Recent Publications

in press

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

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

2024

Brick, C., Nielsen, K. S., Berger, S., Henn, L., Wolske, K. S., Lange, F., Hanß, D., Bauer, J. M., Aldoh, A., Sachisthal, M. S., Johnsen, S. Å. K., Cologna, V. (2024). Current research practices on pro-environmental behavior: A survey of environmental psychologists. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102375. doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102375

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

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

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)

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

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

Weber, M.-C., Ströbele, L., Song, S., Offner, L., Huang, A., & Degner, J. (2024). The relation between contact experiences and dual identity among German residents with a Turkish or Kurdish identity. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34(3), e2795. doi.org/10.1002/casp.2795

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

 

2023

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

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

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., 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

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. doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09979-6

2022

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

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

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

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. doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12550

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

2021

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

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.

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

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.

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. doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101549

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

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. dx.doi.org/10.5817/cp2021-1-4

2020

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

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.

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

2019

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.

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

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

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)

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

2018

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