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Sascha Topolinski

Sascha Topolinski

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Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
4763
World Ranking
9588
National Ranking
453

Overview

Sascha Topolinski is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany and specializes in the field of psychology, focusing primarily on experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research covers various subfields, including:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Statistics and Probability

Topolinski's main topics of investigation encompass:

  • Color perception and design
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Psychological Research
  • European Review of Social Psychology

Recent papers authored by Topolinski or with significant contribution include:

  • How individuals react emotionally to others' (mis)fortunes: A social comparison framework, 2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Relativity in Social Cognition: Basic processes and novel applications of social comparisons, 2023, European Review of Social Psychology
  • Front in the mouth, front in the word: The driving mechanisms of the in-out effect, 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • The articulatory in-out effect: replicable, but inexplicable, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Imitation of action-effects increases social affiliation, 2020, Psychological Research

Frequent collaborators in Topolinski's research include:

  • Moritz Ingendahl
  • Michael Zürn
  • Charlotte S. Löffler
  • Tobias Vogel
  • Judith Gerten

Best Publications

  • Gaining Insight Into the “Aha” Experience:

    Sascha Topolinski;Rolf Reber

  • The architecture of intuition: Fluency and affect determine intuitive judgments of semantic and visual coherence and judgments of grammaticality in artificial grammar learning

    Sascha Topolinski;Fritz Strack

  • When the death makes you smoke : a terror management perspective on the effectiveness of cigarette on-pack warnings

    Jochim Hansen;Jochim Hansen;Susanne Winzeler;Sascha Topolinski

  • The face of fluency: Semantic coherence automatically elicits a specific pattern of facial muscle reactions

    Sascha Topolinski;Katja U. Likowski;Peter Weyers;Fritz Strack

  • The analysis of intuition: Processing fluency and affect in judgements of semantic coherence

    Sascha Topolinski;Fritz Strack

  • Motormouth: mere exposure depends on stimulus-specific motor simulations.

    Sascha Topolinski;Fritz Strack

  • The grounded nature of psychological perspective-taking.

    Thorsten Michael Erle;Sascha Topolinski

  • Scanning the "Fringe" of consciousness: what is felt and what is not felt in intuitions about semantic coherence.

    Sascha Topolinski;Fritz Strack

  • Covert Painting Simulations Influence Aesthetic Appreciation of Artworks

    Helmut Leder;Siegrun Bär;Sascha Topolinski

  • The Sensorimotor Contributions to Implicit Memory, Familiarity, and Recollection

    Sascha Topolinski

  • Oral approach-avoidance: affective consequences of muscular articulation dynamics.

    Sascha Topolinski;Ira Theresa Maschmann;Diane Pecher;Piotr Winkielman

  • The path of ambivalence: tracing the pull of opposing evaluations using mouse trajectories

    Iris K. Schneider;Iris K. Schneider;Frenk van Harreveld;Mark Rotteveel;Sascha Topolinski

  • False fame prevented: Avoiding fluency effects without judgmental correction.

    Sascha Topolinski;Fritz Strack

  • Corrugator activity confirms immediate negative affect in surprise

    Sascha Topolinski;Fritz Strack

  • Where there's a will-there's no intuition. The unintentional basis of semantic coherence judgments

    Sascha Topolinski;Fritz Strack

  • The role of personality in psychotherapists’ careers: Relationships between personality traits, therapeutic schools, and job satisfaction

    Sascha Topolinski;Guido Hertel

  • Routes to embodiment

    Anita Körner;Sascha Topolinski;Fritz Strack

  • SpaTial and eMpaThiC perSpeCTive-Taking CorrelaTe on a diSpoSiTional level

    Thorsten M. Erle;Sascha Topolinski

  • Moving the Eye of the Beholder: Motor Components in Vision Determine Aesthetic Preference

    Sascha Topolinski

  • The Mere Exposure Phenomenon: A Lingering Melody by Robert Zajonc:

    Richard L. Moreland;Sascha Topolinski

Frequent Co-Authors

Fritz Strack
Fritz Strack University of Würzburg
Johannes Michalak
Johannes Michalak Witten/Herdecke University
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Diane Pecher
Diane Pecher Erasmus University Rotterdam
Sander L. Koole
Sander L. Koole Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thomas W. Schubert
Thomas W. Schubert University of Oslo
Richard L. Moreland
Richard L. Moreland University of Pittsburgh
Johannes Zimmermann
Johannes Zimmermann University of Kassel
Guido Hertel
Guido Hertel University of Münster
Eric van Dijk
Eric van Dijk Leiden University

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