Dr. Kevin Winter
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Phone: +49 711 459 24947
Mail: kevin.winter@uni-hohenheim.de
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Consultation hours by appointment
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Wollgrasweg 49 | 70599 Stuttgart | Room 33 | EG
Kevin Winter has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sustainable Behavior and Management since July 2023. In his research, he examines among other things possibilities to reduce polarized attitudes and the negative consequences of conspiracy belief.
Dr. Kevin Winter will substitute the Professorship of Work and Environmental Psychology at the University of Wuppertal in the summer semester 2024.
since | Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sustainable Behavior and Management at the University of Hohenheim (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Laura Henn) |
| 11/2019 – 06/2023 | Post-doctoral researcher at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (Social Processes Lab: Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg) |
| 10/2018 – 12/2018 & 03/2022 | Visiting researcher at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) in the Department of Social Psychology (Dr. Kai Epstude) |
| 09/2016 – 10/2019 | Doctorate in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and junior researcher at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (Social Processes Lab: Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg) |
| 10/2015 – 07/2016 | Master Psychology (M.Sc.) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen |
| 10/2011 – 09/2015 | Bachelor Psychology (B.Sc.) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen |
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Sassenberg, K. & Winter, K. (in press). Intraindividual conflicts reduce the polarization of attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ymtd4
Winter, K., Pummerer, L., & Sassenberg, K. (2023). Change by (almost) all means: The role of conspiracy mentality in predicting support for social change among the political left and right. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(7), 1563-1575. doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2995
Pummerer, L., Ditrich, L., Winter, K., & Sassenberg, K. (2023). Think about it! Deliberation reduces the negative relation between conspiracy belief and adherence to prosocial norms. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14(8), 952-963. doi.org/10.1177/19485506221144150
Winter, K., Scholl, A., & Sassenberg, K. (2023). Flexible minds make more moderate views: Subtractive counterfactuals mitigate strong views about immigrants’ trustworthiness. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 26(6), 1310-1328. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F13684302221102876
Winter, K. & Epstude, K. (2023). Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics? Motivation and Emotion, 47, 100-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09979-6
Winter, K., Hornsey, M. J., Pummerer, L., & Sassenberg, K. (2022). Anticipating and defusing the role of conspiracy beliefs in shaping opposition to wind farms. Nature Energy, 7, 1200-1207. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01164-w
Winter, K., Pummerer, L., Hornsey, M. J., & Sassenberg, K. (2022). Pro-vaccination subjective norms moderate the relationship between conspiracy mentality and vaccination intentions. British Journal of Health Psychology, 27, 390-405. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12550
Pummerer, L., Winter, K., & Sassenberg, K. (2022). Addressing Covid-19 vaccination conspiracy theories and vaccination intentions. European Journal of Health Communication, 3(2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.47368/ejhc.2022.201
Sassenberg, K.*, Winter, K.*, Becker, D., Ditrich, L., Scholl, A., & Moskowitz, G. B. (2022). Flexibility mindsets: Reducing biases that result from spontaneous processing. European Review of Social Psychology, 33(1), 171-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2021.1959124 *shared first-authorship
Pummerer, L., Böhm, R., Lilleholt, L., Winter, K., Zettler, I., & Sassenberg, K. (2022). Societal effects of Covid-19 conspiracy theories. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 49-59. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19485506211000217
Winter, K. & Sassenberg, K. (2021). Mitigating the default? The influence of ingroup diversity on outgroup trust. International Review of Social Psychology, 34(1), 19. https://dx.doi.org/10.5334/irsp.520
Knab, N.*, Winter, K.*, & Steffens, M. C. (2021). Flexing the extremes: Increasing cognitive flexibility with a paradoxical leading questions intervention. Social Cognition, 39(2), 225-242. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2021.39.2.225 *shared first-authorship
Winter, K., Scholl, A., & Sassenberg, K. (2021). A matter of flexibility: Changing outgroup attitudes through messages with negations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(4), 956-976. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000305
Winter, K., Zapf, B., Hütter, M., Tichy, N., & Sassenberg, K. (2021). Selective exposure in action: Do visitors of product evaluation portals select reviews in a biased manner? Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 15(1), Article 4. https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cp2021-1-4
Landkammer, F., Winter, K., Thiel, A., & Sassenberg, K. (2019). Team sports off the field: Competing excludes cooperating for individual but not for team athletes. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:2470. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02470
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
Book contributions
Sassenberg, K., Pummerer, L., & Winter, K. (2023). Prävention und Intervention gegen den Glauben an Verschwörungstheorien [Prevention and intervention against the belief in conspiracy theories]. In R. Imhoff (Ed.): „Von dunklen Mächten sonderbar belogen…“ – Die Psychologie der Verschwörungstheorien. Hogrefe.
Winter, K. & Sassenberg, K. (2022). Soziale Kategorisierung, Stereotype, Vorurteile [Social categorization, stereotypes, prejudice]. In J. C. Cohrs, N. Knab & G. Sommer (Eds.): Handbuch der Friedenspsychologie. Philipps-Universität Marburg. https://dx.doi.org/10.17192/es2022.0052