Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Publications
Berkessel, J. B., Ebert, T., Gebauer, J. E., Jonsson, T., & Oishi, S. (2021). Pandemics initially spread among people of higher (not lower) social status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211039990
Berkessel, J. B., Gebauer, J. E., Joshanloo, M., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2021). National religiosity eases the psychological burden of poverty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(39), e2103913118. https://doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.2103913118
Karakasheva, R., Achterberg, J., Berkessel, J., Cottone, A., Dhar, J., Jachimowicz, J.M., Lee, Y.S.M., Whillans, A., Ruggeri, K., & Bjorndal, L.D. (2021). Work and workplace decision-making. In K. Ruggeri (Ed.), Psychology and Behavioral Economics (pp.157–179). Routledge.
Ruggeri, K., Berkessel, J., Bujold, P., Friedemann, M., Jarke, H., Steinnes, K. K., MacLennan, M., Quail, S., K., Tavera, F., Verra, S., Naru, F., Cavassini, F., Hardy, E. (2021). A brief history of behavioral and decision sciences. In K. Ruggeri (Ed.), Psychology and Behavioral Economics (pp.18–35). Routledge.
Ruggeri, K., Ojinaga-Alfageme, O., Benzerga, A., Berkessel, J., Friedemann, M., Hlavová, R., Kunz, M., Plohl, N., Sundström, F., Folke, T., Head, B., & Howlett, M. (2021). Evidence-based policy. In K. Ruggeri (Ed.), Psychology and Behavioral Economics (pp.201–225). Routledge.
Wang, K. & co-authors in context of the Psychological Science Accelerator including Berkessel, J. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(8), 1089–1110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x
Zickfeld, J. H., van de Ven, N., Pich, O., Schubert, T. W., Berkessel, J. B., Pizarro, J. J., […], & Vingerhoets, A. (2021). Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, 104137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104137
Herziger, A., Berkessel, J., & Steinnes, K.K. (2020). Wean off green: On the (in)effectiveness of biospheric appeals for consumption curtailment. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 69, 101415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101415
Wingen, T., Berkessel, J. B., & Englich, B. (2020). No replication, no trust? How low replicability influences trust in psychology. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(4), 454–463. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619877412
Ruggeri, K., Berkessel, J., Achterberg, J., Luna Navarro, A., Jachimowicz, J., & Whillans, A. (2019). From recruitment to retirement: Behavioral insights for the workplace. In K. Ruggeri (Ed.), Behavioral insights for public policy: Concepts and cases (pp. 156–173). London, UK: Routledge.
Ruggeri, K., Kunz, M., Berkessel, J., Kácha, O., Steinnes, K. K., Petrove, D., Cavassini, F., & Naru, F. (2019). The science of behavior and decision-making. In K. Ruggeri (Ed.), Behavioral insights for public policy: Concepts and cases (pp. 59–79). London: Routledge.
Ruggeri, K., Ojinaga-Alfageme, O., Benzerga, A., Berkessel, J., Hlavová, R., Kunz, M., Plohl, N., Sundström, F., Folke, T., & Sampat, B. (2019). Evidence-based policy. In K. Ruggeri (Ed.), Behavioral insights for public policy: Concepts and cases (pp. 17–40). London: Routledge.
Andersen, T., Benzerga, A., Berkessel, J., …, & Ruggeri, K. (2017). Insights for impact. The Annual Report of the Policy Research Group at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
Herziger, A., Benzerga, A., Berkessel, J., Dinartika, N. L., Franklin, M., Steinnes, K. K., & Sundström, F. (2017). A study protocol for testing the effectiveness of user-generated content in reducing excessive consumption. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 972. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00972