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.

  1. 2025
  2. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Research Handbook on Social Influence

    Genschow, O. & Cracco, E., 20.02.2025, 2025 ed. Edward Elgar Publishing. 418 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  5. 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/worksChapterpeer-review

  6. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  11. 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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review