Dr. Jens Lange
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Academic Education
03/2016 | PhD, Universität zu Köln, Dr. phil., grade: summa cum laude (with distinction) |
10/2007 - 02/2012 | University Studies in Psychology, Universität Potsdam, Dipl. psych., Grade: 1.0 (with distinction) |
Academic Appointments
Seit 2020 | Assistant Professor, Universität Hamburg |
10/2019 - 04/2020 | DFG Fellow and PostDoc, Universität zu Köln |
10/2017 - 09/2019 | DFG Research Fellow, Universiteit Amsterdam |
03/2016 - 09/2017 | PostDoc, Universität zu Köln |
09/2015 - 12/2015 | Research Visit, University of British Columbia |
03/2012 - 02/2016 | PhD student, Universität zu Köln |
Funding
02/2024 - 01/2027 | DFG Individual Research Grant (LA 4029/7-1) „Development and validation of a formal theory of co-occurring emotions“ (260.733€) |
04/2023 | Equal Opportunity Fund, Universität Hamburg, „Fragen an die Doktor-Mutter & den Doktor-Vater – Ein Blog für Eltern in der Wissenschaft“ (1.231, 20€) |
04/2022 | Ideas and Venture Fund, Universtät Hamburg (3.729€) |
10/2019 - 04/2020 | DFG Return Stipend (LA 4029/2-1; 12.000€) |
06/2019 | C-SEB Junior Start-Up Grant „Social preferences and envy: Linking the concept of benign and malicious envy with social preferences“, Universität zu Köln (PI: Dorothee Mischkowski; Co-PIs: Jan Crusius & Jens Lange; 2.808€) |
07/2018 | Stipend awarded by the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP; 625€) |
10/2017 - 09/2019 | DFG Research Fellowship (LA 4029/1-1) „Keeping status: How superiors infer benign and malicious envy of subordinates and regulate it interpersonally“ (71.184€) |
06/2017 | C-SEB Seedcorn Grant „Taking the low road to reach the top: Why does entitlement foster dominance instead of prestige?“, Universität zu Köln (PI: Jan Crusius; Co-PIs: Jens Lange & Liz Redford; 4.800€) |
06/2017 | C-SEB Junior Start-Up Grant „The advantages and pitfalls of goal pursuit in envy versus admiration“, Universität zu Köln (PI: Lisa Blatz; Co-PIs: Maayan Katzir, Jens Lange, & Jan Crusius; 2.987,80€) |
12/2016 | C-SEB Junior Start-Up Grant „My special thanks go to...: How context shapes the expression of gratitude“, Universität zu Köln (PI: Alexa Weiss; Co-PIs: Pascal Burgmer & Jens Lange; 1.961€) |
06/2016 | C-SEB Junior Start-Up Grant „A social-functional approach to remorse“, Universität zu Köln (PIs: Jens Lange & Friederike Funk; 2.627€) |
03/2016 | Mobility Grant, One-week Research Stay at the Universiteit Amsterdam, Universität zu Köln International Program (769,59€) |
2015 - 2018 | UoC Advanced Postdoc Grant „When pride and envy collide: Societal determinants and consequences of status-related emotions“, Universität zu Köln (PI: Jan Crusius; Co-PI: Jens Lange; 176.500€) |
09/2015 - 12/2015 | Three-month scholarship, visiting researcher at the University of British Columbia, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; 4.831€) |
07/2015 | Travel Grant of the Graduate School of the Universität zu Köln (536€) |
06/2014 | Travel Grant of the Graduate School of the Universität zu Köln (570€) |
Publications
Ecker, Y., Lange, J., & Imhoff, R. (in press). The General Maintenance Orientation Scale: Interindividual differences in nurturing what we have. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. [data and materials on OSF]
Glöckner, A., Gollwitzer, M., Hahn, L., Lange, J., Sassenberg, K., & Unkelbach, C. (im Druck). Quality, Replicability, and Transparency in Research in Social Psychology: Implementation of Recommendations in Germany. Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000548 [data and materials on OSF]
Boecker, L., Petrowsky H. M., Loschelder, D. D., & Lange, J. (in press). The Interplay of social rank perceptions of Trump and Biden and emotions following the U.S. Presidential Election 2020. Cognition and Emotion. [data and materials on OSF]
Lange, J., & Crusius, J. (in press). Dispositional Benign and Malicious Envy Scale (BeMaS). In Krägeloh, C. U., Alyami, M., Medvedev, O. N. (Eds.) International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89738-3_66-1
Lange, J., & Protasi, S. (2024). An interdisciplinary perspective on the value of envy. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 15, 403-422. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00548-3 [preprint]
Lange, J., & Zickfeld, J. H. (2023). Comparing implications of distinct emotion, network, and dimensional approaches for co-occurring emotions. Emotion, 23, 2300-2321. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001214 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]
Schermer, J. A., Rogoza, R., Kwiatkowska, M. M., Kowalski, C. M., Aquino, S., Ardi, R., … Lange, J. … Krammer, G. (2023). Humor styles across 28 countries. Current Psychology, 42, 16304-16319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00552-y
Lange, J. (2023). Embedding research on emotion duration in a network model. Affective Science, 4, 541-549. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00203-3 [preprint] [formal model and data on OSF]
Lange, J., Degner, J., Gleibs, I. H., & Jonas, E. (2023) Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie: Faires und valides Shortlisting in Phase 1. Kommentar zum Artikel von Gärtner et al. (2023). Psychologische Rundschau, 74, 187-189. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000641
Fang, X., Rychlowska, M. & Lange, J. (2022). Cross-cultural and inter-group research on emotion perception. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 6, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-022-00102-2
Lange, J., & Crusius, J. (2022). How envy and being envied shape social hierarchies. In S. Protasi (Ed.), The moral psychology of envy (S.41-59). Rowman & Littlefield. [preprint]
Genschow, O. & Lange, J. (2022). Belief in free will is related to internal attribution in self-perception. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 1259-1268. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211057711 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]
Lange, J., Heerdink, M. W., & Van Kleef, G. A. (2022). Reading emotions, reading people: Emotion perception and inferences drawn from perceived emotions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 85-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.06.008 [preprint]
Lange, J., Fischer. A. H., & Van Kleef, G. A. (2022). "You're just envious": Inferring benign and malicious envy from facial expressions and contextual information. Emotion, 22, 64-80. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001047 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]
Lange, J., Unkelbach, C., Glöckner, A., Gollwitzer, M., Kaiser, F. G., & Sassenberg, K. (2022). Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie: Task Force "Qualitätssicherung sozialpsychologischer Forschung" der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie. Das Zusammenspiel von Theorie und Methodik. Kommentar zum Artikel von Brachem et al. (2022). Psychologische Rundschau, 73, 22-24. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000565
Crusius, J., & Lange, J. (2021). Counterfactual thoughts distinguish benign and malicious envy. Emotion, 21, 905-920. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000923 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]
Lange, J. (2021). CliquePercolation: An R Package for conducting and visualizing results of the clique percolation network community detection algorithm. Journal of Open Source Software, 6, 3210. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03210
Gollwitzer, M., Gleibs, I., Häfner, M., Lange, J., & Schneider, D. (2021). Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie: Kommentar zum Positionspapier Lindner, M. A. et al. (2021). Ein Plädoyer zur Qualitätssicherung schriftlicher Prüfungen im Psychologiestudium. Psychologische Rundschau, 72, 116-118. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000529
Lange, J., & Zickfeld, J. H. (2021). Emotions as overlapping causal networks of emotion components: Implications and methodological approaches. Emotion Review, 13, 157-167. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073920988787 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]
Crusius, J., Thierhoff, J., & Lange, J. (2021). Dispositional greed predicts benign and malicious envy. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, 110361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110361 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]
Weiss, A., Burgmer, P., & Lange, J. (2020). Surprise me! On the impact of unexpected benefits on other-praising gratitude expressions. Cognition and Emotion, 8, 1608-1620. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1797638 [preprint]
Lange*, J., Hagemeyer*, B., Lösch, T., & Rentzsch, K. (2020). Accuracy and bias in the social perception of envy. Emotion, 20, 1399-1410. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000652 [data and materials on OSF] [preprint] *equal contribution
Lange, J., Dalege, J., Borsboom, D., Van Kleef, G. A., & Fischer, A. H. (2020). Toward an integrative psychometric model of emotions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 444-468. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619895057 [preprint]
Crusius*, J., Gonzalez*, M. F., Lange*, J., & Cohen-Charash*, Y. (2020). Envy: An adversarial review and comparison of two competing views. Emotion Review, 12, 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073919873131 [preprint] *equal contribution
Van Kleef, G. A., & Lange, J. (2020). How hierarchy shapes our emotional lives: Effects of power and status on emotional experience, expression, and responsiveness. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 148-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.009
Lange, J., Redford, L., & Crusius, J. (2019). A status-seeking account of psychological entitlement. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1113–1128. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218808501 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]
Lange*, J., & Boecker*, L. (2019). Schadenfreude as social-functional dominance regulator. Emotion, 19, 489-502. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000454 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF] *equal contribution
Imhoff, R., Lange, J., & Germar, M. (2019). Identification and location tasks rely on different mental processes: A diffusion model account of validity effects in spatial cueing paradigms with emotional stimuli. Cognition & Emotion, 33, 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1443433 [data and materials on OSF]
Van der Wal*, R. C., Sutton*, R. M., Lange, J., & Braga, J. P. N. (2018). Suspicious binds: Conspiracy thinking and tenuous perceptions of causal connections between co-occurring and spuriously correlated events. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 970-989. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2507 [data and materials on OSF] *equal contribution
Lange, J., Blatz, L., & Crusius, J. (2018). Dispositional envy: A conceptual review. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences. Volume III: Applications of Personality and Individual Differences (pp. 424–439). London, UK: SAGE.
Lange, J., Paulhus, D. L., & Crusius, J. (2018). Elucidating the dark side of envy: Distinctive links of benign and malicious envy with dark personalities. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 601–614. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217746340 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]
Lange, J., Weidman, A. C., & Crusius, J. (2018). The painful duality of envy: Evidence for an integrative theory and a meta-analysis on the relation of envy and schadenfreude. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114, 572–598. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000118 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF] [PaDE Scale]
Crusius*, J., & Lange*, J. (2017). How do people respond to threatened social status? Moderators of benign versus malicious envy. In R. H. Smith, U. Merlone, & M. K. Duffy (Eds.), Envy at work and in organizations (pp. 85–110). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. *equal contribution
Lange*, J., Crusius*, J., & Hagemeyer, B. (2016). The Evil Queen's dilemma: Linking narcissistic admiration and rivalry to benign and malicious envy. European Journal of Personality, 30, 168-188. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2047 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF] *equal contribution
Crusius, J., & Lange, J. (2015). Envy. In M. Altman (Ed.), Real world decision making: An encyclopaedia of behavioral economics (pp. 122-123). Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.
Lange, J., & Crusius, J. (2015). Dispositional envy revisited: Unraveling the motivational dynamics of benign and malicious envy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 284-294. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167214564959 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF] [BeMaS: Benign and Malicious Envy Scale]
Lange, J., & Crusius, J. (2015). The tango of two deadly sins: The social-functional relation of envy and pride. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109, 453-472. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000026 [preprint] [data and materials on OSF]
Lange, J., & Krahé, B. (2014). The effects of information form and domain-specific knowledge on choice deferral. Journal of Economic Psychology, 43, 92–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2014.05.001
Crusius, J., & Lange, J. (2014). What catches the envious eye? How malicious and benign envy bias attention. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.05.007
Awards
04/2021 | Top-Ranked Abstract der Konferenz der Society for Affective Science (SAS) 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00069-3) |
06/2020 | Early-Career Award of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) |
12/2019 | Research Award of the Faculty for Business and Economics of the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg for Lange & Boecker (2019) |
07/2017 | Teaching Award (1st place) of the Department of Psychology in the winter term 2016/2017 in the category Seminar |
11/2016 | Best Dissertation Award, Graduate School of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Universität zu Köln |
Research Topics
- Emotions
- Conceptualizations of Emotions
- Social-functional Approaches to Emotions
- Measurement of Emotions
- Personality and Emotions
- Motivation
- Expectancy X Value Models
- Personality and Motivation
- Formal Models
- Psychological Networks
- Agent-based Modelling