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Joris Lammers is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of social sciences and psychology. Their work encompasses a significant number of publications across various subfields, including sociology and political science, social psychology, gender studies, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research topics focus on social and intergroup psychology, nostalgia and consumer behavior, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, death anxiety and social exclusion, cultural differences and values, gender diversity and inequality, and challenges related to work-family balance.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Joris Lammers are:

  • Correcting misperceptions of exponential coronavirus growth increases support for social distancing (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Make America gracious again: Collective nostalgia can increase and decrease support for right-wing populist rhetoric (2020, European Journal of Social Psychology)

Notable frequent co-authors collaborating with Lammers include:

  • Matthew Baldwin
  • Anna Schulte
  • Adam D. Galinsky
  • Alexandra Fleischmann
  • Jan Crusius

Joris Lammers has published extensively in several key academic venues, including:

  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Their contribution to social psychology and related disciplines is reflected in works addressing perception and leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, legitimacy perceptions across countries, and social cognition processes. This body of research provides insights into how social and psychological factors influence behavior and attitudes in various societal contexts.

Best Publications

  • Power Increases Hypocrisy Moralizing in Reasoning, Immorality in Behavior

    Joris Lammers;Diederik A. Stapel;Adam D. Galinsky

  • Political diversity in social and personality psychology

    Yoel Inbar;Joris Lammers

  • Illegitimacy Moderates the Effects of Power on Approach

    Joris Lammers;Adam D. Galinsky;Ernestine H. Gordijn;Sabine Otten

  • Power increases social distance

    Joris Lammers;Adam D. Galinsky;Ernestine H. Gordijn;Sabine Otten

  • Successful female leaders empower women's behavior in leadership tasks

    Ioana M. Latu;Marianne Schmid Mast;Joris Lammers;Dario Bombari

  • Power increases dehumanization

    Joris Lammers;Diederik A. Stapel

  • How power influences moral thinking

    Joris Lammers;Diederik A. Stapel

  • Differentiating Social and Personal Power: Opposite Effects on Stereotyping, but Parallel Effects on Behavioral Approach Tendencies:

    Joris Lammers;Janka I. Stoker;Diederik A. Stapel

  • Power Increases Infidelity Among Men and Women

    Joris Lammers;Janka I Stoker;Jennifer Jordan;Monique Pollmann

  • Factors Relating to Managerial Stereotypes: The Role of Gender of the Employee and the Manager and Management Gender Ratio

    Janka I. Stoker;Mandy Van der Velde;Joris Lammers

  • To Have Control Over or to Be Free From Others? The Desire for Power Reflects a Need for Autonomy

    Joris Lammers;Janka I. Stoker;Floortje Rink;Adam D. Galinsky

  • Looking through the eyes of the powerful

    Joris Lammers;Ernestine H. Gordijn;Sabine Otten

  • Correcting misperceptions of exponential coronavirus growth increases support for social distancing.

    Joris Lammers;Jan Crusius;Anne Gast

  • Power gets the job: Priming power improves interview outcomes

    Joris Lammers;David Dubois;Derek D. Rucker;Adam D. Galinsky

  • Past-focused environmental comparisons promote proenvironmental outcomes for conservatives.

    Matthew Baldwin;Joris Lammers

  • Power and morality

    Joris Lammers;Adam D Galinsky;David Dubois;Derek D Rucker

  • Abstraction increases hypocrisy

    Joris Lammers

  • Iron ladies, men of steel: The effects of gender stereotyping on the perception of male and female candidates are moderated by prototypicality

    Joris Lammers;Ernestine H. Gordijn;Sabine Otten

  • The political domain appears simpler to the politically extreme than to political moderates.

    Joris Lammers;Alex Koch;Paul Conway;Mark J. Brandt

  • Power and behavioral approach orientation in existing power relations and the mediating effect of income

    Joris Lammers;Janka I. Stoker;Diederik A. Stapel

  • Past-focused temporal communication overcomes conservatives' resistance to liberal political ideas.

    Joris Lammers;Matthew Baldwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam D. Galinsky
Adam D. Galinsky Columbia University
Diederik A. Stapel
Diederik A. Stapel Tilburg University
Sabine Otten
Sabine Otten University of Groningen
Ilja van Beest
Ilja van Beest Tilburg University
Roland Imhoff
Roland Imhoff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Derek D. Rucker
Derek D. Rucker Northwestern University
Marianne Schmid Mast
Marianne Schmid Mast University of Lausanne
Alain Van Hiel
Alain Van Hiel Ghent University
David Dubois
David Dubois University of Illinois at Chicago
Joseph P. Forgas
Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales

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