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Malte Friese publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Malte Friese sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 163 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Malte Friese D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Malte Friese sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Malte Friese is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany and specializes in psychology and social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's work focuses on key topics such as behavioral health and interventions, mental health research, social and intergroup psychology, climate change communication and perception, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, moral and emotional judgment, and cultural differences and values.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Malte Friese include David D. Loschelder, Michał Bilewicz, Oliver Genschow, Marcel Weber, and Dorota Reis.

Notable recent publications by Malte Friese are:

  • A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect (2021, Psychological Science)
  • Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries (2024, Science Advances)
  • Best research practices for using the Implicit Association Test (2021, Behavior Research Methods)
  • Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries (2025, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm (2020, Psychological Science)

Their research has been published frequently in venues such as PsycTESTS Dataset, Psychological Science, Collabra Psychology, Current Opinion in Psychology, and European Journal of Social Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Impulse and Self-Control From a Dual-Systems Perspective

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Malte Friese;Fritz Strack

  • Impulsive versus reflective influences on health behavior: a theoretical framework and empirical review

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Malte Friese;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Working memory capacity and self-regulatory behavior: Toward an individual differences perspective on behavior determination by automatic versus controlled processes

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Tobias Gschwendner;Malte Friese;Reinout W. Wiers

  • When impulses take over: moderated predictive validity of explicit and implicit attitude measures in predicting food choice and consumption behaviour.

    Malte Friese;Wilhelm Hofmann;Michaela Wänke

  • Understanding Impulsive Aggression: Angry Rumination and Reduced Self-Control Capacity Are Mechanisms Underlying the Provocation-Aggression Relationship

    Thomas F. Denson;William C. Pedersen;Malte Friese;Aryun Hahm

  • Reliability and validity of the Single‐Target IAT (ST‐IAT): assessing automatic affect towards multiple attitude objects

    Matthias Bluemke;Malte Friese

  • Mindfulness meditation counteracts self-control depletion

    Malte Friese;Claude Messner;Yves Schaffner

  • Three ways to resist temptation: The independent contributions of executive attention, inhibitory control, and affect regulation to the impulse control of eating behavior

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Malte Friese;Anne Roefs

  • Is Ego Depletion Real? An Analysis of Arguments:

    Malte Friese;David D. Loschelder;Karolin Gieseler;Julius Frankenbach

  • When and why do implicit measures predict behaviour? Empirical evidence for the moderating role of opportunity, motivation, and process reliance

    Malte Friese;Wilhelm Hofmann;Manfred Schmitt

  • Control me or I will control you: Impulses, trait self-control, and the guidance of behavior

    Malte Friese;Wilhelm Hofmann

  • Implicit consumer preferences and their influence on product choice

    Malte Friese;Michaela Wänke;Henning Plessner

  • Self-control training decreases aggression in response to provocation in aggressive individuals

    Thomas F. Denson;Miriam M. Capper;Megan Oaten;Malte Friese

  • Does Self-Control Training Improve Self-Control? A Meta-Analysis.

    Malte Friese;Julius Frankenbach;Veronika Job;David D. Loschelder

  • Impulses got the better of me : alcohol moderates the influence of implicit attitudes toward food cues on eating behavior

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Malte Friese

  • On taming horses and strengthening riders: Recent developments in research on interventions to improve self-control in health behaviors

    Malte Friese;Wilhelm Hofmann;Reinout W. Wiers

  • Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

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  • Do features of stimuli influence IAT effects

    Matthias Bluemke;Malte Friese

  • Working memory and self-regulation

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Malte Friese;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Alan D. Baddeley

  • A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect:

    Kathleen D. Vohs;Brandon J. Schmeichel;Sophie Lohmann;Sophie Lohmann;Quentin F. Gronau

  • Predicting voting behavior with implicit attitude measures: the 2002 German parliamentary election.

    Malte Friese;Matthias Bluemke;Michaela Wänke

  • The Past, Present, and Future of Ego Depletion

    Michael Inzlicht;Malte Friese

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilhelm Hofmann
Wilhelm Hofmann Ruhr University Bochum
Michaela Wänke
Michaela Wänke University of Mannheim
Björn Rasch
Björn Rasch University of Fribourg
Veronika Job
Veronika Job TU Dresden
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Boris Cheval
Boris Cheval École Normale Supérieure de Rennes
Philippe Sarrazin
Philippe Sarrazin Grenoble Alpes University
William B. Swann
William B. Swann The University of Texas at Austin
Brock Bastian
Brock Bastian University of Melbourne
Michał Bilewicz
Michał Bilewicz University of Warsaw

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