Kathi Diel

Saarland University — Germany

Psychology · Social Sciences

9h-index496citations18works25.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Behavioral Health and Interventions(11), Climate Change Communication and Perception(5), Mental Health Research Topics(5), Social and Intergroup Psychology(4), Environmental Education and Sustainability(4)

Publications18 total

Emotional Dynamics of Social Comparisons: Nonlinear Relationships Between Comparison Extremity and Social Emotions, and Their Motivational Functioning
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin·2025
Social Comparison and Motivation
2025Open Access
Socially Driven Spill-Over Effects of Watching Major Sport Events on Life Satisfaction and Work Motivation – the Role of Social Context, Connectedness, and Social Identities
Open Science Framework·2025Open Access
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
UNC Libraries·2024Open Access
The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries
Scientific Data·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Morally Charged: Why People Prefer to Compare Themselves With Others Who Are Less Environmentally Friendly Than Themselves
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Morally charged: Why people prefer to compare themselves with others who are less environmentally friendly than themselves
Journal of Environmental Psychology·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Science Advances·2024· 218 citedOpen Access
Prepare to Compare: Effects of an Intervention Involving Upward and Downward Social Comparisons on Goal Pursuit in Daily Life
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin·2024· 15 cited
The Role of Comparison Processes in Maintenance Goals
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024Open Access
Relativity in Social Cognition: Basic processes and novel applications of social comparisons
European Review of Social Psychology·2023· 30 citedOpen Access
The Role of Comparison Processes in Maintenance Goals
2022Open Access
Motivational and emotional effects of social comparison in sports
Psychology of sport and exercise·2021· 47 cited
More threatening and more diagnostic: How moral comparisons differ from social comparisons.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·2021· 28 cited
A motivational framework of social comparison.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·2021· 90 cited
Changing Behavior Using Integrative Self-Control Theory
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2020· 5 cited
Inspired to Perspire: The Interplay of Social Comparison Direction and Standard Extremity in the Context of Challenging Exercising Goals
Social Cognition·2019· 35 cited
On trading off labor and leisure: A process model of perceived autonomy and opportunity costs
2019· 4 citedOpen Access

Frequent Co-authors

Wilhelm Hofmann(12), Malte Friese(7), Lea Boecker(5), Sonja Grelle(5), Sylvie Borau(4), Yannik A. Escher(4), Oliver Genschow(4), Madalina Vlasceanu(3), Kimberly C Doell(3), Boryana Todorova(3), Michael Berkebile-Weinberg(3), Samantha J Grayson(3), Yash Patel(3), Danielle Goldwert(3), Yifei Pei(3), Alek Chakroff(3), Ekaterina Pronizius(3), Karlijn L. van den Broek(3), Denisa Vlasceanu(3), Sara M. Constantino(3)