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.
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
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 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
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 contributions › Scientific review articles › 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
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/works › Chapter › peer-review
It Is Belief in Dualism, and Not Free Will, That Best Predicts Helping: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Baumeister et al. (2009)
Genschow, O., 04.2024, In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 50, 4, p. 645-656 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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
Possibilities of imitation
Oomen, D. & Genschow, O., 09.2024, In: Possibility studies & Society . 2, 3, p. 345-356 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
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
