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

Department hosts international conference in Hohenheim [22.10.2025]

We are happy to host an international conference on the topic „Social Dynamics of Climate Policy and Sustainable Transformation“ at the University of Hohenheim from 27 to 29 June 2026. The conference will serve as an exchange and networking opportunity for researchers at the intersection of social and environmental psychology. more


Neuer Artikel des Fachgebiets: Wirken umweltfreundliche Normen auch bei Menschen, die an Verschwörungstheorien glauben? [15.10.2025]

Soziale Normen haben sich schon oft als wichtiger Einflussfaktor auf umweltfreundliches Verhalten erwiesen. Neue Studien in Deutschland, Großbritannien und den USA zeigen nun, dass dies auch der Fall ist bei Menschen, die an Verschwörungstheorien (allgemein und rund um den Klimawandel) glauben.more


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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

Conference

„Social Dynamics of Climate Policy and Sustainable Transformation“ 27 to 29 June 2026 at the University of Hohenheim. Submissions for contributions were accepted until 15 December 2025. More info here.