Professorship for Psychology, in particular Cognitive-, Social- and Economic Psychology
Organisational unit: Professoship
Organisation profile
The research unit Cognitive, Social- and Economic Psychology is particularly concerned with perception-action coupling. That is, we are interested in how people perceive other people and how this perception affects social behavior. We are interested in anticipatory behavior, imitation, mimicry, and social norms. Other areas of research include the study of free will beliefs, consumer behavior, implicit attitude measures, science communication, and approach/avoidance behavior.
We usually apply a social-cognitive, mostly experimental, research approach to investigate our research questions. To maintain transparency in science, we are committed to the principles of open science. That is, we pre-register central hypotheses and make data as well as research materials publicly available.
- 2025
Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset
Author Collaboration for "Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries - the TISP dataset", Mede, N. G., Cologna, V., Berger, S., Besley, J., Genschow, O. & Westfal, M., 20.01.2025, In: Scientific data. 12, 1, 27 p., 114.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Validation of an online imitation-inhibition task
Westfal, M., Cracco, E., Crusius, J. & Genschow, O., 02.2025, In: Behavior Research Methods. 57, 2, 24 p., 80.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Research Handbook on Social Influence
Genschow, O. & Cracco, E., 20.02.2025, 2025 ed. Edward Elgar Publishing. 418 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
Imitation as social influence
Genschow, O. & Oomen, D., 28.02.2025, Research Handbook on social influence. Prislin, R. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 227-242 16 p. (Research Handbooks on Social Psychology series).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Author Collaboration of " Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries", Cologna, V., Mede, N. G., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Genschow, O. & Westfal, M., 04.2025, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 9, 4, p. 713-730 18 p., e2108576118.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world
TISP Consortium, Cologna, V., Meiler, S., Kropf, C. M., Lüthi, S., Mede, N. G., Westfal, M. & Genschow, O., 07.2025, In: Nature Climate Change. 15, 7, p. 725-735 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
A Tale of Open Science: Emergence of a New Normal
Soliman, M., Sarstedt, M., Adler, S. J., Siegfried, D., Genschow, O. & Imschloss, M., 05.08.2025, In: Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research. 30 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries: Global Evidence on How People Encounter and Engage with Information about Science
Mede, N. G., Cologna, V., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C. A., Joubert, M., Maibach, E. W., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Schäfer, M. S., van der Linden, S., Abdul Aziz, N. I., Abdulsalam, S., Shamsi, N. A., Aczél, B., Adinugroho, I., Alabrese, E., Aldoh, A., Alfano, M., Ali, I. M., Alsobay, M., Altenmüller, M. S., Alvarez, R. M., Ansah, P., Apriliawati, D., Azevedo, F., Bajrami, A., Bardhan, R., Bati, K., Bertsou, E., Bhui, R., Bialobrzeska, O., Bilewicz, M., Bouguettaya, A., Breeden, K., Bret, A., Buchel, O., Cabrera-Álvarez, P., Cagnoli, F., Valdez, A. C., Callaghan, T., Cases, R. K., Czarnek, G., Debnath, R., Delouvée, S., Doell, K. C., Dohle, S., Douglas, K. M., Dubrov, D., Dzimińska, M., Elbaek, C. T., Elsherif, M., Facciani, M., Fage-Butler, A., Ferreira, M., Feuerriegel, S., Fischer, H., Friese, M., Gallyamova, A., Garrido-Vásquez, P. & Genschow, O., 21.10.2025, In: SAGE Open. 2025, p. 1-46 46 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
How the phrasing of climate change terminology impacts people’s understanding and their intention to behave sustainably
Reinsberg, F., Wallot, S., Loschelder, D. & Genschow, O., 12.2025, In: Climatic Change. 178, 12, 18 p., 237.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood
Author collaboration of "Victims of Conspiracies", Toribio-Flórez, D., Altenmüller, M. S., Douglas, K. M., Gollwitzer, M., Adinugroho, I., Genschow, O. & Westfal, M., 12.2025, In: European Journal of Social Psychology. 55, 7, p. 1252-1269 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
