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Siegfried Dewitte

Siegfried Dewitte

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Psychology

D-Index
46
Citations
10773
World Ranking
6351
National Ranking
84

Overview

Siegfried Dewitte is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and specializes primarily in psychology, with a focus spanning social psychology, applied psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work engages deeply with environmental and behavioral topics.

Their extensive research covers topics such as:

  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization

Dewitte's contributions include publications in prominent venues such as:

  • Sustainability
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • Journal of Economic Psychology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Dewitte has coauthored works with:

  • Florian Lange
  • Angelos Stamos
  • Albina Dioba
  • Ebo Botchway
  • Jan Verpooten

Selected recent papers by Dewitte include:

  • A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect, 2020, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • The Work for Environmental Protection Task: A consequential web-based procedure for studying pro-environmental behavior, 2021, Behavior Research Methods
  • A replication study of the credit card effect on spending behavior and an extension to mobile payments, 2021, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
  • Positive affect and pro-environmental behavior: A preregistered experiment, 2020, Journal of Economic Psychology
  • Validity and scope sensitivity of the Work for Environmental Protection Task, 2023, Journal of Environmental Psychology

Best Publications

  • A Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect

    Martin S. Hagger;Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis

  • Measuring pro-environmental behavior: Review and recommendations

    Florian Lange;Siegfried Dewitte

  • How to Capture the Heart? Reviewing 20 Years of Emotion Measurement in Advertising

    Karolien Poels;Siegfried Dewitte

  • The role of different types of instrumentality in motivation, study strategies, and performance: Know why you learn, so you'll know what you learn!

    Joke Simons;Siegfried Dewitte;Willy Lens

  • Positive cueing: Promoting sustainable consumer behavior by cueing common environmental behaviors as environmental

    Gert Cornelissen;Mario Pandelaere;Luk Warlop;Siegfried Dewitte

  • Procrastination, temptations, and incentives : The struggle between the present and the future in procrastinators and the punctual

    Siegfried Dewitte;Henri C. Schouwenburg

  • Bikinis Instigate Generalized Impatience in Intertemporal Choice

    Bram Van den Bergh;Siegfried Dewitte;Luk Warlop

  • ‘The less I trust, the less I contribute (or not)?’ The effects of trust, accountability and self‐monitoring in social dilemmas

    David De Cremer;Mark Snyder;Siegfried Dewitte

  • Are Social Value Orientations Expressed Automatically? Decision Making in the Dictator Game

    Gert Cornelissen;Siegfried Dewitte;Luk Warlop

  • Hungry For Money: the Desire For Caloric Resources Increases the Desire For Financial Resources and Vice Versa

    Barbara Briers;Mario Pandelaere;Siegfried Dewitte;Luk Warlop

  • Wanting to have vs. wanting to be: the effect of perceived instrumentality on goal orientation.

    Joke Simons;Siegfried Dewitte;Willy Lens

  • Self-Regulating Enhances Self-Regulation in Subsequent Consumer Decisions Involving Similar Response Conflicts

    Siegfried Dewitte;Sabrina Bruyneel;Kelly Geyskens

  • Digit ratio (2D:4D) moderates the impact of sexual cues on men's decisions in ultimatum games.

    Bram Van den Bergh;Siegfried Dewitte

  • Repeated choosing increases susceptibility to affective product features

    Sabrina Bruyneel;Siegfried Dewitte;Kathleen D. Vohs;Luk Warlop

  • I felt low and my purse feels light: depleting mood regulation attempts affect risk decision making

    Sabrina D. Bruyneel;Siegfried Dewitte;Philip Hans Franses;Marnik G. Dekimpe;Marnik G. Dekimpe

  • Altruistic behavior as a costly signal of general intelligence

    Kobe Millet;Siegfried Dewitte

  • The Pro-Environmental Behavior Task: A laboratory measure of actual pro-environmental behavior

    Florian Lange;Alexander Steinke;Siegfried Dewitte

  • "Don't do it for me. Do it for yourself!" - stressing the personal relevance enhances motivation in physical education.

    Joke Simons;Siegfried Dewitte;Willy Lens

  • A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect.

    Junhua Dang;Paul Barker;Anna Baumert;Margriet Bentvelzen

  • The Role of Emotions in Advertising: A Call to Action

    Karolien Poels;Siegfried Dewitte

  • Second to fourth digit ratio and cooperative behavior

    Kobe Millet;Siegfried Dewitte

  • Whatever People Say I Am That's What I Am: Social Labeling As a Social Marketing Tool

    Gert Cornelissen;Siegfried Dewitte;Luk Warlop;Vincent Yzerbyt

Frequent Co-Authors

Willy Lens
Willy Lens KU Leuven
Karolien Poels
Karolien Poels University of Antwerp
Tom Verguts
Tom Verguts Ghent University
David De Cremer
David De Cremer National University of Singapore
Kathleen D. Vohs
Kathleen D. Vohs University of Minnesota
Vincent Yzerbyt
Vincent Yzerbyt Université Catholique de Louvain
Roland Imhoff
Roland Imhoff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Manfred Schmitt
Manfred Schmitt University of Koblenz and Landau
Elliot T. Berkman
Elliot T. Berkman University of Oregon
Michel Tuan Pham
Michel Tuan Pham Columbia University

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