Publications

Buttlar, B., Lambrich, A., McCaughey, L., Schneider, I. (2025). Too much information? A systematic investigation of the antecedents and consequences of ambivalence-induced information seeking behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 121, 104783. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Hahn, L., Chambon, M. (2025). A matter of preparation: Investigating the differential effects of disassembling and cooking on meat-related perceptions and conflict. Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Pauer, S., Scherrer, V., Hofmann, W. (2025). Attitude-based self-regulation: A diary study on the role of attitudes in the experience and resolution of self-control conflicts in the context of vegetarians. Motivation Science, 11, 291-305. Link ↗

Finkhäuser, M., Scherrer, V., Pauer, S., Buttlar, B. (2025). Feeling pushed and feeling pulled: A panel study on the temporal dynamics of meat-related ambivalence, morality, and behavioral consequences. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506251331157. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Pauer, S., van Harreveld, F. (2025). The model of ambivalent choice and dissonant commitment: An integration of dissonance and ambivalence frameworks. European Review of Social Psychology, 36, 195-237. Link ↗

Pauer, S., Rutjens, B., Brick, C., Lob, A., Buttlar, B., Noordewier, M., Schneider, I., van Harreveld, F. (2024). Is the effect of trust on risk perceptions a matter of knowledge, control, and time? An extension and direct-replication attempt of Siegrist and Cvetkovich (2000). Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15, 1008-1023. Link ↗

Hahn, L., Buttlar, B., Künne, R., Walther, E. (2024). Introducing the Trier Univalence Neutrality Ambivalence (TUNA) database: A picture database differentiating complex attitudes. PLOS ONE, 19, e0302904. Link ↗

Delaney, T., Castillo, L., Friehs, M., Buttlar, B., Greene, C. (2024). Us versus them: The role of national identity in the formation of false memories for fake news.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 30, 33-47. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Pauer, S., Ruby, M., Scherrer, V. (2024). Two sides of the same fence: A model of the origins and consequences of meat-related conflict in omnivores and veg*ans. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 94, 102241. Link ↗

Northrope, K., Howell, T., Kashima, E., Buttlar, B., Sproesser, G., Ruby, M. (2024). An investigation of meat eating in samples from Australia and Germany: The role of justifications, perceptions, and empathy. Animals, 14, 211. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Pauer, S., Ruby, M., Chambon, M., Jimenez-Klingberg, A., Scherf, J., Scherrer, V. (2023). The meat ambivalence questionnaire: Assessing domain-specific meat-related conflict in omnivores and veg*ans. Collabra: Psychology, 9, 73236. Link ↗

Puteri, B., Buttlar, B., Jahnke, B. (2022). Take it or leave it? Investigating the ambivalence and willingness to pay for suboptimal fruits and vegetables among organic consumers in Germany. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Dieterle, H., Mandryk, R. (2022). Revisiting the SECPT-G: A template for the group-administered socially evaluated cold-pressor test to robustly induce stress. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 10, 100115. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Walther, E., Pohl, C., Gierens, A. (2022). Mind the gap between feeling bad and feeling dead: Stress but not death reminders elicit endocrine responses. Death Studies, 46, 442-449. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Walther, E. (2022). Escaping from the meat paradox: How morality and disgust affect meat-related ambivalence. Appetite, 168, 105721. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Löwenstein, L., Geske, M., Ahlmer, H., Walther, E. (2021). Love food, hate waste? Ambivalence towards food fosters people’s willingness to waste food. Sustainability, 13, 3971. Link ↗

Hahn, L., Buttlar, B., Walther, E. (2021). Unpacking plastic: Investigating plastic related ambivalence. Sustainability, 13, 2186. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Rothe, A., Kleinert, S., Hahn, L., Walther, E. (2021). Food for thought: Investigating communication strategies to counteract moral disengagement regarding meat consumption. Environmental Communication, 15, 55-68. Link ↗

Halbeisen, G., Buttlar, B., Kamp, S., Walther, E. (2020). The timing-dependent effects of stress-induced cortisol release on evaluative conditioning. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 152, 44-52. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Walther, E. (2019). Dealing with the meat paradox: Threat leads to moral disengagement from meat consumption. Appetite, 137, 73-80. Link ↗

Zimmer, P., Buttlar, B., Halbeisen, G., Walther, E., Domes, G. (2019). Virtually stressed? A refined virtual reality adaptation of the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) induces robust endocrine responses. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 101, 186-192. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Walther, E. (2018). Measuring the meat paradox: How ambivalence towards meat influences moral disengagement. Appetite, 128, 152-158. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Latz, M., Walther, E. (2017). Breaking bad: existential threat decreases pro-environmental behavior. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 39, 153-166. Link ↗

Birk, M., Buttlar, B., Bowey, J., Poeller, S., Thomson, S., Baumann, N., Mandryk, R. (2016). The effects of social exclusion on play experience and hostile cognitions in digital games. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 3007–3019. Link ↗

Castillo, L., Rafner, J., Nockur, L., Buttlar, B. (2024). Seeing the world submerged: exploring the potential of AI image generation for climate change communication. OSF. Link ↗

Yang, X., Schulz, J., Schmidt, K., Kenny, A., Pfuhl, G., Gjoneska, B., Dalgar, I., Lewis, S., Exner, A., Buchanan, E., Lander, K., Becker, M., Du, H., Johri, A., Selcuk, E., Gallyamova, A., Calluso, C., Reggev, N., Vranka, M., Oguz, ., Palma, T., Kocur, M., Oliveros, J., Montefinese, M., Wilton, L., Zdybek, P., Ferreira, P., Pfattheicher, S., Akkas, H., Autin, F., Sorokowska, A., Janssen, S., March, D., Young, D., Valentova, J., Tasbas, E., Bukun, M., Giammusso, I., Brandt, M., Couto, C., Simon, D., Cutler, J., Prokosch, M., Sjåstad, H., Manunta, E., Whyte, S., Marsh, A., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Jaeger, B., Morvinski, C., Primbs, M., Akil, A., Kapoor, H., Barzykowski, K., Ghai, S., Moreau, D., Seehuus, M., Kowal, M., Evans, T., Hill, K., Calvillo, D., Wiechert, S., Afhami, R., Hoyer, K., Korbmacher, M., Elbaek, C., Alsuhaibani, Z., Pronizius, E., Cui, Q., Cundiff, J., Taghipanahi, A., Bjornsdottir, R., Baskin, E., Ergiyen, T., Metin-Orta, I., Collins, W., Bø, S., Marinucci, M., Baker, B., Özdoğru, A., Anne, M., Standage, M., Tullett, A., Milfont, T., Flynn, F., Zidkova, R., Ruiz-Fernandez, S., Sachs, T., Bilancini, E., Verheyen, S., Massoni, S., Wen, J., Camargo, A., Wang, Y., Zhou, S., Peetz, H., Grigoryev, D., Ghasemi, O., Westgate, E., Sutherland, C., Boucher, L., Grigoryan, L., Paltoglou, A., Al-Hoorie, A., Sacco, D., Thomas, A., Haeffel, G., Davis, W., Mandalaywala, T., Cruz, F., Ross, R., Jiang, X., Studzinska, A., Dumbravă, A., Misiak, M., Tran, U., Felisberti, F., Nagy, T., Gunaydin, G., Miranda, J., Behnke, M., Akin, K., Berkessel, J., Johnson, D., Wu, Y., Godbersen, H., Edlund, J., Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A., Martin, D., Norman, J., Batres, C., Kutuk, B., Szumowska, E., Storage, D., Bouguettaya, A., Lins, S., Voracek, M., Tavel, P., Trémolière, B., Cyrus-Lai, W., Alzahawi, S., Anderson, L., Röer, J., Malinakova, K., Karababa, A., Walczak, R., Ribeiro, G., Sarı, E., Pypno-Blajda, K., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Travaglino, G., Neta, M., Vaidis, D., Lu, J., Camgöz, S., Lockwood, P., Mitkidis, P., Lin, W., Rathje, S., van Lent, T., Greijdanus, H., Faure, R., Lamm, C., Brick, C., Zhao, X., Aquino, S., Ulloa Fulgeri, J., Walker, B., Malecki, W., Lou, N., Pizziol, V., Kuzminska, A., Schepisi, M., Adıgüzel, A., Karadeniz, G., Yücel, E., Isloi, C., Chwiłkowska, P., Yu, Z., Fay, N., Papaioannou, K., Peker, M., Huang, G., El-Haddad, R., Verschuere, B., Meier, Z., Vaughn, L., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Stieger, S., Çoksan, S., Bijlstra, G., Alves, S., Hartanto, A., Mallik, P., Jami, W., Chen, R., Fellnhofer, K., Marcu, G., Batalha, L., Kocalar, H., Vieira, L., Gleibs, I., Sharifian, M., Hadjisolomou, S., Riva, P., Sirota, M., Novák, L., Sorokowski, P., Li, Y., Elsherif, M., Carvalho, C., Lima, T., Baker, A., Ishii, T., Mifune, N., Miura, A., Ohtsubo, Y., Takahashi, R., Szala, A., Wolfe, K., Özdemir, F., Komyaginskaya, E., Wu, Q., Boncinelli, L., Lin, J., Gupta, R., Vazirian, M., Hajighasemi, M., Sepehri, A., Peters, K., Emery, C., Collis, H., Henningsen, L., Aglioti, S., Mirisola, A., Manríquez-Robles, D., Rivera, M., Salazar-Fernández, C., Paydarfard, S., Katzir, M., Dorfman, A., Hadar, R., Butt, M., Jia, L., Chua, K., Ismail, I., Willinger, D., Siebenhandl, A., Kaminski, G., Bennett, T., Kohl, A., Stevens, L., Flowe, H., Colloff, M., Scott, K., Wagner, K., Ingham, M., Fabbri, M., Limata, P., Smalarz, L., Eerdmans, R., Branas-Garza, P., Gaviria, A., Espín, A., Kovářík, J., Benito-Ostolaza, J., Galang, R., Denzon, E., Otálora, Y., Taborda-Osorio, H., Aminnuddin, N., Kaça, G., Boga, M., Malysheva, D., Balim, S., Bürhan, P., Bilger, D., Liu, L., Kruse, E., Solak, Ç., Akpınar, B., Gül, D., Muftareviç, S., Deschrijver, E., Zigdon, I., Krosch, A., Ilchovska, Z., Rhoads, S., Kountouriotis, G., Cairney, M., Daryani, Y., Tome, N., Görzig, A., Ozcakan, S., Freira, L., Gökdağ, C., Borinca, I., Spasovski, O., Pillai, R., Chalik, L., Moon, C., Pauer, S., Roberts, S., Friedrich, S., Takagi, R., Shannon, C., LePine, S., Stallman, J., Ram, B., Julliard, Y., Brun, L., Liuzza, M., Colacino, C., Parker, L., Finley, S., McFarland, M., Jantus, C., Navajas, J., Pavlov, Y., Kosachenko, A., Stephen, I., Kök, B., Hendrix, J., de Lange, M., Khalid, A., Szymański, K., Aykutoğlu, B., Van Bavel, J., Amormino, P., Elbistan, G., Justus, B., Hsieh, Y., Byrd, N., Porat, R., Glasserman, D., Barros, M., Buttlar, B., Quarenta, J., Dinić, B., Ball, O., Huynh, A., Dunham, Y. (2024). Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases. OSF. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Pauer, S. (2024). Disentangling the meat paradox: A comparative review of meat-related ambivalence and dissonance. OSF. Link ↗

Ongaro, N., Jahnke, B., Buttlar, B. (2024). Attitude regulation: How vegetarians cope with meat-related cognitive conflict.. In Preparation. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Walther, E. (2020). Das Fleischparadox: Warum es so schwerfällt, auf Fleisch zu verzichten. The Inquisitive Mind. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Walther, E. (2019). Studying Ambivalence in Environmental Psychology: Unsustainable Dietary Practices Are Maintained by Moral Disengagement. Reese, G., Römpke, A., Mues, A., Brockmühl, K. (Eds.). Green Ways – Perspectives of Environmental Psychology Research. BfN-Skripten. Link ↗

Buttlar, B., Walther, E. (2017). ‪Liebe und Geld: Zwei ungleiche Akteure im Garten des Glücks‬. Brohm-Badry, M., Pfeiffer, C., Greve, J. (Eds.). Positiv-Psychologische Forschung im deutschsprachigen Raum–State of the Art. Pabst Verlag. Link ↗