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.
- 2026
Commentary to Kaiser and Wilson (2026): Don’t Forget the Power of Experimental Manipulation: Addressing Dilemmas in Investigating Mechanisms
Genschow, O. & Crusius, J., 07.01.2026, In: European Psychologist. 31, 1, p. 44-45 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
Does reading an anti-free will text affect beliefs related to free will over time? — A registered report
Genschow, O., Protzko, J. & Braem, S., 01.2026, In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 122, 10 p., 104835.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2025
Expedition Open Science Land. A travel guide for business research
Sarstedt, M., Siegfried, D., Neumann, M., Adler, S. J., Genschow, O. & Imschloß, M., 01.12.2025, 1 ed. Kiel: ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. 93 p. (Publikationen von Beschäftigten der ZBW )Research output: Books and anthologies › Book
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Automatic Imitation
Genschow, O. (Editor) & Cracco, E. (Editor), 2025, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 355 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
Evidence that non-social autism traits in the general population are correlated with spatial processing of biological motion
Cracco, E., Oomen, D. & Wiersema, J. R., 2025, In: Visual Cognition. 33, 5, p. 311-318 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › 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
Social Modulation of Imitative Behavior
Genschow, O. & Cracco, E., 2025, Automatic Imitation. Genschow, O. & Cracco, E. (eds.). 1 ed. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 219–239 21 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
- 2024
The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries
Doell, K. C., Todorova, B., Vlasceanu, M., Bak Coleman, J. B., Pronizius, E., Schumann, P., Azevedo, F., Patel, Y., Berkebile-Wineberg, M. M., Brick, C., Lange, F., Grayson, S. J., Pei, Y., Chakroff, A., van den Broek, K. L., Lamm, C., Vlasceanu, D., Constantino, S. M., Rathje, S., Goldwert, D., Fang, K., Aglioti, S. M., Alfano, M., Alvarado-Yepez, A. J., Andersen, A., Anseel, F., Apps, M. A. J., Asadli, C., Awuor, F. J., Basaglia, P., Bélanger, J. J., Berger, S., Bertin, P., Białek, M., Bialobrzeska, O., Blaya-Burgo, M., Bleize, D. N. M., Bø, S., Boecker, L., Boggio, P. S., Borau, S., Borau, S., Bos, B., Bouguettaya, A., Brauer, M., Brik, T., Briker, R., Brosch, T., Buchel, O., Buonauro, D., Butalia, R., Carvacho, H., Chamberlain, S. A. E., Chan, H. Y., Chow, D., Chung, D., Cian, L., Cohen-Eick, N., Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Contu, D., Cristea, V., Cutler, J., D'Ottone, S., De Keersmaecker, J., Delcourt, S., Delouvée, S., Diel, K., Douglas, B. D., Drupp, M. A., Dubey, S., Ekmanis, J., Elbaek, C. T., Elsherif, M., Engelhard, I. M., Escher, Y. A., Etienne, T. W., Farage, L., Farias, A. R., Feuerriegel, S., Findor, A., Freira, L., Friese, M., Gains, N. P., Gallyamova, A., Geiger, S. J., Genschow, O., Gjoneska, B., Gkinopoulos, T., Goldberg, B., Goldenberg, A., Gradidge, S., Grassini, S., Gray, K., Grelle, S., Griffin, S. M., Grigoryan, L., Grigoryan, A., Grigoryev, D., Gruber, J., Guilaran, J., Hadar, B., Hahnel, U. J. J., Halperin, E., Harvey, A. J., Haugestad, C. A. P., Herman, A. M., Hershfield, H. E., Himichi, T., Hine, D. W., Hofmann, W., Howe, L., Huaman-Chulluncuy, E. T., Huang, G., Ishii, T., Ito, A., Jia, F., Jost, J. T., Jovanović, V., Jurgiel, D., Kácha, O., Kankaanpää, R., Kantorowicz, J., Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, E., Mintz, K. K., Kaya, I., Kaya, O., Khachatryan, N., Klas, A., Klein, C., Klöckner, C. A., Koppel, L., Kosachenko, A. I., Kothe, E. J., Krebs, R., Krosch, A. R., Krouwel, A. P. M., Kyrychenko, Y., Lagomarsino, M., Cunningham, J. L., Lees, J., Leung, T. Y., Levy, N., Lockwood, P. L., Longoni, C., Ortega, A. L., Loschelder, D. D., Lu, J. G., Luo, Y., Luomba, J., Lutz, A. E., Majer, J. M., Markowitz, E., Marsh, A. A., Mascarenhas, K. L., Mbilingi, B., Mbungu, W., McHugh, C., Meijers, M. H. C., Mercier, H., Mhagama, F. L., Michalaki, K., Mikus, N., Milliron, S. G., Mitkidis, P., Monge-Rodríguez, F. S., Mora, Y. L., Morais, M. J., Moreau, D., Motoki, K., Moyano, M., Mus, M., Navajas, J., Nguyen, T. L., Nguyen, D. M., Nguyen, T., Niemi, L., Nijssen, S. R. R., Nilsonne, G., Nitschke, J. P., Nockur, L., Okura, R., Öner, S., Özdoğru, A. A., Palumbo, H., Panagopoulos, C., Panasiti, M. S., Pärnamets, P., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y. G., Payán-Gómez, C., Pearson, A. R., da Costa, L. P., Petrowsky, H. M., Pfattheicher, S., Pham, N. T., Ponizovskiy, V., Pretus, C., Rêgo, G. G., Reimann, R., Rhoads, S. A., Riano-Moreno, J., Richter, I., Röer, J. P., Rosa-Sullivan, J., Ross, R. M., Sabherwal, A., Saito, T., Sarrasin, O., Say, N., Schmid, K., Schmitt, M. T., Schoenegger, P., Scholz, C., Schug, M. G., Schulreich, S., Shreedhar, G., Shuman, E., Sivan, S., Sjåstad, H., Soliman, M., Soud, K., Spampatti, T., Sparkman, G., Spasovski, O., Stanley, S. K., Stern, J. A., Strahm, N., Suko, Y., Sul, S., Syropoulos, S., Taylor, N. C., Tedaldi, E., Tinghög, G., Huynh, L. D. T., Travaglino, G. A., Tsakiris, M., Tüter, İ., Tyrala, M., Uluğ, Ö. M., Urbanek, A., Valko, D., van der Linden, S., van Schie, K., van Stekelenburg, A., Vanags, E., Västfjäll, D., Vesely, S., Vintr, J., Vranka, M., Wanguche, P. O., Willer, R., Wojcik, A. D., Xu, R., Yadav, A., Zawisza, M., Zhao, X., Zhao, J., Żuk, D. & Van Bavel, J. J., 01.10.2024, In: Scientific data. 11, 1, 17 p., 1066.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science
Author Collaboration for "The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science", Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C., Klett, N., Genschow, O., Oomen, D., Koppold, A. & Korbmacher, M., 11.09.2024, In: Journal of Open Psychology Data. 12, 1, 23 p., 8.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
