Dr. Anand Krishna
Dr. Anand Krishna
Röntgenring 10
Sprechstunde: nach Vereinbarung
Academic History
Since 2021
Research Scientist, Department of Motivational and Emotional Psychology, University of Würzburg
2019-2021
Research Scientist, Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Würzburg
2015-2019
Research Scientist, Department of Motivational and Emotional Psychology, University of Würzburg
2012-2015
Research Scientist, Department of Social Psychology, University of Würzburg
2011-2013
Research Scientist, Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Würzburg
2011-2018
PhD student, Department of Social Psychology, University of Würzburg
2008-2010
Research assistant, Department of Psychological Methodology and Traffic Psychology, University of Würzburg
2008
Traineeship of psychiatry and psychotherapy, Schlossklinik Werneck
Peer-reviewed Journals
Eder, A. B. & Krishna, A. (2024). Approach-Avoidance Training: Exploring the Role of Action Identification Processes. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-024-00302-4
Eder, A. B., Krishna, A., Giesen, C. G., & Frings, C. (2024). Episodic binding of approach–avoidance goals to stimuli: On the microgenesis of stimulus-motivated action tendencies to approach and avoid. Motivation Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000318
Krishna, A. & Götz, F. J. (2024). Motor coordination induces social identity—A novel paradigm for the investigation of the group performance-identity link. British Journal of Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12757
Krishna, A. & Grund, J. (2024). Student-Perceived Supervisor Motivation and Grade Pressure as Predictors of German Psychology Students’ Thesis Motivation. Psychology Learning & Teaching. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14757257241239622
Eder, A. B., & Krishna, A. (2023). Transfer of Approach-Avoidance Training: Motoric or Goal-Related? Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 7(3), 276–289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-023-00276-9
Körner, A., Götz, F. J., & Krishna, A. (2023). Free to See the Big Picture: Autonomy Increases Abstractness of Action Identification. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1), 88165. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.88165
Rinn, R., Krishna, A., & Deutsch, R. (2023). The Psychology of Income Wealth Threshold Estimations: A Registered Report. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(1), 630-650. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12581
Eder, A. B., Maas, F., Schubmann, A., Krishna, A., & Erle, T. M. (2022). Motivations underlying self-infliction of pain during thinking for pleasure. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14775-w
Krishna, A., Ried, S., & Meixner, M. (2021). State-trait interactions in regulatory focus determine impulse buying behavior. PLOS One, 16(7), e0253634. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253634
Eder, A. B., Krishna, A., & Mitschke, V. (2021). Sweet Revenge Feels Less Bitter: Spontaneous Affective Reactions After Revenge Taking. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(7), 1184-1192. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211019923
Eder, A. B., Krishna, A., Sebald, A., & Kunde, W. (2021). Embodiment of approach-avoidance behavior: Motivational priming of whole-body movements in a virtual world. Motivation Science, 7(2), 133-144. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000205
Krishna, A., Rodrigues, J., Mitschke, V., & Eder, A. B. (2021). Self-reported mask-related worrying reduces relative avoidance bias toward unmasked faces in individuals with low Covid19 anxiety syndrome. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(75). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00344-8
Vohs, K. D., Schmeichel, B. J., Lohmann, S., Gronau, Q. F., Finley, A., Ainsworth, S. E., Alquist, J. L., Baker, M. D., Brizi, A., Bunyi, A., Butschek, G. J., Campbell, C., Capaldi, J., Cau, C., Chambers, H., Chatzisarantis, N., Christensen, W., Clay, S. L., Curtis, J., …, Albarracín, D. (2021). A Multi-Site Preregistered, Paradigmatic Test of the Ego Depletion Effect. Psychological Science, 32(10), 1566-1581. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797621989733.
Krishna, A. (2020). Revisiting the influence of regulatory focus on eagerness and vigilance in signal detection. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. 4(3), 315-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2021.1983719
Krishna, A., & Eder, A. (2019). The influence of pre-training evaluative responses on approach-avoidance training outcomes. Cognition and Emotion, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1568230
Eder, A. B., Krishna, A., & Van Dessel, P. (2019). Operant evaluative conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 45(1), 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000189
Krishna, A., & Peter, Sebastian M. (2018). Questionable research practices in student final theses – prevalence, attitudes and the role of the supervisor's perceived attitudes. PLoS ONE 13(8):e0203470. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203470
Krishna, A., & Eder, A. (2018). No effects of explicit approach-avoidance training on immediate consumption of soft drinks. Appetite, 130, 209-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.08.023
Other Academic Publications
Krishna, A., & Strack, F. (2017). Reflection and impulse as determinants of human behavior. In P. Meusburger (Ed.), Knowledge and Action. Heidelberg: Springer.
Krishna, A., Deutsch, R., & Strack, F. (2016). Zwei-Prozess/System-Modelle der sozialen Informationsverarbeitung. In D. Frey & H.-W. Bierhoff (Eds.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie: Bereich Sozialpsychologie. Hogrefe: Göttingen.
Krishna, A., Deutsch, R., & Strack, F. (2015). Models of Duality. In R. Scott & S. Kosslyn (Eds.), Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource. 1–14.
Conference Talks
Krishna, A., Oglanova, N., Shane, R., Ciccotti, O., Akcaglar, D., & Cone, J. (2022, August). The influence of a distrust mindset on revision of spontaneous evaluations. Talk presented at the 21st ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Milan, Italy.
Krishna, A. (2022, March). Asymmetric boundary conditions for prevention and promotion. Talk presented at the 64th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Ulm, Germany.
Krishna, A., Oglanova, N., Shane, R., Ciccotti, O., Akcaglar, D., & Cone, J. (2022, February). Revising implicit attitudes through diagnostic information - the role of a distrust mindset. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Krishna, A., Eder, A. B., & Mitschke, V. (2021, March). Is revenge sweet? Spontaneous pleasurable responses after revenge taking. Talk presented at the 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Ulm, Germany.
Krishna, A. (2019, September). No effects of regulatory focus on response biases in a speeded signal detection task. Talk presented at the 17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section, Cologne, Germany.
Krishna, A. (2019, April). From pre-training evaluations to motivational states - determinants of the effectiveness of approach-avoidance training. Talk presented at the 61st Conference of Experimental Psychologists, London, United Kingdom.
Krishna, A., & Strack, F. (2018, September). Prevention focus fosters processing of negations in the affect misattribution procedure. Talk presented at the 20th ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Cologne, Germany.
Krishna, A., & Eder, A. (2018, July). The role of pre-existing attitudes in approach avoidance training of soft drinks. Talk presented at the 6th European Meeting on Attitudes, Columbus, OH, USA.
Krishna, A., & Peter, S. M. (2018, July). Questionable research practices in student theses – prevalence, antecedents and implications. Talk presented at the 8th European Congress of Methodology, Jena, Germany.
Krishna, A., & Strack, F. (2018, March). Regulatory focus and propositional processing: Prevention focus bolsters negation processing. Talk presented at the 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Marburg, Germany.
Krishna, A., & Eder, A. (2017, July). Approach-Avoidance training of drinks consumption - testing determinants of the effect. Talk presented at the 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Granada, Spain.
Krishna, A., & Eder, A. (2017, March). Approach-Avoidance training of drinks consumption - testing determinants of the effect. Talk presented at the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Dresden, Germany.
Eder, A., Erle, T., Maas, F., & Krishna, A. (2017, March). Is thinking really aversive? Talk presented at the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Dresden, Germany.
Krishna, A. & Eder, A. (2016, July). Approach-Avoidance Training of Drinks Consumption. Talk presented at the 5th European Meeting on the Psychology of Attitudes, Cologne, Germany.
Krishna, A., & Strack, F. (2013, January). Symbolic Self-Completion – A Purely Reflective Process? Poster presented at the 14th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Krishna, A. (2012, June). Impulsive aspects of self-standards dissonance. Talk presented at the SoDoc workshop 2012, Würzburg, Germany.
Krishna, A., & Strack, F. (2012, September). Towards an automatic processing perspective on self-standard inconsistency. Talk presented at the 48th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Bielefeld, Germany.
Talks and Interviews
2022:
Workshop on argumentation "Evidence, Logic, and Rhetoric" for the University of Possibilities, Lützerath
2020:
Third place at the Würzburg Alumni Science Slam 2020 ("Wie nonverbales Verhalten die Interpretation aggressiver Auseinandersetzungen verändert - oder 'Wie hast du mich gerade angeschaut?!!?'")
Series of talks "Psychologische Strukturen des Alltagsrassismus" for the Queer-Referat (University of Hamburg) on stereotyping, group processes, and racism
Science Blogs
2019:
Science Trends: Curbing “Addictive” Behavior In Soft Drink Consumption
2018:
LSE Impact Blog: It is advisor attitudes that are likely to shape students’ attitudes towards questionable research practices
