora Kretschmer;Ralf H. Trippe;Holger Hecht

233
Citations
On the Selective Relation of Frontal Cortical Asymmetry and Anger-Out Versus Anger-Control.

Johannes Hewig;Dirk Hagemann;Jan Seifert;Ewald Naumann

202
Citations
The relation of cortical activity and BIS/BAS on the trait level.

Johannes Hewig;Dirk Hagemann;Jan Seifert;Ewald Naumann

199
Citations
Decision-Making in Blackjack: An Electrophysiological Analysis

Johannes Hewig;Ralf Trippe;Holger Hecht;Michael G.H. Coles

190
Citations
Hypersensitivity to reward in problem gamblers.

Johannes Hewig;Nora Kretschmer;Ralf H. Trippe;Holger Hecht

169
Citations
Gender Differences for Specific Body Regions When Looking at Men and Women

Johannes Hewig;Ralf H. Trippe;Holger Hecht;Thomas Straube

156
Citations
The latent state‐trait structure of resting EEG asymmetry: Replication and extension

Dirk Hagemann;Johannes Hewig;Jan Seifert;Ewald Naumann

142
Citations
The influence of the magnitude, probability, and valence of potential wins and losses on the amplitude of the feedback negativity.

Luisa KreuSSel;Johannes Hewig;Nora Kretschmer;Holger Hecht

133
Citations
Attentional Blink to emotional and threatening pictures in spider phobics: Electrophysiology and behavior

Ralf H. Trippe;Johannes Hewig;Claudia Heydel;Holger Hecht

109
Citations
The value of a smile: Facial expression affects ultimatum-game responses

Patrick MusselAnja;S. Göritz;Johannes Hewig

109
Citations
The N2pc component reliably captures attentional bias in social anxiety

Mario Reutter;Johannes Hewig;Matthias J. Wieser;Matthias J. Wieser;Roman Osinsky;Roman Osinsky

109
Citations
State- and trait-greed, its impact on risky decision-making and underlying neural mechanisms

Patrick Mussel;Andrea M F Reiter;Roman Osinsky;Johannes Hewig

105
Citations
Skull thickness and magnitude of EEG alpha activity

Dirk Hagemann;Johannes Hewig;Christof Walter;Ewald Naumann

90
Citations
Dissociation of Pe and ERN/Ne in the conscious recognition of an error.

Johannes Hewig;Michael G. H. Coles;Ralf H. Trippe;Holger Hecht

79
Citations
Associations of the cortisol awakening response (CAR) with cortical activation asymmetry during the course of an exam stress period

Johannes Hewig;Johannes Hewig;Wolff Schlotz;Friedemann Gerhards;Caterina Breitenstein

77
Citations
Drive for thinness and attention toward specific body parts in a nonclinical sample.

Johannes Hewig;Spring Cooper;Ralf H. Trippe;Holger Hecht

76
Citations
Neural correlates of fair behavior in interpersonal bargaining

Silvia Weiland;Johannes Hewig;Holger Hecht;Patrick Mussel

72
Citations
The life and times of individuals scoring high and low on dispositional greed

Patrick Mussel;Johannes Hewig

71
Citations
The convergent validity of five dispositional greed scales

Patrick Mussel;Johannes Rodrigues;Stefan Krumm;Johannes Hewig

71
Citations
I'm too calm--let's take a risk! On the impact of state and trait arousal on risk taking.

Barbara Schmidt;Patrick Mussel;Johannes Hewig

67
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael G. H. Coles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Clay B. Holroyd University of Victoria

John J.B. Allen University of Arizona

Thomas Straube University of Münster

Matthias J. Wieser Erasmus University Rotterdam

Anja S. Göritz University of Freiburg

Mario Gollwitzer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Gustavo Carlo University of California, Irvine

James C. Kaufman University of Connecticut

Rainer K. Silbereisen Friedrich Schiller University Jena

External Links

Personal website of Johannes Hewig

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