A5047869326- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Community Health and Development
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Risk Perception and Management
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Sex work and related issues
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
Leipzig University
2015-2025
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2022
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology
2017-2019
Leipzig/Halle Airport
2018-2019
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2005-2013
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
2002-2004
University Hospital Magdeburg
2002
University of Potsdam
1999-2000
Cultural models of selfhood 2Markus and Kitayama's (1991) theory independent interdependent self-construals had a major influence on social, personality developmental psychology by highlighting the role culture in psychological processes.However, research has relied excessively contrasts between North American East Asian samples, commonly-used self-report measures independence interdependence frequently fail to show predicted cultural differences.We revisited conceptualization measurement...
Large-scale environmental crises are genuinely collective phenomena: they usually result from collective, rather than personal, behavior and how cognitively represented appraised is determined by collectively shared interpretations (e.g., differing across ideological groups) based on concern for collectives humankind, future generations) individuals. Nevertheless, pro-environmental action has been primarily investigated as a personal decision-making process. We complement this research with...
Terror management research has shown that mortality salience (MS) leads to increased support and defense of cultural ingroups their norms (i.e., worldview defense, WD). The authors investigated whether these effects can be understood as efforts restore a generalized sense control by strengthening one's social ingroup. In Studies 1-3, the found WD was only following pure death salience, compared with both dental pain self-determined death. As conditions accessibility death-related thoughts...
Personal and collective threat can breed ethnocentrism intergroup conflict. We present a model of group‐based control to elucidate motivational underpinnings these effects from social psychological perspective. Reviewed empirical evidence illustrates the personal on ethnocentric attitudes. Moreover, reveals that perceived lack important aspects one's life induces people support defend in‐groups. This is because heuristically believe groups are homogeneous actors shared goals may promise...
Research on terror-management theory has shown that after mortality salience (MS) people attempt to live up cultural values. But cultures often value very different and sometimes even contradictory standards, leading difficulties in predicting behavior as a consequence of needs. The authors report 4 studies demonstrate the effect MS people's social judgments depends norms. In Study 1, making salient opposite norms (prosocial vs. proself) led reactions consistent with activated following...
Abstract Recent research provides evidence that group norms influence intentions to engage in pro‐climate behaviour and identification with the moderates norm effects. However, past studies have neglected examine if effects on adherence vary among different aspects. The present close this gap by investigating group‐level self‐investment (i.e. importance of satisfaction group) self‐definition perceived similarities members) as possible moderators We used two experimental test our assumption...
Endorsement of authoritarian attitudes has been observed to increase under conditions terrorist threat. However, it is not clear whether this effect a genuine response perceptions personal or collective We investigated question in two experiments using German samples. In the first experiment ( N = 144), both general and specific tendencies increased after asking people imagine that they were personally affected by terrorism. No such occurred when made think about Germany as whole being This...
Economic crises can threaten individuals’ sense of control. At the same time, these often result in collective responses, such as class‐based protest (e.g., 99%), but also nationalism or xenophobia. We investigated how personal consequences economic lead to both intragroup and intergroup responses role control for effects. Studies 1 2 show that income fear descent reduce people's control, which, turn, fosters hostile interethnic attitudes (Study 1), in‐group trust toward one's own social...
When their sense of personal control is threatened people try to restore perceived through the social self. We propose that it agency ingroups provides self with a control. In three experiments, we for first time tested hypothesis threat increases attractiveness being part or joining those groups are as coherent entities engaging in coordinated group goal pursuit (agentic groups) but not whose be low. Consistent this found Study 1 (N = 93) increased ingroup identification only task groups,...
Identity can improve our understanding of personal climate action, particularly when action becomes an expression a person's self. However, it is unclear which kind self or identity most relevant. Building on comprehensive series eight meta-analyses (using data from 188 published articles, N = 414,282 participants) this research systematically compares how strongly climate-friendly intentions and behaviors are associated with place identity, connectedness to nature, environmental...
Understanding how psychological processes drive human energy choices is an urgent, and yet relatively under-investigated, need for contemporary society. A knowledge gap still persists on the links between factors identified in earlier studies people's behaviors domain. This research applies a meta-analytical procedure to assess strength of associations five different classes individual variables (i.e.,: attitudes, intentions, values, awareness, emotions) energy-saving behavioral intentions...
How do people maintain a sense of control when they realize the noncontingencies in their personal life and strong interdependence with other people? Why individuals continue to act on overwhelming collective problems, such as climate change, that are clearly beyond control? Group-based theory proposes it is social identification agentic groups engagement action serve restore people’s control, especially threatened. As consequence, group-based may enable adaptively stay healthy even seems...
Energy citizenship is an emerging concept in policy and practice. Yet scientific theorising around energy scarce, rarely bundled interdisciplinary discourse. In this article, we present definition of as people's rights to responsibilities for a just sustainable transition. contains multiple aspects allows various approaches, which zoom into psychological, legal, economic perspectives on the topic. From psychological perspective, construct empirically testable sub-definition based previous...
Ingroup bias is one of the most basic intergroup phenomena and has been consistently demonstrated to be increased under conditions existential threat. In present research authors question omnipresence ingroup threat test assumptions that these effects depend on content social identity group norm salient in a situation. first two studies cross-categorization recategorization manipulations eliminated even reversed mortality salience relations between English Scottish students (Study 1) as well...
Existential threat, which terror-management theory suggests is associated with greater psychological distance from nature and increased concern for the self, may erode human motivation to protect natural environment. Environmentally relevant motivations concerns include desires humans (anthropocentric egoistic concern) (biocentric biospheric concern). Experimentally induced mortality salience decreased biocentric but not anthropocentric environment (Studies 1 2) as well environmental (Study...