Thomas Kessler

Thomas Kessler publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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Thomas Kessler 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 Thomas Kessler sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Does contact reduce prejudice or does prejudice reduce contact? A longitudinal test of the contact hypothesis among majority and minority groups in three European countries.

  Jens Binder;Hanna Zagefka;Rupert Brown;Friedrich Funke

  1081
  Citations

• Strategies to cope with negative social identity: predictions by social identity theory and relative deprivation theory.

  Amélie Mummendey;Thomas Kessler;Andreas Klink;Rosemarie Mielke

  882
  Citations

• Strategies to cope with negative social identity: Predictions by social identity theory and relative deprivation theory.

  Unknown

  543
  Citations

• Guilt, anger, and pride about in-group environmental behaviour: Different emotions predict distinct intentions

  Nicole Syringa Harth;Colin Wayne Leach;Thomas Kessler

  386
  Citations

• Advantaged Group's Emotional Reactions to Intergroup Inequality: The Dynamics of Pride, Guilt, and Sympathy

  Nicole Syringa Harth;Thomas Kessler;Colin Wayne Leach

  279
  Citations

• Group-based emotions as determinants of ingroup identification ☆

  Thomas Kessler;Susan Hollbach

  256
  Citations

• Admiration: A Conceptual Review

  Diana Onu;Thomas Kessler;Joanne R. Smith

  245
  Citations

• Anger, Fear, or Sadness: Faculty Members' Emotional Reactions to Collective Pay Disadvantage

  Heather J. Smith;Tracey Cronin;Thomas Kessler

  215
  Citations

• Collective Reactions to Threat: Implications for Intergroup Conflict and for Solving Societal Crises

  Immo Fritsche;Eva Jonas;Thomas Kessler

  208
  Citations

• “Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader:

  Stefanie Sprong;Jolanda Jetten;Zhechen Wang;Kim Peters

  181
  Citations

• Is there any scapegoat around? Determinants of intergroup conflicts at different categorization levels.

  Thomas Kessler;Amélie Mummendey

  172
  Citations

• Global warming is breeding social conflict: The subtle impact of climate change threat on authoritarian tendencies

  Immo Fritsche;Immo Fritsche;J. Christopher Cohrs;Thomas Kessler;Judith Bauer

  155
  Citations

• The Evolution of Authoritarian Processes: Fostering Cooperation in Large-Scale Groups

  Thomas Kessler;J. Christopher Cohrs

  151
  Citations

• Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie

  Ali Teymoori;Jolanda Jetten;Brock Bastian;Amarina Ariyanto

  139
  Citations

• Positive-Negative Asymmetry in Social Discrimination: Valence of Evaluation and Salience of Categorization

  Amélie Mummendey;Sabine Otten;Uwe Berger;Thomas Kessler

  139
  Citations

• In-group as part of the self: In-group favoritism is mediated by medial prefrontal cortex activation

  Kirsten G. Volz;Thomas Kessler;Thomas Kessler;D. Yves von Cramon

  133
  Citations

• Prejudice among Peruvians and Chileans as a Function of Identity, Intergroup Contact, Acculturation Preferences, and Intergroup Emotions

  Roberto González;David Sirlopú;Thomas Kessler

  117
  Citations

• Priming creativity as a strategy to increase creative performance by facilitating the activation and use of remote associations

  Kai Sassenberg;Kai Sassenberg;Gordon B. Moskowitz;Adam Fetterman;Thomas Kessler

  102
  Citations

• Sequential or parallel processes? A longitudinal field study concerning determinants of identity-management strategies.

  Thomas Kessler;Amélie Mummendey

  99
  Citations

• Less negative=more positive? Social discrimination as avoidance or approach

  Kai Sassenberg;Thomas Kessler;Amélie Mummendey

  99
  Citations