Kai Epstude

Institution University of Groningen Current Position Assistant Professor Highest Degree Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Würzburg Research Interests Emotion Intergroup Relations Motivation/Goal Setting Self/Identity Social Cognition Courses Taught Anger & Aggression Controversies in Social Psychology Intergroup Relations   Kai Epstude University of Groningen Department of Social and Organizational Psychology Grote Kruisstraat 2/1 9712 TS Groningen The Netherlands Home Page Phone: +31 50 363 7632 Fax: +31 50 363 4581 My current research interests center around the broad question of how goals influence our feelings and behavior. Specifically, I'm exploring goal- related aspects of counterfactual thinking and regret. In addition I'm working on a implicit learning-based framework for the adoption of social norms. Other research interests include the mental representation of the self in intergroup contexts, and the related question of how group contexts shape our affective experience. Journal Articles: Epstude, K., & Mussweiler, T. (2009). What you feel is how you compare: How comparisons influence the social induction of affect. Emotion, 9, 1-14. Epstude, K., & Roese, N. J. (2008). The functional theory of counterfactual thinking. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 12, 168-192. Epstude, K., & Roese, N. J. (2007). Beyond rationality: Counterfactual thinking and behavior regulation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 457-458. Fessel, F., Epstude, K., & Roese, N. J. (2009). Hindsight bias redefined: It's about time. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 110, 56-64. Förster, J., Epstude, K, & Özelsel, A. (2009). Why love has wings and sex has not: How reminders of love and sex influence creative and analytic thinking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1479-1491. Förster, J., Özelsel, A, & Epstude, K, (in press). How Love and Lust Change People’s Perception of Partners and Relationships. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Mussweiler, T., & Epstude, K. (2009). Relatively fast! Efficiency Advantages of Comparative Thinking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 1-21. Otten, S., & Epstude, K. (2006). Overlapping mental representations of self, ingroup and outgroup: Unraveling self-stereotyping and self-anchoring. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 957-969. Roese, N. J., Epstude, K., Fessel, F., Morrison, M., Smallman, R., Summerville, A., Galinsky, A., & Segerstrom, S. (2009). Repetitive regret, depression, and anxiety: Findings from a nationally representative survey. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 28, 671-688

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