Jun.-Prof. Dr. Laura Henn
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Phone: +49 711 459 24945
Mail: laura.henn@uni-hohenheim.de
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Consultation hours by appointment
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Wollgrasweg 49 | 70599 Stuttgart | Room 36 | EG
Laura Henn is an environmental psychologist and has been Junior Professor for Sustainable Behavior and Management since March 2023.
Her research and teaching focus on sustainable action, attitudes, motivation for environmental/climate protection and sufficiency-oriented lifestyles.
| since 03/2023 | Junior Professor for Sustainable Behavior and Management |
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| 10/2020 – 02/2023 | Post-doctoral researcher and faculty member at the Department of Environmental Psychology and Environmental Systems Analysis (Prof. Dr. Andreas Ernst) at the Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany |
| 09/2014 – 09/2020 | Doctorate in psychology (Dr. phil.) and research assistant at the Chair of Personality and Social Psychology (Prof. Dr. Florian Kaiser) at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg |
| 10/2011 – 07/2013 | Master of Psychology (M.Sc.) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg |
| 08/2009 – 04/2010 | ERASMUS Study Psychology at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) |
| 10/2007 – 08/2011 | Bachelor Psychology (B.Sc.) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg |
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Nielsen, K.S., Cologna, V., Bauer, J.M., Berger, S., Brick, C., Dietz, T., Hahnel, U.J.J., Henn, L., Lange, F., Stern, P.C., & Wolske, K.S. (2024). Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation, Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01951-1 (read here: https://rdcu.be/dBjsU)
Lange, F., Berger, S., Byrka, K., Brügger, A., Henn, L., Sparks, A. C., ... & Urban, J. (2023). Beyond self-reports: A call for more behavior in environmental psychology. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.101965
Reuter, M., Kühnhausen, J., Kleinhansl, M., Henn, L., & Gawrilow, C. (2021). Children's daily time in natural spaces during spring/summer time: Within-person restoration and the role of environmental attitude. Umweltpsychologie.
Otto, S., Hildebrandt, J., Will, M., Henn, L., & Beer, K. (2021). Tying Up Loose Ends. Integrating Consumers’ Psychology into a Broad Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Circular Sustainable Bioeconomy. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 34, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-021-09851-6
Taube, O., Ranney, M. A., Henn, L., & Kaiser, F. G. (2021). Increasing people’s acceptance of anthropogenic climate change with scientific facts: Is mechanistic information more effective for environmentalists? Journal of Environmental Psychology, 73, 101549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101549
Henn, L., Otto, S., & Kaiser, F. G. (2020). Positive spillover: The result of attitude change. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 69, 101429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101429
Kaiser, F. G., Henn, L., & Marschke, B. (2020). Financial rewards for long-term environmental protection. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 68, 101411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101411
Verfuerth*, C., Henn*, L., & Becker, S. (2019). Is it up to them? Individual leverages for sufficiency. GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 28, 374-380. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.28.4.9 (*shared first authorship)
Henn, L., Taube, O., & Kaiser, F. G. (2019). The role of environmental attitude in the efficacy of smart-meter-based feedback interventions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 63, 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.04.007
Kaplan Mintz, K., Henn, L., Park, J., & Kurman, J. (2019). What predicts household waste management behaviors? Culture and type of behavior as moderators. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 145, 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.01.045
Yakovenko, V., Henn, L., Bettendorf, M., Zelinska, N., Soloviova, G., Hoffmann, G. F., & Grulich-Henn, J. (2019). Risk factors for childhood overweight and obesity in Ukraine and Germany. Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology, 11(3), 247-252. https://doi.org/10.4274/jcrpe.galenos.2019.2018.0157
Ogunbode, C. A., Henn, L., & Tausch, N. (2018). Context-appropriate environmental attitude measurement in Nigeria using the Campbell paradigm. Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-018-0281-1
Otto, S., Kibbe, A., Henn, L., Hentschke, L., & Kaiser, F. G. (2018). The economy of e-waste collection at the individual level: A practice oriented approach of categorizing determinants of e-waste collection into behavioral costs and motivation. Journal of Cleaner Production, 204, 33-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.293
Teige-Mocigemba, S., Penzl, B., Becker, M., Henn, L., & Klauer, K. C. (2015). Controlling the “uncontrollable”: Faking effects on the affect misattribution procedure. Cognition and Emotion, 30, 1470-1484. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1070793
Articles without peer review
Henn, L. & Winter, K. (in press). Shifting focus: Fostering commitment to the goal of ,sustainable development. Manuscript accepted for publication in Umweltpsychologie/Open Journal of Environmental Psychology. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ujf2p
Matthies, E., Reese, G., Mata, J., Fritsche, I., Hofmann, W., Geiger, S. M., Cohrs, C., Loy, L., & Henn, L. (2024). Wie kann die Psychologie zur Bewältigung der Klimakrise beitragen? Psychologische Rundschau, 75(2), 177-182. doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000673
Warning, B. & Henn, L. (2020). Machen ist wie Wollen, nur krasser: Meinungs- und verhaltensbasierte Messung der Umwelteinstellung im Rahmen des Campbell-Paradigmas. Kurzbericht. Umweltpsychologie, 24(1). 173-182.
Kaiser, F. G., & Henn, L. (2017). Nicht alles Gold, was glänzt: Trugschlüsse umweltpsychologischer Verhaltensforschung. Umweltpsychologie, 21(1), 29-42.
Fechner, A., Fuchs, J., Henn, L., Seele, F., & Seewald, M. (2013). Die Initiative Psychologie im Umweltschutz e.V. wird 20 Jahre alt! Umweltpsychologie, 17(1), 160-168.
Book contributions and monographs
Otto, S., Beer, K., Henn, L., & Overbeck, A. (2021). Das Individuum in der nachhaltigen Wirtschaft: Konsum in digitalen, algorithmenbasierten Entscheidungsarchitekturen. In A. Matheis & C. Schwender (Hrsg.), Als gäbe es ein Morgen. Nachhaltigkeit wollen, sollen, können (S. 409-426). Metropolis.
Henn, L. (2020). Handeln im Kontext mit ökologischen Folgen: Das Campbell-Paradigma als Beitrag zur Umweltpsychologie und zur Umweltschutzpsychologie [Dissertationsschrift, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg]. http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/35254
Henn, L. & Kaiser, F. G. (2019). Sustainable societies: Committed people in supportive conditions. In: J. V. Hoff, Q. Gausset, & S. W. Lex (Hrsg.), The role of non-state actors in the green transition: Building a sustainable future (S. 17-33). Routledge.
Otto, S., Henn, L., Arnold, O., & Kibbe, A. (2015). Die Psychologie des Recyclingverhaltens. In K. J. Thomé-Kozmiensky & D. Goldmann (Hrsg.), Recycling und Rohstoffe, Band 8, (S. 135-147). TK V