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  • 2015 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Overview

Thomas Mussweiler is affiliated with the London Business School in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Mussweiler has published articles in various journals, with a notable presence in:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • European Review of Social Psychology
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • International Journal of Advertising

Recent papers include:

  • "Trust in everyday life." (2020) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Relativity in Social Cognition: Basic processes and novel applications of social comparisons" (2023) European Review of Social Psychology
  • "Similarity increases collaborative cheating" (2020) Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "When it pays to be clear: the appeal of concrete communication under uncertainty" (2023) International Journal of Advertising
  • "The power of lost alternatives in negotiations" (2020) Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

The scientist has collaborated frequently with fellow researchers including:

  • Corinna Michels
  • Thomas Bugnyar
  • Julia Fischer
  • Alexa Weiß
  • Wilhelm Hofmann

Thomas Mussweiler received the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina award in 2015 in the area of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Comparison processes in social judgment: Mechanisms and consequences.

    Thomas Mussweiler

  • Explaining the Enigmatic Anchoring Effect: Mechanisms of Selective Accessibility

    Fritz Strack;Thomas Mussweiler

  • First offers as anchors: The role of perspective-taking and negotiator focus.

    Adam D. Galinsky;Thomas Mussweiler

  • Approach and avoidance strength during goal attainment : Regulatory focus and the goal looms larger effect

    J Förster;E T Higgins;L C Idson

  • Playing Dice With Criminal Sentences: The Influence of Irrelevant Anchors on Experts’ Judicial Decision Making

    Birte Englich;Thomas Mussweiler;Fritz Strack

  • Hypothesis-consistent testing and semantic priming in the anchoring paradigm: A selective accessibility model.

    Thomas Mussweiler;Fritz Strack

  • Overcoming the Inevitable Anchoring Effect: Considering the Opposite Compensates for Selective Accessibility

    Thomas Mussweiler;Fritz Strack;Tim Pfeiffer

  • The ups and downs of social comparison: mechanisms of assimilation and contrast

    Thomas Mussweiler;Katja Rüter;Kai Epstude

  • Sentencing Under Uncertainty: Anchoring Effects in the Courtroom1

    Birte Enough;Thomas Mussweiler

  • Social comparison: Motives, standards, and mechanisms.

    Katja Corcoran;Jan Crusius;Thomas Mussweiler;Thomas Mussweiler

  • Keep Your Fingers Crossed! How Superstition Improves Performance

    Lysann Damisch;Barbara Stoberock;Thomas Mussweiler

  • Numeric Judgments under Uncertainty: The Role of Knowledge in Anchoring

    Thomas Mussweiler;Fritz Strack

  • The use of category and exemplar knowledge in the solution of anchoring tasks.

    Thomas Mussweiler;Fritz Strack

  • The Semantics of Anchoring

    Thomas Mussweiler;Fritz Strack

  • Shifting social identities as a strategy for deflecting threatening social comparisons.

    Thomas Mussweiler;Shira Gabriel;Galen V. Bodenhausen

  • The man who wasn't there: Subliminal social comparison standards influence self-evaluation ☆

    Thomas Mussweiler;Katja Rüter;Kai Epstude

  • ‘Seek and ye shall find’: antecedents of assimilation and contrast in social comparison

    Thomas Mussweiler

  • Comparing Is Believing: A Selective Accessibility Model of Judgmental Anchoring

    Thomas Mussweiler;Fritz Strack

  • New directions in social comparison research

    Bram P. Buunk;Thomas Mussweiler

  • I know you are, but what am I? Self-evaluative consequences of judging in-group and out-group members.

    Thomas Mussweiler;Galen V. Bodenhausen

Frequent Co-Authors

Fritz Strack
Fritz Strack University of Würzburg
Adam D. Galinsky
Adam D. Galinsky Columbia University
David Edmund Johannes Linden
David Edmund Johannes Linden Maastricht University
Galen V. Bodenhausen
Galen V. Bodenhausen Northwestern University
Thomas Bugnyar
Thomas Bugnyar University of Vienna
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi University of Amsterdam
Jens Förster
Jens Förster RWTH Aachen University
Vincent Yzerbyt
Vincent Yzerbyt Université Catholique de Louvain
Olivier Corneille
Olivier Corneille Université Catholique de Louvain

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