Jan Crusius

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Jan Crusius is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Crusius has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Social Psychology, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Jan Crusius's work include Emotions and Moral Behavior (11 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 papers). Jan Crusius is often cited by papers focused on Emotions and Moral Behavior (11 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 papers). Jan Crusius collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Jan Crusius's co-authors include Jens Lange, Helmut Appel, Alexander L. Gerlach, Thomas Mussweiler, Katja Corcoran, Aaron C. Weidman, Birk Hagemeyer, Joris Lammers, Anne Gast and Delroy L. Paulhus and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Jan Crusius

31 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, en... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2015 2014 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression
    2015 359 citations Jan Crusius et al. profile →
  2. Dispositional Envy Revisited
    2014 308 citations Jens Lange, Jan Crusius Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan Crusius Germany 18 1.0k 996 591 333 328 34 2.2k
Kenneth G. DeMarree United States 26 1.1k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 520 0.9× 413 1.2× 335 1.0× 62 2.3k
Niels van de Ven Netherlands 23 1.3k 1.2× 1.0k 1.0× 532 0.9× 309 0.9× 605 1.8× 45 2.7k
Claire M. Hart United Kingdom 20 909 0.9× 730 0.7× 521 0.9× 245 0.7× 184 0.6× 34 1.8k
R. Matthew Montoya United States 19 857 0.8× 953 1.0× 326 0.6× 504 1.5× 274 0.8× 36 1.9k
Cynthia L. Pickett United States 17 1.5k 1.5× 1.0k 1.0× 464 0.8× 322 1.0× 312 1.0× 21 2.2k
Mitchell J. Callan United Kingdom 24 1.0k 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 510 0.9× 266 0.8× 739 2.3× 58 2.6k
Roos Vonk Netherlands 25 1.2k 1.2× 958 1.0× 878 1.5× 601 1.8× 453 1.4× 55 2.6k
Marc‐André Reinhard Germany 22 783 0.7× 726 0.7× 408 0.7× 271 0.8× 279 0.9× 109 1.7k
Seger M. Breugelmans Netherlands 28 1.9k 1.8× 1.3k 1.3× 545 0.9× 394 1.2× 766 2.3× 63 3.3k
Robert S. Horton United States 14 729 0.7× 758 0.8× 435 0.7× 403 1.2× 171 0.5× 20 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jan Crusius

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Crusius

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Crusius, Jan, et al.. (2026). Commentary to Kaiser and Wilson (2026). European Psychologist. 31(1). 44–45.
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Kerwer, Martin, Jürgen Barth, Jan Crusius, et al.. (2024). KLARpsy-Richtlinie zum Verfassen allgemeinverständlicher Zusammenfassungen psychologischer Metaanalysen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Psychologische Rundschau. 75(3). 234–235.
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Lammers, Joris & Jan Crusius. (2024). Teaching simple heuristics can reduce the exponential growth bias in judging historic CO2 emission growth. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. 24(2). 567–584. 1 indexed citations
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König, Laura M, et al.. (2024). How to Communicate Science to the Public?. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 233(1). 40–51. 3 indexed citations
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Unkelbach, Christian, Hans Alves, Matthew Baldwin, et al.. (2023). Relativity in Social Cognition: Basic processes and novel applications of social comparisons. European Review of Social Psychology. 34(2). 387–440. 17 indexed citations
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Genschow, Oliver, et al.. (2021). A direct test of the similarity assumption — Focusing on differences as compared with similarities decreases automatic imitation. Cognition. 215. 104824–104824. 7 indexed citations
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Crusius, Jan, et al.. (2021). Imitation and interindividual differences: Belief in free will is not related to automatic imitation. Acta Psychologica. 219. 103374–103374. 3 indexed citations
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Genschow, Oliver, et al.. (2021). Group membership does not modulate automatic imitation. Psychological Research. 86(3). 780–791. 8 indexed citations
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Lammers, Joris, Jan Crusius, & Anne Gast. (2020). Correcting misperceptions of exponential coronavirus growth increases support for social distancing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(28). 16264–16266. 87 indexed citations
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Crusius, Jan & Jens Lange. (2020). Counterfactual thoughts distinguish benign and malicious envy.. Emotion. 21(5). 905–920. 13 indexed citations
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Genschow, Oliver, et al.. (2020). Does social psychology persist over half a century? A direct replication of Cialdini et al.’s (1975) classic door-in-the-face technique.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 120(2). e1–e7. 15 indexed citations
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Crusius, Jan, Manuel F. Gonzalez, Jens Lange, & Yochi Cohen‐Charash. (2019). Envy: An Adversarial Review and Comparison of Two Competing Views. Emotion Review. 12(1). 3–21. 66 indexed citations
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Lange, Jens, Delroy L. Paulhus, & Jan Crusius. (2017). Elucidating the Dark Side of Envy: Distinctive Links of Benign and Malicious Envy With Dark Personalities. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 44(4). 601–614. 75 indexed citations
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Lange, Jens, Jan Crusius, & Birk Hagemeyer. (2016). The Evil Queen's Dilemma: Linking Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry to Benign and Malicious Envy. European Journal of Personality. 30(2). 168–188. 132 indexed citations
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Lange, Jens & Jan Crusius. (2014). Dispositional Envy Revisited. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 41(2). 284–294. 308 indexed citations breakdown →
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Crusius, Jan & Thomas Mussweiler. (2011). When people want what others have: The impulsive side of envious desire.. Emotion. 12(1). 142–153. 106 indexed citations
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Rose, Matthias, Inka Wahl, Jan Crusius, & Bernd Löwe. (2010). Psychische Komorbidität. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz. 54(1). 83–89. 8 indexed citations
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Crusius, Jan, et al.. (2009). When I and me are different: assimilation and contrast in temporal self‐comparisons. European Journal of Social Psychology. 40(1). 160–168. 25 indexed citations
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Martin, Alan J., et al.. (2003). Field-Scale Assessment of Bioremediation Strategies for Two Pit Lakes Using Limnocorrals. University of Alberta Library. 14 indexed citations

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