• Experiences at work - Bullshit job perceptions and meaningful work perceptions
• The role of self-regulatory processes in social cognition and social interaction
• Psychological essentialism and its relationship to mechanisms of motivated social cognition
• The underlying psychological mechanisms of FLOW-experiences
• Behavior in social dilemmas
• Psychological factors involved in (hospital) hand hygiene behavior
• Empathy and compassion

• The role of psychosis proneness as basic personality trait concerning crucial social psychological phenomena (such as prejudice, loneliness, & conspiracy beliefs)

1) Keller, J. & Dauenheimer, D. (2003). Stereotype threat in the classroom: Dejection mediates the disrupting threat effect on women’s math performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 371-381.

2) Keller, J. (2005). In genes we trust: The biological component of psychological essentialism and its relationship to mechanisms of motivated social cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 686-702.

3) Keller, J. & Bless, H. (2008). Flow and regulatory compatibility: An experimental test of the flow model of intrinsic motivation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 196-209.

4) Keller, J. & Bless, H. (2008). Expectancy effects on cognitive test performance: Regulatory focus as a catalyst. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 187-212.

5) Rangel, U., & Keller, J. (2011). Essentialism goes social: Belief in social determinism as a component of psychological essentialism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 1056-1078.

6) Keller, J., Bless, H., Blomann, F. & Kleinböhl, D. (2011). Physiological aspects of flow experiences: Skills-demand-compatibility effects on heart rate variability and salivary cortisol. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 849-852.

7) Keller, J., & Pfattheicher, S. (2011). Vigilant self-regulation, cues of being watched and cooperativeness. European Journal of Personality, 25, 363-372.

8) Keller, J. & Pfattheicher, S. (2013). The Compassion-hostility-paradox: The interplay of vigilant, prevention-focused self-regulation, compassion and hostility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 1518-1529.

9) Pfattheicher, S., Sassenrath, C., & Keller, J. (2019). Compassion magnifies third-party punishment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, 124-141.

10) Sassenrath, C., Keller, J., Stöckle, D., Kesberg, R., Nielsen, Y. A., & Pfattheicher, S. (2024). I like it because it hurts you: On the association of everyday sadism, sadistic pleasure, and victim blaming. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(1), 105–127.

 

Member of the organizing committee of the Annual Meeting of Graduate Students in Social Psychology sponsored by the Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (German Society for Social Psychology) held at the University of Mannheim, May 5 to 8, 2005

Organizer and teacher of a workshop on Regulatory Focus Theory sponsored by the Postgraduate Program in Social Psychology (a cooperative program of the Social Psychology Departments at the Universities of Basel, Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Mannheim) held at the University of Mannheim, June 3, 2005

Teacher of a workshop on “Stereotype Threat“ (December 2008) at the International Graduate College "Conflict and Cooperation between Social Groups." Universität Jena

Teacher at the Annual Meeting of Graduate Students in Social Psychology sponsored by the Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (German Society for Social Psychology) held at the University of Munich, June 2011

Organisation of the Small Group Meeting on „Power, morality, and norms“ at Ulm University, sponsored by the Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, March 2012

Ad hoc reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG), Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) Austria; Israel Science Foundation; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO);Polish National Science Center, French National Research Agency (ANR); National Science Foundation (NSF, USA)

Teacher at the 7th Summer School of the International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World des Max Planck Instituts für Ökonomik in Jena (August 2013)

Organisation of the Small Group Meeting – sponsored by the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) - „Towards a multifaceted understanding of empathy: Integrating findings on physiological, affective, cognitive and behavioral underpinning” October 6-8, 2013, Schloss Reisensburg, Günzburg, Germany

Editorial Board Member European Journal of Social Psychology (2007-2009; since 2012)

Editor of a special issue in the Journal of Economic Psychology on the topic “Self-Regulation and Strategic Motivational Orientations in Economic Contexts”

Member of the program committee for the Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie 2012 (Bielefeld), 2014 (Bochum)

Member of the scientific committee for the General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) in Amsterdam 2014

Associate Editor British Journal of Social Psychology (2017-2018)

Ausrichter der 16. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, 4.-6. September 2017

Fachgutachter für den Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD) als Mitglied der Kommission "Ostmitteleuropa, Südosteuropa und Türkei" (seit 2019)

American Educational Research Journal

American Journal of Political Science

Appetite

Applied Ergonomics

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

BioScience

British Journal of Psychology

British Journal of Social Psychology

Cognition and Emotion

Collabra: Psychology

Communication Theory

Consciousness and Cognition

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

European Journal of Psychology of Education

European Journal of Social Psychology

European Management Journal

Experimental Psychology

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Group Dynamics

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

IEEE Virtual Reality

Interacting with Computers

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Journal of Personality

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary & Applied

Journal of Social and Political Psychology

Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Learning and Individual Differences

Motivation & Emotion

Motivation Science

NeuroPsychoEconomics

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

Personality and Individual Differences

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Personality and Social Psychology Review

PLoS One

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Psychological Reports

Psychological Science

Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Self and Identity

Sex Roles

Social Cognition

Social Neuroscience

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Social Psychology

Social Psychology of Education

Spanish Journal of Psychology

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie

Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie

Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie (seit 2008: Social Psychology)

Association for Psychological Science

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie)

European Association of Social Psychology

Society of Experimental Social Psychology

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Society for the Study of Motivation

2009 - 2013   Head of the examination board for the degree programs B.Sc./M.Sc. Psychology

2013 - 2015   Dean of studies for the degree programs B.Sc./M.Sc. Psychology

2009 - 2017   & since 2023   Member of the board of studies for the degree programs B.Sc./M.Sc. Psychology

2012 - 2017 & since 2020  Member of the examination board Dr. phil.