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  1. Need Fulfillment During Intergroup Contact: Three Experience Sampling Studies

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Kai Epstude

  2. The Migration Experience: A Conceptual Framework and Systematic Scoping Review of Psychological Acculturation

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Review, August 2023, SAGE Publications

    Kai Epstude

  3. Should I have been more careful or less careless? The comparative nature of counterfactual thoughts alters judgments of their impact

    Article • Cognition, June 2023, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  4. Empathising with masked targets: limited side effects of face masks on empathy for dynamic, context-rich stimuli

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Kai Epstude

  5. Polarized imagination: partisanship influences the direction and consequences of counterfactual thinking

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Kai Epstude

  6. Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics?

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kai Epstude

  7. Grandiose narcissism shapes counterfactual thinking (and regret): Direct and indirect evidence

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

    Kai Epstude

  8. Upward and Downward Counterfactual Thought After Loss: A Multiwave Controlled Longitudinal Study

    Article • Behavior Therapy, May 2021, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  9. Recognizing feelings in masked faces

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2021, PLOS

    Felix Grundmann, Kai Epstude

  10. When Ignoring Negative Feedback Is Functional: Presenting a Model of Motivated Feedback Disengagement

    Article • Current Directions in Psychological Science, November 2020, SAGE Publications

    Kai Epstude

  11. Face masks reduce emotion-recognition accuracy and perceived closeness

    Article • October 2020, Center for Open Science

    Kai Epstude

  12. Dispositional optimism weakly predicts upward, rather than downward, counterfactual thinking: A prospective correlational study using episodic recall

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2020, PLOS

    Kai Epstude

  13. Old Tasks and New Urgency

    Article • Social Psychology, July 2020, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Kai Epstude

  14. Friends or foes? How activists and non-activists perceive and evaluate each other

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2020, PLOS

    Maja Kutlaca, Kai Epstude

  15. Having pity on our victims to save ourselves: Compassion reduces self-critical emotions and self-blame about past harmful behavior among those who highly identify with their past self

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2019, PLOS

    Kai Epstude

  16. Call for Nominations for Editor-in-Chief of Social Psychology

    Article • Social Psychology, November 2019, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Kai Epstude

  17. A Longitudinal Study of Decision Making in the Process of Acquiring a Dog

    Article • Anthrozoös, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Kai Epstude

  18. Moving Ahead

    Article • Social Psychology, January 2018, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Kai Epstude

  19. Collective action against human-caused earthquakes

    Article • Environment and Behavior, December 2017, SAGE Publications

    Maja Kutlaca, Kai Epstude

  20. Do episodic counterfactual thoughts focus on controllable action?: The role of self-initiation

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, November 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  21. Towards a Replicable and Relevant Social Psychology

    Article • Social Psychology, January 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Kai Epstude

  22. The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking: New Evidence, New Challenges, New Insights

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  23. Calendars Matter: Temporal Categories Affect Cognition about Future Time Periods

    Article • Social Cognition, August 2016, Guilford Publications

    Kai Epstude

  24. Preaching to, or Beyond, the Choir

    Article • Social Psychology, January 2016, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Kai Epstude

  25. Prefactual thoughts: Mental simulations about what might happen.

    Article • Review of General Psychology, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kai Epstude

  26. Life Regret andSehnsucht

    Article • December 2015, Wiley

    Kai Epstude

  27. Regret and if-only thoughts in HIV+ individuals

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, August 2014, SAGE Publications

    Kai Epstude

  28. Driving with music: Effects on arousal and performance

    Article • Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, November 2013, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  29. Individual differences in nostalgia proneness: The integrating role of the need to belong

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, November 2013, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  30. Blocking-out auditory distracters while driving: A cognitive strategy to reduce task-demands on the road

    Article • Accident Analysis & Prevention, January 2013, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  31. The influence of music on mental effort and driving performance

    Article • Accident Analysis & Prevention, September 2012, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  32. Mental time travel: A conceptual overview of social psychological perspectives on a fundamental human capacity

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, March 2012, Wiley

    Kai Epstude

  33. Life Regrets and the Need to Belong

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, February 2012, SAGE Publications

    Kai Epstude

  34. Seeing love, or seeing lust: How people interpret ambiguous romantic situations

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, September 2011, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  35. When Goal Pursuit Fails

    Article • Social Psychology, January 2011, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Kai Epstude

  36. Fast similarities: Efficiency advantages of similarity-focused comparisons.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kai Epstude

  37. Functional Aspects of Global Versus Local Processing: Relations Among the Structure and Content of Goals, Counterfactuals, and Regrets

    Article • Psychological Inquiry, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Kai Epstude

  38. How love and lust change people’s perception of relationship partners

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, March 2010, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  39. Hindsight bias redefined: It’s about time

    Article • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, September 2009, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  40. Why Love Has Wings and Sex Has Not: How Reminders of Love and Sex Influence Creative and Analytic Thinking

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, August 2009, SAGE Publications

    Kai Epstude

  41. What you feel is how you compare: How comparisons influence the social induction of affect.

    Article • Emotion, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kai Epstude

  42. Relatively fast! Efficiency advantages of comparative thinking.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kai Epstude

  43. The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Review, May 2008, SAGE Publications

    Kai Epstude

  44. Beyond rationality: Counterfactual thinking and behavior regulation

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Kai Epstude

  45. Alpha-band activity reflects reduction of mental effort in a comparison task: A source space analysis

    Article • Brain Research, November 2006, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  46. Overlapping Mental Representations of Self, Ingroup, and Outgroup: Unraveling Self-Stereotyping and Self-Anchoring

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2006, SAGE Publications

    Kai Epstude

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

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, September 2004, Elsevier

    Kai Epstude

  48. The Ups and Downs of Social Comparison: Mechanisms of Assimilation and Contrast.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Kai Epstude