Institute of Sustainability Psychology
Organisational unit: Institute
- Junior professorship for Sustainability Science and Psychology
- Professorship for Health Psychology and Applied Biological Psychology
- Professorship for Social-, Organizational and Political Psychology, especially empirical Negotiation Research
- Professorship of Psychology, especially Collective Action for Sustainability
- Professorship of Psychology, especially sustainable behaviour
- Professorship of Psychology, in particular Collective Action for Sustainability
- Professorship of Psychology, in particular Methodology and Evaluation Research
Organisation profile
ISP is currently made up of two working areas or groups: the working group on "Sustainability Education and Communication" and the working group on "Psychology and Sustainability".
The working group on "Sustainability Education and Communication" is interdisciplinary and orients its research and educational practice towards the concept of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It is responsible for teaching in the subject of subject-specific education.
The "Psychology and Sustainability" working group conducts research based on central psychological theories and methods and develops these further in a practice-oriented manner, especially in the area of climate and sustainability. This includes how sustainability thinking and action develops over the lifespan, also in institutional and informal learning processes, how risks are understood and communicated by different individuals, how sustainable health promotion can be implemented, and what characteristics distinguish multidimensional negotiations for scarce resources.
Main research areas
The integrative consideration of economic, social, ecological and cultural dimensions of a problem is part of the basic understanding of the concept of sustainable development. It is also the basis for research questions and teaching concepts that are oriented towards this guiding principle. This approach usually requires the integration of different disciplinary perspectives through cooperation between different disciplines.
At ISEP, this happens on the one hand within the institute itself, and on the other hand within the university through its affiliation with the Faculty of Sustainability. ISEP's research and projects are enriched by project-related and longer-term cooperation with national and international scientific partners. Social problems require the expansion of scientific perceptiveness and competences beyond interdisciplinary cooperation. Therefore, research work and teaching projects are usually transdisciplinary, designed as cooperation with practice partners through transdisciplinarily organised research projects, but also through the involvement of students in research projects; through further education; through advice on school programme development/profile development of educational institutions and through regional cooperation as a joint learning and research process.
Atempause: Eine tägliche Kurzintervention zur Achtsamkeit bei Grundschulkindern
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Bergold, J. (Project manager, academic) & Voltmer, K. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.19 → 30.09.23
Project: Research
CODIP: Competences for Digital-Enhanced Individualized Practice
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic), Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic), Lehr, D. (Partner), Süßenbach, J. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner), Herzog, C. (Coordination), Altenburger, L. (Project staff), Diekhoff, H. (Project staff), Hase, A. K. (Project staff), Kahnbach, L. (Project staff), Wendt, C. (Project staff), Wucherpfennig, S. (Project staff), Horst de Cuestas, K. (Project staff) & Neumann, A. (Partner)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.03.20 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
Connect to transform: Enabling transitions via quadruple helix co-creation
Upham, P. (Project manager, academic), Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic), Kordas, O. (Project manager, academic) & Boman, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.19 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
C-MADEnS: Consortium for Modelling and Analysis of Decentralised Energy Storage
Upham, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.15 → 01.04.19
Project: Research
DIGI-EXIST: Digitale Gesundheitsprävention für Existenzgründungen - Teilvorhaben: Entwicklung und Evaluation verhaltenspräventiver Bausteine zum Online-Gesundheits-Check und Online Gesundheitstrainings für Gründer und Beschäftigte
Lehr, D. (Coordination), Boß, L. (Project staff) & Funk, B. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.04.16 → 31.10.19
Project: Research
DYNAMIK 4.0: Ein dynamisches System zur Erfassung und Prävention psychischer Arbeitsbelastungen in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen der Industrie 4.0; Teilvorhaben Usability engineering und technische Implementierung des Web-Tools zur Erfassung psychischer Arbeitsbelastungen
Funk, B. (Project manager, academic), Lehr, D. (Coordination) & Bürckner, D. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.16 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
Eine Trainingsstudie zum sozialen und emotionalen Lernen im Kindergarten
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.10.08 → 31.05.12
Project: Research
Eine Trainingsstudie zum sozialen und emotionalen Lernen im Kindergarten
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.08 → 31.05.12
Project: Research
Erfolgsfaktoren der Implementierung digitaler Angebote in der Betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung am Beispiel Digi Exist (Implement dBGF)
Lehr, D. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.19 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Exploring the psychology of an energy technology partnership: the case of hydrogen in mobility
Upham, P. (Project manager, academic) & Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → 01.10.19
Project: Research
FDS-G: Fühlen Denken Sprechen in der Grundschule - Fortbildung zur durchgängigen inhaltsorientierten Sprachförderung für alle Betreuungspersonen - Teilprojekt Emotionsentwicklung
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Voltmer, K. (Project manager, academic), Koch, K. (Partner), Langlotz, M. (Partner) & Hormann, O. (Partner)
01.12.22 → 30.11.25
Project: Research
BISS-FDS: Fühlen Denken Sprechen: Professionalisierung alltagsintegrierter sprachlicher Bildung bei ein- und mehrsprachlich aufwachsenden Kindern
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic), Mähler, C. (Project manager, academic), Cloos, P. (Project manager, academic) & Koch, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.16 → 31.01.20
Project: Research
HYACINTH: Hydrogen acceptance in the transition phase
Upham, P. (Project manager, academic) & Bögel, P. M. (Project staff)
01.09.14 → 01.06.18
Project: Research
I4C: IMPETUS4CHANGE (I4C): Improving near-term climate predictions for societal transformation
Kause, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.22 → 31.10.26
Project: Research
Pyro-AD: Increasing the energy yield from the integration of anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis
Upham, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.13 → 29.09.17
Project: Research
InteGrid: InteGrid - Demonstration of smart grid, storage and system integration technologies with increasing share of renewables: distribution system
Bögel, P. M. (Project manager, academic), Escudero Guirado, C. (Project manager, academic), Valor, C. (Project manager, academic), Giersiepen, A. N. (Project staff), Koronen, C. (Project staff), Mäkivierikko, A. (Project manager, academic), Nilsson, A. E. (Project staff) & Shahrokni, H. (Project staff)
01.02.16 → 30.06.18
Project: Research
iSleep: Investigating non-inferiority and additional benefits of internet-delivered versus face-to-face cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I): a randomised controlled trial
Lehr, D. (Project manager, academic), Grolig, L. (Project manager, academic) & Hannibal, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.22 → 31.01.26
Project: Research
KEMOV: Konzeption und Evaluierung eines Mindset-orientierten Verhandlungstrainings
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic), Warsitzka, M. (Project manager, academic) & Mann, M. (Project staff)
01.08.20 → 15.10.23
Project: Research
Mental Accounting in Allocation Negotiations
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic), Majer, J. (Project staff), Zhang, H. (Project manager, academic), Moran, S. (Project manager, academic) & Ritov, I. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.11.18 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
Mental Accounting in Negotiations
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.17 → 30.06.22
Project: Research
Mental Accounting in Negotiations
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic), Zhang, H. (Project manager, academic) & Majer, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.18 → …
Project: Research
Mental Accounting in Negotiations with Externalities
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.08.24 → 31.07.27
Project: Research
PIN9: Peers in Netzwerken Klasse 9 (PIN 9): Eine Längsschnittstudie zu den Folgen der Ganztagsbeschulung für die Peerbeziehungen, die Ausbildung der sozialen und emotionalen Kompetenzen, des Problemverhaltens und der Schulzufriedenheit
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.09.10 → 30.06.13
Project: Research
PIN: Peers in Netzwerken: Welche Auswirkungen hat die Ganztagsbeschulung auf die Einbindung von Jugendlichen in Peer-Netzwerke und Freundschaften und auf die Entwicklung sozialer und emotionaler Kompetenzen?
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.08 → 31.05.10
Project: Research
PragmatiKK: Pragmatische Lösungen für die Implementation von Maßnahmen zur Stressprävention in Kleinst- und Kleinbetrieben; Teilprojekt Implementierung von webbasierten Trainings zur Bewältigung von Stress und stressbedingten Beschwerden
Lehr, D. (Project manager, academic) & Boß, L. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.09.18 → 28.02.23
Project: Research
Process Gains and Process Losses in Negotiations
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic), Schulz-Hardt, S. (Project manager, academic), Reichold, J. (Project manager, academic) & Warsitzka, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.16 → 30.09.18
Project: Research
Prozess-Framing in Verhandlungen: Angebots- versus forderungsbasierte Verhandlungsführung
Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → 31.10.16
Project: Research
Publikation eines Forschungsberichtes in Buchform. Erstellung einer druckfertigen Vorlage für einen Verlag für das Projekt mit dem Förderkennzeichen FKZ GTS 0808
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.11 → 31.03.11
Project: Research
Quantifying nonlinear dynamics in psychological data (Heisenberg-Professur)
Wallot, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.20 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
Regularities in Reading Times
Wallot, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.21 → 31.12.22
Project: Research
SchulStark-Feriencamp
Salisch, M. (Project manager, academic) & Webersik, J. (Coordination)
01.01.16 → 15.05.17
Project: Teaching
ZIL-Kontakt: Sustainable information logistics for digital contact tracing of infectious diseases
Drews, P. (Project manager, academic), Funk, B. (Project manager, academic), Heger, J. (Project manager, academic), Lehr, D. (Project manager, academic), Zimmer, M. P. (Coordination), Kortmann, F. (Project staff), Fassmeyer, P. (Project staff) & Usko, N. (Project manager, academic)
21.05.21 → 31.03.23
Project: Research
Sustainable Solutions in Intergenerational Conflicts
Majer, J. (Project manager, academic), Schütte, C. (Project staff) & Trötschel, R. (Partner)
01.05.19 → …
Project: Research
The Interplay of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Conflicts as a Barrier to Sustainable Solutions
Majer, J. (Project manager, academic) & Trötschel, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.21 → 31.03.24
Project: Research
A-SYM: The role of (non-)synchronous coordination and its quantification in joint action
Wallot, S. (Project manager, academic), Mønster, D. (Project manager, academic), Leonardi, G. (Project manager, academic) & Gordon, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.21 → 30.06.25
Project: Research
UFCL: Urban Future Climate Lab
Kause, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.24 → 30.09.30
Project: Research