Department of Sustainable Behavior and Management

Welcome to the
Department of Sustainable Behavior and Management

at the Institute for Education, Work and Society

Our department, led by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Laura Henn, focuses on investigating, explaining, and promoting sustainable actions from an environmental psychology perspective. We aim to understand the conditions necessary for individuals to adopt sustainable lifestyles and examine how personal attitudes towards climate and environmental protection impact private consumption, mobility, dietary behavior, and overall sufficiency-oriented lifestyles, which involve voluntary reductions in resource consumption.

We explore how individuals' attitudes affect their actions as professionals, entrepreneurs, employees in organizations, or administrations. For instance, we investigate potential trade-offs between economic growth and sustainability among decision-makers in organizations.

Our research topics include:

  • examining the influence of personal sustainability attitudes on professional actions,
  • spillover effects of sustainable actions resulting from attitude change
  • measurement and validation of sufficiency as a psychological construct
  • the impact of context changes on behavioral costs for sustainable action
  • enhancing motivation for sustainable action through psychological engagement with conflicting goals
  • the ecological impact of sustainable behavior change
  • the role of (political) worldviews for the acceptance of climate protection measures

Get to know our team.

News

 

Neuveröffentlichung [15.04.2024]

Laura Henn hat mit weiteren Mitgliedern der Task Force "Mensch - Klima - Nachhaltigkeit" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie einen Überblicksartikel veröffentlicht, der aufzeigt, wie Umweltpsychologie zur Bewältigung der Klimakrise beitragen kann. So hat die Forschung im Bereich der Umweltpsychologie zahlreiche Erkentnnisse über individuelle Verhaltensänderungen hervorgebracht und betont nun zunehmend die Bedeutung der äußeren Bedingungen, in denen nachhaltiges Handeln mehr oder weniger leicht fällt. Aber auch das Wissen aus der Gesundheitspsychologie, Verkehrspsychologie, der klinischen, politischen oder Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie sollte gebündelt und genutzt werden, um die Transformation hin zu einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft zu gestalten. Der Artikel ist in der Psychologischen Rundschau erschienen: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1026/0033-3042/a000673

 

Humboldt Foundation event to mark the conclusion of the 2023 round of the International Climate Protection Fellowship [22.01.2024]

 Temidayo Enetanya and Laura Henn joined an event from the Humboldt Foundation organized to conclude the 2023 round of the International Climate Protection Fellowship. Together with 19 other ICP fellows from 17 different countries who are passionate about fighting the changing global climate and contributing to the preservation of environmental resources, Temidayo Enetanya received her certificate during a reception at the German Foreign Office in Berlin on Wednesday January 17, 2024. All ICP fellows came together for a full week of networking and exchange about the various research activities, rounded off by a joint hosts-fellows dinner.

 

News

Contact

Management:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Laura Henn

Postal address:
University of  Hohenheim
Sustainable Behavior and Management (560g)
70593 Stuttgart

Visitor's address:
Sustainable Behavior and Management (560g)
Wollgrasweg 49, EG
70599 Stuttgart

Secretariat:
Simone Hertle
Phone: +49 711 459 24949
Email:
simone.hertle@uni-hohenheim.de