Research

Most of my research interests can be subsumed under the fields attitude change and judgment & decision making. I am a big fan of experimental designs and open science. 

Current Research Projects

Articulation Dynamics and (Evaluative) Judgments

I study the cognitive processes behind the articulatory in-out effect.

Attitude Learning via Co-Occurrences

I am interested in the cognitive mechanisms behind evaluative learning and their implications for consumer contexts (e.g., brand placements in video games).

Default Effects in Decision Making

Why do we often stick with the default option in a choice situation? And who is most likely to stick with the default?

Typicality, Fluency, and Familiarity

I study the effects of typicality and fluency on (evaluative) judgments.

Cognitive-Ecological Influences on (Consumer) Choices

How does the distribution of information in the environment interact with cognitive biases?

Personality and Evaluation

I study the role of interindividual differences in the appraisal of affective stimuli. 

Inaction Inertia

Why (and who) are people less likely to take an offer it they missed a larger offer on a previous occasion?

Illusory Correlations

When and how do people rely on mere baserates to infer correlations in the environment?

Publications

I only list published/accepted articles here. If you are interested in unpublished manuscripts or work in progress, please contact me :)
  1. Ingendahl, M., Vogel, T., Woitzel, J., Bücker, N., Boers, J., & Alves, H. (2024). The Interplay of Multiple Unconditioned Stimuli in Evaluative Conditioning: A Weighted Averaging Framework for Attitude Formation via Stimulus Co-Occurrences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000401 
  2. Woitzel, J., Ingendahl, M., & Alves, H. (2024). Intergroup Bias in Perceived Trustworthiness Among Few or Many Minimal Groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104668 
  3. Ingendahl, M.*, Schäfer, F.*, Woitzel, J., Alves, H., & Undorf, M. (2024). Bridging the Gap Between Metamemory and Attitude Formation: Judgments of Learning Predict Evaluative Conditioning Effects Above and Beyond Memory. Collabra: Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.117689
  4. Pivecka, N., Ingendahl, M. , McCaughey, L., & Vogel, T. (2024). Contingency Inferences from Base Rates: The Role of Top-Down Processes. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01567-y 
  5. Ingendahl, M., Brückner, L., & Vogel, T. (2024). Beyond Affect Transfer: Attribute Associations in Video Game Brand Placements and Their Impact on Brand Attitudes. Journal of Advertising. https://doi.org/10.1080/00913367.2024.2337428 
  6. Ingendahl, M. Propheter, N., & Vogel, T. (2024). The role of category valence in prototype preference. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2335536 
  7. Topolinski, S., Vogel, T., & Ingendahl, M. (2024). Can sequencing of articulation fluency explain the in-out effect? A pre-registered competitive test. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2326072 
  8. Ingendahl, M., Woitzel, J., & Alves, H. (2024). Who shows the Unlikelihood Effect – and Why?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02453-z
  9. Löffler, C.S., Naber, D., Weiger, N., Zürn, M.K., Silva, R.R., Ingendahl, M., & Topolinski, S. (2024). Mood and fluency – The Case of pronunciation ease, liking, and trust. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3041 
  10. Ingendahl, M., Woitzel, J., & Alves, H. (2023). Just Playing the Role of Good Study Participants? Evaluative Conditioning, Demand Compliance, and Agreeableness. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231198653 
  11. Ingendahl, M., Woitzel, J., Propheter, N., Wänke, M., & Alves, H. (2023). From Deviant Likes to Reversed Effects: Re-Investigating the Contribution of Unaware Evaluative Conditioning To Attitude Formation. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), 87462. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.87462 
  12. Ingendahl, M., Maschmann, I.T., Embs, N., Maulbetsch, A., Vogel, T., & Wänke, M. (2023). Articulation Dynamics and Evaluative Conditioning: Investigating the Boundary Conditions, Mental Representation, and Origin of the In-Out Effect. Cognition & Emotion, 37(6), 1074-1089. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2228538 
  13. Ingendahl, M., & Vogel, T. (2023). (Why) Is Evaluative Conditioning Moderated by Big Five Personality Traits? Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), 74812. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.74812 
  14. Ingendahl, M.*, Vogel, T.*, Maedche, A., & Wänke, M. (2023). Brand Placements in Video Games: How local in-game experiences influence brand attitudes. Psychology & Marketing, 40(2), 274-287. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21770 
  15. Topolinski, S., Boecker, L., Löffler, C.S., Gusmao, B., & Ingendahl, M. (2023). On the emergence of the in-out effect across trials: Two items do the trick. Psychological Research, 78, 1800-1192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01715-6 
  16. Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., Aczel, B., …, Ingendahl, M., …, Wagenmarkers, EJ. (2023). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13, 237-283.  https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255
  17. Vogel, V., McMahon, C., Prenoveau, J., Kelchtermans, S., Magyar-Russell, G., Ingendahl, M., Schaumans, C. (2022). Different facets, different results: The importance of considering the multidimensionality of constructs. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13, 351-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070262 
  18. Ingendahl, M., Vogel, T. , & Topolinski, S. (2022). The Articulatory In-Out Effect: Replicable, but Inexplicable. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26, 8-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.10.008 
  19. Ingendahl, M., & Vogel, T. (2022). The Articulatory In-Out Effect: Driven by Consonant Preferences?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(2), e1–e10. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000276 
  20. Ingendahl, M., & Vogel, T. (2022). Stimulus Evaluation in the Eye of the Beholder: Big Five Personality Traits Explain Variance in Normed Picture Sets. Personality Science, 3. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.7951 
  21. Ingendahl, M., Vogel, T. , & Wänke, M. (2022). The Articulatory In-Out Effect: Driven by Articulation Fluency? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 99, 104273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104273. 
  22. Ingendahl, M., Vogel, T. , & Topolinski, S. (2022). Can sequencing explain the in-out effect?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(6), 449-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.03.008 
  23. Ingendahl, M., & Vogel, T. (2022). Choosing a brand name that's "in" – disgust sensitivity, preference for intuition, and the articulatory in-out effect. Personality and Individual Differences, 185, 111276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111276 
  24. Vogel, T., Ingendahl, M., & McCaughey, L. (2022). Contingency Inferences From Base Rates: Conditional and Unconditional. Judgment and Decision Making, 17(2), 400-424. https://sjdm.org/journal/21/210908/jdm210908.pdf 
  25. Paunov, Y. Vogel, T., Ingendahl, M., & Wänke, M. (2022). Transparent by choice: Proactive disclosures increase compliance with digital defaults. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.981497 
  26. Ingendahl, M., Hummel, D., Maedche, A., & Vogel, T. (2021). Who can be nudged? Examining nudging effectiveness in the context of Need for Cognition and Need for Uniqueness. Journal of Consumer Behaviour 20 (2), 324– 336. https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.1861 
  27. Ingendahl, M., Schöne, T., Wänke, M., & Vogel, T. (2021). Fluency in the in-out effect: The role of structural mere exposure effects. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104079 
  28. Halicki, K., Ingendahl, M., Meyer, M., John, M., Schreiner, M., & Wänke, M. (2021). From which direction does the Empire strike (back)? Attack vs. defense and the Spatial Agency Bias. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1481. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.625554 
  29. Vogel, T., Ingendahl, M., & Winkielman, P. (2021). The Architecture of Prototype Preferences: Typicality, Fluency, and Valence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150 (1), 187–194. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000798 

Research Grants & Awards

Research Grants

  • 2024-2027 Evaluative Conditioning Beyond Single Stimuli: How Multiple Affective Experiences are Integrated Into Conditioned Attitudes. Funded by the German Research Foundation (Total Sum: 351,087€). Collaborators: Hans Alves and Tobias Vogel
  • 2023 Defaults in Online Environments – When, How, and for Whom They Influence Consumer Decisions. Funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung (Total Sum: 1,600€).
  • 2023 Valence asymmetries in attitudinal ambivalence: A cognitive-ecological explanation. Funded by the Center of Social and Economic Behavior Cologne (Total Sum: 4,000€). PI: Celine Frank, Co-PIs: Claudine Pulm, Moritz Ingendahl, Anne Gast
  • 2023 A New Perspective on the Role of Memory Retrieval in Evaluative Conditioning: How Ease of Retrieval Affects Conditioned Likes and Dislikes. Funded by the Social Psychological Bulletin Early-Career Researcher Grant (Total Sum: 1,150€). Co-PIs: Johanna Höhs and Claudine Pulm.
  • 2021 The articulatory in-out effect – an integrative approach. Funded by the Open Science Office of the University of Mannheim (Total Sum: 2,308€). Collaborators: Ira Maschmann and Tobias Vogel
  • 2020 The Affect Transfer Model for In-Game Advertising (AMIGA): How brand placements in video games are influenced by the local in-game context. Funded by the ForDigital Research Alliance (Total Sum: 2,265€). Co-PI: Tobias Vogel, Collaborators: Michaela Wänke, Alexander Mädche
  • 2020 When and how do brand placements in video games affect brand attitudes?. Funded by the ForDigital Research Alliance (Total Sum: 6,382€). Co-PI: Tobias Vogel, Collaborators: Michaela Wänke, Alexander Mädche

Scholarships & Travel

  • 2023 International mobility program for PostDocs of the RUB Research School (Total Sum: 1,125€).
  • 2019 Scholarship of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences Mannheim (funding 01-12/2021, 12 x 1,250€+ 3 x 300€)
  • 2018 - 2019 Associate Membership of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences Mannheim, research funding (300€) and access to graduate courses

Awards

  • 2024 Heinz-Heckhausen Award of the German Psychological Society (DGPS) for an excellent dissertation (1,000€)
  • 2024 Novice award of the Ruhr University Bochum for the successful acquisition of a German Research Foundation project (3,000€)
  • 2020 Teaching Award ("Goldenes Psy") of the Psychology Student Council for the academic year 2019/2020