Thomas Kessler

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas Kessler is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Kessler has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 37 papers in Social Psychology and 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Thomas Kessler's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (38 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (24 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (19 papers). Thomas Kessler is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (38 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (24 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (19 papers). Thomas Kessler collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Israel. Thomas Kessler's co-authors include Amélie Mummendey, Rosemarie Mielke, Colin Wayne Leach, Nicole S. Harth, Andreas Klink, A Mummendey, Friedrich Funke, Immo Fritsche, Jacques‐Philippe Leyens and Jens Binder and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Kessler

70 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Does contact reduce prejudice or does prejudice reduce contact? A longitudinal test of the contact hypothesis among majority and minority groups in three european countries.

2009 547 citations Jens Binder, Hanna Zagefka et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Thomas Kessler	2.5k	1.7k	500	358	342	72	3.4k
Joris Lammers	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	560 1.1×	375 1.0×	260 0.8×	74	2.8k
Joseph R. Priester	2.0k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	535 1.1×	186 0.5×	586 1.7×	39	3.8k
J.W. Ouwerkerk	2.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	497 1.0×	354 1.0×	260 0.8×	35	3.8k
Stefan Stürmer	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	277 0.6×	200 0.6×	152 0.4×	57	2.4k
Jack Glaser	3.8k 1.5×	2.0k 1.2×	946 1.9×	453 1.3×	341 1.0×	40	5.1k
Cheryl Wakslak	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	409 0.8×	187 0.5×	1.6k 4.6×	55	4.5k
David A. Schroeder	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	444 0.9×	168 0.5×	363 1.1×	25	3.4k
Lucia Mannetti	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	471 0.9×	119 0.3×	808 2.4×	81	3.8k
Serge Guimond	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	247 0.5×	575 1.6×	194 0.6×	94	3.3k
Sabine Otten	2.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	604 1.2×	832 2.3×	332 1.0×	107	4.1k

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Čehajić‐Clancy, Sabina, et al.. (2025). Where you live matters more than who you know: Context‐level contact as a stronger predictor of post‐war reconciliation than individual‐level contact. British Journal of Social Psychology. 64(3). e12913–e12913. 2 indexed citations

Elad‐Strenger, Julia, Daniel Statman, & Thomas Kessler. (2025). Left‐Right Ideological Differences in Moral Judgments: The Case of Acceptance of Collateral Civilian Killings in War. European Journal of Social Psychology. 55(4). 565–588.

Fischer, Peter, et al.. (2024). Standing-up against moral violations: The predicting role of attribution, kinship, and severity. PLoS ONE. 19(8). e0307740–e0307740. 1 indexed citations

Funk, Friederike, et al.. (2023). Not revenge, but change is sweet: Experimental evidence of how offender change and punishment play independent roles in victims' sense of justice. British Journal of Social Psychology. 62(2). 1013–1035. 2 indexed citations

Uysal, Mete Sefa, et al.. (2023). Populism Predicts Sympathy for Attacks Against Asylum Seekers Through National Pride and Moral Justification of Political Violence. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 15(1). 70–79. 4 indexed citations

Chayinska, María, et al.. (2023). Why Chile “Woke Up.” Antecedents of the Formation of Prochange Group Consciousness Promoting Collective Action. Political Psychology. 45(1). 3–21. 5 indexed citations

Fischer, Peter, et al.. (2019). The higher they go the harder they could fall: The impact of risk-glorifying commercials on risk behavior. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0225884–e0225884. 3 indexed citations

Kessler, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Team Mental Models, Team Goal Orientations, and Information Elaboration, Predicting Team Creative Performance. Creativity Research Journal. 30(4). 380–390. 10 indexed citations

Neyer, Franz J., et al.. (2016). The infamous among us: Enhanced reputational memory for uncooperative ingroup members. Cognition. 157. 1–13. 15 indexed citations

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Onu, Diana, Thomas Kessler, & Joanne R. Smith. (2016). Admiration: A Conceptual Review. Emotion Review. 8(3). 218–230. 80 indexed citations

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Geschke, Daniel, Amélie Mummendey, Thomas Kessler, & Friedrich Funke. (2010). Majority members' acculturation goals as predictors and effects of attitudes and behaviours towards migrants. British Journal of Social Psychology. 49(3). 489–506. 28 indexed citations

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Otten, Sabine, Kai Sassenberg, & Thomas Kessler. (2009). Intergroup relations : the role of motivation and emotion. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 44 indexed citations

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Binder, Jens, Hanna Zagefka, Rupert Brown, et al.. (2009). Does contact reduce prejudice or does prejudice reduce contact? A longitudinal test of the contact hypothesis among majority and minority groups in three european countries.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 96(4). 843–856. 547 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gruber, Claus G., et al.. (2009). A Model-Based Techno-Economic Comparison of Optical Access Technologies. 6. 1–6. 5 indexed citations

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Volz, Kirsten G., Thomas Kessler, & D. Yves von Cramon. (2008). In-group as part of the self: In-group favoritism is mediated by medial prefrontal cortex activation. Social Neuroscience. 4(3). 244–260. 73 indexed citations

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Fritsche, Immo, et al.. (2008). Minimal and maximal goal orientation and reactions to norm violations. European Journal of Social Psychology. 39(1). 3–21. 15 indexed citations

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Kessler, Thomas & Amélie Mummendey. (2002). Sequential or parallel processes? A longitudinal field study concerning determinants of identity-management strategies.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 82(1). 75–88. 33 indexed citations

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Kessler, Thomas & Amélie Mummendey. (2001). Is there any scapegoat around? Determinants of intergroup conflicts at different categorization levels.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 81(6). 1090–1102. 61 indexed citations

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Kessler, Thomas, et al.. (2000). The personal-group discrepancy: Is there a common information basis for personal and group judgment?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 79(1). 95–109. 29 indexed citations

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Mummendey, A, et al.. (1999). Strategies to cope with negative social identity: Predictions by social identity theory and relative deprivation theory.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 76(2). 229–245. 340 indexed citations

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