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PUBLICATIONS

Kappes, A, Zohny, H. , Savulescu, J., Singh, I., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Wilkinson, D. (2022) Race and resource allocation: An online survey of US and UK adults’ attitudes towards COVID-19 ventilator and vaccine distribution. BMJ OPEN

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Takaguchi, K., Kappes, A., Yearsley, J.M. Tsutomu Sawai, Wilkinson, D., & Savulescu, (2022). Personal ethical settings for driverless cars and the utility paradox: an ethical analysis of public attitudes in UK and Japan, PLOS ONE

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Gross, J., Faber, N. S., Kappes, A., Nussberger, A.-M., Cowen, P. J., Browning, M., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., Crockett, M. J., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2021). When Helping Is Risky: The Behavioral and Neurobiological Trade-off of Social and Risk Preferences. Psychological Science, 09567976211015942.

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Takla, A., Savulescu, J., Kappes, A., & Wilkinson, D. J. (2021). British laypeople’s attitudes towards gradual sedation, sedation to unconsciousness and euthanasia at the end of life. Plos one, 16(3),

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Kappes, A., Montague, R., Harvey, A., Lohrenz, T., & Sharot, T., (2020) Confirmation Bias in the Neural Processing of Information. Nature Neuroscience

 

Kappes, A., Nussberger, A. M., Siegel, J. Z., Rutledge, R. B., & Crockett, M. J. (2019). Social uncertainty is heterogeneous and sometimes valuable. Nature human behaviour, 3(8), 764-764.

 

Wittleder,S. Kappes, A., Oettingen, G., Gollwitzer, P., Jay, M.,& Morgenstern, J. (2019) Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions Reduces Drinking When Drinking Is Hazardous: An Online Self-Regulation Intervention. Health Education & Behavior

 

Wittleder,S. Kappes, A., Krott, N, Jay, M., & Oettingen, G. (2019) Mental contrasting spurs energy by changing Implicit evaluations of obstacles, Motivation Science

 

Kappes, A., Nussberger, A-M., Faber, N., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., & Crockett, M.J. (2018) Interpersonal uncertainty promotes prosocial behaviour, Nature Human Behaviour

 

Kappes, A., Faber, N., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., & Crockett, M.J. (2018) Concern for Others Leads to Vicarious Optimism, Psychological Science

 

Kappes, A., & Sharot, T. (2018). The Automatic Nature of Motivated Belief Updating. Behavioural Public Policy. 1-17.

 

Montgomery, M.A., Kappes, A., & Crockett, M.J. (in 2017) Compassion is not always a motivated choice: a multiple decision systems perspective. Moral Psychology: Volume 5, MIT Press

 

Kappes, A., Kahane, G., & Crockett, M. J. (2016). From risk to fairness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201614111. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614111113

 

Kappes, A., & Crockett, M.J. (2016). The Benefits and Costs of a Rose-Colored Hindsight.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(9), 644–646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.06.009

 

Park, G., Kappes, A., Rho, Y., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2016). At the Heart of Morality Lies Neuro-Visceral Integration: Lower Cardiac Vagal Tone Predicts Utilitarian Moral Judgment. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

 

Kappes, A., & & Oettingen, G. (2014). The emergence of goal commitment: Mental contrasting connects future and reality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54, 25–39

 

Merkt, J., Singmann, H., Bodenburg, S., Goossens-Merkt, H., Kappes, A., Wendt, M., & Gawrilow, C. (2014). Flanker performance in female college students with ADHD: a diffusion model analysis. ADHD, 321-341. Doi: 10.1007/s12402-013-0110-1

 

Kappes, A., Wendt, M., Reinelt, T., & Oettingen, G. (2013). Mental contrasting changes the meaning of reality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 797-810. Doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.03.010

 

Kappes, A. & Schikowski, A. L. (2013). Implicit theories about emotions shape responses to negative affect. Cognition and Emotion, 952-960. Doi: 10.1080/02699931.2012.753415

 

Kappes, A. &, Oettingen, G. & Pak, H, (2012). Mental contrasting and the self-regulation of responding to negative feedback. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 38, 845-857.

 

Kappes, A., Singmann, H., & Oettingen, G., (2012). Mental contrasting instigates goal-pursuit by linking obstacles of reality with instrumental behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 811-818.

 

Oettingen, G., & Kappes, A. (2009). Mental contrasting of the future and reality to master negative feedback. In K. Markman, B. Klein & J. Suhr (Eds.), The Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation. Hove, GB: Psychology Press

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