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. 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

  2. Group membership does not modulate goal- versus movement-based imitation

    Genschow, O., Pauels, E., Krugmann, K. & Winter, A., 04.2023, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 76, 4, p. 827-837 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. 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

  4. How to Communicate Science to the Public? Recommendations for Effective Written Communication Derived From a Systematic Review

    Konig, L. M., Altenmüller, M. S., Fick, J., Crusius, J., Genschow, O. & Sauerland, M., 01.01.2025, In: Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 233, 1, p. 40-51 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  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. Introduction to Automatic Imitation

    Genschow, O. & Cracco, E., 2025, Automatic Imitation. Genschow, O. & Cracco, E. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 1-7 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  7. 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

  8. Possibilities of imitation

    Oomen, D. & Genschow, O., 09.2024, In: Possibility studies & Society . 2, 3, p. 345-356 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsScientific review articlesResearch

  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