Lotte Pummerer

Member of Social Processes lab

Lotte Pummerer has been a researcher and PhD student at the IWM since April 2019 in the Social Processes Lab. Her research interests are social influence, esp. social norms, group identification, world views, political attitudes as well as ideologies. More concretely, in her PhD project she will focus on conspiracy theories and information processing.

Lotte Pummerer studied Psychology (M. Sc. 2017) with a Fulbright Scholarship at Georgia Southern University, USA, specializing in Social Psychology, Moral Psychology and Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. She also studied theology in Leipzig, Beirut and Tubingen. During her studies she was a research assistant in the Psychology Department. Part of her job was to tutor courses in statistics.

Projects

Conspirational Thinking and Social Influence

Articles in refereed Journals

Winter, K., Pummerer, L., Hornsey, M. J., & Sassenberg, K. (in press). Pro‐vaccination subjective norms moderate the relationship between conspiracy mentality and vaccination intentions. British Journal of Health Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12550 [Data] Open Access

Pummerer, L., Böhm, R., Lilleholt, L., Winter, K., Zettler, I., & Sassenberg, K. (2022). Conspiracy theories and their societal effects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(1), 49-59. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19485506211000217 [Data] Open Access

Scholl, A., Sassenberg, K., Zapf, B., & Pummerer, L. (2020). Out of sight, out of mind: Power-holders feel responsible when anticipating face-to-face, but not digital contact with others. Computers in Human Behavior, 112, Article 106472. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106472 request document

Chapters in Edited Books

Pummerer, L. (2020). „Selbsttranszendenz" – ein Überblick religionspsychologischer Forschung über Spiritualität und Sinnsuche bei Nichtreligiösen. In A. Haußmann & R. Höfelschweiger (Eds.), Spiritualität und Sinn. Seelsorge und Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie im Dialog. (pp. 45-70). Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt.

Articles in Magazines

Pummerer, L. (2021). Politische Verschwörungstheorien über Covid-19: Befunde aus drei empirischen Studien. Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft [Hrsg.]: Wissen schafft Demokratie. Schwerpunkt Demokratiegefährdungen in der Coronakrise, 9, 43-49. https://www.idz-jena.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDFS_WsD_9/Idz_WsD_09_WEBVERSION.pdf#Idz_WsD_09_Webversion.indd%3A.29392%3A306

Conference Contributions

Pummerer, L. (2021, February 25-26). Deaf to arguments? How reasoning might help to mitigate negative consequences of conspiracy beliefs. 24 hours of Political Psychology. Scientific Online Meeting of the German Political Psychology Network. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. [Talk]

Pummerer, L. (2021, Juni 30). Verschwörungstheorien und deren soziale Auswirkungen. Eingeladener Vortrag, Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft. Universität Jena. [Vortrag]

Pummerer, L. (2021, November 23). Societal effects of conspiracy theories and their mitigation. Invited talk at the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. [Talk]

Pummerer, L. (2021, Mai 25). Verschwörungstheorien und deren soziale Auswirkungen. Eingeladener Vortrag auf dem Colloquium talk, Social Processes Lab. Universität Leipzig. [Vortrag]

Pummerer, L., & Sassenberg, K. (2021, October 4-6). Societal effects of covid-19 conspiracy beliefs. Invited talk at the Symposium on Belief Polarization. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen. [Talk]

Pummerer, L., & Sassenberg, K. (2021, November 18-19). Think about it! Reasoning reduces the negative relation between conspiracy belief and norm adherence. European Association of Social Psychology (EASP): Small Group Meeting: Social Implications of Conspiracy Theories. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen. [Talk]

Winter, K., Pummerer, L., Hornsey, M., & Sassenberg, K. (2021, November 18-19). Pro-vaccination norms moderate the relationship between conspiracy mentality and vaccination intention. European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) Small Group Meeting: Social Implications of Conspiracy Theories. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen. [Talk]

Pummerer, L., & Sassenberg, K. (2020, June). Going against the grain: Believing in conspiracy theories predicts adherence to social norms. 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Krakow, Poland. (Conference cancelled). https://easp2020krakow.com/ [Talk]

Pummerer, L., & Sassenberg, K. (2020, July). Societal Consequences of Corona Conspiracy Theories. 43rd Virtual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) (online Meeting). [Talk]

Pummerer, L. (2019, August). Meaning in Life apart form Religion: Developing and Validating a Multidimensional Scale Measuring Belief in Science. International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR). Danzig, Poland. [Talk]

Organisation of Conferences

Pummerer, L., Sassenberg, K., Winter, K., & Hornsey, M. (2021). EASP: Small Group Meeting: Social implications of conspiracy theories. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, 18.-19.11.2021.

Web Documents

Pummerer, L., Winter, K., & Sassenberg, K. (2020). Warum sind Verschwörungstheoretiker nicht für rationale Argumente zugänglich? . https://www.leibniz-magazin.de/alle-artikel/magazindetail/detail/warum-sind-verschwoerungstheoretiker-nicht-fuer-rationale-argumente-zugaenglich.html

Open Data

Pummerer, L., Böhm, R., Lilleholt, L., Winter, K., Zettler, I., & Sassenberg, K. (2021). Code for: Conspiracy theories and their societal effects during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4660 [Publication]

Winter, K., Pummerer, L., Hornsey, M.J., & Sassenberg, K. (2021). Dataset for: Pro-vaccination subjective norms moderate the relationship between conspiracy mentality and vaccination intentions. https://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4959 [Publication]

Contact

Lotte Pummerer

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72076 Tübingen
Room 6.527
phone: +49 7071 979-304
fax: +49 7071 979-200