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.

since
07/2023

Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sustainable Behavior and Management at the University of Hohenheim (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Laura Henn)
04/2024 –
09/2024
Substitute Professor (W2) for Work and Environmental Psychology at the University of Wuppertal
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

Pummerer, L., Fock, L., Winter, K., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). Conspiracy beliefs and majority influence. The Journal of Social Psychology. doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2397491

Winter, K., Hornsey, M. J., Pummerer, L., & Sassenberg, K. (2024). Public agreement with misinformation about wind farms. Nature Communications, 15, 8888. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53278-2

Landmann, H. Winter, K., Froehlich, L., Klocke, U., Hechler, S., Niesta Kayser, D., Knab, N., Hess, F. M., Bender, R., & Hellmann, J. H. (2024). Transfer between science and practice: Findings from the network of social psychology on forced migration and integration. Z’Flucht/German Journal of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, 8(1), 187-200. doi.org/10.5771/2509-9485-2024-1-1

Scholl, A.* & Winter, K.* (2024). Responsibility as the door opener towards trust: How powerholders construe and express their power impacts others‘ willingness to trust them. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 54(9), 536-551. doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13057 *shared first-authorship

Sassenberg, K. & Winter, K. (2024). Intraindividual conflicts reduce the polarization of attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33(3), 190-197. doi.org/10.1177/09637214241242452

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