Department Consumer Behavior

Team

Prof. Dr. Claude Messner

Director

Phone
+41 31 631 80 40
E-Mail
claude.messner@imu.unibe.ch
Office
120
Postal Address
University of Bern
Institute of Marketing and Management
Department Consumer Behavior
Engehaldenstrasse 4
CH-3012 Bern

Selected Publications

Selected Publications
Kunz, A. H., Messner, C., & Wallmeier, M. (2017). Investors’ risk perceptions of structured financial products with worst-of payout characteristics. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 15, 66-73. (pdf)
Dorn, M., Messner, C. & Wänke, M. (2016), Partitioning the Choice Task Makes Starbucks Coffee Taste Better, Journal of Marketing Behavior: Vol. 1: No. 3-4, pp 363-384. (pdf)
Stöckli, S., Stämpfli, A. E., Messner, C., & Brunner, T. A. (2016). An (un)healthy poster: When environmental cues affect consumers’ food choices at vending machines. Appetite, 96, 368–374. (pdf)
Dorn, M., Messner, C., & Ouertani, J. (2015).  Pay for performance does not always increase performance.  Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 59(2), 85-94. (pdf)
Weibel, C., Messner, C., & Brügger, A. (2014). Completed Egoism and Intended Altruism Boost Healthy Food Choices. Appetite, 77, 38-45. (pdf)
Friese, M., Messner C., & Schaffner Y. (2012). Mindfulness meditation counteracts self-control depletion. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 1016-1022. (pdf)
Messner C., Wänke M. & Weibel C. (2011). Unconscious Personnel Selection. Social Cognition, 29, 699-710. (pdf)
Messner C. & Wänke M. (2011). Unconscious information processing reduces information overload and increase product satisfaction. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21, 9-13. (pdf)
Messner C. & Vosgerau J (2010). Cognitive Inertia threatens the Validity of the Implicit Association Test. Journal of Marketing Research, 47, 374 - 386. (pdf)
Messner C. & Vosgerau J (2010). Web appendix zu "Cognitive Inertia threatens the Validity of the Implicit Association Test". Journal of Marketing Research, 47. (pdf)
Friese, M. & Messner, C. (2010). Der Passepartout zum Lebenserfolg? Aktuelle Forschung zum psychologischen Konzept der Selbstkontrolle. Psychoscope, 31(5), 8-11. (pdf)
Messner, C. (2009). Medien und Gewalt. In Schneider and Margraf (Eds.), Lehrbuch der Verhaltenstherapie - Band 3: Kinder und Jugendliche (pp. 95-110). (pdf)
Brendl, C. M., Markman, A. B., & Messner, C. (2003). The devaluation effect: Activating a need devalues unrelated objects. Journal of Consumer Research, 29(4), 463-473. (pdf)
Fiedler K., Messner C. & Blümke M. (2006). Unresolved Problems With the "I", the "A" and the "T": Logical and Psychometric Critique of the Implicit Association Test (IAT). European Review of Social Psychology. 17, 74 - 147. (pdf)
Brendl, C. M., Markman, A. B., & Messner, C. (2005). Indirectly measuring evaluations of several attitude objects in relation to a neutral reference point. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 41, 346-368. (pdf)
Brendl, C. M., Markman, A. B., & Messner, C. (2001). How do indirect measures of evaluation work? Evaluating the inference of prejudice in the Implicit Association Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 760-773. (pdf)

Curriculum Vitae

Professional qualifications
since 2011 Extraordinary for Marketing at the University of Bern
2007 - 2010                  University lecturer at the Chair of Social and Economic Psychology at the University of Basel
2005 - 2007 Senior Assistant at the Chair of Social and Economic Psychology at the University of Basel
2002 - 2005 Assistant at the Chair of Social and Economic Psychology at the University of Basel
1999 - 2002 Member of scientific staff at the Chair of Social Psychology at the University of Heidelberg
Academic degrees
2010 Habilitation, University of Basel
2005          Promotion, University of Basel
1999 Diploma in Psychology, University of Konstanz