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  1. Bias in Perceptions of Power in Close Relationships: The Role of Self-Protection, Pro-Relationship, and Power Motives

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, January 2026, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  2. Power and Sexuality: Associations of Experienced and Desired Power with Sexual Aspects of Couples’ Lives

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Robert Körner

  3. Low Power and High Psychopathy: A Toxic Combination for Psychological Aggression

    Article • Aggressive Behavior, August 2025, Wiley

    Robert Körner

  4. Power in friendships: How experienced and desired power are associated with relationship functioning

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  5. The Relational Nature of Attachment and Power: Attachment Avoidance and Withdrawal Limit Partners’ Power

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, April 2025, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  6. Untangling Power, Status, Dominance, and Prestige: A Review of Measures and Meanings

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, March 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Robert Körner, Jennifer Overbeck

  7. “It doesn’t matter if you are in charge of the trees, you always miss the trees for the forest”: Power and the illusion of explanatory depth

    Article • PLOS One, April 2024, PLOS

    Robert Körner

  8. Power Balance and Relationship Quality: An Overstated Link

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, March 2024, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  9. Is caring for oneself relevant to happy relationship functioning? Exploring associations between self‐compassion and romantic relationship satisfaction in actors and partners

    Article • Personal Relationships, January 2024, Wiley

    Robert Körner

  10. The language of power: Interpersonal perceptions of sense of power, dominance, and prestige based on word usage

    Article • European Journal of Personality, December 2023, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  11. Personality is related to satisfaction in friendship dyads, but similarity is not: Understanding the links between the big five and friendship satisfaction using actor-partner interdependence models

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, December 2023, Elsevier

    Robert Körner

  12. Dominance and prestige in romantic relationships: Actor and partner links to relationship quality

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  13. Psychometric Properties of the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-23) in the Cuban Context

    Article • Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, September 2023, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Robert Körner

  14. Friends Know Us Even When They Are Different From Us

    Article • Journal of Individual Differences, July 2023, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Robert Körner

  15. Power, Self-Esteem, and Body Image

    Article • Social Psychology, May 2023, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Robert Körner

  16. Examining the links between self-tracking and perfectionism dimensions

    Article • Current Issues in Personality Psychology, April 2023, Termedia Sp. z.o.o.

    Robert Körner

  17. The German Standard and Short Authentic and Hubristic Pride Scales

    Article • European Journal of Psychological Assessment, January 2023, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Robert Körner

  18. How secure and preoccupied attachment relate to offence-specific forgiveness in couples

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, December 2022, Elsevier

    Frank Fincham, Robert Körner

  19. Dominance and Prestige as Self-Concept Facets

    Article • Journal of Personality Assessment, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Robert Körner

  20. How the Linguistic Styles of Donald Trump and Joe Biden Reflect Different Forms of Power

    Article • Journal of Language and Social Psychology, April 2022, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  21. Dominance and prestige: Meta-analytic review of experimentally induced body position effects on behavioral, self-report, and physiological dependent variables.

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, January 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Brad Bushman, Robert Körner

  22. Poses and Postures as Status Displays

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Robert Körner

  23. It’s All About Power

    Article • European Journal of Psychological Assessment, January 2022, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Robert Körner

  24. The German Standard and Short Authentic and Hubristic Pride Scales : Psychometric Properties, Validity Testing, Self-Other Agreement, and Linguistic Correlates

    Article • January 2022, Universitatsbibliothek Bamberg

    Robert Körner

  25. Revisiting the Power to Forgive: A Dyadic Approach for Determining the Relations Between Power, Self-Esteem, and Forgiveness in Romantic Relationships

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  26. Commentary on Elkjær et al.’s (2020) Meta-Analysis on Expansive Versus Contractive Nonverbal Displays

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, June 2021, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  27. Power in romantic relationships: How positional and experienced power are associated with relationship quality

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, May 2021, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  28. It is not all for the same reason! Predicting motives in miniature wargaming on the basis of personality traits

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, April 2021, Elsevier

    Robert Körner

  29. A Multi-Site Collaborative Study of the Hostile Priming Effect

    Article • Collabra Psychology, January 2021, University of California Press

    John Sakaluk, Robert Körner

  30. Who Commands the Little Soldiers?

    Article • Journal of Individual Differences, January 2021, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Robert Körner

  31. Power in romantic relationships : How positional and experienced power are associated with relationship quality

    Article • January 2021, Universitatsbibliothek Bamberg

    Robert Körner

  32. Dominance or prestige: A review of the effects of power poses and other body postures

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, July 2020, Wiley

    Robert Körner

  33. Powerful and confident children through expansive body postures? A preregistered study of fourth graders

    Article • School Psychology International, March 2020, SAGE Publications

    Robert Körner

  34. Do expansive or contractive body postures affect feelings of self-worth? High power poses impact state self-esteem

    Article • Current Psychology, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Robert Körner