Dr. Anita Körner

Academic career

2015: Doctorate in Psychology, University of Würzburg

Professional activities

Peer Reviewed

Glim, S., Körner, A., & Rummer, R. (2025). An ERP-based comparison of gender representations elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the German gender star form. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 73, Article 101231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101231

Mundt, D., Albrecht, N., Körner, A., Ebersbach, M. (In Press). Retrieval practice in education for sustainable development: Effects on retention, attitudes, and self-reported streaming behavior. European Journal of Education, Article e12735.http://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12735

Maschmann*, I.T., Körner*, A., & Topolinski, S. (Accepted for Publication). Consonant beginnings and vowel endings lead to higher liking judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001375

Glim, S., Körner, A., & Rummer, R. (2024). Generic masculine role nouns interfere with the neural processing of female referents: Evidence from the P600. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2024.2387230

Wimmer, L., Körner, A., Ende, L. & Rummer, R. (Accepted for Publication). Higher instead of lower accessibility of fiction texts increases epistemic vigilance during reading. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Becker, D., Bijleveld*, E., Braem*, S., Fröber*, K., Götz*, F. J., Kleiman*, T., Körner*, A., Pfister*, R., Reiter*, A. M. F., Saunders*, B., Schneider*, I. K, Soutschek*, A., van Steenbergen*, H., & Dignath, D. (2024). An integrative framework of conflict and control. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(8), 757–768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.07.002

Körner, A., Glim, S., & Rummer, R. (2024). Examining the glottal stop as a mark of gender inclusive language in German. Applied Psycholinguistics, 45(1), 156–179.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716424000018

Schmidtke, D., Körner, A., Glim, S., & Rummer, R. (In Press). Valence sound symbolism facilitates classification of vowels and emotional facial expressions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.  https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001389

Körner, A., & Strack, F. (2023). Articulation posture influences pitch during singing imagery. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 2187–2195. http://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02306-1

Körner, A., Götz, F. J., Krishna, A. (2023). Free to see the big picture: Autonomy increases abstractness of action identification. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), Article 88165. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.88165

Glim, S., Körner, A., Härtl, H., & Rummer, R. (2023). Early ERP indices of gender-biased processing elicited by generic masculine role nouns and the feminine–masculine pair form. Brain and Language, 242, Article 105290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105290

Körner, A., Castillo, M., Drijvers, L., Fischer, M. H., Günther, F., Marelli, M., Platonova, O., Rinaldi, L., Shaki, S., Trujillo, J. P., Tsaregorodtseva, O., & Glenberg, A. M. (2023). Embodied processing at six linguistic granularity levels: A consensus paper.Journal of Cognition, 6(1), Article 60.  https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.231

Körner, A., & Deutsch, R. (2023). Deontology and Utilitarianism in real life: A set of moral dilemmas based on historic events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(10), 1511–1528.  https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221103058

Tolzin, A., Körner, A., Dickhaut, E., Janson, A., Rummer, R., Leimeister, J.M. (2023). Designing pedagogical conversational agents for áchieving common ground. In: A. Gerber & R.  Baskerville (Eds.), Design science research for a new society: Society 5.0. DESRIST (pp. 345–359). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32808-4_22/

Körner, A., & Rummer, R. (2023).Valence sound symbolism across language families: A comparison between native speakers of Japanese and German. Language and Cognition. 15(2),337–354. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2022.39

Gawronski, B., Luke, D. M., & Körner, A. (2023).Consequences, norms, and general action tendencies: Understanding individual differences in moral dilemma judgments.In M. Berg & E. C. Chang (Eds.), Motivation & Morality: A Biopsychosocial Approach. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000342-005

Körner, A., Abraham, B., Rummer, R., & Strack, F. (2022).Gender representations elicited by the gender star.Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 41(5), 553–571. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X221080181

Körner, A., & Rummer, R. (2022). Articulation contributes to valence sound symbolism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(5), 1107–1114. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001124

Körner, A., & Rummer, R. (2022). What is preferred in the in–out effect: Articulation locations or articulation movement direction? Cognition and Emotion, 36(2), 230–239. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1996336

Körner, A., & Strack, F. (2021). Specifying separation: Avoidance, abstraction, openness to new experiences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, e12. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000497

Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Flake, J. K., Liuzza, M., Antfolk, J., Arinze, N. C., … Körner, A., … Coles, N. A. (2021). To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 159–169.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2

Maschmann, I., Körner, A., Boecker, L., & Topolinski, S. (2020). Front in the mouth, front in the word: The driving mechanisms of the in–out effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(4), 792–807. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000196

Körner, A., Deutsch, R., & Gawronski, B. (2020). Using the CNI model to investigate individual differences in moral dilemma judgments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(9), 1392–1407. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220907203

Körner, A., Moritz, S., & Deutsch, R. (2020). Dissecting dispositionality: Distance influences stability of attribution. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 11(4), 446–453.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619877856

Körner, A., Joffe, S., & Deutsch, R. (2019). When skeptical, stick with the norm: Low dilemma plausibility increases deontological moral judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103834

Körner, A., Bakhtiari, G., & Topolinski, S. (2019). Training articulation sequences: A first systematic modulation of the articulatory in–out effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 1725–1732. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000669

Körner, A., & Strack, F. (2019) Conditions for the clean slate effect after success or failure. The Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2018.1454881

Körner, A., & Strack, F. (2018). Embodiment: Reflective and impulsive processes. In G. Hauke & A. Kritikos (Eds.), Embodiment in psychotherapy: A practitioner’s guide (pp. 97–112). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92889-0_8

Schubert, L., Körner, A., Lindau, B., Strack, F., & Topolinski, S. (2017). Athletic midwifes, literate butchers, and greedy hooligans: The independent contributions of stereotype valence and consistency on evaluative judgments. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1723. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01723

Bakhtiari, G., Körner, A., & Topolinski, S. (2016). Preferences for inward and outward articulation kinematics rely on fluency. Acta Psychologica, 171, 110–117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.10.006

Körner, A., Topolinski, S., & Strack, F. (2015). Routes to embodiment. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 940. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00940

Körner*, A., & Volk*, S. (2014). Concrete and abstract ways to deontology: Cognitive capacity moderates construal level effects on moral judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 139–145.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.07.002

* = equal contribution